Ciarán Ryan notebook

The 2008 Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival will attract many top cartoonists to the Midlands in the UK for three days. Find out more here:

Shrewsbury cartoon festival 2008 preview - includes useful links

Also: there’s lots more information here:

The Bloghorn - The diary of the Professional Cartoonist’s Organisation.

Also: Thanks for leaving a comment Andy - I’ve admired your cartoons in Private Eye for many years.  I’d like to hold you to your offer of a caricature if I make it to Shrewsbury.

Find out more about Andy Davey’s cartoons here: http://www.andydavey.com

http://www.edinburgh-royalmile.com/interest/camera_obscura.html

TICKETS FOR JONATHAN RICHMAN

Where: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
When: FRIDAY, 09/05/2008, doors at 19:00, starts at 19:30

Lots of literary styles. America’s first post-modernist novel. The journey of a black American man - from poverty and college to jazz and riots.

Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan, opened at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK on 28 February 2008.

Extrageographic’s review here:

Click here: Passage to the Future - Japanese artists at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

I’m still throwing away bits of newspapers etc - just looking back at The Guardian newspaper - October 27 2004 - it includes John Peel’s obituary.

I was at Peel’s funeral for the BBC - I think I must have one of the only audio recordings of Gambaccini’s tribute to Peel (the Cathedral staff disconnected the feed cables, if I remember rightly)

I’ll have to dig my CD out - but in his tribute I’m sure Gambaccini said that Peel had probably listened to more recorded music than anyone alive, ever. A sad day - I’m not saying anything new here - but Peel really was a light in the darkness.

Film looks good.

Real life: He died in 1997 - days after his book was published.

Alexander Rodchenko - Russian constructivist - has an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London. SE1 - from Feb ’til Aug 27 20078