A few days ago status updates like this were doing the rounds on Facebook: “Change your facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday (December 6), there should be no human faces on facebook, but a stash of memories. This is for eliminating violence against children.” Of course it
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A couple weeks ago I published the ‘5 Stages of a Blogger’s Life‘ cartoon, drawn by Alex Hughes. It was an experiment to test a theory of mine: that cartoons could be particularly successful in increasing news website visitor numbers, and that news organisations should be doing more with them. The results? In one week that cartoon got over 40,000
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Hope you enjoy this. Concept by Paul Bradshaw, drawings by the wonderful Alex Hughes: Here are some Twitter avatar-size versions too: .
In a guest post for the OJB, The Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation give an overview of how news organisations are treating cartoons online. Cartoons have long been an essential part of British newspapers, so why do so many of those publications fail to do justice to drawn content on their websites? The digital display of the web is a visual medium
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