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Fizzers: Well-kent Scottish Faces
2009 is the tenth anniversary of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio. Together with Culture & Sport Glasgow & Glasgow Museums, we were proud to present a major exhibition at the People’s Palace & Winter Gardens from the 17th of July to the 4th of October. The show featured hilarious cartoon portraits of Scottish personalities past and present as well as tactile caricatures designed for use by the visually impaired, courtesy of Art at Your Fingertips. Pictures and video from the show will be online soon.
As well as visitors from all points in the UK the exhibition attracted caricature fans from Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Gran Canaria, Italy, New Zealand, Mongolia, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates and the USA. And here's some of their reactions:
"Spectacular, at all costs do it again."
"Instantly recognisable and made me laugh."
"Worth an admission fee!"
"Really clever artists. We had a good giggle as we walked round."
"An excellent display of talent and art."
"Absolutely brilliant, a right laugh."
"We've never seen anything like these pictures before."
"Crackin’! Fizzers look better than the real-life characters!"
"Beautifully presented and loads of fun."
Head of Arts & Museums for Culture & Sport Glasgow Mark O’Neill said:
“I’d like to thank the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio for providing us with this amazing artwork, showing a whole range of familiar faces in a completely new light.”
Bailie Liz Cameron, the Chair of Culture & Sport Glasgow said:
"Fizzers is a terrific exhibition that wonderfully shows off the work of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio. The care and hard work that goes into creating these caricatures is evident when you see the portraits and all of them capture their subjects so well. The exhibition has an air of great fun about it and is entirely at home at the People's Palace."
GMTV's Lorraine Kelly said:
"I love the work of the Fizzers gang. They are funny, cheeky and oh so perceptive. They manage to get right to the heart of their subjects in a deceptively simple way and their work is not to be missed. I am very honoured to be included in their exhibition."
Glasgow-based and Eisner Award-wining comicbook artist Frank Quitely said:
"The Fizzers exhibition at the People's Palace comprises brilliant, insightful portraits of Scotland's most prominent figures by Scotland's best caricaturists."
Fizzers is ® and © Scottish Cartoon Art Studio
Photos above are of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio’s exhibition at the Platform space in Easterhouse earlier this year. The Platform show featured an entirely different set of caricatures, so visitors can rest assured they won’t be short-changed at the People’s Palace! Photos of Fizzers: Well Kent Scottish Faces to come after launch date.
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"Fizzers: Famous Scottish Faces Caricatured", a book
featuring the cream of the Fizzers collection, is on sale now.
Published by Mercat
Press (part of Birlinn Ltd) the book
features a Foreword written by Brian Cox, the Scottish star of
stage and screen familiar from roles as diverse as the original
Hannibal Lektor in "Manhunter", the wicked General Stryker in
"X-Men2", King Agamemnon in "Troy" and as presenter of the
recent Grampian TV series, "Beyond Explanation".
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Follow the Birlinn link above to buy the
book online. Follow the links below to read some of what the
national press, and those in the world of cartooning, have
had to say about "Fizzers":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-2127631.html
http://fotolog.terra.com.br/cartunscampinas:21
(Brazilian cartoonist BIRA gives his verdict on the show!)
http://www.ccgb.org.uk/lobby/index.php?/archives/41-Fizzers-Famous-Scottish-Faces-Caricatured.html
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/index.php?s=fizzers
We drew on a number of sources for the biographical pieces
found in Fizzers, but would like
to make special acknowledgement to the Gazetteer for Scotland.
The Gazetteer is the largest resource of its kind on the internet
and was an invaluable help in compiling the book. The Gazetteer
for Scotland can be consulted at www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz
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