! ISSUE 403 – NOVEMBER 2007! AUTUMN 2005 ThTeh Je eJessteterr STAND WELL BACK GOING WITH A BANG YOUR BONFIRE NIGHT GAGS THE BIG DRAW: REPORT AND PICS WESTON ARTS FESTIVAL COMICS BRITANNIA REVIEWED CLIVE COLLINS’ DIRE TRIBE TRIBUTES: ALAN COREN AND MANNY CURTIS PLUS: NEWS, LETTERS AND MORE “’Angin’ drawin’ an’ quarterin’s too good for you, Fawkes.” TURNER MIKE NeThewsletter Newsletter of the of theCar Cartoonists’toonists’ Club Club of of Great Great BritainBritain THE JESTER ISSUE 403 – NOVEMBER 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK The Jester Issue 403 - November 2007 Published 11 times a year by The Cartoonists’ Club The Chair of Great Britain The CCGB Committee Chairman: Terry Christien I went, I saw and sampled some 020–8892 3621 Weston-super-Mare hospitality and Politics pays back very pleasant it was too. It’s a joy to [email protected] see a traditional English seaside town Our friends at DACS (Payback an’ Secretary: Jed Stone in good order complete with donkeys all that) have a gallery at their 07804–889 052 and ponies trotting along the red sand offices at 33 Great Sutton Street, [email protected] in a romantic postcard setting and not London EC1V 0DX. Treasurer: Anne Boyd a knotted handkerchief in sight. Currently they’re running the 07946–638 295 All this as part of the Weston Arts Politics Pays Back exhibition where Festival with our contribution of the [email protected] visual creators of all sorts are on club’s cartoon exhibition which when Membership Secretary: display, including a representative hung, really looked rather good bunch of framed political cartoons Jed Pascoe: 01767–682 882 you’ll be glad to know. See page 5. by club members Andy Davey, [email protected] At the time of writing a bunch of us Matt Buck, Mark Nesbitt and have just joined in the Big Draw at yours truly. Les Barton: 01895–236 732 Covent Garden. No doubt a number DACS originally asked for five of you joined in local events around [email protected] works then were able to take a few the country for the Campaign for Clive Collins: 01702–557 205 more at the last count – so Drawing – so I hope all went well. apologies to members who could [email protected] A “pride” (and why not) of cartoon- have submitted. Neil Dishington: 020–8505 0134 ists descended on Covent Garden It’s an exhibition well put [email protected] over that weekend and busied them- together and highly recommended. Ian Ellery: 01424–718 209 selves attending to the great British If you’re in London town it’s on [email protected] public in the form of workshops, until mid January 2008 from 10am incidental tutoring, on-the-spot Graham Fowell: 0115–933 4186 to 5pm Monday to Friday. cartooning and caricaturing culminat- Visit the DACS website at: [email protected] ing in The Battle of the Cartoonists www.dacs.org.uk Pete Jacob: 01732 845 079 on the Sunday afternoon – i.e. teams Jill Kearney: 0115–933 4186 of cartoonists from The Guardian, [email protected] The Independent, Private Eye and Helen Pointer: 01883–373 202 the Professional Cartoonists’ 101 Uses for Organisation drawing to turn out the [email protected] winning cartoon team judged by the The Jester Roy Nixon: 01245–256 814 public. See pages 8 and 9. Number: 18 Derek Quint: 01984–632 592 Particular club thanks to Andy Richard Tomes: 0121–706 7652 Davey, Tim and Nikki Harries, [email protected] Helen Pointer, Chi Chi Parish, Andy Mike Turner: 01206–798 283 and Anne Gilbert, John Stilgoe, [email protected] Royston Robertson, Matt Buck and Rosie Brooks (I hope I haven’t Jock Williams-Davies: missed anybody out!) for strutting 01473–422 917 their drawing stuff in a magnificent [email protected] way in the Art of Cartooning Trish Williams-Davies: marquee – pencil, ink and feathers [email protected] flying in all directions! The marquee was full the whole TURNER Jester Editor: time with families drawing and gallant club members striding MIKE Royston Robertson amongst them with guidance and 01843–871 241 encouragement. Well done all! It was jester_magazine @yahoo.co.uk a joy to see. Hope to see you for the November Front cover: Mike Turner club meeting. Cheers now, A funny “Ned Kelly’s helmet” Back cover: Royston Robertson face mask Terry Christien 2 THE JESTER ISSUE 403 – NOVEMBER 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK over to Terry who assured us he is Manny Curtis alive and well. “I might go and look News in the mirror to check,” he quipped. dies Crikey! has admitted that it was Tributes to Manny Curtis, cartoonist and given the info shortly before the former CCGB Secretary, died on mag went to press and nobody Alan Coren October 15. A notice in the Jewish checked it out. In the same issue Chronicle read: “He brought that announced Terry’s “passing”, laughter to all who knew him. Will an editorial says: “We need people CCGB members have been paying to get involved with Crikey! If we tribute to the former Punch Editor be forever missed by his loving wife Myra and sons Lawrence and occasionally get something wrong Alan Coren, who has died aged 69, or leave something out – let us after suffering from cancer. Robert.” Mike Turner said: “Manny was a know.” Looks like they need all the “A wonderful Punch Editor. help they can get! Comics fans who Humorist par excellence,” said Noel major player in the club and the first point of contact for many members. want to know more about Crikey! Ford. Pete Dredge added: “A great should go to crikeyuk.co.uk editor of Punch and one of the He put in a lot of effort, not only as funniest broadcasters and writers of Secretary but in helping to organise recent times. I have fond memories the Butlins conventions and Talk bollocks of Punch Toby Club dinners in promoting the cartoonists’ cause which Alan used to hold court. through the NUJ.” at museum Noel Ford said: “Heaven’s going to be a different place with Manny The Cartoon Museum has a number there to organise things.” of talks and events lined up to coincide with its Eurobollocks exhibition. They include Euro- Some good news philes and Europhobes: a German view (November 22, 6.30 pm). Julia Reports of the death of CCGB Rath has recently completed a study member Terry Bave have been of British-European relations as greatly exaggerated! The British viewed through cartoons. There’s comics fan magazine Crikey! also Getting Along with the reported that Terry had passed on in Neighbours (December 5, 7.30pm ), its second issue. a roundtable discussion by cartoonists and journalists of the “As a rookie cartoonist, having perils of reporting on Europe. just broken into Punch under the Tickets for the talks: Adults £6, editorship of William Davis, I Concessions £5, Friends of the remember watching 24 Hours in Cartoon Museum £4. The exhibition 1978 when Ludovic Kennedy was itself is at the London museum until interviewing the newly appointed January 20. Admission: Adults £4; Editor Alan Coren. It was the usual Conc. £3; Free to under-18s and cliche-driven probing about students. Visit the website for more dentists’ waiting rooms and details: cartoonmuseum.org gentlemens’ club humour. Kennedy was insinuating that there would be little change in direction under the new Editor. Coren huffily responded by saying that Punch would now be more close to the wind and edgier, and then used one of my recently accepted cartoons as an example of this new direction (above). A priceless moment for me that I will never forget.” Coren was a regular panelist on Radio 4’s The News Quiz, appeared Participants on the Comics UK as a team captain on TV’s Call My internet forum paid tribute to Terry, Bluff and wrote several books plus a chatting about his strips from the column in The Times, which he likes of Whizzer & Chips and started in 1989. He once said of his Buster. So when your Jester Editor time at Punch, “The writers, like me, phoned the Bave household for knew it was the cartoons that sold details to include on this page, he the magazine.” was a little surprised to be handed 3 THE JESTER ISSUE 403 – NOVEMBER 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Dear Jester “Best bonfire for years.” Have you come far? The October meeting was well There was a attended, with members arriving buzz about steadily throughout the evening – the last meet- and leaving a few hours later ing rather like slightly unsteadily. Winner of the the “good ol’ “I've travelled the furthest” award days”, with a went to Malcolm McGookin, who very healthy jetted in from Australia specifically turnout from for the night. Well OK, he was in all points of the UK anyway, but he did extend the compass his visit by a few days just to come including along to The Cartoonist. Malcolm As the committee meeting was in McGookin an full swing, Nikki and I kept ex-pat visit- Malcolm company on the ordinary ing from members table (dried bread, gruel Australia etc) where we discussed the state of (where I hear cartooning in Oz, the UK, and they play occassionally ear-wigged on the rugby!) committee table (champagne, caviar Good news etc). Malcolm attempted to discuss also to see we football with me, but I pretended to have a new upcoming Jester Editor faint and remained motionless in Steve Willis, and that Clive Draw on experience until he changed the subject.