The Surreal McCoy

Another cartoon from the Pastiche, Parody and Piracy exhibition.

Appropriation has long been a tool used in art, and has always been divisive in its understanding and acceptance. The pieces in this exhibition play with other people’s ideas and pre-existing works to showcase a selection of contemporary appropriation in art that is… Read More »

Tomorrow, Herne Bay.

Another ‘Cartoons In Art’ cartoon. If you’re in the neighbourhood take part in the festival tomorrow in Herne Bay. Go Marcel!

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” ― Marcel Duchamp

Two days til the festival launch and here is cartoon #3.

“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all” ― Nikolai Gogol, The Nose

The third Surreal McCoy cartoon on show in Herne Bay.

“Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.” ― John Lennon

Another cartoon for the Marcel Duchamp centenary show.“I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone.” ― Salvador Dalí

Another of several cartoons by The Surreal McCoy on show at the Marcel Duchamp Cartoons In Art exhibition in Herne Bay, Kent. Britain’s best known and wittiest cartoonists will be there on Saturday August 3rd and will be drawing live at the Central Bandstand from 1 o’clock, accompanied by some cool… Read More »