UPDATED: Cartoon Museum news

A couple of years ago I looked at the newsletters that (London's) Cartoon Museum had produced...

Part 1 was here and covered issues 24-28 (November 1998 - Summer 2000)

Part 2 was here and covered issues 29-32 (Winter 2000 - January 2002)

Part 3 was here and covered issues 33-37 (January 2001 - September 2003)

Part 4 was here and covered issues 38-42 (January 2004 - June 2006)

Part 5 was here and covered issue 43-47 (February 2007 - October 2008)

Part 6 was here and covered issue 48-52 (Summer 2009 - Summer 2012) 

Issue 53 was here

And now I've found an issue of the 2nd volume of the newsletter...

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The Cartoon Museum news, volume 2, issue #8, Summer 2024

The contents include...

Young cartoonists awards 2023

preview of 'Heroes - the British invasion of American comics'

5 years at Wells Street - by Oliver Preston

Raymond Briggs in memoriam by Steve Bell

Raymond Briggs retrospective closes today

Closing today in Cambridge is a retrospective covering the work of acclaimed illustrator Raymond Briggs.

There are more details here but it's free and is on until 26th August at the Cambridge University Library.

The organisers say...

With never-before-seen artwork, this exhibition delves into the work of the author-illustrator behind some of the UK’s most influential children’s books and graphic novels.

Raymond Briggs (1934-2022) is best-known for silent picturebook The Snowman (1978). But over a 60-year career, Briggs created illustrated books on themes from family relationships and grief to social mobility and political satire.

This exhibition includes work from Briggs’s pioneering titles, including The Snowman, and autobiographical graphic novel Ethel and Ernest. On show are his drawings, hand-lettered typography and page designs from his earliest commissions to his 2004 book The Puddleman.

Raymond Briggs retrospective opens today

Opening today in Cambridge is a retrospective covering the work of acclaimed illustrator Raymond Briggs.

There are more details here but it's free and is on until 26th August at the Cambridge University Library.

The organisers say...

With never-before-seen artwork, this exhibition delves into the work of the author-illustrator behind some of the UK’s most influential children’s books and graphic novels.

Raymond Briggs (1934-2022) is best-known for silent picturebook The Snowman (1978). But over a 60-year career, Briggs created illustrated books on themes from family relationships and grief to social mobility and political satire.

This exhibition includes work from Briggs’s pioneering titles, including The Snowman, and autobiographical graphic novel Ethel and Ernest. On show are his drawings, hand-lettered typography and page designs from his earliest commissions to his 2004 book The Puddleman.

Raymond Briggs retrospective announced for 2020

The House of Illustration (here) have announced an amazing sounding retrospective of the work of graphic artist Raymond Briggs

Running from 2nd October 2020 to 24th January 2021

Raymond Briggs’ influence on children’s literature cannot be overstated. He invented scatological humour for children, centred stories around working-class families for the first time and confronted massive, ‘grown-up’ issues including dementia, death and nuclear war.

This long-awaited exhibition will show never-before-seen material from Briggs’ personal archive that reveals the origin of the iconic titles that have become literary classics and international phenomena. With original artwork from books including his poignant picture book The Snowman (1980) and pioneering graphic novel Ethel & Ernest (1998), the exhibition celebrates Briggs as an exceptional draughtsman, typographer and storyteller.

It also looks like the 'Tom of Finland' exhibition that was at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival also seems to be making it to London (here) from 6th March 2020 to 21st June 2020/ Let's see what they have to say about it...

This timely exhibition celebrates the artist whose unique aesthetic and homoerotic visions had a profound impact on the likes of Queen and the Village People – despite living and working in a country where both homosexuality and pornography were illegal.

It will feature iconic, previously unseen drawings from Tom of Finland Foundation’s collection – unabashed tributes to gay sexuality and identity which continue to have an outsize influence today.

Raymond Briggs does Father Christmas

To celebrate the news that Raymond Briggs has been made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list (not to mention the other news this week that 2 of his books are in the Top 15 of a list of 20th century children’s books which are still being read today, in a new poll commissioned by the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals), I thought I should fish out the few bits of Raymond Briggs material I have...

The above 'strip' is taken from issue 3 of Ally Sloper magazine (December 1976) - cover below 

From a talk (by Raymond Briggs & Posy Simmonds) that I went to