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Closed 17/03/2023
Weʼve raised £810 to continue the Crippen's Cartoon Resurrection Project
- Funded on Friday, 17th March 2023
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Someone recently pointed out to me that my cartoons provide one of the most comprehensive records of the past 40 years of the disabled people’s movement in the UK. They show the first steps of organised protest in the 1980's leading up to the present time and the affects of the Covid pandemic.
Sadly, many of the early cartoons created for printed publications such as Disability Arts In London (DAIL) magazine and the Trades Union Disability Alliance TUDA News are in a clunky greyscale format. Ideally, these all need to be reworked in order that they can be made accessible for modern online publications.
Another important reason for reinstating these cartoons in a more accessible format is that they will not only be included within a disabled people's history archive, they will also be made available to disabled equality consultants and educators to use as training and teaching aids.
As I’m well into my twilight years I’m aware that the time I currently worked on have to do this work is slowly running out. I’ve therefore decided to put most of my usual work on hold and concentrate on bringing these original works into the 21st Century. There’s some 600 cartoons, some covering the early demonstrations and protests of the 1980’s and 1990’s as well as the political shenanigans of the governments of the time and the rise and fall of the Disability Discrimination Act.
These will all need restoring, or in most cases redrawing, and I estimate that it will take me some 900 hours to do this. Obviously, when I’m doing this I’m not earning and will therefore have to look for funding to keep the wolves from the door.
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8 months ago
Dave Lupton
8 months agoHi Folks, just a quick update to let you know how things are progressing with the cartoon resurrection project that you are supporting. I'm slowly working my way through those old cartoons and changing them into a more accessible coloured format. As mentioned, I'm posting them up on my Instagram account and also my Facebook page both of which are generating quite a bit of interest. I'm also currently in talks with several organisations as possible heritage partners and the possible provision of an online gallery from another. Take care, Dave x
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9 months ago
Dave Lupton
9 months agoHi folks, I'm currently in talks with the National Lottery Heritage Fund who are providing support for a grant application I'm in the process of getting together for the project. They are keen for me to expand the project and to look at creating a mobile exhibition and workshop aimed primarily at educating young disabled people throughout the UK. They've also suggested linking in with an established Heritage organisation in order to benefit from their experiences of the process. I'll keep you posted as things develop. Take care, Dave x
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9 months ago
Dave Lupton
9 months agoHi folks, I trust you've all emerged safely through the Christmas and New Year festivities. I'm now back at my computer and have recommenced recreating those cartoons from the 1980's onwards which I'll be posting up onto my Instagram and Facebook pages. I'm keeping this Just Giving page running for the foreseeable future, so, if you have any friends who'd like to contribute to this project then please forward them the following link : https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/crippenscartoonresurrection Take care, Dave x
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Community Resource Unit (AUS)
Feb 15, 2023
Thank You
£30.00
Sandra Ellerby Open University
Jan 26, 2023
Payment of invoice number 78 OPEN 19.1.23 for the use of one of your cartoons in an Open University module
£30.00
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2023
Your cartoons are fab!
Anonymous
Nov 29, 2022
Lizzie Walker
Nov 23, 2022
Dave, you are a star! Thank you for all you do.
£30.00
Anonymous
Nov 21, 2022
Carl
Nov 18, 2022
£30.00
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Dave Lupton
Dave Lupton as Crippen - disabled cartoonist has been creating cartoons based on the social model understanding of disability for the past 40 years. His cartoons form a timeline of disability protest against a disabling society from the early 1980's and continue to this day.