Pete Dredge submitted this charming image to the selection committee for the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2012. Will it make the cut for the big exhibition? The only sure way to know, is to go! Read on for details.

Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival starts on 5th April, opening of with ‘Flights of Fancy’. The weekend for ‘Cartoonists Live’ is 19th – 22nd April and sees around 40 UK and international cartoonists descend on the medieval market town to draw giant cartoons, free caricatures and run many workshops and free cartoon advice sessions. There is also, always, a lively 'fringe' with many other non-performing cartoonists, friends and fans in attendance.

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New in from our friends at The UK Cartoon Museum are the results of their annual cartoon awards.

• Strip Cartoon Award to Charles Peattie and Mark Warren for Celeb - a  long running feature of Private Eye magazine
• Pocket Award to Neil Bennett - of The Times
• Joke Award to Neil Kerber - of The Daily Mirror's Can't kick, won't Kick
• Caricature to Martin Rowson - of The Daily Mirror and The Guardian
• Political Award to Dave Brown - of The Independent
• Pont Award To Martin Honeysett - of Private Eye
• Heneage Cup Life Achievement Award to Ed McLachlan

Bloghorn offers congratulations to one and all. 

Cartoonists are visual journalists. Please discuss, with reference to Portraits of the Occupation, US investigative cartoonist Sharon Rosenzweig and this fine round up of art from the ongoing global protests at Cartoon Movement.

Drawing ©Sharon Rosenzweig

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