The Galway Cartoon Festival

LATEST NEWS

Submissions Are Done…

Dean Patterson

Submissions are now closed for the 8th Galway Cartoon Festival (opening October 4)

We want to thank everyone who took time to send us their work. We’ve received well over 1,500 cartoons via email, with more submissions on paper still to be counted. The vast scale of this response is astonishing to us.

The hard part – selecting the small proportion of these that we have room to exhibit – now begins…

If you have sent us material but not received any acknowledgment, please get in touch.

Events!

Special Guests:

Dave Coverly – USA
Malak Mattar – Palestine
Dean Patterson – N. Ireland
Will McPhail – Scotland
Joey Mason – USA
Ben Jennings – England
Lucie Arnoux – France
Ciaraíoch – Kerry

Exhibitions:

Beasts!
Dean Patterson
Malak Mattar
General Mayhem
Dave Coverly
Tarraing É I nGaeilge
Snowflake’s Progress

Plus:

Drawing sessions
Graphic novel workshop
Guest interviews
Panel talks
Art trail
More!

About The
Cartoon Festival

The Galway Cartoon Festival is an international celebration of funny drawings, hosted in Ireland’s most sociable city. Galway is a place obsessed with art and culture, with festivals for everything from literature to furniture. But noticeable by its absence was the ‘ninth art’ – comics, caricature, and cartoons. In 2017, we decided to change that.