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Making the news
The imminent launch of two exhibitions on Giles and a website has meant that the British Cartoon Archive (BCA) has been in the news. Newspaper articles on the archive have appeared recently in The...
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Ipswich Exhibition
The day after the launch of the Giles exhibition at the London Cartoon Museum (see previous post), another one was launched at Ipswich (on Friday 7 November). This one, called ‘Giles: Drawn To...
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Happy Christmas
A happy Christmas from the British Cartoon Archive project team, and Carl Giles. Here is a Giles cartoon which was published exactly 32 years ago. Posted in Project update
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What the papers (and blogs) say
Readers of previous posts will know that material from the British Cartoon Archive (BCA) has been used for exhibitions on cartoonist Carl Giles at The Cartoon Museum in London and Ipswich Town Hall....
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BCAD Architecture
The BCAD team recently gave a presentation on its website architecture, including a broad overview of the data handling systems and archive management set up. The purpose was to demonstrate to...
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What’s in a name?
Going back through some of the correspondence received by Carl Giles in order to bring loose items together, I came across a name which made me stop and take a closer look. When I first saw this...
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I’m A Celebrity – Get Me The Original Artwork
People who get drawn in a cartoon often want the original artwork and this was the case with Carl Giles, who usually gave originals away if asked for them. Some went to charities to auction off and...
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Look beyond the caption
I think I’ve noted before that I don’t find the Giles captions that accompany his cartoons very funny. I even mentioned this in my interview for the post of Project Archivist – which was perhaps not a...
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A bit of a life in cartoons
So here we are, at the end of the two year project to digitise and catalogue the collection of Carl Giles held at the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent. Most of the project staff have gone on...
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A day in the life of the BCA
Emails and telephone calls are often from people who want a cartoon valued. We do not purchase cartoons and therefore cannot give valuations but we do try to advise and if the pieces sounds interesting...
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