What is Cartoon Museum ?

The Reform Bill crisis of 1830-2 stirred up a flurry of satirical prints

I visited the cartoon museum alone and found much of what I read quite interesting.

but topical satire was finding a new home. Following an example in Paris, a number of humorous magazine were launched in Britain.

I was expecting more content specifically about TV cartoons but the wide range of content they had was still worth checking out. I spent a few hours reading through all...More

In 1841 the journalist Henry Mayhew and the printer-engraver, Ebenezer Landells founded the most famous of them all: Punch.

It was to be a weekly comic paper 'without grossness, partisanship, profanity, indelicacy, or malice'.  I

I agree that the museum is small and considering the amount of cartoon/comic material in the

In its long life it cultivated the talents of more comic artists than any other British magazine.

world it could do with many more exhibits. All in all, very thought provoking and proving 'The pen is mightier than the sword'.

If, like me, you spent your childhood eagerly awaiting each week's edition of the Beano,

Vanity Fair was founded in 1868 and revived the tradition of the single-figure caricature in genial colour portraits of celebrities and professional men, a style perfected in this country by Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape').

Dandy, etc, this museum will be a trip down memory lane for you. However, don't think that it is simply children's comics; graphic novels, and grown-ups titles are featured too....More

In the 1880s printers began to use the new photochemical process. A truer facsimile of the artist's work, its tone, texture and detail, was now possible. x

A cute little hidden Gem which was perfect for a chilled Sunday morning at the end of a hectic weekend of sight seeing in London.

The greater fidelity benefited two great innovators, Max Beerbohm and Phil May.

I loved finding out the history of cartooning from newspaper political cartoons to the comics I grew up with like...More

In the First World War, cartoonists rallied to the patriotic cause portraying an encounter between the national symbols and personifications.

Having attended today, found it a bit small. Upstairs was better than downstairs, the younger one enjoyed the museum as found it interesting but a bit confusing.

The morale-boosting works of Bert Thomas and Bruce Bairnsfather proved popular with British troops at the front.

A nice little museum (but not free) to see the history of cartoons.

The first half of the twentieth century saw the heydey of the popular magazine, and cartoons helped to determine its graphic style and character.

These are historical cartoons from newspapers, magazines etc. like Giles.

. William Heath Robinson joined The Sketch in 1906 and entertained its readers through two world wars.

H.M. Bateman perfected the wordless strip cartoon, and his 'The Man Who...' series of colour cartoons filled the centre-spread of The Tatler in the 1920s and 1930s.

Think this isn't a childrens museum as more adult material. Will be moving soon so will try to go again to see...More