ISSUE 409 – MAY 2008 TheThe Jester Jester

CANDID PHOTO SPECIAL!

SHREWSBURY PIX, PIX, PIX AND MORE PIX

AGM REPORT AND PHOTOS

LOUVIERS FESTIVAL REPORT

“HEADCASES”

DID MY HEAD IN! QANDA

EVENTS DIARY GOES FAR AND WIDE

TheNewsletter Newsletter of of the the Cartoonists’ Cartoonists’ Club Club of Greatof Great Britain Britain THE JESTER ISSUE 409 – MAY 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK The Jester Issue 409 - May 2008 Published 11 times a year The Chair by The Cartoonists! Club of Great Britain

The CCGB Committee Dear Members, Chairman: Terry Christien 020-8892 3621 It!s all about the AGM! What a took the opportunity to do the tour- [email protected] cracking afternoon and evening isty sightseeing bit on the way in - thanks to all you lovely Club Secretary: Jed Stone a proper first for me - Paris in the member people. It was great to springtime an! all that! Simon Elli- 01173 169 277 see you. nas, John Landers, Guy Carter [email protected] For those of you not able to make and myself drew our proverbial Treasurer: Anne Boyd it, don!t beat yourselves up, we were socks off but the work was pleas- 01173 169 277 able to take in your food and wine antly offset by many a repas et vin. [email protected] comfortably - well somebody!s got The cartoon image is so much to etc...etc... Membership Secretary: more prevalent in France than it is And thank you big Bill Stott for your here. Why should that be? No won- Jed Pascoe: 01767-682 882 cartoon stand-up - it went down very der it feels like a constant uphill [email protected] well, we knew it would! Thank you struggle! Simon files a report in this too to Mike T and Neil Dish for the issue. Clive Collins: 01702-557 205 raffle and Jed P for the longest quiz And lastly, Three Decades of Car- in the world! [email protected] tooning by the late Dave Follows - When I was wandering down the a wonderfully contemporary and well Neil Dishington: 020-8505 0134 Chairman!s memory lane of the observed look at life at The Potteries [email protected] Club!s social events in recent years, Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on- Ian Ellery: 01424-718 209 I clean forgot to lead us through the Trent 19th April - 29th June 2008. A [email protected] traditional verse of "Happy Birthday! bunch of us are getting together in Graham Fowell: 0115-933 4186 ...to who? The Cartoonists Club of Stoke on Saturday the 17th May course - 48 years on that AGM [email protected] following a visit to the Gallery. Those Tuesday - no mean feat - Happy wishing to attend please contact Pete Jacob: 01732 845 079 Birthday CCGB so nearly half a [email protected] to RSVP. Jill Kearney: 0115-933 4186 century! [email protected] And back to thanking mode, I would Until soon. Cheers! Helen Pointer: 01883-373 202 on behalf of The Club like to express sincere thanks to the voluntary ef- [email protected] forts of our committee and note the Terry Christien Roy Nixon: 01245-256 814 extra special efforts from the offi- Richard Tomes: 0121-706 7652 cers; Secretary Jed Stone; Treas- [email protected] urer Anne Boyd and Membership Mike Turner: 01206-798 283 Secretary Jed Pascoe...and though [email protected] not an officer, recognition and thanks to Ian Ellery for all his work Steve Bright: 079 5270 3845 on the Club website without which [email protected] we would not be part of this mad Pete Dredge: 0115 981 0984 world! mobile: 0788 421 1322 Les Barton (get well mate), Derek [email protected] Quint and Jock and Trish Davies have stepped to one side and made Noel Ford: 01974 831468 room for Tim Harries, Pete Dredge, [email protected] Steve Bright and Noel Ford - so Tim Harries: 01633 780293 welcome to them. [email protected] At the time of writing this, a number of us are powdering our noses ready for the Shrewsbury International Jester Editor: Steve Willis Cartoon Festival bash - no doubt 01235 833 414 reported a plenty here. It!s all go - [email protected] four of us have just returned from a Front Cover: Qanda cartoon festival in France - a lovely Back Cover: Feathers little town south west of Paris. We

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tures as well as sketchbooks, on Friday May 2nd from 6.30pm NEWS journals and other material and any club members wishing to never previously exhibited. A attend should contact Alex on 020 fully illustrated catalogue is 8668 1134. Pont exhibition available. The Cartoon Museum is near Cartoonists @ What does it mean to be British? the British Museum. Open This exhibition which opens at Tuesday to Saturday, 10.30 – Chris Beetles the Cartoon Museum on St 17.30, Sunday 12.00 – 17.30. George!s Day celebrates the Admission £4/£3, Free to Under CCGB members Andy Davey work of a very British cartoonist 18s and students. and Royston Robertson are - Graham Laidler, "Pont! (1908- among those whose work can 1940), who died at the early age Exhibition in be seen in the Cartoonists 2008 of 32 but left a rich legacy of show, currently running at the witty observations on British life Brighton Chris Beetles Gallery in London. of the 1930s. Pont was most It is the gallery!s second an- famous for drawing The British nual show devoted to the art of Character – a series of over 100 The retrospective exhibition of British cartooning, following on cartoons which appeared in cartoons "From the Croydon Ad- from its successful You Havin! a Punch lampooning the British at vertiser to The New Yorker" by Laugh? exhibition last year. home and abroad. Alex Noel Watson which ran very You!ll have to be quick though. Some of Pont!s cartoons show successfully for six weeks last The show, which runs until May how much Britain has changed Summer at the Croydon Clock- 3, also features such names as but others reveal "tendencies! tower Gallery, will be on show for Matt, Mac, Ronald Searle and which are as true now as when three weeks as part of the Fringe Tony Husband. Original artwork Pont drew them seventy years of the Brighton Festival from Sat- is on sale, at prices ranging from ago. urday May 3rd 2008. £50 to £5,000. Many of his drawings were The cartoon originals and prints The gallery, at 8 & 10 Ryder packed with tiny jokes in every are drawn from 70 publications in Street, St James!s, London, is corner and readers pored over several countries that have used open from 10am-5.30pm, Mon- them at length. One group even Alex's work over a period of 40 day to Saturday. Tel 020-7839 formed a "Pont Club! and met years. The exhibition is being held 7551. Or visit the website at weekly to discuss his cartoons. in the Gallery of the Dorset Gar- www.chrisbeetles.com Pont was also a master of the dens Methodist Church, just off pocket cartoon, revealing comic the seafront and close to Brighton glimpses of daily life we still rec- Pier. There will be a private view Below: Cartoonists at The Chris ognise today. Though he died Beetles Gallery nearly seventy years ago his contemporary admirers include Ronald Searle, Peter Brookes, John Jensen, Nick Garland, Ian Hislop, Richard Ingrams, Nick Newman and Posy Simmonds. Graham Laidler was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne in July 1908 and trained as an architect. He contracted TB at the age of twenty four and spent most of the rest of his life living in Swit- zerland and Austria. His first cartoon appeared in Punch in 1932 and he produced nearly 500 more over the next nine years. He died suddenly of po- liomyelitis on 23rd November 1940. The exhibition includes some of his most famous pic-

3 THE JESTER ISSUE 409 – MAY 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK On the web... Without the CCGB forum, we I draw entirely on a tablet PC, start, and if the finished illustra- wouldn!t have had these two partly because I moved onto a tion then can further make the discussions below. narrowboat and needed to have writer laugh, you!re almost home my entire studio in the smallest and dry – just the simple matter First Nigel Sutherland asked: space possible, and partly be- of pleasing your audience after Computers in Cartooning - For cause I love gadgets. I moved that. or Against? off the boat recently but I am so Steve Bright attached to the tablet I couldn't I have the impression that there imagine creating my cartoons I probably wouldn't frequent the is a huge body of feeling against any other way. pages of Viz if I didn't collabo- computers in our business, rate with writer Barney Farmer. mainly by people who have little Spencer Hill Cartoonists are 2-a-penny for understanding of their worth, mags like Viz. It's all about the and usually the same people At this point it seems only fair script. who, ironically, then ask where to point out that if you ask Lee Healey all the work has disappeared to. such a question on a website forum, the balance of com- A funny thing happened on the Nigel Sutherland ments is extremely likely to be way to the AGM....really! I heavily “For”. The Editor!s started talking to the woman I think the resistance is even postbag is therefore ready who sat next to me on the train. more down to fear than any lack and waiting for the “Against” We really hit it off. It turns out of understanding, but gradually camp to have their say. that she's a writer who can't the message is getting through draw and I'm a cartoonist who that we are masters of the ma- Another topic on the forum struggles with narrative. We're chine, and not the other way was on the subject of collabo- both quite keen to work on around. And just a little of that ration with writers. The short something together. understanding can dispel a heck answer seems to be that it of a lot of the fear. works for some but not for Bren Romans Steve Bright others.

I use both as tools. Whichever is I can work in collaboration with better for the job I'm doing at the others in any other way but my time. If charcoal was better I'd own cartooning work. I'm just not use that too. built that way, Ian Ellery Noel Ford

The real issue about bringing I've only deviated down the col- computers into cartooning isn't laboration path twice in my 30 year career. As Noel says,it's not THE JESTER about getting the job done, it's c/o STEVE WILLIS, about getting the job. a "natural act" for a creative in- dividual to contemplate when CEDAR TOP, Steve Bright drawing skills and idea creating 17 THE GREENWAY, are your major strengths but I WEST HENDRED, For someone who gets a lot of suppose it depends on the job. WANTAGE, work via the computer, I must In both my cases it was a direct say that I am encouraged that OX12 8RG. commission with no speculative many others “do not use the team work involved. computer”... thus allowing me to Email:[email protected] corner the market and only Pete Dredge compete against such giant fig- Please remember that Royal Mail ures as Noel or Nigel..... It can be a real joy to work in has a two-tiered postage system collaboration. A writer that can Steve Hearn and that A4 envelopes require a make his artist laugh is a great slightly more expensive stamp!

4 THE JESTER ISSUE 409 – MAY 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Headcases fails to tickle the humerus Billed as an all new animated largely perceives them. So, Vic- and more relevant subjects for a satirical show, ITV!s Head- toria Beckham is a scheming sketch rather than the tiresome cases aired for the first time careerist, Gordon Brown a mis- and jaded !Posh and Becks". early in April. Unlike 2DTV, an erly, joyless Victorian, Wills and The format seems to have earlier ITV animated satire that Harry are trying to be !regular" been moulded (no pun in- relied on a far simpler anima- guys and so on. You get the pic- tended) on Spitting Image from tion style, Headcases was en- ture. the 80"s and 90"s, even down to tirely created using computer When they attempt to break the song at the end. But generated graphics rather like away from the stereotypes the whereas Spitting Image was a Pixar film. Unlike a film results are mixed to say the ground breaking in the sense made by Pixar, however, it least. Depicting the odious and that no one had ever seen any- wasn!t very funny. conniving Mugabe as a country thing like that before, a modern The biggest problem I can see bumpkin is clearly wrong as he"s audience exposed to all sorts of with Headcases is that its pre- anything but a fool. On the other visual and technical wizardry in sumably complicated production hand, a sketch that had Dames film and tv, expects so much methods precludes it from being Judi Dench and Helen Mirren more these days and Head- bang up to date with the latest acting and speaking like modern cases didn"t deliver anything news stories which is rather at teenagers picking on Kate new or exciting. odds with its billing as !satirical". Winslett (mainly for having no It would have helped, of Of the dozen or so sketches in awards!), was refreshingly dif- course, if the humour was sharp the first show only one – a ferent and by far the best thing and punchy but more often than Clarkson sketch about male in the half hour. They were also not it was as soft and paunchy pregnancy – was based on a the best rendered caricatures as the pixelated skin of Gordon news story from the week"s too. Brown. One is left to wonder if it news. Other spot on carticatures were hadn"t have been better to have Most of the show consisted of Heather Mills, depicted as a programmed the computers to set pieces with a variety of politi- modern day Medusa, Amy write the script as well. cians and show biz personalities Winehouse and Pete Doherty, portrayed in a manner the public who would have made better Gerard Whyman

Bristol Social Meeting: 10th May

Tim Harries has organised a bite to eat and hopefully get the If you fancy coming along, let Tim mini-meet in Bristol. Whilst ide- pens and paper out for some know: [email protected] or ally for CCGB members in the drawing. End the night at a suit- mobile no: 07704924036. Wales/West area to get together, able time for people to get the it is of course open to all mem- train/car home. Anyone who Saturday 10th May @ 4pm, bers, their families and perhaps wants to stay over can find a ho- Commercial Rooms at the even non-members who are in- tel or B/B and do a bit of Sunday Wetherspoons Pub, 45 Corn St, terested in cartooning. The date shopping or visit the Comic Expo. Bristol, Avon, BS1 1HT. is Sat 10th May, from 4pm. Tim has chosen this date as the Bris- tol Comics Expo is also on that weekend, so people could go and check that out if they wanted as well. Details of the festival and attendees are at at http://www.comicexpo.net/ The Commercial Rooms Pub is the meeting place. It's a Wether- spoons pub - cheap n cheerful and big enough for us all. The idea is we get together, have a few drinks and a chat, perhaps a

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THE CARTOONISTS' CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN ! COMPETITION !Income and Expenditure Account ! I!m in an uncharacteristically generous Jester mood, !April 1st 2007 - March 31st 2008 so there!s a prize of a cartoon book selection to the " first snail mail postcard that can identify the actor 2006-2007 INCOME 2007-2008 below. Easy peasy! Send your answers to the usual Jester address please. £3,494.15 CCGB Subscriptions £4,110.00 " PAYMENTS Jester Production & Print £1,444.10 Jester Editing & Expenses £1,498.54 Jester Postage £1,126.82 Members' Directory Costs (cover design/compilation/editing/printing) £390.43 Kelly Design - CCGB domain & web hosting fees £120.00 Mail Shot (Milton Keynes) £326.00 Treasurer's Expenses (Standing order mail-out) £89.98 AGM 2007 Catering £131.50 J Williams-Davies (Transport & Storage of CCGB Cartoon Exhibition) £75.00 Prize for Quiz Winner (04.09.07) £25.00 Funeral Flowers for Manny Curtis £34.50 Chairman's Expenses (Weston-Super-Mare) £223.00 Membership Secretary's Expenses £40.00 Xmas 2007 Catering £75.00 " TOTAL PAYMENTS £5,599.87

£4,050.09 BALANCE AT BANK 31/3/2007 c/f £3,419.15 "

£3,494.15 INCOME 2007-2008 £4,110.00 "

£7,544.24 TOTAL INCOME as at April 2008 £7,529.15 "

£4,232.41 Less Total Expenses £5,599.87 "

"£3,311.83 TOTAL AT BANK £1,929.28 "

31.03.08 At the time of preparing the Treas- urer's Report for the fiscal year April 2007 to March 2008 no bank statements had been received since November 2007 (due to Treas- urer moving house and the Bank taking time to change the address on their system!).! There- fore the final!total at Bank is not based on Bank Statements but on the Treasurer's calculations. !

8 THE JESTER ISSUE 409 – MAY 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK 12th Louviers Festival The 12th Festival du dessin de regular, Gab, won the main prize presse, d'humour et de la which consists, dubiously, of caricature took place in Lou- being at Louviers for a whole viers, France on the 5th and week prior to next year's festival, 6th April 2008. working in the bars and cafes to Well, yet another superbly well- publicise it! Oh, and he gets to attended public Cartoon Festival draw a cartoon for the catalogue put on by the tiny medieval vil- cover. It's the honour! lage of Louviers, in the splen- This year, well-known faces dour of France's Normandy included Genny, Gouders, countryside. The usual suspects Moine, Rousso and Zabuski. In were invited by organiser, Daniel our group, Alex Noel Watson Chabouis: Guy Carter, Terry was absent due to a chest infec- Christien, John Landers and tion from which we hope he myself. As mentioned on the makes a full recovery. The festi- website, I have no control over val is tightly organised with a the invites, although this might nicely produced catalogue being change for next year. Watch this a major collectable souvenir of space if you're keen to go. the event. The cover is also two-way transaction, whereas a We started by going a day blown up into A1 and A2 posters straightforward exhibition just early and staying over in Paris. which are plastered all over the involves the public looking and Three of us visited Paris' oldest town and even on buses in the going away without registering jazz club and enjoyed some cool area. The public actually pay to their impressions. vibes while the fourth, who will get into the exhibition hall and As always, it was over far too remain nameless, but was Guy they vote for artists in various quickly and I'm looking forward Carter, stayed in his hotel room categories. I think this is good as to next year already. finally drawing his seven car- it gives them an incentive to toons for the exhibition. Talk really look at the cartoons and Simon Ellinas about tight deadlines. Before the live work going on in order to going out to Louviers the next make an informed decision. It Below: Guy Carter, Simon Elli- day we took an open top bus also serves to sharpen their nas, Terry Christien and John tour around Paris which was awareness of the art that lies Landers with Jean and Liliane punctuated by an emergency behind cartooning. It becomes a Gouders and their daughters. toilet hunting session during which I was passed from pillar to post by helpful locals waving their hands in vague directions saying 'La bas!' It was awfully difficult finding out where 'la bas' was. Many of you who have been to St Just might like to know that Louviers is a mini-version involv- ing much more work (drawing in front of the adoring public). The contents are the same every year. Around 40 cartoonists gather from all round Europe to display their wares and demon- strate their talents. Prizes are given out in various categories. None of which went to the Brit contingent this year. The festival

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A lively AGM this year and good to see new and also fa- miliar faces. Bill Stott enter- tained us, Neil Dish raffled off priceless prizes and Jed Pas- coe left us quizzed out. All this and a buffet to boot! We wel- comed four new committee members and thanked those standing down. But, due to the noise and general chaos I still don't know the full line up! Thanks to Club Officers and Jester Editors for work done throughout the year.

Mike Turner

Above: After the AGM, the new committee sit down to discuss the crass suggestion that it has grown to an unmanageable size in recent years. From left to right...(see page 97).

Above: CCGB Quizmaster Jed Pascoe. Below: Mike Turner and Clive Collins in sensible, serious mood. Above: Frank Holmes, Dave and Margaret Parker, Tony Eden and Bren Romans. Below: Bill Stott in full flow.

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Above: John Landers and Steve Bright.

Above: Tony Eden & Martin Newman. Below: Sheba Cassini & Anne Boyd

Above: Striking poses from Royston Robertson and Tim and Nikki Harries.

Below: New members Simon Chadwick and Clive Goddard enjoy a post meeting titter at the Cheshire Cheese.

Above: Steve Way, Robert Duncan and Dave Gaskill.

Below: Pete Shea with Mary to the foreground, Tony Eden and Simon Cassini behind.

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Left top: Steve Bell in reflective mood.

Left middle: Caricatures in the town square.

Left bottom: Bill Stott works on his giant board.

Right top: Bill Stott with Paul Baker talk to Libby Purves and her husband Paul Heiney.

Right centre: Saturday night live with Noel Ford and Roger Penwill.

Right Bottom: Alex Hughes ap- plies the finishing touches.

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Clive Collins Well, it’s so-so news all round for Five’ books years ago. Remember? comes ‘Lady M and the Butler’. It fans of Old English Children’s Kids seeking out baddies, with a stars Heather Mills and Paul Burrell Books, with the announcement dog? That’s right, they called it and the deal is being handled by al that Disney plan to re-make Enid ‘Scooby-do’. Fayed Productions under the work- Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’ books. The baleful gaze of Disney has ing title of ‘The Fantasists’. Those Being Disney of course, they plan also fallen upon Frank Richards’ who have been lucky enough to to update the stories to make them ‘Bunter’ stories, and the digital arm have seen excerpts say that actually more relevant for today’s children’s of the movie giant is already rough- the two main characters bear more book market. Thus, we will have the ing out storylines for the Fat Owl of than a passing resemblance to ‘Lady Famous Five involved in world- the Remove. Naturally, no-one at Penelope’ and ‘Parker’ created by wide scenarios such as bringing our Disney knows what Fat Owl of the Gerry Anderson. Mills, when inter- troops home from Afghanistan and Remove means, so it won’t be re- viewed, said it had always been her Iraq, scuppering Vladimir Putin’s ferred to in any of the movies. dream to work with Burrell ‘We plans for world domination and Bunter will also be slimmed-down have so much in common’ she is opening up the Gazcom energy for his animated movie debut – be- quoted as saying, and Burrell, supplies for all to share. No more ing extremely fat is guaranteed to speaking by long-distance phone boring countryside rambles and jam lose the US audience, opines the from his off-shore hideaway, re- sandwiches, no more gambolling studio wisdom, and that goes for his sponded by saying ‘I would like her with the dog and strangely mannish sister Bessie (now renamed Joni). to think of me as her rock in this girls. It will all be jolly exciting and Hurree Singh will morph into a series, and I in turn will make her a up-to-the-minute. native-American rapper, because TV princess in everyone’s hearts.’ Whilst the Famous Five we may cute Indian Empire sayings will fall Insiders say that since dismissing- remember with affection had a on deaf ears in Downtown Burbank. her legal team and handling her cosy-comfy-cardi ambience, it had a own divorce, Mills has developed a resonance among book-reading kids Late breaking news: new-found appreciation of the law, in the days when kids actually read and in the strip, TV series and books. We fear that this time Disney Also due to appear soon in strip- movie - she will play a feisty detec- are following in the wake of Hanna- cartoon form, backed by a TV series tive solving high-profile cases. Her Barbera who re-made the ‘Famous and eventual full-length movie, missing leg will also bring her into line with several famous fictional detective characters with medical problems – Monk and his obsessive compulsive disorder; Ironside and his wheelchair; the blind Long- street; Mark Saber the one-armed detective and the opium-addicted Sherlock Holmes, among others. Ace cartoonist Abe McPuke has been chosen, after an audition of dozens of fellow artists, to portray the pair in the press. ‘It’s a great honour,’ said McPuke, when inter- viewed earlier this month, ‘and I’m delighted to have been commis- sioned to portray Heather in this very positive way as a heroine de- tective, and she seems very happy with my initial sketches. Burrell has been a little more difficult to por- tray,’ he went on. ‘because there is less to him than meets the eye, but we’ll get there in the end.’ The strip will be syndicated world- wide through Harrods Features.

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Not even the very cold, and occasionally rainy weather could dampen the spirits at this year!s Shrewsbury Inter- national Cartoon Festival. Cartoon exhibitions, live cari- catures, cartoon classes, talks and more combined with lots of exhausting social events to make this festival the best ever. The streets and bars were a who!s who of cartooning with organisers reporting that this is no longer a local event. Many visitors had come from far and wide. Steve Bell!s talk to a packed Roger Penwill (centre) at the opening event. PCO Patron Libby house started with the work of Purves is on the far right. Below: the queue for caricatures. Hogarth and Gilray and ended with his own impressions of Gordon Brown before a Q&A session. As ever, the giant cartoons in the town square proved to be popular. A couple of events proved to be hard to find...the Humerals exhibition in the shopping centre being the most obvious example. Your editor needed a guide to find it! The climate change cartoons in the Gateway Cen- tre were perhaps a distance too far for many to make as it was deserted whilst I was there. Exhibitions in the Shrewsbury Art Gallery and Bear Steps Gallery were com- plemented by cartoon classes. All of which proved that there was plenty to see and do. Left: Steve At the end of the day on Sat- Bright!s drawing urday, the Wheatsheaf pub on the tablecloth again proved to be the car- at the Saturday toonists! hostelry of choice. For festival participants, an evening dinner evening reception and buffet with Clive God- dinner was followed by on dard, Ian Baker, stage entertainment. The ren- Royston Robert- dition of Plastic Bertrand!s "Ca son and Mike plane pour moi! by Royston Robertson and Clive Goddard Turner. proving to be a highlight.

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Left: Scooby Doo bra boob from the Daily Star. Below: Lost for 50 years...the Dudley Watkins water colour discovered in a Fife home from the Daily Record. Bottom page: The bible gets a Manga makeover from the Weekly News. Our thanks as always to the keenly alert John "Speedy! Harrison.

Other press cuttings we received this month featured news of a man who has set up a website that shows the best kids! cartoon websites whilst cutting out links to unsavoury material.

There were also a couple of interesting articles in April TV Film Memorabilia magazine which featured the comic art of Whizzer and Chips, Thunderbirds puppet figures and Superman Collector Cards.

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In 1999 I was fortunate to be artwork to clients who would invited to Turkey for the judg- expect you to have the facility ing of a cartoon competition. to do this. Then a loud inter- This was a rather swell affair jection from the floor transla- which included, for the six or tor "What is this to do with so international judges, an humour?" I replied “I don't unexpected shock horror tele- know, you should ask the lady vised conference in front of an who asked the question”. invited audience. A question I fainted at this point and can't was asked from the floor and I remember the rest of the visit. heard the translation in my Two Points to ponder. Does a earpiece. "What is the future client/editor really care how a of computers in cartooning cartoon is made as long as it and I would like Mr. Turner to does the job and meets the answer" Gulp. I croaked out deadline. The UK leading that the computer would be humour mags Private Eye, more and more useful to car- Spectator, Oldie are virtually a toonists even if only to deliver computer cartoon free zone.

Mike Turner

FORTHCOMING EVENTS Until May 3rd Until 31st May 23rd April - 27th July Cartoonists 2008 at The Chris Read Gall About It at The Pont & The British Character @ Beetles Gallery, 8 & 10 Ryder Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Mon- The Cartoon Museum Street, St. James! London. Thurs 9am-8pm; Fri, Sat, 9pm- 5pm. Free. Tel: 0141-287 2999 11th June - September Friday May 3rd for 3 weeks Cartoons from The Independent "From the Croydon Advertiser to 15th April - 7th June @ The PCG The New Yorker". Exhibition of The Best Of Low at the PCG. cartoons by Alex Noel Watson 30th July - 2nd November as part of the Fringe of the 19th April - 29th June Beano and Dandy Birthday Bash Brighton Festival from Saturday Dave Follows retrospective at @ The Cartoon Museum May 3rd 2008. the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. CCGB visit to Stoke on October - December Sat 10th May Saturday 17th May. Tory Blues. Cartoon History of Bristol Comic Expo followed at The Conservative Party @ The 4pm by social at Commercial 19th April - July 5th PCG. Rooms Wetherspoons Pub. 45 Donald Rooum cartoons since Corn St, Bristol, Avon, BS1 1HT 1980, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Please send details of future Square, London WC1R 4RL. events to The Editor at [email protected]

17 THE JESTER ISSUE 409 – MAY 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK My biggest computer error was buying one says Brad Ashton.

Whoever said wisdom comes followed by tapioca pudding. down and yet their charges are with age never considered me Software was the cashmere always up. and computers. These ma- sweater I got for Christmas. Lightheartedly I answer “Your chines terrify me. Their key- Hard drive was that ride I took computer!s down again? Does boards seem to have more last Sunday on the M25. Scroll that mean you haven!t had a buttons than a Pearly Queen. was something found in the byte all day. They never laugh at And like my wife, they have a Dead Sea. And Ebay is a north- my winsome wit and I know why. mind of their own, usually do- ern expression followed by the The voice I hear is a computer- ing the opposite to what I word “gum”. ised answering machine. And want. My granddaughter is only seven even that!s had many more Trouble is I was born in the and already knows computer crashes than a Hollywood stunt 1930!s B.B.G., before Bill Gates. speak. Yesterday she told me man. I!m too old to attune to the speed “I!m never going to have babies. That pushy computer salesman of modern technological inven- They take nine months to down- gushed over my machine!s tion where equipment is often load.” added refinements. “This model outdated before you get it out of The salesman told me my has a fantastic memory.” Accord- the box. computer had a million uses. He ing to him it can store things for It!s for too late developers like didn!t say the main one would be years. Again, just like my wife! me that the manufacturers pro- to keep the repair man busy. She does that and then brings vide that “HELP” button. But I According to him, my machine!s them all back in one huge argu- need further help to explain what had every virus known to man. ment. it tells me. It assumes I already And a few I!m sure he invented Her big complaint is that I!m know more than I do. I!m baffled himself just to keep the money always surfing the net. She says by the language it uses. The flowing from my bank account to I spend so much time at the words are familiar to me but in a his. computer the only way we can totally different context. Banks incidentally have more communicate these days is by I always thought a floppy disc trouble than I do. Every time I email. She too is put off by com- was a record left too near a ra- have a query they say “Sorry, puterisation. We cancelled our diator. A RAM was nanny goat!s can!t deal with it right now. Our Spanish holiday after she read mate. Spam was something I computer is down. Funny how that aircraft instruments are was forced to eat during he war their computers are always computerised. She!s scared that if the computer crashes, the plane will too. I guess I!ve got far too used to my computer now to give it up. I send out about 20 emails a day. Just think if Alexander Graham Bell had known about emails he could have saved all that trouble inventing the telephone.

Brad Ashton

Cartoon by Mike Turner

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The Potteries Museum and art Gallery 19 April – 29 June 2008 A uniquely presented retrospective exhibition of local, national and international cartoons by renowned Stafford born cartoonists Dave Follows. Curated by Dave’s family, this exhibition brings together a huge selection of Dave’s [email protected] or 07932 626 324 original cartoons from early amateur doodling at the factory through to his renowned reputation as a professional cartoonist.

Creature Feature, animal cartoon strip, appeared weekly in the Sunday Times supplement, ‘Funday Times’ for over 15 years, 1990 to 2006. The Creature Feature was also syndicated in over 30 newspapers throughout the world. Hungry Hamsters, a new animated comedy series created by TV producer Nicholas Sercombe and Dave Follows, Hungry Hamsters is currently in production, 13 x half hour CGI animation programmes due for completion early May 2008, its aim for a Muppet Show like time slot on ITV or BBC is currently under negotiation … the programmes feature a star principal cast including voices from Brian Blessed, Harry Hill, Jack Davenport, and rock legend Alice Cooper and will also be released on computer and mobile.

Comic books, Wonder Wellies The Buster- First published - 17th Sept. 1983 to August 1985, Dave won the Cartoonists Club of Great Britain Humorous Comic Cartoonist of the Year for Wonder Wellies in 1983, also from Buster Melvin’s Mirror ‘May un Mar Lady’, written in Potteries dialect ‘May un Mar Lady’ First published – July 1985 to and from Whizzer and Chips October 3, 2003 - May un Mar Lady full re-run as of April 19, 2004 in the Sentinel entitled ‘May Un Mar Lady Revisited’. Pupils Pet. Visitors will see Dave’s progression through his professional cartooning career from 1971 to 2003. The Sentinels infamous ‘May un Mar Lady’, characters will take centre stage reproduced as life-size models, framed by a large cartoon painted background and suspended cartoon speech bubbles. “ We are all extremely proud of Dave and his work, it has been an exciting opportunity for his family to step back, explore and understand the enormity and brilliance of his humour and artistic talent. The difficulty in curating this show is deciding what not to include, just a small random clutch of cartoons from Dave’s archives held an multitude of gems that would instantly make us want to tell him how brilliant they are! Dad often asked Audrey (my mum) to road tests his gags, and over the thirty years that followed with a young family in tow, their relationship and her support proved fundamental to his success. We’ve all discovered more about Dave’s thirty-year legacy and its re-confirmed to us, his work should continue to make people smile for a very along time yet, from exhibitions, children’s picture books to animations or simply revisited as original cartoons, Dave’s work will live on for many generations yet to come and this exhibi- tion shouts it from the roof tops!” Dave’s family.

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JESTERQUIZ

Thanks to Rex Juriansz. Solve the clues from 1 - 8 using 5-letter words that all end in T. The letters that fall into the grey areas will spell out the name of a cartoonist who is a regular SAGA con- tributor, One of Bill!s Press Cuttings from the early 1950!s ness, Langdon started working mannered and always elegantly in the LCC Architect's Depart dressed man". ment (1931 - 1939) and served Describing his working meth- in the RAF (1941 - 1946), ending ods, David says he gets his up as a Squadron Leader and ideas by a process of 'controlled editing the "Royal Air Force mind wandering. Nor in my opin- Journal". After the war, he be- ion, has he disregarded the came a full time cartoonist. His drawing. He developed a very first cartoon was published in professional, clean cut, direct 1936 in the magazine "Time and line, produced by a No 1 sable Tide". Shortly afterwards Ken- brush from the outset of his ca- neth Bird (Fougasse), then Art reer that has served him well CLUES 1. A picture within a Director of Punch, took him on to over the years. He has concen- picture 2. End prematurely that magazine and Langdon trated mainly on single cap- 3. A dark period 4. A sheep's started a long association with tioned cartoons, with the occa- cry 5. Expect 6. Tidy 7. A Punch, drawing over 5,000 car- sional 'without words storyboard white bird 8. Re-equip toons for them. type cartoon strip', over a couple His slick clean cut brush line of pages. His Sunday Mirror and topical humour has univer- work featured a panel of three or sal appeal, accepted by both the four cartoons and some early HAVE YOU GOT sophisticated Punch and New work in the Sunday Pictorial did Yorker and the tabloid press. have 'large format' 3/4 column ANYTHING TO SAY Like Giles, he was published in cartoons. Reynold's News, Sunday Picto- After his mind wandering search TO THE AUSSIES? rial, Lilliput and Radio Times. for ideas, he submits roughs (I Langdon also ventured into the would love to see them) then We!ve had a request from our comic market with 'Professor works out a composition for the Puff and his dog Wuff' in Eagle. accepted work and inks in with a Australian counterparts asking if David has had many books of brush line in his own characteris- anyone would like to contribute his work published as well as tic style. an article or two to Inkspot greetings cards, caricatures and David's contribution to the na- Magazine. calendars. tion's wellbeing has been well This would need to be cartoon I have never met David Lang- appreciated. He was elected a don, nor am I likely to. I get my fellow of the Royal Society of the rather than cricket related, information from various bio- Arts and received a Lifetime although it!s always possible to graphical notes that have been Achievement Award from the combine the two! written about him, and my col- Cartoon Art Trust in 2001. As lection of cuttings of his work You can contact Gerald Carr at Mark Bryant suggests, it's time Inkspot by emailing him at that I collected in my early days. for a retrospective exhibition of To all intents and purposes, his work. I think I'll give up. [email protected] David comes over as a gentle- man cartoonist. He has been Bill Ritchie Steve Willis described by Mark Bryant as a "charming, soft-spoken, well

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Your Bonus Balls

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Balls!

Ask for Balls and you get a whole lot of sport and worse, oodles of rude! Disgraceful! As a result, next month is a whiter than white subject: Chastity. Please send your cartoons to the usual Jester email or snail mail address.

15 THE JESTER ISSUE 409 – MAY 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Notes from the North. I was waiting in anticipation with no sign of new blood com- Dave Follows at our sadly now and with bated breath for my ing on. defunct Ayr Cartoon Festivals. monthly fix of cartoon hilarity, Both Terry and Mike Turner put I didn't realise he had such a information and contacts. forward good reasons for the wide ranging cartoon commit- Sure enough, bang on time, situation...shrinking markets, ment, with so much success too. the Jester popped through my natural loss, retirement, concen- I only got to see his 'Creature letterbox in pristine condition. tration on a London base, other Feature' in The Times and his Great stuff - Clive Collins was outlets for the younger genera- wonderful card designs. Mind on about it, Rex's Quiz, reports tion. Even a page of website you, I think I would have found it of great outings, 2 pages of comments seemed to be bam- hard to understand his Potteries clever brolly gags - even if by boozled by the problem. Maybe based "May un mar Lady' strip, the usual suspects - and I got the new committee will have the just as most of you would find back in print, with my Notes from solution. Fingers crossed! our Glasgow patter cartoons by the North (again!). And Neil is On the brighter side, two big the likes of the late great Bud dishing (sorry) up a 'culchure' cartoon events will have come in Neill difficult to understand. spot. the Shrewsbury Festival and Did you see the piece in the However, it was not all roses Dave Follows exhibition. Both March Oldie - Still With Us, around the door and a note from are unfortunately out of my David Langdon - by Mark Bry- the Chair spread a little alarm range but I did send four car- ant. Now 94 and still working and despondency that member- toons down to Shrewsbury. I was after seventy years in the busi- ship is falling at an alarming rate lucky enough to meet up with

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Richard Widmark, who has Talking of which one of my just died, invented “the snig- favourite anachronisms is in a gering psycho” well before film called EL Cid...Charlton Jack Dee. He was one of my Heston...nuf said! During one of favourite actors, always wore the many crowd scenes ,a little the same hat in his westerns, bloke in a cloth cap plus fag, as did John Wayne and James steps into view and steps back. Stewart. “If you want to get Mediaeval Spain! Watch for it! ahead, get a hat” And recently, in an old Poirot I have had some flak for dis- Film on tv, Poirot jumps into a missing Atonement, but I think it vintage motor, and drives away, is a typical piece of “Middle Eng- over a speed bump! In the 30s? land Filmmaking” a la Minghella, Still, Shakespeare, in Julius grouping it with The English Caesar, goes on about chimney Patient. What a load of preten- pots…….. tious nonsense that was! AND in We digress. As the holiday film on Steve Redgrave!s Garden. these films they always seem to season is in full swing, only Catch it. Very funny. use actors who cannot wear “straight to video” and cartoon Last week my wife dragged me “uniforms”. AND who can!t run films are on almost everywhere, off to Paris, to see The Lacroix properly. Actors with flat feet so choice is limited. Is it my age Exhibition (Fashion Designer). should never run away from the or is television dominated by Absolutely splendid! It is not just camera, they should stick to thrusting young people, shouting about Fashion, it is all about in- soliloquising! and swearing a lot? And that!s spiration from the past. I rec- At least Daniel Craig looks the only on Blue Peter! ommend it and it is coming to part, but that “boy actor” in I do not watch soaps, so I hesi- the V and A. Atonement, trousers up above tate to make comment. But there Whilst in Paris and being a fan his gaiters, beret stuck on the are so many ads. Why do so of Ello,Ello…sorry…I found a top of his head! My Squad Ser- many people watch this gorm- Restaurant called Chez Rene geant would certainly have had less stuff! and lo and behold! All the wait- him on a fizzer! AND some of Humour!!! How many times ers wore white aprons and sev- the stuff on the Dunkirk beach have, I, we, said “I could write eral had moustaches! It only was all wrong. Where were the better than this?”. I can sit needed a German officer and set dressers and the continuity through Mitchell and Webb, Michelle……. people? Catherine Tate, As Time Goes Good to see old and new faces By (PLEASE!) and The Vicar of at THE Cultural Event of the Dibley with hardly a smile. Who Year. The AGM...including fellow writes this tripe? Film Buff Dave Parker. I would like to put several And here is today!s teaser. people on a desert island and What connects Barbara Strei- leave em there!. Judi Dench, sand and Mr. Quelch,or is it Jonathan Woss, Natasha Kap- Squelch? They will get harder! linsky, Lenny Henry, all TV Arnold Ridley was last months Chefs except Rick Stein. Make answer. Congrats to the gaggle your own list!!! It!s not surpris- of people who came up with the ing, the demise of cartoons. answer, including J. Roberts with It!s all linked. Why can!t we his potted History of Arnold produce shows like Mash, The Ridley!!! Simpsons, West Wing…? One slight reservation here, if you get a chance to see The Comic Neil Dishington Relief bit about The Top Gear Mob doing a Garden Makeover

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Gary Barker New Members 127 Greenlands Avenue, Ramsey, Isle Of Man IM8 2PD t: 01624 818148 e: [email protected] Not one, not two but six new members to wel- http://www.cloudedyellow.wordpress.com come this month. They are:

Nathan Ariss 85 Clarence Avenue, New Malden, Surrey,KT3 3TY t: 07957433885 e: [email protected]

Chris Madden Martin Newman 41 Clyde Road, London N22 16 Albert Road, Henley on 7AD Thames, Oxon RG9 1SD t: 020 8889 8775 t: 01491 572664 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] http://www.chrismadden.co.uk

Mike Sparrow Spencer Hill 2 Mark Avenue, Chingford, London E4 7NR Dairy Farmhouse Cottage, Lower Wraxall, t: 020 8524 5815 e: [email protected] Somerset BA4 6RG http://www.mikesparrow.com t: 01749 860269 e: [email protected] www.spencerhill.co.uk

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I've always imagined that as- arrived to do their bit during the the business I'd be far more in- piring cartoonists have con- rest of the weekend. terested in how other cartoonists sidered being members of the In fact if I was to be really hon- (humorous illustrators....) work, club an achievement. They'd est I don't know why I actually their techniques, what goes made it with the great and did join the CCGB. I think at the wrong, what goes right, new good. time I felt that if one was a car- markets, rates etc etc. (What I They could tell people about it, toonist one had to try and do all DON'T want to hear is any more wear the badge, buy the tee the things that cartoonists did, jokes about rejection slips). It shirt.....no need however to do and the club was one of those can be a lonely business and to anymore than that. Perhaps this things. have feedback from others has accounts for a high proportion of I know a lot of people may well it's advantages, but this can't be the membership? More of an criticise me for saying this, but gleaned from half a dozen of us association than a social as a professional cartoonist I in a local pub. club...in which case the Jester see my work as a job and not All organisations from Rotary, can be quite an important plat- something I need to talk about in through to Scout Groups, fishing form for dialogue, assuming the evenings. There's always clubs and local parish councils people contribute. space for an exchange of infor- can, if not carefully managed I belong to a group of 25 illustra- mation and the website and the become 'cosy' and tend to keep tors who only meet once a year. Jester are areas where it works. newcomers on the margins. It's We exchange views on fees, However, as someone said often this 'us' and 'them' attitude copyright, good and bad clients, earlier, cartooning has moved that causes their demise, espe- using emails that go to everyone on. The markets have changed cially when the long standing in the group. Even so it still suf- although they're still out there if members make their exits. fers from 'raging apathy' The you know where to look. group members are spread all Realistically, the role of the car- Ian West over the country which goes a toonist has probably now been long way (literally) to explain replaced by humorous illustrator. why meeting up is a difficult Ironically many thing to arrange. people think Although I attended some that cartoonists CCGB meetings when I first and caricatur- joined some 20 years ago it's not ists are the something that I continued with, same thing. I even though I live relatively don't think that close to London. To be brutally a majority of honest, with the exception of a the club mem- few long standing club members bers want to I felt like a complete outsider meet up, de- who had to serve an apprentice- spite what they ship before acceptance. No one say on their seemed to take any interest in application new members when they walked forms. Unfortu- through the door. nately, the sta- Hopefully all that's changed tistics bear this now. But on a point of interest, out. I'm guess- does anyone follow up why ing that we are some members come to one or spread thinly two meetings and then return no all over the more? On the other hand per- country and haps I'm not a sociable guy! I did that even local regularly go to the Ayr festival meetings will and give talks to both adults and be poorly at- school children, I even appeared tended. on TV! But that was on the Fri- If I was once day before the rest of the CCGB again new to

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Contrary to popular belief, Tim elevation from poverty to pros- Liverpool and a cartoon depicts Harries and my good self perity. It took time though – the the event. aren!t the only Welsh cartoon- continued rationing after the war Also found on the site is a ists that have ever lived! This was no doubt the inspiration be- "Time Circle!, a natty graphic in myth is well and truly shat- hind the cartoon which shows which you can pick a year in the tered by visiting the National the "housewives in revolt car- 40!s, 50!s or 60!s and a cartoon Library of Wales website and toon!. based around one of that year!s viewing the work of the great Inevitably there are a couple of news stories pops up. Magic! Welsh cartoonist, Leslie Welsh categories – one for Illingworth!s style was crisp and Illingworth. Welsh politicians and one for punchy – and very much If you want to see examples of Welsh issues. No surprise that steeped in the values of old cartoons with strong draughts- Aneurin Bevan, the architect of school draughtsmanship, as be- manship coupled with strong the NHS, is prominent here – his fitting an artist trained at the ideas, the long but rewarding memory is still very much alive Slade. Indeed, some of his car- address to point your cursor is in Welsh politics, as is the toons that appear to have been http://www.llgc.org.uk/illingwo drowning of the Capel Celyn produced on scraperboard look rth/index_s.htm valley to create a reservoir for like works of art. Illingworth had an illustrious career after he left Slade Art Gerard Whyman School, starting as a cartoonist on the Western Mail in the 1930!s leaving to join another Mail, the Daily one, in 1939 where he worked for the next 30 years. In that time he was also made Chief Cartoonist for Punch in 1945. There are eight categories in the gallery that cover just about every major political and social issue that dominated the mid 20th century. The Second World War, the ensuing Cold War and the dreaded bomb dominate the political sections. The "Everyday life! category depicts the dra- matic changes that happened in post war Britain – the gradual

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Potted Minutes from CCGB ANSWERS TO committee meeting of CIRCLE QUIZ April 1st.

Ian Baker (left) Apologies: Les Barton, Graham Fowell, Jill Kearney. 1.Inset 2.Abort Present: Terry Christien, Jed 3.Night Stone, Neil Dishington, Clive Col- 4.Bleat lins, Ian Ellery, Steve Willis, 5.Await Helen Pointer, Jed Pascoe, Mike 6.Kempt 7.Egret Turner, Anne Boyd. 8.Refit Matters Arising: Neil Dishington has written to Tower Hamlets Please don!t forget to send your Chastity cartoons in time to concerning the CCGB!s hopeful participation in the 2012 London meet the deadline of May 12th to the Jester email address at Olympics, but as yet has had no [email protected]. Snail mail address shown on page 27. response. Neil and Terry Chris- tien to continue plugging away.

Website: Ian Ellery forwarded the idea of an on line CCGB join- ing form on the website.

New Members: Six .....yes six new members - Martin Newman, Nathan Ariss, Spencer Hill, Chris Madden, Mike Sparrow and Gary Barker successfully applied to join the CCGB.

A.O.B: Ian Ellery suggested committee meetings could take place on line, therefore freeing up meetings of all the nitty - gritty when we meet face to face. This proposal, and the idea of re- gional meetings was discussed but remained unresolved. How- ever, it was felt by the whole committee that this matter must be prioritised and be debated at the next meeting. The committee was then stood down. The main offices were then re - elected the same as 2007 - 2008, with Terry Christien as Chair. Jock and Trish Williams - Davies and Derek Quint resigned from the committee. Tim Harries, Noel Ford, Pete Dredge and Steve Bright joined.

The meeting wrapped at 4.05

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THE JESTER DEADLINE IS THE 12th OF EACH MONTH

Contributions via email: [email protected]

Contributions via post: The Jester c/o Steve Willis Cedar Top 17 The Greenway West Hendred Wantage OX12 8RG

All articles and cartoons welcomed (especially for the front and back covers)

Email submissions are preferred, as then images and text do not need to be scanned – but snail mail is still accept- able. All images sent by email must be jpegs at a resolution of 300dpi.

REMINDER: the next club meeting is on May 6th at The Cartoonist Pub, Shoe Lane, Lon- Membership enquiries to: Jed Pascoe (Membership Secretary), don. 4 Osprey Close, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 1TW Tel: 01767-682 882. Email: [email protected] Subscription enquiries to: Anne Boyd (Treasurer), 75 Jacobs Committee @ 5.30pm Wells Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1DJ Tel: 01173 169 277. Email [email protected] Members @ 7.00pm. Website enquiries to: Ian Ellery, 25 Nelson Road, Hastings TN34 BRX. Tel: 01424-718 209. Email: [email protected]

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