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Issue 37 the Magazine of the Professional Cartoonists TheFOGHORN magazine of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (FECO UK) Issue 37 NEWS FOGHORN FOGHORN Issue 37 The magazine of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (FECO UK) Published in Great Britain by the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (FECO UK) By the time you skip this and go straight team for upwards of to the cartoons, in the U.S., middle– three minutes, before PCO Patrons aged, not very bright and white will we got real, globally Libby Purves Andrew Marr have given way to young, gifted and irresponsible, and Bill Tidy black. All eyes will be on Mr Obama. chopped down a few What will he fix first? Can he and Gord more trees to bang Foghorn Editor Bill Stott save the world as we know it, Jim? out another FOG- tel: +44 (0) 160 646002 These and other economic downturn HORN! Hurray! email: [email protected] questions such as why Woolworths and not P.C. World engaged your editorial Bill Stott, Foghorn Editor Foghorn Sub-Editor Roger Penwill tel: +44 (0) 1584 711854 Artwork: John Roberts email: [email protected] Tidy stuff! Foghorn Layout/Design New patron fits the Bill. Tim Harries tel: + 44 (0) 1633 780293 As far as the Mighty Tidy is email: [email protected] concerned, “Doyen” springs easily to mind. Nine out of ten PCO Press Office email: [email protected] housewives cannot tell him from a well-known margarine Web info spread. He is the cartoonists’ PCO (FECO UK) website: cartoonist, and co-incidentally http://www.procartoonists.org BLOGHORN the favourite of several million http://thebloghorn.org/ non-cartoonists too. It is only right that an organisation like What is Foghorn? PCO should seek the support Foghorn is the bi-monthly magazine of Bill Tidy. Mind you it took of the PCO, an organisation of exclu- sively professional UK cartoonists, some doing, but he was final- formed from the amalgamation of ly brought down on a turning two other bodies; The Cartoonists’ pitch in bad light at Lords’ Guild and FECO UK. Taverners. British cartoon art has a great, ignoble history and currently boasts Bill’s work has been and is an inspiration. His drawing, a huge pool of talent. It deserves a makes him the perfect higher media presence than it cur- joke-making, story-telling, huge Patron. [is that enough creeping? rently enjoys. Our aim is to make productivity and sheer experience sure it gets it. Ed] We want to promote cartoon art domestically and internationally by encouraging high standards of artwork and service, looking after the interests of cartoonists and promot- ing their work in all kinds of media. Copyright All the images in this magazine are the intellectual property and copy- right of their individual creators and must not be copied or reproduced, in any format, without their consent. Front Cover: Chichi Parish Back Cover: Alex Hughes Foghorn (Online) ISSN 1759-6440 “Distressed by a broken bough and falling cradle incident? Try our no win - no fee policy. Call Freefone...” 2 THE FOGHORN WWW.PROCARTOONISTS.ORG BLOGHORN Browned off Move it, move it The Political Cartoon Gallery’s latest exhibition opens. Bloghorn finds a new home. Minister, opened at the gallery on In a bid to kick start the UK housing January 21 and market, the Bloghorn has moved to runs until March new premises at http://thebloghorn. 14. org/. Remember to update your links The show fea- and wipe your feet before entering. tures Britain’s top political car- The chairleg for the Bloghorn’s emi- toonists, such as nence grise, The Professional Car- Peter Brookes, toonists’ Organisation, said: “Finding Steve Bell, Dave Bloghorn a new home is an essential Brown, Nicholas step on our path to world domi … Garland, Chris- sorry, I mean the new Bloghorn plat- tian Adams, form will allow us more flexibility in Martin Rowson, doing what we want to do; making Morten Morland sure that a little more of the world (cartoon seen to is aware of our popular art form by the left), Andy presenting the work of very best of UK cartoonists, together with news The Political Cartoon to the Labour Party. Davey and Matt items and cartoon-related features, Gallery’s Tory Blues ex- Browned Off! A car- Buck. all amazingly with only minimal re- hibition has now closed toon exhibition on the For more information go course to tits, bums and Celebrity- so, in the interests of bal- first 18 months of Gor- to www.politicalcartoon. Boffing-on-Ice.” ance, attention is turned don Brown as Prime co.uk Nathan Ariss was PCO Artist of the Month for January 2009. Nathan works as a cartoonist and illustrator, has been pub- lished in Private Eye, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed and Business Executive (BEX). Other work includes book and album illustrations and covers, school text books, advertising campaigns and greeting cards, as well as numerous private commissions. Nathan explained to Bloghorn how he became a cartoon- ist: “I feel immensely fortunate to have been born into a creative household where it was entirely acceptable to set one’s sights on becoming an artist, musician, actor or professional itiner- told we have to grow up or be more realistic. I try and keep ant, which is pretty much what I am all about to this day. something of this child-like directness and honesty alive in As a kid I was always drawing, and it still feels like the most all my work. Back then it was all about cats, or rubbish mon- natural thing in the world to do, even if the tools I use have sters, or people with big noses, clowns with flowers growing changed a bit. I think we are all natural artists as children. out of their heads; grotesques really. I don’t know if I’m cured Unfortunately, it usually gets knocked out of us when we are yet, but I still like to draw people with really big noses.” WWW.PROCARTOONISTS.ORG THE FOGHORN 3 FEATURE CHICHI PARISH Is there a Dr Sketchy in the house? Chichi Parish found out what happens when burlesque meets art school. Dr Sketchy’s alternative life-drawing school, founded funny, absolutely. But did I experience zibababadoee factor? three years ago in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, by twenty Well, not exactly. But what’s zibababadoee factor, I hear you something artist, Molly Crabapple, kisses the life back cry. Lili St Cryr, a scandalous 50’s strip tease artist, famed for into dreary drawing classes. In fact, it does more than that, ‘The flying G’ had it and so did bondage ‘bad girl’ Betty Page: Dr Sketchy’s anti art school revolution raises the old blood smut appeal. pressure in four continents and 65 cities around the globe, I absolutely love the Dr Sketchy formula and so too does offering drawing classes with a difference: burlesque, its audience. It appeals to artists, 50’s rock n’ roll musicians, bustiers, gloves, diamantes, glitter, corsets, fishnets, feath- 40’s-50’s vintage fashion designers, performance artistes, stat- ers, pasties and prizes. Just show up. Drink or draw. If you isticians as well as followers of burlesque. I know, because I draw, you might even win a prize. If you drink, you might walked about the room and asked them. just get drunk. Dr Sketchy events take place in Birmingham, Brighton, Cov- Keen to find out more about this decadent hybrid, I packed entry, Edinburgh, Glasgow London and Manchester. Poses my bags, pumped up my tyres, sharpened pencils, put on vary between 3-15 minutes, but as far as the sketching public a green frock and drove up to the midlands to experience is concerned, that’s way too brief. Excuse the pun. I saw a Birmingham’s second ever Dr Sketchy event presented by lot of briefs in Brum. Oh, and, before I go, I’d just like to photographer, Candee Handful, at The Victoria Pub on John add: sketching under the influence of a large glass of chilled Bright Street. Chardonnay is not to be recommended - I got So what did I get for my £7? Three hours of evocative hopelessly pissed. Hollywood Babylon glamour and dames, dames, sub- cultural dames. Burlesque Diva, Dani California, entertained us with a character rendition of Moira Sheara, red head ballerina star of the double Oscar win- ning glorious Technicolor movie ‘Red Shoes’ (1948). Ms California’s pirouettes polite- ly disgraced the stage. True to the movie, the dancer’s crimson ballet slippers be- came demonically enchanted. Untrue to the movie, the ballerina loses more than her just tutu. Victoria L’Etoile proved a firm favor- ite with the punters. She played a cheesy Dorothy Gale from the Wizard of Oz. I shan’t bother outlining the plot, I don’t want to spoil your Christmas. You may be more interested to read about Ms. L’Etoile’s deliciously porcine silhouette (I prefer draw- ing larger models with generous thighs). Two etiolated non-sketching punters, regulars to Brum’s burlesque scene, assured me: ‘Us blokes don’t care about her cellulite, Victoria L’Etoile is gorgeous, she’s so real.’ I am reminded of Lili St Cryr’s motto: ‘A wom- an’s best weapon is a man’s imagination’ and there was me thinking that a woman’s best weapons are her cel- lulite busting formula creams. These men, real men, to boot, assured me they prefer women sans porcelain teeth, sans coloured contact lenses, sans surgically en- hanced breasts, sans, erm anything (for that matter). I didn’t know whether to breath a feminine sigh of relief. Burlesque is about as alluring as Baloo bear danc- ing in a wig and a grass skirt.
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