Simon Postgate - son of Oliver Postgate - will be hosting a live talk exploring the making of Clangers from his perspective as a young boy in the seventies.
It’s been thirty years since a villainous penguin, a pair of wrong trousers and the greatest railway chase of all time appeared on TV screens, and the Cartoon Museum is taking a look back at how it was made.
The former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson is one of those larger than life personalities that is a gift to cartoonists, and there’s a display of the cartoonist’s work at the moment.
For a couple of weeks, there’s a small exhibition of book cover artwork related to the Doctor Who books, which have been re-released by their publisher.
Dr Who has spawned more than a couple of films, tv spin-off series and gaudy trinkets for collectors – it also created an entire separate storyline in the form of the comic magazine.
Wandered along to the Cartoon Museum, which is conveniently close to the much larger British Museum. Like a fusion of the memes though, the Cartoon Museum focuses on British cartoons, going right back to the 18th century.
Wallace & Gromit’s wrong trousers is the correct exhibition
