Political Cartoon Society newsletters - part 5

Having looked here at my collection of the Cartoon Museum newsletters I thought I'd follow that up with a look at something similar from the Political Cartoon Society. I was a member of the society from 2001-7 and I'll be looking at the newsletters they issued in that time, the newsletters may continue to this day who knows?

Part 1 (2001+2) was here

Part 2 (2003) was here

Part 3 (2004) was here

Part 4 (2005) was here

Part 5 (2006+7) is below 

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Spring 2006

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Peter Brookes interview

Hitler's cartoon collecting

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Autumn 2006

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Kevin 'Kal' Kallaugher interview

book reviews

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Winter 2006

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Gerald Scarfe interview

book review

Martin Rowson on "Why George is gorgeous!"

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Winter 2007

I'm sure there must have been other issues in 2007 but this is the only newsletter that I've retained

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Peter Schrank interview

The political cartoons of Jimmy Friell

new Gerald Scarfe exhibition to open soon

On 22nd September (to 21 Jan 2018) an new exhibition of cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's work will open at the House of Illustration (near King's Cross station, London) providing a rare opportunity to explore extensive but little-known production designs with storyboards, costumes and props from Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Disney’s Hercules and English National Ballet’s The Nutcracker.

But what's the comic link I hear you cry? Well he is a renowned (political) cartoonist and his art did (sort of) appear in the original Eagle...

For more details on David Hockney and Gerald Scarfe in the pages of Eagle click here

From Eagle volume 3, issue 31 (cover dated 7th November 1952)

Hockney in Eagle magazine

The recent opening of David Hockney's career retrospective at Tate Britain (http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-hockney) prompts me to reach for a copy of...

...the biography of ex-Eagle editor Marcus Morris and open it on page 175 to see the work of a young DaviD Hockney shown there...

...Gerald Scarfe was kind enough to sign my book some years ago (I doubt I'll ever be lucky enough to meet Hockney so the page is unsigned).