The British Cartoonists' Association is an association of British Cartoonists. The BCA awards the annual Young Cartoonist of the Year Award which is presented at the annual

Cartoon Art Trust Awards The Cartoon Art Trust Award or CAT Awards are presented in an annual award ceremony hosted by the Cartoon Art Trust (CAT), owners and operators of the Cartoon Museum, to honour the year's best cartoonists. The 21st CAT Awards, 21st Cartoon Art Tr ...

, hosted by the

Cartoon Art Trust The Cartoon Art Trust is a Charity (practice), charity founded in 1989 in the United Kingdom, which acts as the owner and operator of the London Cartoon Museum, and also runs the Cartoon Art Trust Awards. Its chairman is the cartoonist Oliver Pre ...

at the Cartoon Museum in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, England. The Chair is the cartoonist

Martin Rowson Martin Rowson ( ; born 15 February 1959) is a British editorial cartoonist and writer. His genre is political satire and his style is scathing and graphic. He characterises his work as "visual journalism". His cartoons appear frequently in ''The ...

, and the secretary is the cartoonist Clive Collins.

History

The BCA was co-founded in the 1960s by a number of cartoonists including Ken Mahood, who drew cartoons for Punch Magazine,

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

and the Daily Mail, and

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. Among its current members is the cartoonist

Oliver Preston Oliver Preston (born 21 December 1962) is a British cartoonist, publisher, and chairman and co-founder of The Cartoon Museum in London. Career Preston worked in the City of London (1984-1995), latterly as a bond salesman at Lehman Brothers, w ...

, chair of the

which owns and operates the Cartoon Museum. Also a member is the cartoonist

Sally Artz Sally Artz is a British cartoonist and illustrator, whose work has been featured in many publications including ''Punch'', '' Private Eye'', ''Reader’s Digest'', ''The Spectator'', the ''Mail on Sunday, The Oldie'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. S ...

, who has served as vice-president; Sally was also a founder member of the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain.Sally Arts at Procartoonists.org
Retrieved 31 August 2021

References

External links

BCA at the official Procartoonist site
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History

See also

References

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