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Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival will be a feast for the eyes

This year's Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival will offer a veritable feast of cartooning fun for all, with the theme of Food and Drink.

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A day of live events in The Square on April 22 complements workshops, talks, exhibitions and a trail around the town. The focus of the live event will see 30 cartoonists from around the world set loose to caricature and cartoon to their heart's content.

Also in The Square there will be the 'Fast Food Takeaway Shack' serving freshly made drawings, and a live cartoon performance 'The Great British Cook Off Melodrawma'. People can join in, brew their own caption, get a taste for drawing in a hands-on area and visit the bookstall where cartoonists will be pleased to sign their work.

The 'Eat, Draw and be Funny' selling exhibitions at Bear Steps and Theatre Severn offer over 100 cartoons. The exhibition at the Bear Steps, St Alkmond's Square will run until April 29. Over 80 cartoons on the theme of Food & Drink will be on show, including Thomas Moore's Gin Lane Revised.

The exhibition at Theatre Severn runs from April through to late May and includes an auction of the 'Worship of Bacchus'. Other ingredients that can be found in the FBC Manby Bowdler Gallery include animation tips, clips, storyboards and cartoon motifs.

Tim King, spokesman for the festival said: "On April 21 we are delighted to be hosting a second illustrated talk by award winning Private Eye cartoonist Tony Husband. Tony's talk 'From a Dark Place' will take place at 8pm at the Unitarian Church, High Street and the following day Hunt Emerson will share stories about his involvement with the Fortean Times, covering 20th Century occultist Dion Fortune and his own comic strip Phenomenomix. The talk is at1.30pm The Central, Claremont Street and tickets cost £5 on the door.

"An important aim of the festival is to provide an opportunity for people of all ages to get stuck in and have fun."

Tickets available for Tony Husband's talk are available from Pengwern Books, Fish Street, or on the door - £10, profits in aid of Red Rose Recovery and the Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival fundFor information about all the festival events go to shrewsburycartoonfestival.wordpress.com.

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