Meehan Blog
The rejection of this Evening Times cartoon surprised me. I was given a reason but that reason was so vague it didn't register. It was a, 'This cartoon is inappropriate,' sort of reason.
I spent about an hour coming up with my own list of reasons why it might have been unacceptable.
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It was suggested by some members that the Canadian Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society take out an ad in this year's annual Reuben Journal to congratulate the nominees, help support the NCS and to give ourselves a little exposure. No bad thing.
This is the ad, produced by the...
Is a new film to be released on 1st April. The story revolves around the Pirate Radio Stations which were based off the coast of Britain in the Sixties. It reminded me of the time my brother, Tony, was a DJ on Radio Scotland.
This is a photograph of him taken on the boat in 1966.
Afte...
The most underrated, if not totally ignored, art form of the 20th century was street photography. Up until the Fifties, photographers seemed to be on every corner. 
They never asked their subjects to stand still or to pose for a photograph so there's a spontaneity, a sense of movemen...
Chair and Bureau, ink on board 15 x 21 inches 1979
Boiling Kettle, ink on board 15 x 21 inches 1980
For these paintings, the medium dictated my technique and the technique governed the style I developed. I painted layer upon layer of ink to get the depth of colour I was looking for....
I painted this picture of Glasgow University from Kelvingrove Park in 1976.
Oil on canvas board. 12 x 27 inches
Some twelve years later, Uncle Bert showed me this photograph of my grandparents, taken in 1906.
You can just make out an image of Glasgow University in the background and th...
Since 2005, over a thousand of my cartoons appeared in the Evening Times. Of these, only six or seven were rejected, for various reasons. Many more were simply not printed because the letters page was devoted to a specific subject and there wasn't room for a cartoon.
This is an examp...