MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long

THERE are few, young or old, who haven’t come across the work of Quentin Blake, illustrator of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s stories such as 123, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda or Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
Instantly recognisable, his energetic “sketchy” drawing style is Blake’s very own.
He’s just designed a free series of endearing, funny and affirmative e-cards to enjoy and share with somebody you love, care about or who might need cheering up.

MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray

Despite an over-sentimental narrative, MICHAL BONCZA applauds an ambitious drama about the Chinese rescue of British POWs in WWII

Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet

New releases from Hannah Rose Platt, Kemp Harris, and Spear Of Destiny