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Cartoon exhibition: Beano and Dandy
While we’re busy marking 60 years of the NHS this week, let’s not forget that another much-cherished British institution has a significant birthday approaching. On July 30, The Beano will be 70 years...
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Cartoon exhibition: Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash
Click the above image to enlarge it, and see how many characters you can name The Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash exhibition opens today at the Cartoon Museum in London. PCOer Royston Robertson writes: I...
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Cartoon Exhibition: The Beano in Dundee
Amid the coverage of the London launch of the Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash last week at the Cartoon Museum, we should mention that there’s a parallel exhibition in the Beano and Dandy’s home town of...
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Beano is too PC, says former editor
Beano characters in action (Copyright DC Thomson) Euan Kerr, former editor of The Beano, tells the Daily Telegraph today that he was asked to tone down many characters during his time at the head of...
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Artist of the Month – Steve Bright
The PCO Artist of the month for August is Steve Bright and Bloghorn asked him which other cartoonists’ work he admired. There are far too many names to list here, and yet I’m neither a follower nor...
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The Dandy relaunches (again)
The Dandy, Britain’s longest running comic, published by DC Thomson, is due to relaunch next week with a new look. Not much has been made public about the makeover, but the current unpopular...
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Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
The prolific cartoonist David Langdon, whose long career included work for The New Yorker, Punch and The Spectator, has died at the age of 97. Among his achievements, Langdon claimed to have...
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Drawn points us to a public reply by cartoonist and illustrator Alec Longstreth, in response to a request for spec work. It’s always worth remembering that cartoonists should be paid for their...
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Desperate Dandy hits hard times
The future of The Dandy as a weekly printed comic appears to be in jeopardy. Its publisher says that no decision has been made, but Procartoonists.org understands that the comic is likely to be coming...
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