Witney Winner!
Funny looking man with funny looking cartoon
Last weekend I joined a splot of cartoonists in the lovely town of Witney for a social organised by the Cartoonists’ Club Of Great Britain. We’re made up of caricaturists, gag cartoonists, greetings card scribblers, character designers and a whole host in-between, but for a bunch who are, essentially, in competition with one another, we do seem to get on remarkably well. Saturday saw us enjoying a guided tour around the Wychwood Brewery, home to the delicious Hobgoblin, and as part of the event we’d been invited to submit gag cartoons around the subject of goblins and witches. Top prizes went to Richard Howell, Roger Penwill and Noel Ford and bloomin’ good they were too. Then that evening, after a scrumptious dinner at The Plough, we were all handed large sheets of paper and were told we had fifteen minutes to scribble a cartoon with the line “It’s Never Done That Before”. In a room largely populated by seasoned gag cartoonists I didn’t much fancy my chances, but to my surprise and pleasure I managed to clinch joint first place with Bren Romans. Chuffed to bits, I was.