! ISSUE 387 – JULY 2006! AUTUMN 2005 ThTeh Je eJessteterr IT’S A DRAW MINIMAL WORLD CUP CONTENT! THAT FRIDAY MEETING HUMOUR THAT TRAVELS CARTOON CONSPIRACIES TRIBUTES TO PENNINGTON BEST OF BRITISH BY BILL RITCHIE DONALD DUCK IS DEAD PLUS NEWS, VIEWS, REVIEWS, BOOZE, ER, SCHMOOZE ... NeThewsletter Newsletter of the of theCar Cartoonists’toonists’ Club Club of of Great Great BritainBritain THE JESTER ISSUE 387 – JULY 2006 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK The Jester Issue 387 - July 2006 The Chair Published 11 times a year by The Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain WE HAD not one but two meetings in make sure we’re doing our bit. So the merry month of June. The Tues- please look out for it and try to send it The CCGB Committee day water was sparkling as usual so in for a good response. After all, you Chairman: Terry Christien we tested the Friday water too! want the best value for your subs. 020–8892 3621 Members joined us at the Cheshire And while on the subject of partici- [email protected] Cheese pub in Fleet Street, which pation, don’t forget the Members’ proffered a different range of beers Directory, due out January. Your Secretary: Jed Stone which we duly tested. Interestingly, FREE entry will include a square of 020–7720 1884 Tim and Nikki Harries, who were your artwork – value or what? [email protected] there, happen to use a very reasonable The info you need for this is in every Treasurer: Anne Boyd Kings Cross travel lodge to stop over issue of The Jester. Deadline is No- 020–7720 1884 for less than £30 – worth knowing for vember 12. Please do it now, prefera- [email protected] any member not wishing to have both bly by email or by post if that’s not arms and legs removed. possible. Stay cool, At the Tuesday meeting at The Car- Les Barton: 01895–236 732 Terry Christien toonist, Alex Noel Watson gave us a [email protected] half-hour chat on his contributions to Clive Collins: 01702–557 205 The New Yorker over the years. [email protected] Thanks Alex, we enjoyed. And at the Neil Dishington: 020–8505 0134 July meeting the adman cometh. [email protected] Fairly new associate member Steve Willis will talk about cartoons in ad- Ian Ellery: 01424–718 209 vertising. And he has a couple of [email protected] useful cartoon websites you should Graham Fowell: 020–8590 8942 know about. Count me in! [email protected] Shortly in your soaraway Jester you Pete Jacob: 01732 845 079 will receive a simple questionnaire Jill Kearney: 020–8590 8942 – after we are happy with its contents [email protected] – prompting you to tick the boxes and help us know what members really Helen Martin: 01883–625 600 really want out of the club. It’s a [email protected] question we like to keep asking to Roy Nixon: 01245–256 814 Jed Pascoe: 01767–682 882 [email protected] 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] Jester Editor: Royston Robertson 01843–871 241 jester_magazine @yahoo.co.uk Front cover: Royston Robertson Back cover: Louis Hellman Terry with Simon Ellinas at the Cheshire Cheese meeting. More pics p13 2 THE JESTER ISSUE 387 – JULY 2006 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK toonist’s favourite gags which were rejected by the magazine. Diffee News wears his rejection with pride. He is also co-creator of The Rejection Show, a monthly live event in New York City that showcases rejected material by cartoonists and writers. Jock sings for, er, England Amid the glut of England football songs around at the moment, you may have missed the fact that one of them is sung by a CCGB mem- ber. Come On En-ger-land! by One Foot in the Groove features our very own Jock Williams-Davies on Steve to talk on vocals. The song started life as a track called Neighbours and was co- cartoon adverts written by Daz Sampson, this year’s The Jester has generously granted Steve Willis, who joined the CCGB UK Eurovision entry. It was paternity leave to Paul, and his in February, is to do a talk on rewritten with suitably terrace- excellent Baker’s Dozen series of cartoons in advertising at the next friendly lyrics. But what, you may articles will continue next month. club meeting on July 4. ask, is someone called Jock doing Steve, who used to work in singing for England? Well, Jock is advertising, said the talk would not Scottish. He is, of course, of Fun for kids feature “the good, the bad and the Welsh descent. The Cartoon Museum in London is ugly” of cartoon adverts: “Today holding free Summer Family Fun few cartoons are used because Days on July 8 and August 12. advertising art directors use Baker’s one There will be fun cartooning technology to illustrate things and Congratulations to caricaturist Paul activites and games for families. few these days consider cartoons. Baker and his wife Cath on the birth For more details see www. So ads that use what we used to call of their baby daughter. Natalie cartoonmuseum.org, email ‘Mac attack’ would be the bad and turned up on May 30, weighing 9lb [email protected] or the ugly. And I’ll show the good, 10oz. Mother and baby doing fine. call 020-7580 8155 including the golden age of cartoons in advertising which in my book is the 1950s and 1960s. “Naturally I’ll illustrate this with plenty of examples. And I promise not to show the cartoon Terry Christien did for me when I was an ad manager back in 1978!” New life for those rejects Wondering what to do with all those rejected gag cartoons that are cluttering up the shelves in your studio/spare room/broom cupboard? Well, why not put the best ones together and get a load of publishers to start a bidding war over them? It sounds like dream-world stuff but it has happened. After an auction involving five publishers, Simon Spotlight Entertainment acquired Matthew Diffee’s The Rejection Collection, a compen- dium of 30 of the New Yorker car- “This is my very first cruise, I’m bowled over!” 3 THE JESTER ISSUE 387 – JULY 2006 CCGB ONLINE: WWW.CCGB.ORG.UK Alex was lucky (talented and hard- working) enough to be involved with Dear the magazine in its golden days and met many of its contracted cartoonists, making friendships that last to this day. Jester Good too, to see Tom Power, landlord of The Cartoonist, up and about after his recent heart op. Tom looks very distinguished, sporting a new beard, and he treated the commit- tee to a showing of his operation scar, Jack Pennington I also want to add my tribute to Jack. a red slash down his front. If the sur- I enjoyed meeting Jack and Pip, geon had added a horizontal one Thank you for your kind thoughts when we met at the Stratford- across the middle Tom would have and donation to Macmillan nurses upon-Avon event, organised by resembled a perfect walking flag of who were so helpful in Jack’s care. Richard Tomes. St. George. He very much enjoyed the fun and We shared a life-long passion for Thanks to Graham and Jill for companionship of like-minded jazz and I regret not taking up transporting the club’s cartoon people and had very happy his suggestion to meet up with exhibition over to Ipswich for the memories of meetings and “away him in London and visit Ronnie Jock Williams Davies-inspired art fest Scott’s club. and club stall. Jack’s very informative jazz page Say CHEEEESE ... will there be Satchmo by and his wonderful caricatures of the miles of smiles at the London Friday Pennington jazz greats was such a joy. It was the Night Experience, taking place at the first page I turned to on receiving Cheshire Cheese? Will Royston be The Jester. holding the front page? I can’t stand Jack left a delightful legacy of his the suspense. What Larks! work in the back issues of The Mike Turner Jester, the jazz cruises and in his other creative work. I shall miss him See page 13 for all Cheshire and his jazz page. Cheesiness, Mike – Ed. William Rudling Re. the lurgy at Shrewsbury, well I Sickness and more can go one better (or worse!) I was struck down with diarrhoea Due to sickness many members and sickness. In bed for three days I stayed away from the June meeting. hurried to the toilet for the umpteenth No, not Shrewsbury lurgy but stress time, collapsed, hit my head open on and trauma over Wayne Rooney’s the bathroom doorpost, my wife foot problem. The concerned ones phoned the ambulance (I was covered stayed by their TVs awaiting any in blood with a three-inch gash in my days”, especially Pendoggett. “breaking” news. Like all avid sports forehead). I know his name will live on in his fans I will be hoping and praying My wife promptly lost her memory many caricatures which have spread that, by time of reading, Wayne will for that day. The result was they kept around the world. Every jazz musi- be up and bowling at the Wimbledon us both in hospital in the same little cian worth his salt has a Pennington Centre Court and bringing the Cal- ward for two.