Posts Tagged “Matt Buck”

Lovely image from Pierre Ballouhey on the smog in the Olympic city of Beijing here

and please update your bookmarks to Matt Buck’s website, which has moved to here.
Even if I didn’t know Matt, I’d say that he has potentially come up with concept similar to Steve Bell’s John Major/underpants caricature with ‘The Miliband Kid’.(see his site.)

Despite the commercial not being aired for some time, I think the Milky Bar Kid (he’s strong and tough) will be known to a younger generation as well as us old farts.
I assume he hasn’t been able to use the Milky Bar music for copyright reasons but he has found a reasonable substitute.
Of course, whether the concept has longevity will depend on whether Miliband does….

The Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival starts tomorrow, the 18th of April.

Giant Cartoons in The Square
Caricaturing
Workshops
On the spot drawing
Meet the Cartoonists
Exhibitions

Worth a visit if you’re near or not-so-near.

Dave Brown of The Independent will be exhibiting, Matt Buck and may of his mates will be there, performing in public, which, I hope means drawing, painting etc.

From the festival’s website - (more here)

2008 Festival 18th - 20th April

Since 2003 the town has hosted this international event which attracts around 40 full-time, professional cartoonists and caricaturists from the UK and abroad.

The 2008 Festival dates are 18th - 20th April. During this weekend around 40 professional cartoonists and caricaturists from the UK and overseas will converge on Shrewsbury and will be set loose to cartoon and caricature for the public.

The theme of the 2008 Festival is ‘Art’ and one of the highlights will be an exhibition of new work by Festival cartoonists entitled ‘But is it Art’ which will run from 30th March - 26th April.

The Festival offers unique opportunities to see artists at work; 20 of them on huge boards in The Square during the weekend, others drawing caricatures and some running cartoon workshops for all ages.

I’m taking a bit of a break for a few days/weeks to sort out a few things but intend to return with images as soon as I can.
In the meantime, I suggest you :
a) Keep an eye open for Matt Buck’s stuff on his own site and Channel 4 News website.
b) Visit Morten Morland’s blog, encourage him to post more often and provide links to his stuff which appears in The Times.
c) Keep an eye on The Indy’s great cartoonist Dave Brown as his images can be seen in the Independent’s Opinion section.
A word of warning for Indy website visitors. The site seems to cram too much rich media into one page and it may slow down your browser.
I alerted them to this but it seems to be getting worse. I don’t want to adblock the site as it goes contrary to my desire to see it succeed but if it crashes my browser or slows down my computer then I either won’t visit it or use the necessary software to protect my pc.
d) For publishers and commercial blog owners, you should visit the PCO, The Professional Cartoonist’s Organisation where you can see the portfolios of many outstanding talents. You can then choose who to commission instead of nicking substandard work from the web, including mine.

Here’s a little George Carlin for your delectation. Some may have seen it, but his stuff makes for great viewing. NB. some swearing in the video.

Tim Ireland’s public submission to the consultation on SOCPA.

and Matt Buck’s new Northern Rock animation for Channel 4 News