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NeThewsletter Newsletter of the of theCar Cartoonists’toonists’ Club Club of of Great Great BritainBritain THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK The Jester Issue 397 - May 2007 Published 11 times a year by The Cartoonists’ Club The Chair of Great Britain The CCGB Committee WELL, didn’t we have a jolly good – he was hidden behind me! But he Chairman: Terry Christien AGM? Yes we did, thanks to you guys knows that I, on behalf of the club 020–8892 3621 and girls! really appreciate the excellent work [email protected] Starting earlier, with an extended he’s done with The Jester and have Secretary: Jed Stone afternoon, helped you, as you said it said so on many occasions. To reiterate would, to catch trains etc. It’ll be back again, a big thank you for bringing 020–7720 1884 to early evening for the May meeting. such professionalism to the pages of [email protected] It’s thank-you time on behalf of the The Jester – well done, mate! Treasurer: Anne Boyd club to our committee, for tirelessly We should also recognise the addi- 020–7720 1884 attending every month to keep the tional work it took for Royston to [email protected] CCGB thriving. produce the A5-size Members’ Direc- Membership Secretary: Special mention to our Treasurer, tory, which turned out superbly. Jed Pascoe: 01767–682 882 Anne Boyd – after a bit of a shaky To remind everybody, all the officers’ start, taking over from Jill Kearney’s duties are voluntary, with consumable [email protected] excellent work, she has worked expenses to help Royston by assisting closely with Jed Pascoe, our Member- him with the technological require- Les Barton: 01895–236 732 ship Secretary, to smooth the operation ments needed to publish The Jester. [email protected] of the club’s membership database, So, the new committee (with no ma- Clive Collins: 01702–557 205 among other duties. It’s all very much jor changes, but with every opportunity [email protected] appreciated. Thank you both Anne to do so) will do their best to make and Jed. your CCGB membership enjoyable Neil Dishington: 020–8505 0134 Thank you also to the other Jed, Jed and constructive. [email protected] Stone, our Secretary, who has brought As I write, we’re looking forward to Ian Ellery: 01424–718 209 a new meaning to the phrase “matters the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, then [email protected] arising”, boomed from the minutes of there’s Ip-art in Ipswich at the end of Graham Fowell: 0115–933 4186 each previous meeting. Good stuff and June and we will also be involved in [email protected] thanks to you, Jed. the arts festival in Weston-super-Mare Pete Jacob: 01732 845 079 And sparing his blushes, very impor- in September ... and whatever tran- tantly a big thank you to our Jester spires between! Jill Kearney: 0115–933 4186 Editor, Royston Robertson, who I so [email protected] nearly forgot to mention at the AGM Terry Christien Helen Martin: 01883–625 600 [email protected] Roy Nixon: 01245–256 814 Derek Quint: 01984–632 592 Richard Tomes: 0121–706 7652 [email protected] Mike Turner: 01206–798 283 [email protected] Jock Williams-Davies: 01473–422 917 [email protected] Trish Williams-Davies: [email protected]

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Front cover: Steve Best Back cover: Fred Higton “There’s no money in it.” 2 THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK News

New cartoonists’ organisation The new Professional Cartoonists’ Dave Brown’s Rogues’ Gallery, an exhibition of original cartoons from Organisation (PCO) was launched The Independent, is at the Political Cartoon Gallery from May 2 until in April, an amalgamation of the July 1. Brown’s reinterpretations of the Old Masters have appeared in UK division of FECO and the The Indie since January 2004, and this exhibition is a selection of the best. defunct Cartoonists’ Guild. The exhibition will be accompanied by a limited-edition catalogue. The The PCO exists to promote Political Cartoon Gallery, 32 Store Street, London, is open Monday to cartooning, rather than being a Friday 9.30am–5.30pm and on Saturdays 11.30am–5.30pm. social club for cartoonists. PCO President Andy Davey told again Trish and I have secured a Somerset festival, with artwork for The Jester that the idea was formed stall for the CCGB. Last year Mike sale. Members are invited to join during a conversation at the Turner, Terry Christien, Graham the throng. It is likely that we will Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival two Fowell, Jill Kearney, Trish and do cartoon/caricature workshops. years ago. myself had a good day at the fair, More details in future Jesters. “The feeling of those idle drawing, selling and talking with Terry Christien said: “There are a banterers was that the best of the passing public. The invitation is number of members in that area it British cartooning and cartoonists open again for any one who wants would be good to see again.” was not being represented forcibly to come along for the day. See page enough. If cartoonists were to reach two for Jock’s contact details. a wider public, then the message  The club will also be taking part Beetles show needed to be conveyed more in the Weston-super-Mare Arts effectively both to editors and Festival 2007, from September 21- Having a Laugh! – The British Art directly to the illustration-buying 23. The CCGB exhibition of car- of the Cartoon, is at the Chris commercial markets. toons will be on display at the Beetles Gallery from April 25 until “The PCO aims to become an May 31. The show is a selection of active, professional organisation of cartoons by many of Britain’s best cartoonists which promotes and known cartoonists, such as Larry, supports the art and profession of H. M. Bateman, Giles, Simon Bond, British cartooning domestically and Ed McLachlan, Vicky, Mike internationally, the latter mostly via Williams and many others. The its membership of FECO. It will do Chris Beetles Gallery is at 8 & 10 this via the internet and its bi- Ryder Street, St James’s, London. monthly Foghorn magazine and For more details visit the website: will also collaborate in organising www.chrisbeetles.com festivals and exhibitions.” Shrewsbury Ip’s all go The Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival From Jock Williams-Davies: The was getting under way as The Jester Ipswich arts festival, Ip-art, is upon went to press. See next month’s us again, and within its two-week issue for a full report and pictures. period is a Street Fair in the centre The festival website is: www. of town on Sunday 24 June. Once shrewsburycartoonfestival.com

3 THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Grand day out Alan Turner recalls meeting a cartooning legend Dear

THERE was something very Jester familiar about the figure in the Ipswich printers, but I just couldn’t work it out. I was making Postal address: enquiries about a print run for a draw- The Jester, ing I’d done for a Christmas card at c/o Royston Robertson, RAF Wattisham. Grandma! It was 20 Upton Road, Grandma! Heavily disguised in a Broadstairs, tweed jacket and cords, but neverthe- Kent CT10 2AS less it was. Email: jester_magazine This was in 1974 and I’d been car- @yahoo.co.uk tooning for around 20 years, often drawing (pun entirely intended) inspi- ration from Giles annuals. In my final year at college I entered a lecture competition, choosing car- tooning as the subject, and wrote to Giles for permission to reproduce some of his characters, especially Grandma. The reply didn’t arrive in time, but I went ahead anyway. Now, the time had come to confess. Down on my knees I went, kissed the Left: Arthur Middleton hem of his slightly pig-stained Harris when he was a young Tweed, at the same time praying si- whippersnapper lently to St. Cat the patron saint of stolen copyright that my punishment wouldn’t be too great. Giles told me Arthur’s photo album Directory enquiry not to be silly – £500 in used fivers would be fine! Over the years, I have accumulated a Did you receive your A5 Members’ But seriously, we talked cartooning, number of photos taken at CCGB Directory with the April issue of The master to acolyte, long into the Suffolk do’s. Most of them are family Jester? If not, let myself or Member- afternoon and, amongst other things, I subjects, but I have singled out about ship Secretary Jed Pascoe know, as asked how he fitted three cartoons a 60 which I think are purely club we have a few spares – The Ed week into a busy farming schedule. He orientated. I wish to share these told me that he drafted ideas which he with other members, hopefully to gave to his wife who checked, using bring back a few memories to the the Cardex filing system, for possible oldies and to show the young whip- repetition of previous cartoons. This persnappers how things used to be. labour of love, on the part of Grand- Arthur Middleton ma’s daughter of course, affected his (Club Piper) deadlines as she frequently said something like, “You can’t use that Editor’s note: Arthur’s photos are one. You did it 15 years ago”. sure to bring back many memories This often meant that he missed the for members. They can now be seen train so was forced to drive his work to on the CCGB website. Go to the Fleet Street, which happened about main page and click on “Cartoon three times a month on average. Galleries.” As I left, he asked how I’d done in the The final gallery is called competition, and when I told him I’d “Scrapbook”. Click on that and won he gave me the £500 back. No he you’ll find Arthur’s photo album didn’t – he just smiled and winked. in there.

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THE pool table at The Cartoonist played a major part in the AGM, which was held from 2pm on April 3, How the AGM as members paired off to take part in a knockout. The official AGM stuff was done first, with Chairman Terry went all to thanking all who have helped keep the club going over the past year (see page 2). There were no changes to the committee other than the addition pot ... of Trish Williams-Davies to the line- up. As ever, it was good to see members who don’t get to meetings too often putting in an appearance. Gag supremos Dave Parker and Pete Dredge came along, and new member Brenda Romans made her debut at The Cartoonist. But I know what you’re demanding to know: who were the pool champs? All is revealed overleaf .... Royston Robertson

Right on cue: Chairman Photos: Trish Williams-Davies, Terry lines up a shot Tim Harries and Gerard Whyman

Annual general greeting: Simon Cassini makes his views on photos clear; Pete Shea with new member Brenda Romans; prolific gag man Dave Parker looks at the work of comics artist Henry Davies

Paul Baker has some sort of neck complaint but John Landers, Nikki Harries and Gerard Whyman pretend not to notice; Neil Dishington appears less keen to be snapped than Derek Quint and Frank Holmes

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With some inevitability, the final of the AGM pool knockout was drawn along national lines, with the England Team, represented by Jill Kearney and Cockney sparrow Jed Stone, left, romping to victory, and tears before bedtime for Team Wales, aka Gerard Whyman and Nikki Harries, above. The appalling ineptitude of some members when it comes to playing pool must be noted [do you mean the Ed? – Ed] as well as the skills of the odd dark horse, such as Frank “Hurricane” Holmes. The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain Income and Expenditure Account: April 1st 2006 – March 31st 2007 MY husband, Jed Stone, persuaded me to be Treasurer on the promise that it was just “some figures on the back of an envelope”. Personally I think that was an at- tempt on his part to draw me into the thirst-quenching merriment that is the CCGB. After club events he no longer rolls home alone but has me staggering along beside him! As regards my newfound role, I am indebted to Jill Kearney for her well- kept records, members’ lists, bank statements, etc. I am also thankful that she continued with Treasurer’s duties for at least six months before casting me adrift on my own. I am truly grateful to Jed Pascoe for taking on the Jester mailing list. That just leaves me the annual subs to bank. My cunning plan is to en- courage all members to pay subs by standing order. This has been partially successful (for which, many thanks) and I shall persevere next year. I should also like to thank Terry Christian and the committee for making committee meetings so en- tertaining (am I allowed to say that?). Here’s to another year of keeping the CCGB in the black. Anne Boyd 6 THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK

“You’d think he’d be happy now he’s carbon neutral, wouldn’t you?” “It’s either a mirage or this global warming’s worse than we thought.” Funny old world

“Never mind the polar bears "Once the pole melts, what will “It’s out of our hands, we’ll just – what about us?” we be called?" have to go with the floe.”

“I tell you – the melting ice caps are bringing ’em over here.”

Thanks for all the environment-based cartoons. The next cartoon theme is: ART

7 THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Our man in Manchester In the first of two articles, Duncan Bourne takes us through a project that combined cartooning with photorealistic real-life locations ... and kept him more than a little busy THERE you are wondering where the read a letter that landed, along with a Manchester. If I was going to land the next project will come from, polish- story synopsis, in my mail box. commission I would have to show ing the glass on your framed and The praise for my work was high that I could be a draughtsman as well mounted collection of rejection slips, (searched the internet … saw your as a cartoonist. I made a few prelimi- when out of the blue wafts a promise work …. Right man for the job… etc. nary sketches of local buildings of fame and fortune. etc.) His enthusiasm for the story was around where I lived and also dug up “I have this great idea for a book and evident. But then came that problem- some work I had done in the past that you're just the person to illustrate it!” atic little phrase “self-publishing”. included some architecture. These I Your heart skips a beat as visions of However, despite that, this was a presented at our first meeting. wealth and fame flash across your potential client that was offering to It was a very amiable affair. I met brain… “I believe that this will run pay the going rate. So, I thought, no Richard Byrne, the writer of the book, for at least 30 sequels!” More wealth, point in being shy, and I sent him a in Manchester and he took me around more fame! quote that, while reasonable, was the all the locations for Tolly. His idea for Then comes the body blow “I am sort of figure to make any idle the book was of a child (Tolly) who going to self-publish so I can’t afford dreamer’s toes curl. To my surprise he tells wonderful stories, which are so to pay you at present, but I am sure agreed to it straight away (damn – compelling that all sorts of people that it will be successful and a good should have gone for more) and even gather to listen to them. As Tolly future investment.” There is a dull offered to pay half up front – a thing wanders around Manchester, shop- thud as your dreams plummet into the rarely heard of in my experience. ping with Mum, they acquire an in- waste bin of life. These kind of things It wasn’t all cut and dried though. creasing number of followers all happen with a depressingly monoto- He knew I could draw the figures but eager to listen, until there is a cast of nous regularity. So it was with a cer- the story called for accurate repre- thousands in the final scene. He was tain amount of cynicism that I first sentations of specific locations in very enthusiastic about including

So the story begins: Tolly draws a crowd at the Urbis Centre, one of several real-life Manchester locations in the book

8 THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK several notable landmarks on this tale trail, the idea being that parents and children could go on a “Tolly walk” around Manchester (all areas of the story were within easy walking dis- tance) and act out the book. I pre- sented him with the character sketches for Tolly which I had done and they were approved. We arranged a meeting in a week’s time in Stoke and then he took me for a meal to conclude the meeting. That week I worked up A4 sketches for all the scenes, a task that was more involved than I had originally thought. To simply have people fol- lowing Tolly around in a kind of daze would have been a bit dull, so I worked a few little sub-plots into the pictures to develop alongside the main story: a pigeon with a penchant for hats; two burglars, with a safe, trying to listen to the story but hide from the policewoman; an alien visi- tor, and others. Of course then I had to work out how all these sub-plots were going to develop and be con- cluded in the final scene – a task that took several reams of notes before I even began drawing. On our second meeting Richard approved the scene sketches I had done and he presented me with a disc of photos to use for the worked up sketches. We agreed that I would be paid a flat rate for the initial print run and 50 per cent royalties for subse- quent printings. I said that I would draw up a contract that would assign copyright to suit us both (me getting the images, Richard the concept). That week I did the pencilling for the first two of the final images. Ini- tially I drew the buildings by hand, but that way was proving too long winded. So for the second image I enlarged the photos I had been given and traced out the salient points using Top: A motley crowd gathers on the good old light box technique. the steps in Exchange Square to Once I had the buildings down then I listen to Tolly’s story. Above and could place the figures around them. right: Tolly and her mum, pencil Richard was more than pleased with sketch and coloured artwork the resulting sketches and, as prom- ised, paid up half the amount of the final fee – a very nice incentive to keep going. just being kids. The few reference Her Majesty’s Pleasure. In the end I It took me two weeks to draw up all books I came across were long out of used a combination of clothing cata- the images (bar the final piece) to A3. print and an internet search drew lim- logues and my wife Michèle’s niece One of the first problems I encoun- ited material to work with. In the old for specific poses. tered was that of children. I discov- days I could have gone to a play- ered that in our paranoid climate of ground with a camera and sketch Next: Duncan finds that some child abuse and kiddie porn it is very book but now that was a sure way to a pictures take a month to complete, difficult to find decent photos of kids tarring and feathering and a stay at plus there’s computer trouble ...

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Also featuring the likes of Andy Davey, clearly. From The Sunday Times, April 15. Spotted by Nigel Sutherland

From CNN.com, April 8: Cartoonist , whose award-winning “B.C.” appeared in more than 1,300 news- papers worldwide, died Saturday while working at his home in Endicott, New York. He was 76. “He had a stroke,” Hart’s wife, Bobby, said Sunday. “He died at his storyboard.” “B.C.”, populated by prehistoric cavemen and dinosaurs, was launched in 1958 and eventually appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers with an audience of 100 million, according to Inc., which distributes it. “He was generally regarded as one of the best cartoonists we've ever had," Hart’s friend Mell Lazarus, creator of the “” and “Miss Peach” comic strips, said from his California home. “He was totally original. ‘B.C.’ broke ground and led the way for a number of imitators, none of which ever came close.” After he graduated from Union-Endicott High School, Hart met , a young cartoonist who became a prime influence and co-creator with Hart of the “Wizard of Id” comic strip.

From The Los Angeles Times, April 16: Cartoonist Brant Parker, who co-created the comic strip The Wizard of Id and rendered its medieval kingdom for more than three decades, has died. He was 86. Parker died Sunday at a Lynchburg, Va., nursing home of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease and a stroke suffered last year, announced Creators Ouch! From the letters pages of Superman and Lois Syndicate, the strip’s distributor. Lane comics in the 1950s, spotted on the web by the Ed His death came eight days after longtime Wizard [On a cartooning site, I hasten to add – Ed] collaborator Johnny Hart died of a stroke at 76.

10 THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK GREAT MINDS! A little understanding We’ve all seen it happen before ... Australia has not always paid attention to its cartoonist ask cartoonists to come up with neighbours, says Rolf Heimann of the ACA gags on one subject and they think up the same joke! You’ve already IN SOME countries, Australia is best religion. There are parts of Indonesia seen Steve Best’s version on the known as the home of Neighbours, the where a picture of a bikini-clad girl cover, but credit must also go to TV soap. Yet not all of Australia’s own could lead to riots and flag-burning. Brenda Romans, Alex Matthews neighbours have become good friends There are problems with our stock-in- and Dave Parker ... – at least not all of the time. trade cartoon subjects: half-naked When we look for cartoon inspira- girls, pigs and parsons! What are we tion, we leaf through old Punch year- left with? Politicians? Terrorists? Bet- books or New Yorker collections. After ter not touch them either. all, we English-speakers share not All this goes to show how important only the language, but many prefer- a free society is if we want to keep ences and prejudices – we all dislike laughing. But it should also make us mothers-in-law, dentists and teenagers. think about what others laugh about. We would not look at Indonesian or Everybody likes to laugh, and each Chinese cartoon books. Ask any Aus- nation prides itself on its unique sense tralian to name 20 cartoonists, and of humour. If we don’t laugh about there would not be an Asian among their jokes, they reckon that we simply them. Years ago we had good excuses: don’t get the subtlety. England was the mother country and Those of us who do have an eye on America protected us from the “yel- Asian humour know how rapidly low hordes”. We had a White Australia “Western” humour is catching on – as policy and it was treason to say any- far as it is allowed – or being imitated, thing good about people who don’t if you like. And that’s no wonder. In speak English. Indonesia and Asia they are starting to But now we have Indian and Chinese dress like Westerners, see the same immigrants to do the jobs we are too films, and work for the same corpora- stupid or too lazy to do, and most of tions even. We’re going to have a our television sets, cars, cameras and global sense of humour. Which means phones come from Asia – but none of that we may soon find ourselves going our jokes. It’s a joke, I tell you, and through those Chinese and Indonesian that’s no joke. publications if we run out of ideas ... Lately there have been moves to break that insularity, with cartoon Rolf Heimann (“LOFO”), is exhibitions and exchanges planned. It Vice President of the Australian is not surprising that we encounter the Cartoonists' Association and is same old enemy of a good laugh: not currently organising an exhibition ethnic differences, but fundamentalist of Australian cartoons in Indonesia

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4 n this article we’ll have nternet & Photoshop: Now let’s get a Rolls Royce internet grill a bash at using four or Ibecause it’s easier than drawing one & it makes a nice effect. article # Ifi ve different programs Open your browser & access the Google search engine (google.com (counting the pencil) to create if not on your browser). Type Rolls Royce into the search fi eld & press Y a very simple cartoon. Search. You’ll get a lot of web addresses but we don’t want those. We’ll use natural media

CHRIS KELL (pen, pencil or beer bottle dipped in ink) to create a base sketch, Photoshop to scan the sketch, your internet browser to fi nd a small image to add to the cartoon in Photoshop, the browser to fi nd another image to copy into Illustrator to trace a required outline for our cartoon, Painter to color in the cartoon & fi nally Illustrator to add some text With such a simple cartoon, you might ask why so much soft- ware to do what was surely once done with a pen & eight drops Above the search fi eld you’ll see web. Click images for a of ink. Good question. I might not do all my cartoons like this page of Rolls Royce thumbnails. Check size info for a bigger pic either, but this was the easiest way for me to do this one. It also & click a thumbnail to open a page offering a larger version of facilitates later changes, electronical transmission & use of bits the image. Take that offer. When this image opens, Control-click in other cartoons later. The cathedral was later used in a cartoon (Mac) or right-click (PC) on the image & choose Copy. Return about George Pell & the RR grill in yet another cartoon to Photoshop & paste the image into your doc. Scale till it fi ts the front of the car & then use a mask rather than an eraser (see ATD#3) to hide unwanted portions of the image nternet & Illustrator: Now we need a cathedral outline for Ithe backdrop. Therefore we need a cathedral. Type St Pe- ter’s Basilica into Google, press Search & copy as before. Open an Illustrator fi le, paste & Save in the .ai format

To make it easier to trace around this, fade & lock the image. Double click the layer in the layer palette & from the dialog box, select Template, Lock & click OK. The normal eye icon changes to the template icon. If no lock icon appears next to the template icon, click next to it to lock the template layer Create a new layer above the template layer. Use the pen tool to trace around the top of St Peters & adjust the stroke to desired width. Select & copy your pen tool artwork. Switch to Photoshop & paste & scale the artwork to fi t the cartoon. For this cartoon, I applied a mask & used a soft brush to fade the artwork at the sides. Save & Close ainter & Chalkwork: The method described below is not the only way all these Open the Photoshop fi le programs could be used to complete this cartoon. Several stages P in Painter. Create a new layer could have been done in just the one program. However, the idea below the Sketch layer, choose is to provide a working example of how to use these programs in a blunt chalk from the brushes unison rather than be constrained to just one program at any one palette, a rough texture from time to complete a cartoon the paper palette, black from This cartoon is part of a collection for a book called (possibly) the color palette & chalk in “Nun Soup” which is currently at that delicate stage known to some road texture below the all as “you call that a contract?”. Thanks to all those ACA mem- car. Save in the psd format & bers who have provided valuable advice about this delicate stage Close also. It has been much appreciated hotoshop or Illustrator for Text: 1) Open in Photoshop & en & Photoshop: … pencil if you please, then ink with a 0.6 Puse the Text tool to creat the text. Select the text & use the PArtline borrowed from Peter Byrne’s offi ce at NEWS Ltd. Warp Text Tool for interesting or subtle effects. Save. To send as a Scan the cartoon in grayscale & open in Photoshop on a single fl attened fi le, copy the fi le, fl atten & save in tiff, jpg or gif formats background layer in a .psd format fi le. PSD is Photoshop’s native as required by your client - OR - 2) Open in Illustrator & use the format (see Ask The Doctor #2) & a format in which other pro- Text tool to create the text. Illustrator has many more options for grams can also work effi ciently. For the purposes of this exercise text, so on more complicated artwork, this may be your best bet. we will save our fi le in the psd format only To send as a fl attened fi le, copy the fi le, select all the text, choose Type>Create Outlines & save in the eps format or as required by Drag the background layer down to the new layer icon to cre- your client. The reason for outlining text is that if your client’s ate a new layer called Background Copy & rename it Sketch. computer does not have your fonts (highly likely) their computer Change the blending mode for this layer to Multiply (see ATD#1). will substitute a default font & ruin your artwork This effectively turns a sketch on a white opaque page into a sketch on a transparency which will allow us to paint below it Questions to the Doctor at later. Select the bgrd layer & fi ll with white. Save as Cartoon.psd Till the next Inkspot. Cheers. Chris

Reprinted by kind permission of our friends at the Australian Cartoonists’ Association magazine Inkspot 12 THE JESTER ISSUE 397 – MAY 2007 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK

Clive Collins

GRAHAM GREENE once described scalpel. Thus I received endless en- for 15 Minutes age, it means anyone a character in The Heart of the Matter quiries as to whether I drew plans of thinks that he or she can do what we as having “a laugh like a shriek from yachts or maps, or designed anything do and probably will. a crevasse”, and I’ve had days like from rock gardens to greenhouses, Footnote: I did get paid by the woman that. If it’s not fellow professionals taking in house extensions and deco- who complained, after I eventually complaining about the fact that, as rating children’s bedrooms along the drew her from a more recent photo- cartoonists, no one out there in the way. Each time I denied my skills in graph, and I made her promise to great murky public arena knows what any of the aforementioned, the caller forget my number, and only ever con- the hell the title “Cartoonist” actually expressed at least puzzlement or, at tact me again on pain of death. means, then it’s some dipstick client most, anger, and asked why the hell I complaining that I’ve drawn her with couldn’t make my terms of reference THERE will be a Carbon Footprint bobbed hair and glasses. Hey! Maybe clearer. I withdrew from the listings. Swap at The Cartoonist pub after the it’s how she looked in the photograph They came back to me late last year, May club meeting. Several long-haul- she sent me! and I asked them if they’d yet got a flight caricaturists would like to ex- She’s weeping copiously on the section for “Cartoonists & Illustra- change their responsibility for global phone, telling me how proud she is of tors” and, as I expected, was told that warming with fellow caricaturists her new flowing hairdo and that she what we do “doesn’t justify a separate who don’t go anywhere. Your sup- never wears glasses outside of the heading”. I countered by asking why port is urged on behalf of CCGB office, and I’m thinking, Do I have they didn’t just lump together Butch- member Norman Plop, who was ar- the gift of second sight? ers, Greengrocers, Fishmongers, rested early last week for installing a As to what we call ourselves, I’ve Restaurants and Catering under the 3-pin double socket plug to the base always been proud to answer to being one heading “Food”. There was a of a windmill on the windfarm ad- a Cartoonist, Caricaturist and Illus- puzzled tone in his voice as I hung up. joining his property, in order to power trator because, those titles, oddly What I’ve found frightening is that his Mac. enough describe adequately what I do virtually all of the situations that to earn a crust. We have to realise, of Besley so excellently captures in his I’VE just finished reading Leslie course, that the word “cartoon” Jester vignettes are TRUE, and I Iwerks’ and John Kenworthy’s The probably echoes loudly somewhere in realise, I really do, that what we do Hand Behind the Mouse (pub. Disney that vast empty hall of public percep- isn’t brain surgery or rocket science Editions), the life story of Ub Iwerks tion but sometimes it can’t be pinned and people’s lives aren’t changed by who was the man Walt Disney called down. A chum of mine in the prov- what we do (though it would be nice “the greatest animator in the world”. inces is pissed off as a result of being to think their lives might be made It’s a wonderful read, full of throw- at a party with some friend who have brighter for a brief moment). But I away information like this: “On Plane connections among artists. He was have become more and more con- Crazy, by using cycles and repeats as asked for his opinion on a painting, vinced, as I hurry up the hill and spy time-saving measures, he neverthe- only to have his comments blown out the Grim Reaper trotting up the other less churned out more than 700 of the water by one of the assembled, side, that the public see what we do as drawings a day” (my italics). who asked, “What would you know? something rather silly and terribly I’ll never complain about being You’re just a cartoonist!” insubstantial. This being the Famous overworked again. Maybe it’s our own fault that we are so little known Out There; I know we have famous cartoonists among our acquaintance who are stars of TV and radio, but the fact that they have achieved their fame seems to bear no relation to our own scrambling around down here at the lower ends of the ladder. My sour view is con- stantly being re-enforced in dealings with, say, Yellow Pages. I advertised with them many years ago and found myself, as we do, listed under “Artists, Commercial & Industrial” which of course zeroes in on our abilities like a shining new

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Welcome ______re-joining to new Potted Minutes from CCGB AGM committee meeting members of April 3, 2007 Present: Terry Christien, Jed Stone, Neil Dishington, Jed Pascoe, Anne Boyd, Clive Collins, Royston Robert- son, Jill Kearney, Graham Fowell, Jock Williams-Davies, Derek Quint.

Apologies: Helen Martin, Mike Turner, Les Barton, Richard Tomes, Ian Ellery.

Matters arising: Accommodation i.e. hotels to be looked into during the Weston Arts Festival; Anyone approaching the CCGB with enquir- ies on how to become a cartoonist will be advised to look at website. Bill Greenhead (“Stik”) Gerard Whyman (“Ger”) Treasurers report: Anne Boyd 22 Kings Acre 44 Caeperllan Road circulated annual report, everything’s Downswood, Maidstone Newport, South Wales “tickety-boo”. Copy to be e-mailed to Kent ME15 8UP NP20 3FW Royston for Jester. Anne and Jed T: 01622-862 634 T/F: 01633-257 647 Pascoe still chasing up two E: [email protected] E: [email protected] members over returned cheques. W: www.stik.biz W: www.gerardwhyman.co.uk Committee thanked previous treasurer Jill Kearney for handover.

Published: FHM, Levis Cam- Published in: Reader’s Digest, paign, The Times, Punch, Daily Correspondence: Lew Phillips The Spectator, Private Eye, wishes to relinquish his membership. Telegraph Daily Mirror, Daily Star Punch, trade mags etc. New Members: Club welcomed back to the fold Bill Greenhead and Gerard Whyman.

101 Uses for Jester: The committee thanked Royston for his work on The Jester The Jester and the production of the Members’ Number: 6 Directory. Royston, in turn, acknowl- edged Tim Harries and others for input to the directory.

Website: On the problem of phishing and spam, Jill suggested that perhaps Jed Pascoe could conduct / run an HTPPS. Jed however, Change of thought that running a HTPPS was probably best left with Ian Ellery. address (kind of) Any other business: The date for Paul Baker’s’ website the Ip-art exhibition is the June 24. address has been changed to: Committee dissolved at 1.47pm. Evading North Korean Reconvened, with Trish-Williams www.bakertoons.com border guards Davies proposed as new committee member. Agreed by all.

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Thanks for all the cartoons THE DEADLINE on a climate change theme. IS THE 12th OF Those that did not make the edit will be EVERY MONTH recycled. Next month’s theme is: ART ... gallery giggles and sculptural sniggers to the usual addresses Contributions via email: please! [email protected] “At what point does it stop being ‘good for the garden’?” Contributions via post: The Jester c/o Royston Robertson AGM Lookalike: 20 Upton Road Have any other Broadstairs readers noticed the Kent CT10 2AS similarity between Tel: 01843-871 241 Jester Ed Royston Robertson and All articles and cartoons new committee member Trish welcomed (especially for the Williams-Davies? front and back covers) Are their opticians perhaps related etc Email submissions are etc ... preferred, as then images and text do not need to be scanned – but snail mail is still acceptable. All images sent by email must be a resolution of 300dpi, and in 101 Uses for The Jester the JPEG format – no Tiffs, Number: 7 Gifs etc.

Hope you’re enjoying the 101 Uses for The Jester series. Why not submit a few? I like ’ em as they fill awkward gaps! Ð The Ed

Covering your assets during the unseasonably hot weather! REMINDER: the next two club meetings are May 1 and June 5 Membership enquiries to: Jed Pascoe (Membership Secretary), at The Cartoonist pub, 4 Osprey Close, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 1TW. Tel: 01767-682 882. Email: [email protected] Shoe Lane, London. Subscription enquiries to: Anne Boyd (Treasurer), 7 Gambetta Street, Battersea, London, SW8 3TS. Tel: 020-7720 1884. Committee: 5.30pm Email [email protected] Website enquiries to: Ian Ellery, 25 Nelson Road, Hastings TN34 Members: 7pm BRX. Tel: 01424-718 209. Email: [email protected]

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“Perhaps making it fancy dress was not a great idea – I’ve got ringing in my ears.”

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