Clive Collins 1942-2022

 

I just heard the sad news that friend and fellow cartoonist Clive Collins has passed away. 

Born Clive Hugh Austin Collins in Weston-super-Mare on February 6, 1942, he had a long and successful career drawing for many publication including Punch, Playboy, The Oldie, Readers Digest, Daily Mail and Sun.

Adolf Born 1930 - 2016

Czech painter, illustrator, caricaturist and film-maker Adolf Born died on 22 May 2016 at the age of 85.

Born on June 12 1930 in the town of České Velenice on the Bohemian side of the southern border with Austria, Adolf Born studied in visual arts from 1949 to 1955 in Prague, where he lived and worked. 

Mikhail Zlatkovsky

I first saw the work of Mikhail Zlatkovsky when, as part of the jury of the 25th International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal in 1987, we came across his drawing of a headless flag bearer. It expressed eloquently the folly of nationalism.

The other jury members, Hans Georg Rauch, Jerry Robinson, Rinalto Traini (Editor of Comic Art and President of the Lucca Cartoon Festival in Italy) as well as Henri Barras (Artistic director of Montreal's Place des Arts), were equally impressed and he was ultimately awarded the Grand Prize.

My Favourite Cartoons (5): Nell Cobar (1915-1993)

Grand Prize, 19th International Salon of Cartoons, Montreal, 1982.

My Favourite Cartoons (4): Jaguar

_But how in the the hell can those damn Vietcongs disappear into thin air?
(Published in the 3rd International Salon of Cartoons catalogue, Montreal, 1966)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_(cartoonist)

My Hall of Fame (10): EWK (Ewert Karlsson)

Harold Wilson (based on a Léandre cartoon)