Tuesday 7 August 2012

Thursday 7 June 2012

Ivan Semenov exhibition

Details here about an exhibition in Moscow this week of cartoons by Ivan Semenov, Krokodil stalwart.


Friday 25 May 2012

Thursday 10 May 2012

Ukrainian Cartoonist

An interesting article about Jaroslaw Stetsko, Ukrainian cartoonist who worked for Pepper

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Friday 2 March 2012

Drawing the Curtain

An exhibition held in London recently, to celebrate the launch of a new book by Tim Benson, on cartoon imagery from USSR and the West during the Cold War.


Wednesday 22 February 2012

Russian protest art on show

An article with some visuals on an exhibition of modern Russian protest art, which has some striking similarities to street art, Soviet poster art and Krokodil. I'm intrigued by the dissected crocodile in one of the photos.

Krokodil and Russian folklore

Krokodil cartoons very often employed folkloric characters and themes. Soviet graphic satire owed much to pre-revolutionary popular prints...