All the content has been moved and updated. All of our cartoon images have been migrated and can now be viewed with some exciting functionality like the ability to examine cartoons with zoom technology.
As of 5 November 2008, although the existing database will remain for the time being content is no longer being updated
Welcome to CartoonHub, hosted by the website of the British Cartoon Archive. The British Cartoon Archive was established in 1973 at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, to collect and preserve British cartoons of social and political comment, and make them freely available for study.
The British Cartoon Archive has a library, archive, gallery, and is a registered museum dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. CartoonHub describes the Centre's holdings, but is also a guide to the holdings of other archives and galleries, including the partners in the RSLP CartoonHub Project.
CartoonHub is also the world's largest electronic archive of cartoons, with a catalogued database of over 90,000 images. The majority of these come from the British Cartoon Archive's collections, but the database also incorporates significant cartoon collections from the National Library of Wales, the Library of the London School of Economics, and the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
The images on CartoonHub are under copyright, and may only be reproduced with the permission of the copyright owners. The British Cartoon Archive maintains contact with the owners of copyright in all its collections, and is happy to put researchers in touch with them.
Culture Cartooned 24 May 2008 – 26 July 2008
An exhibition at Canterbury Royal Museum and Art Gallery (Beaney Institute) by Canterbury City Council Museums and Galleries Service in partnership with the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent.
British Cartoon Archive blog launch 26th February 2008
The British Cartoon Archive is pleased to announce the launch of its blog at http://bcad.wordpress.com.
Industry and Parliament Trust Cartoon Exhibition 3rd December 2007
The Industry and Parliament Trust www.ipt.org.uk will be exhibiting a selection of its Parliamentary Fellowship cartoons in the House of Commons for the week commencing Monday 3 December. For more information please contact Sharon Bray on 020 7839 9400 alternatively click here to see their collection on our database.
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.
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.
