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ISSUE 410 – JUNE 2008 TheThe Jester Jester FLASH CARTOONIST’S ISSUE! GET READY TO WALK LONDON’S “STREET OF SHAME” OUR MAN IN MOSCOW CINEMA STORIES GALORE YOUR CHASTITY CARTOONS WILLIAMS TOM CLIVE COLLINS’ RECOMMENDED READING TheNewsletter Newsletter of of the the Cartoonists’ Cartoonists’ Club Club of Greatof Great Britain Britain THE JESTER ISSUE 410 – JUNE 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK The Jester The CCGB Committee The Chair Issue 410 - June 2008 Published 11 times a year by The Cartoonists! Club Dear Members, arm and wrist. Of course he (It was of Great Britain General Jumbo: Ed!) was the hero Hope the sun!s been reaching the Chairman: Terry Christien of the hour for catching burglars and right parts! bully boys by sending all these rug- 020-8892 3621 After a splendid Shrewsbury Car- ged little toys into action typically for [email protected] toon Festival last month, there was example, rolling ball bearings in Secretary: Jed Stone a regional gathering of members in front of a swag laden criminal on the 01173 169 277 Bristol earlier this month organised run "- "rich illustrative material! But it by Tim Harries. It certainly seemed [email protected] just shows you even though they to go down well judging from the can come up with the weird and the Treasurer: Anne Boyd photographs on the forum. wonderful, the comic cartoonists 01173 169 277 As I write, a bunch of us will be have been there before. Not so [email protected] meeting in Stoke on Trent to cele- crazy to involve the likes of Membership Secretary: brate the late Dave Follows!s us scallies to draw up the front lines! Jed Pascoe: 01767-682 882 retrospective exhibition of Three What about Thunderbirds type Decades of Cartooning. Dave was [email protected] bases strategically positioned an avid member of the Club and a around the globe ready for action superb exponent of the art they call wherever or a super monorail sys- Clive Collins: 01702-557 205 cartooning "- "so it will be a joy to tem with lines over and under each [email protected] see his family again. other avoiding points and other twin Neil Dishington: 020-8505 0134 Steve Willis (esteemed Ed of this rail catastrophes? organ) is recommending a bunch of [email protected] How I loved receiving The Topper, us follow a trail of suitable hostelries Beano and Film and TV Fun comics Ian Ellery: 01424-718 209 in Fleet Street for the June “Street of at boarding school. I was frowned [email protected] Shame” meeting. Sounds good for a on for such supposed illiterate mate- Graham Fowell: 0115-933 4186 change. So there will be no official rial but boy there was a queue to [email protected] committee meeting on June!s first borrow them after I!d done with Helen Pointer: 01883-373 202 Tuesday. them! And it looks like a Midlands gather- [email protected] I!d be interested to hear from any- ing in July in Birmingham "- "so it one who recalls this young fella Roy Nixon: 01245-256 814 seems all go on the socialising front. m!lad. Mike Turner: 01206-798 283 Who says we don!t? """""""" [email protected] Now here!s a thing "- "I was inter- Stay bright! Steve Bright: 079 5270 3845 ested to see a report in the Sun- Terry Christien days! a few weeks back [email protected] about the development of Pete Dredge: 0115 981 0984 mechanical #bugs! "- "size mobile: 0788 421 1322 about a foot long being [email protected] sent, at the press of a but- Noel Ford: 01974 831468 ton, behind enemy lines to [email protected] gather vital enemy info and buzz it back to front line Tim Harries: 01633 780293 troops. What will they think [email protected] of next? Well not surpris- ingly the comic cartoonists! Jester Editor mind had it all sorted back Steve Willis in the fifties "- "and I!m sure it was in the Topper comic 01235 833 414 but I haven!t allowed [email protected] enough time to research it on the net. But it featured a young school lad who had Front Cover: Tom Williams armies of soldiers, tanks and vehicles of all sorts, Back Cover: Anthony Hutchings all electrically controlled from a gizmo worn on his 2 THE JESTER ISSUE 410 – JUNE 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK NEWS CCGB hospital exhibition The CCGB!s own cartoon exhi- bition is now hanging in Whipps Cross Hospital, East London. Apparently it!s proving to be a great success with staff, patients and visitors. There has been a suggestion from the hospital that we might like to pay a visit indi- vidually or as a small group. Any takers? Above: Dave Brown coming An Independent R.I.P. Humphrey soon to the PCG Line Lyttelton The Political Cartoon Gallery Humphrey Lyttelton, the jazz Royston wins present an exhibition of cartoons musician, radio broadcaster and competition from "The Independent! by Dave cartoon collaborator with Wally Brown, Peter Schrank and Tim Fawkes has died aged 86. Last month!s Jester competition Sanders from 18 June until 18 Hugely talented and leader of featuring a cartoon by Clive October 2008 his own band, he was a giant of Goddard has been won by # Taking a walk along Tobacco jazz. Perhaps these days, he is Royston Robertson. Road, Tim Benson at the PCG remembered by a wider audi- The cartoon asking for the describes it as “From the fag- ence as the sharp-witted radio identity of a film star showed end of the Major years to New host of “I!m Sorry I Haven!t A Tim Harries being given a pig- Labour!s smoking ban and be- Clue”. gyback by Noel Ford...so Harri- yond, this is a king-size pack of One shouldn!t forget though that son Ford was the answer. unfiltered satire from the political it was while he was at Camber- Royston!s entry proved to be cartoonists of The Independent. well Art School that he met the first correct answer. He was Clinton!s cigar, George Dubya Wally Fawkes. The friendship so keen to win that the answer striking a light under the Middle resulted in “Humph” for a time was received on a postcard the East, Blair!s pants on fire, the writing the storyline for Flook, very next day after publication. damp matchbox of Gordon!s Fawkes! comic strip that graced Rumour has it that if he lived premiership and an ashtray of the pages of the Daily Mail. closer, he would have hand de- other smouldering issues are livered it the same day! the butts of their humour.” # Before anyone shouts “What a Drawing on the best of over 12 Giles Exhibition fix” that the previous editor years of material, this exhibition should be the winner, it!s also will be accompanied by a fully- Announced fair to say that the number of illustrated hardback book with a entries was a little on the low foreword by Mark Steel. London!s Cartoon Museum have side...two to be precise. The Political Cartoon Gallery is announced a Giles exhibition of Lucky Royston wins a bumper at 32 Store Street, London over 100 original cartoon. More selection of new books by Glen WC1E 7BS. Open Monday to details to follow in the fulness of Baxter, Giles Pilbrow, Jim Unger Friday 9.30am – 5.30pm and on time but for the moment, the and Enzo Apicella. Next time, Saturdays between 11.30am – dates to put in your diaries are we!ll try and make the competi- 5.30pm. Phone 020 7580 1114 5th November 2008 until 8th tion easier! for further details or email February 2009. [email protected] 3 THE JESTER ISSUE 410 – JUNE 2008 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Ever considered being a flasher? All this talk about computers mated cartoons for TV in our industry stirred me to in the 1950s. They had write about how a wonderful to produce cartoons as software package called long as other TV shows, Adobe Flash opened a new where they had previ- world for me as a cartoonist. ously worked on short, I!m sure many of you are already 5 minute pieces (most familiar with Flash and no doubt notably Tom and Jerry). lots of you already use it in your Worse, the budget was work. For those of you yet to a mere fraction of what discover its wonders, let me tell they had previously en- you a little bit about it. joyed. No longer could Flash began as a tool to allow they afford the luxury of web designers to animate ob- animating every single When I first began to learn Flash jects around their sites. This was frame of action. So they devel- using tutorials I found on the possible before, but Flash!s ap- oped “limited animation”. This web (there are lots, but I!d rec- proach had a crucial advantage involved only moving the parts of ommend www.cartoonsmart.com over other methods in that it kept characters that actually needed or Adobe!s www.adobe.com), I file sizes small – essential at a to move. The necktie was intro- remember reading that it was time when most people were duced to many animal charac- possible that I might never draw using slow dial-up connections ters to allow for the head to be with a pen again. Unthinkable, I to access the web.