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! ISSUE 378 – OCTOBER 2005 ! AUTUMN 2005 The Jester GB OR NOT GB? “Whaddya mean it looks nothing like you?” TIME FOR A NAME CHANGE? / BIG DEBATE DEFLATED PAUL BAKER ON THE STRANGE LIFE OF STEPHEN NEMETHY BILL RITCHIE’S TRIBUTE TO JOE LEE / FASHION FUNNIES TIM HARRIES TAKES FLIGHT / CLUB WEBSITE’S NEW LOOK EMBARRASSING MOMENTS / PLUS STRIPS, NEWS & MORE The Newsletter of the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain THE JESTER ISSUE 378 – OCTOBER 2005 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK The Jester News Issue 378 - October 2005 Published 11 times a year Satirists face jail by The Cartoonists’ Club ANYWHERE else in Europe, political of Great Britain cartoons would be considered harmless satire, designed more to amuse than to undermine the State. Not so in Belarus. The CCGB Committee When animated mini films featuring Chairman: Terry Christien President Lukashenko appeared on the 020–8892 3621 internet, the KGB, the Belarussian [email protected] security service, responded Secretary: Richard Tomes immediately. It raided three apartments 0121–706 7652 in Minsk, confiscated 12 computers and interrogated Andrei Obuzov and [email protected] Cartoon Art Trust Pavel Morozov, the two men who put Treasurer: Jill Kearney wins £2,500 the cartoons on their website, for five 020–8590 8942 hours. Prosecutors have begun legal ANITA O’BRIAN, curator of the proceedings against them and Oleg Les Barton: 01895–236 732 Cartoon Art Trust, won £2,500 in the Minich, the creator of the cartoons, [email protected] Everyday Entrepreneur competition which could result in jail sentences of five years. Clive Collins: 01702–557 205 organised by The Guardian. The The cartoons mocked the leadership [email protected] money will be spent on publicising the CAT’s Cartoon Museum plan. style of Mr Lukashenko, his reputation Neil Dishington: 020–8505 0134 The CAT was established in 1988 to for rigging elections and his love of ice [email protected] promote and preserve the best of hockey. One showed a weeping Ian Ellery: 01424–718 209 British cartoon art. But in April it was Lukashenko wearing an ice hockey kit [email protected] forced to leave its temporary home in being comforted by President Putin of Russia, wearing judo gear, after being Graham Fowell: 020–8590 8942 the Brunswick Centre, near Russell deposed by a revolution. [email protected] Square, London. Since then, Anita has been fundraising to create a new From www.timesonline.co.uk Pete Jacob: 01732 845 079 museum in permanent premises. © Times Newspapers 2005 Helen Martin: 01883–625 600 She told The Guardian: “I’m the only [email protected] member of staff so my job involves Roy Nixon: 01245–256 814 everything from painting walls to Shock Jock Jed Pascoe: 01767–682 882 curating exhibitions to organising [email protected] cartooning workshops. Britain has a CCGB committee member Jock proud history of satirical and comic art Roger Penwill: 01584–711 854 Williams-Davies appeared on The but few, if any, places dedicated to Jerry Springer Show on September 9, [email protected] sharing it with the public. on ITV1, with his wife Trish – though Derek Quint: 01984–632 592 “The Cartoon Museum has a the subject was not “I’m leaving my Jed Stone: 020–7720 1884 collection of more than 1,000 original husband because of his terrible jokes!” [email protected] artworks, all currently in storage at In fact, Jock, and another bloke, Mike Turner: 01206–798 283 another museum. We hope to open the were appearing as Jerry Springer [email protected] new museum at a site in central lookalikes. So next time you see Jock, London early next year. But we have don’t forget to chant “Jerr-y! Jerr-y!” Jock Williams-Davies: to raise £500,000 simply to keep our 01473–422 917 heads above water over the next five [email protected] years. We get no public money so the chair of the trustees and I have to raise Jester Editor: it all ourselves. Publicity is essential. Royston Robertson The £2,500 will go a long way towards publicising the relaunch.” 01843–871 241 Everyday Entrepreneur, launched in jester_magazine @yahoo.co.uk conjunction with Zopa.com, offered £2,500 to people with “interesting, Front cover: Tim Harries innovative, worthwhile ideas on how Back cover: Pete Shea to spend the money”. Anita was the Keep ’em coming ... winner of the Arts category. The other categories were Alternative and “The sporran is worn on the Lifestyle. outside, sir.” 2 THE JESTER ISSUE 378 – OCTOBER 2005 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK The Chair WOTCHA, members so dear. Trust portant aspect: whenever the club you’re inwardly digesting these shows, displays, exhibits or publishes Jester pages? They’re coming along its members’ work to the wider very nicely thanks to the Ed, world, the committee of the day Royston. And the mention of his should exercise its editorial control name accompanies our congratula- by selecting the best work from tions to Royston and Kath on the members to be put forward – birth of their daughter Penny. How thereby keeping us all on our toes. did he manage it? Every word of the The other role of the handbook is to text for this issue is straight and reveal the contact details of mem- upright – quite extraordinary after bers, in order that, if it so pleases us, so much wetting of said baby’s head! we can interact socially. With the Well at September’s meet we had advent of suitable technology, this the so-called “heated debate” and should now not be beyond the wit of some useful stuff surfaced. Just a pity your committee to produce an up-to- more members couldn’t make it to date contact list every year for distri- Midlands meeting contribute. It was strongly felt that bution with The Jester. our present handbook didn’t really A wish for the club to remain with ALEX HUGHES is keen to arrange a reflect the current status of cartoon- its original social contact, get- regular CCGB meeting for members in ing in Britain. This is more than together type status was strongly the Midlands. The caricaturist told likely because we were using our expressed. This prompts us to ask the The Jester: “If anyone in the area is handbook page to advertise to one membership what they want from the interested in meeting on, say, the first another while not paying enough club, in a “tick the boxes” fashion, to Wednesday of the month at a pub in attention to simply putting down a be sent out very shortly. the city centre, can they let me know at good idea, which is what commis- We would love to see more out-of- [email protected] sioners would expect to see. towners from time to time – try to or on 0121-605 4449. If there’s enough This apart, the handbook takes a make it by combining the trip with interest I’ll see if I can get something year to publish (by the time the some sightseeing, a play, museum, or moving.” membership responds and it’s all who knows what. compiled) by which time it needs Stay bright! updating! This brings us to an im- Deadline change Terry Christien THE deadline for entries for the Best Cartoons Never Seen book has been Dedicated extended until October 10 (5pm). Cartoonists are invited to submit followers ... work that they are proud of, yet has never been published. See last THANKS to all who month’s News for more. Visit sent in fashion-related www.bestneverseen.org to enter. funnies this month. They’re scattered throughout the issue as Website relaunch usual. I’m also interested in hearing IF YOU have not been to the club your suggestions for website for a while, now is the time to future themes, as I visit – you won’t recognise the place! usually think the next Ian Ellery has been hard at work one up as I’m typing giving the site a contemporary new this ... Off the top of my look, adding new features and head then, as England content, and making it more easily did quite well in some navigable. The address is, as ever, cricket thing recently, www.ccgb.org.uk. If you have any next month’s theme is suggestions on things that could be sport and games. It’s added to the site, email Ian: Fitness Funnies ... [email protected] (See also page 7) Games Giggles etc – Ed 3 THE JESTER ISSUE 378 – OCTOBER 2005 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK HAVE YOU PAID YOUR SUBS? If you are one of the CCGB members who has yet to pay the annual subscription, please note that these must be paid by Friday, October 14. If payment is not made, you will not receive your super soaraway Jester from next month and will lose access to the members’ area of the website. Please send your cheque for £35, payable to CCGB, to Jill Kearney, CCGB Treasurer, 18 Cliff Drive, Radcliffe-on- Trent, Notts NG12 1AX. Your club needs YOU! Remember: Outstanding subs must be paid by October 14. It’s a last-chance type thing! The Paranoid Cartoonist Andy Vine 4 THE JESTER ISSUE 378 – OCTOBER 2005 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Dear Jester Wait, he’s not finished yet ... (just joking) and get the old pen out and draw a funny gag … FURTHER to my earlier tirade, and Neil Dishington having just watched a programme on ageism on the tele, AND having had Best not a glass of red wine, or two … I would like to point out that most of I WAS interested to see the bit on the best cartoonists in this country Best Never Seen cartoons [See are older, if not all.
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