The RSLP CartoonHub Project is creating a national hub for research into British cartoons and caricature, with a programme of work lasting until 2002.
The CartoonHub is based in the British Cartoon Archive, at the University of Kent at Canterbury, but the ARchive's partners in launching the project are the British Library of Political and Economic Science, the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and the National Library of Wales.
The RSLP is backing the launch of CartoonHub, with sufficient funding to allow the scanning of 43,000 images, covering a hundred and fifty years of British cartooning and caricature. These images will be held on separate databases in the partner institutions, but will be cross-searchable from the central CartoonHub website.
The completed CartoonHub website will constitute the largest archive of cartoon images on the web. It will also carry information about cartoon collections both in the United Kingdom and beyond, and about related activities such as conferences, new publications and other activities of interest to the research community.
Giles Exhibition 1st December 2006
An exhibition of original drawings, books and objects from the Carl Giles Archive will run at the Canterbury Royal Art Gallery and Museum from 20th December 2006 to 3rd February 2007.
Competition 30th October 2006
The Centre will be running a competition throughout November to encourage people to contribute to the online catalogue. The winner will be able to choose 3 items from the Cartoon Centre's publications page.
Corny Pastiche 15th June 2006
The Centre's exhibition for the 2006 Canterbury Festival will feature cartoonists'
homages to, and copies of, famous paintings. Entitled "Corny Pastiche: the art
of political cartooning", it will run in the Centre's gallery from 7 October
to 19 November.
Peter Schrank donation 15th June 2006
In May 2006 the Centre was very pleased to receive a donation of over a hundred
cartoons and sketches from Peter Schrank, cartoonist of the Independent and
Independent on Sunday.
Haro Hodson donation 15th June 2006
A new exhibition has opened in the Centre's gallery. "Meet the Art Students:
A Brief History" contains Les Coleman's cartoons of his students, in black
and white "and now in glorious crayon." The exhibition runs until 2 April
2004.
