was founded in 1988 by a small group of people who believed that
this branch of art, at which the British have always excelled, had been neglected
and that the best way to improve matters was to establish a national museum of
cartoons, caricatures and humorous illustration.
In November 1990 an appeal for _£1.5 million, the anticipated cost of the
museum, was launched at the Royal Society of Arts.
At the same time as raising funds the Trustees have been concerned to
assemble good examples of British cartoon art that will become the nucleus
of the museum's permanent collection.
Simon Heneage
Chairman of the Cartoon Art Trust
