Annual Illustrators and Cartoonist show at Chris Beetles London

Just received The Bloghorn cartoon newsletter with this news:

"The annual Illustrators show opens at the Chris Beetles Gallery in St James’s, London, this weekend, and runs until January 8.
The Illustrators 2010 showcases many of Britain’s best loved and most respected illustrators and cartoonists from the past two centuries.
Contemporary cartooning is represented by Mike Williams, above, Jonathan Cusick, below, and Ed McLachlan, all members of the PCO, which runs the Bloghorn, alongside Peter Brookes of The Times and Matt of the Daily Telegraph.

Gandhi Warhol

The Grand Weekend Opening is November 20 and 21, 10am-5pm.
Other highlights include work by John Tenniel, old and new drawings by Ronald Searle, plus Quentin Blake, H. M. Bateman, David Levine, Arthur Rackham, William Heath Robinson, E. H. Shepard and Norman Thelwell, among many others. There are more than 60 cartoonists and illustrators in total.
A 288-page catalogue with more than 500 full-colour images and accompanying essays is available from the gallery for £20 + p&p (£4 UK, £7 Europe, £14 rest of the world)."


Learn more:
www.chrisbeetles.com
The Bloghorn
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Larry on Larry: My Life in Cartoons

This book (Park Art 1994, ISBN: 978-0-94881786 0)  is a self portrait in words and pictures of the life and art of Britain's best loved cartoonist Terence 'Larry' Parkes (1927-2003).

Rodin's Vet cartoon by Larry

There are chapters as Larry at School, Larry on Holiday, Larry at Church, Larry on the Workers, etc...
I really like his cartoon parodies on art, such as his real funny Rodin cartoons.

Rodin's Roofing Contractor cartoon by Larry

Rodin's Hot Bath-Water cartoon by Larry

Rodin's Golfer cartoon by Larry

On the Official Larry website, you can download a few screen savers by Larry
"Commissioned by the Energy Efficiency Officeand carrying environmentally-friendly energy saving messages, the Screen Saver has delightful scenes of animated Larry humour."



Steve Bell on Larry:
"For single cartoons Larry has always been the tops because he gets his ideas across with a minimum of words and drawing, and because he has the most dreadpan sense of humour in the business."

Mark Bryant on Larry (obituary - www.independent.co.uk)
"Larry was once described by the former Punch editor Alan Coren as "the only great silent comedian still in business". For more than half a century his distinctive and instantly recognisable captionless cartoons brightened the pages of countless newspapers and magazines, both in Britain and overseas. Admired and respected by his contemporaries, he was also one of the most successful and original cartoonists of his generation."

Learn more about Larry:


Official Larry website
Larry at Wikipedia
Book review by the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain
Obituary
Order book - Park-Art Cartoon Books

Cartoon Museum London

Just found this clip on  YouTube



Learn more:
Visiting London, The Cartoon Museum

Armistice Day 2010 - Brushes and Bayonets : Cartoons, Sketches and Paintings of World War I

With her book 'Brushes and Bayonets' (Osprey UK, 2008) Lucinda Gosling pays tribute to the magnificent artists, cartoonists and painters who illustrated the Great War. The pictures were originally published in The Illustrated London News.

I bought this book in preparation of a WW1 cartoon exhibition in the ECC and it's a reference work, just as is Mark Bryant's WWI in Cartoons.

The book has its own website with reviews, links and even pictures of the book launch in the Cartoon Museum in London. To me this is a very good idea to present a book and  it makes the effort for me to present it to you far more easy.

This is what we read on the back of the book:

"It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but, during World War I, newspaper illustrations were worth even more, not only conveying the news to anxious families at home and soldiers in battle, but also entertaining and lifting the spirits of a nation at war.

Featuring work by some of the most well-known illustrators of the period fromW. Heath Robinson to Bruce Bairnsfather, this thematic collection of 250 WorldWar I magazine illustrations is published in association with The Illustrated London News (the British Harper's).

The illustrations included range from light-hearted strip cartoons and line drawings, to poignant sketches and dark and hard-hitting political satire. The images not only depict events as they happened, but reveal all the moods of a nation at war. Many are published here for the first time in 90 years, creating a unique, bittersweet portrayal of the Great War and a fascinating and very human, historical and artistic reference source."

Read more:
Brushes and Bayonets website
Armistice Day Passchendaele article
WWI in Cartoons by Mark Bryant

Bruce Bairnsfather
Louis Raemaekers

The hit ratio of erotic cartoons

I noticed that one the most popular articles on this blog is the 'playboy cartoons' article about Phil Interlandi.
'playboy cartoons' gives 1.720.000 results in Google and I guess that's the reason for its popularity.

For those who love the erotic cartoon genre, I'll recommend to watch the YouTube video "Erotic Theater",  featured by the great cartoon site: cartoonist.name). It's a huge collection of erotic (some of you will call some cartoons 'pornographic') by one of the finest contemporary cartoonists Michael Zlatkovsky who had an exposition in the ECC last year.

Warning:  some cartoons in the video show "explicit adult material"!




Some screenshots:
(for more pics:  cartoonist.name )

Learn more:
Michael Zlatkovsky
More funny erotic cartoons on our blog
866/081010

Dessin d'humour et contestation - Humorous drawing and dissidence

I recently found a copy of the French art magazine Opus International dated 1972. The 31/32 issue of the magazine (January 1972) contains an anthology of international 'dissident' cartoonists with examples of their 'dissident' work. Most of cartoonists in the magazine were or became very famous with their art. (Folon, Sempé, Serre, Gal, Searle, Ziraldo, EWK, etc.)

Cardon

Folon

Learn more: Bosc in Opus International 31/32

What's a cartoon? Cartoon genres part 1

As with other art forms, there are many different cartoon styles and types. In the first part of this article we take a look at the definition of a cartoon, in a second part, we will present an overview of most cartoon styles. Please mail us your suggestions or remarks  to ecc.cartoonbooks@gmail.com.

What's a cartoon? 

This is what Wikipedia says about the word cartoon:

"The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The artists who draw cartoons are known as cartoonists.

The term has evolved over time. The original meaning was in fine art, where cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting or tapestry. The modern meaning refers to both humorous illustrations in print and animated films. Even more recently, there are several contemporary meanings, including creative visual work for electronic media and animated digital media. When the word cartoon is applied to print media, it most often refers to a humorous single-panel drawing or gag cartoon, most of which have typeset captions rather than speech balloons. The word cartoon is sometimes used to refer to a comic strip,[1] and it can also refer to a humorous illustration for fiction or nonfiction published in newspapers and magazines."

Other definitions are: (source: google dictionary)

cartoon

• A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, esp. a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine
• A comic strip
• A simplified or exaggerated version or interpretation of something
  • this movie is a cartoon of rural life in America
  • Dolores becomes a cartoon housewife, reading glossy magazines in a bathrobe
• A motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects
• A full-size drawing made by an artist as a preliminary design for a painting or other work of art.
  
  

  
  

  caricature

• A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect
• The art or style of such exaggerated representation
  • there are elements of caricature in the portrayal of the hero
• A ludicrous or grotesque version of someone or something
  • he looked like a caricature of his normal self
    
    

What does cartoon and caricature mean for ECC Cartoonbooks Club? 

The 'core business' of our blog does not include comic strip or comics and animated cartoons nor books about these subjects. Other blogs and websites will inform you about this matter.

To keep it simple, this is what we understand under 'cartoon' and 'caricature':

• cartoon

  A (simple) drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously (exaggerated) way.

  • caricature
• A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

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Cartoon newsletters (for free)

One of the ways to stay informed about what lives in the cartoon world is to subscribe to some free cartoon related newsletters.

I have subscribed to the newsletters listed below. If you know of some other interesting qualitative cartoon newsletters, let me know.

ECC newsletter 

Editor: European Cartoon Center Kruishoutem, Belgium

Language(s): Dutch  (for English mailto: info@ecc-kruishoutem.be)

Frequency: monthly (in Dutch), quarterly (in English)

Comment: various news, exhibtions, etc.

Subscribe link: http://ymlp.com/signup.php?id=guyqbbygmge

The Bloghorn 

Editor: Professional Cartoonist's Organisation (UK)

Language(s): English

Frequency: almost daily

Comment: discover talented cartoonists

Subscribe link: http://thebloghorn.org/about-bloghorn/

Toonpool daily cartoon 

Editor: Toonpool (Germany)

Language(s): English

Frequency: daily

Subscribe link: http://www.toonpool.com/toonservices.php

Glénat BD (comic strip, sometimes new cartoon books)

Editor: Glénat editor (France)

Language(s): French

Frequency: almost monthly

Comment: different newsletters available

Subscribe link: http://www.glenatbd.com/newsletter/

ACA 

Editor: Australian Cartoonist's Association

Language(s): English

Frequency: irregular

Comment: Australian cartoon news

Subscribe link: http://cartoonists.org.au/

Najlepszy belgijski Norbert Van Yperzeele

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Don't look at the right, but at the top left corner of this Polish newspaper cover.
Sielanka erotyczna? ("erotic idyll"?), no: Najlepszy belgijski ! ("Best Belgian").
I got this newspaper from mrs. Van Yperzeele. Belgian cartoonist Norbert Van Yperzeele was in Poland to perform a cartoon drawing session and the local newspaper honoured  Norbert with an article.

A cartoon on the frontpage of a newspaper, that's how we, cartoon lovers, like it... and it's a collector's item, even for cartoon book collectors.

cartoons by Norbert Van Yperzeele

Norbert Van Yperzeele (Belgium)

Norbert Van Yperzeele (Belgium)

Some more cartoons by Norbert Van Yperzeele:
http://ecc-cartoonbooksclub.blogspot.com/2009/04/eurokartoonale-kruishoutem-2009-sand.html
or click here for some Google images results.

Atila Özer

For the first time in Belgium , there is an exposition of the Turkish cartoonist Atila Özer. Yesterday I attended the opening at the ECC. Here are some impressions.

professor and cartoonist Atila Özer

Rudy Gheysens, Ro Burms, Atila Özer

This cartoon drawn by Atila Özer is published in the catalogue of the 4th International Bursa Cemal Nadir Güler Cartoon Competition (2006).

Learn more:
You can check more about the artist and his cartoons on Atila Özer's website.