cartoon museum Archives

Last night, I got chatting to cartoonist, satirist and graphic novelist Martin Rowson at the Cartoon Museum in London, He know my work for Guido Fawkes, but the reason he was there last night was to open the 2000AD Exhibition Turns out he's a fan from the old days, and has a specific Judge Dredd[...]

As 2000 AD celebrates its fortieth birthday with a big bash in Hammersmith in February, in Central London, the Cartoon Museum will have kits own celebration. They will be hosting a three-month exhibition of original art from 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine, under the name Future Shock! 40 Years of 2000 AD  Bleeding Cool will be attending a private[...]

Film screenings and a Bowie walking tour of Soho accompanied the two venue pop up exhibition in conjunction with Time Out London, the V&A, Record Store Day, Shaftesbury PLC & the British Record Shop Archive. Prints produced from the artwork submitted for the exhibition are now available exclusively from the Cartoon Museum online and instore. Proceeds from[...]

From the Cartoon Museum's Great British Graphic Novel exhibition, currently on display in London, Hunt Emerson shows off the history of the medium in Britain – and how all the themes, influences and ideas cross pollinate… Here's how it looked when I walked around – and went upstairs. From the Cartoon Museum's Great British Graphic Novel[...]

Okay, in a very small font in black and white on a red background next to a piece of Eddie Campbell artwork. I had loaned a page of From Hell from my original art collection to the Great British Graphic Novel exhibition currently on display at the Cartoon Museum in London But it was overshadowed by so[...]

But first the ongoing exhibitions Comics Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics at the House Of Illustration until mid-May. The UK's largest ever exhibition of the work of pioneering female comics artists Shojo Manga: The World of Japanese Girls' Comics at the House Of Illustration until mid-May. The first major exhibition of Japanese shōjo (girls') manga on tour in the[...]

Do you live in London? Do you like comics? There's lots going on… including one event starting in just an hours time! Current Exhibitions: A Taste of Honeysett: The Acerbic Wit of Martin Honeysett at the Cartoon Museum Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics at the House Of Illustration Shojo Manga: The World of Japanese Girls' Comics, 19 March onwards The first major[...]

And music by Matt Stevens. Alice In Cartoonland exhibition, The Cartoon Museum, running through the month. Alice in Cartoonland celebrates Alice's many misadventures at the hands of cartoonists, caricaturists and satirists, animators and graphic artists through 150 years of parodies and pastiches, jibes, jokes and gags aimed at making political points, social comment or just intended to make[...]

They also have the Back To The Future Delorean and a sixties Dalek if you fancy. Poetry In Comics exhibition Poetry Library, Salson Poetry Library, Level 5 South Bank Centre Heckling Hitler: World War II In Cartoons And Comics The Cartoon Museum, London One-Off Events Wednesday 3rd Matthew Rosenberg signs We Can Never Go Home, Forbidden Planet 6pm-7pm Saturday 6th Crouch End Comic Arts Festival,[...]

Tomorrow sees the The Cartoon Museum in London launch their new Comics Gallery and Comics Creators project It's completely free, though booking is essential, with this bevy of talent available through the day. The Comics Creators project has been awarded over £160,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to buy original pieces of comic book artwork  for the Cartoon[...]

His collaborator, Sarah Lightman, is an award-winning artist, curator and arts journalist based in London who is researching a PhD at The University of Glasgow on Autobiography in Comics. Gekiga: Alternative Manga from Japan Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street Gekiga was the spark which, between 1956 and the early 1970s, transformed manga from being the preserve of the young[...]

His collaborator, Sarah Lightman, is an award-winning artist, curator and arts journalist based in London who is researching a PhD at The University of Glasgow on Autobiography in Comics. Gekiga: Alternative Manga from Japan Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street In the 1950s Japan was emerging from US occupation and embarking on the economic resurgence which was to make[...]

August 1st-3rd Blood And Roses: Magical Girls By Sally Jane Thompson exhibition Orbital Comics Saturday 2nd, 3pm-4pm Doctor Who Signing Forbidden Planet 

To coincide with a new novel based on his life written by writer/musician Kirk Lake, Orbital is proud to exhibit previously unseen work from what Dallow described as his 'hulking' period. Never Again! World War One in Cartoon and Comic Art Cartoon Museum, running until October. On display are famous works including Alfred Leete's much replicated finger-pointing recruitment[...]

Send in more and I'll update! Through June Orbital Comics Exhibition spotlighting the work of Shaky Kane on Elephantmen & more.  Orbital-exclusive print, which will come signed by Shaky Kane and Elephantmen creator Richard Starkings. Curator led tours of the British Library's Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy In The UK Tue 3 June 18.30 Thu 12 June 15.30 Tue 17 June 18.30 Thu 26 June 15.30 Until 8th June Cartoon Museum Spitting Image Exhibition This exhibition looks at the partnership between artists[...]

Well, obviously, there's the British Library. Do we have to mention Comics Unmasked exhibition again, opening today? Maybe just the bit where they've

Last year, there were quite a few events all over the world in celebration of Will Eisner Week at the beginning of March, but that doesn't hold a candle

Check details here. Ongoing Battle Of The Eyes exhibition at Orbital Comics, featuring the work of Savage Pencil, Chris Long and Andy Dog running until 14th February. Bring Me Laughter, Cartoons and caricatures at the Cartoon Museum by Anton, H.M Bateman, Max Beerbohm, Peter Brookes, Jonathan Cusick, Disney Studio, Fougasse, Giles, Pont, William Heath Robinson, Donald McGill, Phil[...]

So I was in the Comics Museum in London this weekend, as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, as my kids got an impressive lesson in character design from

Creator of  St Trinian's and illustrator of the Molesworth books, Ronald Searle is celebrated by London's Cartoon Museum right now Running until the fourth of July, it's the biggest show the museum has ever put on. A central influence on many British cartoonist, from Gerald Scarfe to Ralph Steadman to Steve Bell to Jamie Hewlett, the[...]

30 Years of Viz. A collection of original art and memoribilia celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of a national institution, the adult news stand comic, Viz. £5.50, concs £4, students/under-18s £3, The Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, London until January 24th. Evolution Of The American Comic Book: 1894-1956 An exhibition of rare art and artifacts tracing the[...]