The British Cartoon Archive Online Catalogue - The catalogue contains images and details of over 80,000 British, 20th century, cartoon drawings published in the national press. Most of the records in the catalogue are based on original cartoon drawings held by the British Cartoon Archive, some of the more recent records were catalogued from daily newspapers.
Browser compatability - Although the catalogue should be accessible using any current WWW browser, it runs more quickly if your browser accepts the PNG image format. For Netscape and Internet Explorer, this means version 4 or later.
Copyright - All the drawings in the catalogue are still under copyright and so, if you want to save them on disk, print them out, publish them or reproduce them in any other way, you must first get permission from the copyright holder. If you wish to reproduce an image from the catalogue then please contact us for advice. We can also supply photographic reproductions that are much better quality than the digitised images in the catalogue. Please refer to charges for current price list.
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.
