Our new series for 2015! Daily Constitutional editor Adam takes us on a Cartoon & Comic Book Tour of London – 20 stops on a metropolis-wide search for all things illustrated.
He'll be taking in everything from Gillray and Hogarth, to Scooby Doo and on to Deadpool and beyond! In addition he'll guide you to the best in London comic book stores as well as galleries that showcase the best in the cartoonist's art.
Panel 11: The Cartoon Museum
Two weeks ago we featured The Cartoon
Museum as part of our Best Museums In London series – you can catch up with
that post HERE.
But our Cartoon & Comic Book Tour of
London would be incomplete with mentioning it again. Firstly, here's how to
find the Cartoon Museum…
There it is, tucked away in plain view,
struggling to be noticed in the presence of that upstaging old ham The British
Museum.
Just to clarify: the good people at the Cartoon
Museum are not describing the BM as an "upstaging old ham". That's
all my own work, folks.
Indeed when Anita O'Brien, the curator at
the Cartoon Museum got in touch with The Daily Constitutional recently, one of
the first things she did was direct us to the British Museum as a great
resource for London-themed cartoons. The example she sent was a George
Cruikshank cartoon from the 1820s commenting on the spread of our metropolis -
CLICK HERE to see the cartoon on the British Museum website.
Anita was writing in response to our
request for a London-themed cartoon recommendation and she sent us not one, but
two, in the shape of this pair of marvellous Heath Robinsons…
"There will be
Heath Robinson stuff in the WWII exhibition, "Anita added, referencing the
upcoming Heckling Hitler exhibition…
… of World War Two
cartoons which opens on 25th March. Thanks Anita!
The Cartoon Museum
35 Little Russell Street
London
WC1A 2HH
London
WC1A 2HH
Still to come on our Cartoon & Comic Book Tour of London… From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, DC Thomson, and a wonderful indy comic book as recommended by Orbital comics, Metroland (my new favourite comic book).
A London Walk costs £9 – £7 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.
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