Three artists who specialise in creating cartoons for newspapers take stories from the Cork Examiner to illustrate.
Three newspaper cartoonists Flann Ó Riain (Doll), Martin Turner and Terry Willers are put to the test in a television studio. Presenter Pat Kenny sets each of them the task of selecting a story from the Cork Examiner newspaper and creating an illustration to accompany the story.
Flann Ó Riain who works under the nom de plume 'Doll' is known for his style of simple line drawings. He selected a story about the visit of Margaret Thatcher to Northern Ireland. While he is clearly angry about the Thatcher visit, Flann Ó Riain acknowledges that it is not good if the cartoonist shows their anger. He believes that the story is so important that it should have been on the front page rather than the back page of the paper.
Martin Turner chose a local story from the newspaper linking the Cork Summer Show with a story about the dumping of asbestos waste. Martin Turner holds the distinction of being the first full-time cartoonist to work for an Irish newspaper, The Irish Times.
The work of English man Terry Willers is familiar to viewers of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly'. He chose a small car advertisement on page 20 of the newspaper as inspiration simply because it appealed to him.
I like to take things as they are and then reverse them.
This episode of Studio 2 was broadcast on 29 June 1978. The presenter is Pat Kenny.
'Studio 2' was a summer arts and music series broadcast in 1978 produced by Michael O'Connell and Agnes Cogan. Presented by Pat Kenny it ran for one season and is described in the RTÉ Guide of 7 July 1978 as a series covering
The music makers and others involved in the artistic side of life.
