Exhibiton – Free Entry
It’s that time of year again. Shadows grow so long they can reach behind you and tap your shoulder. Yes, Samhain is coming. When trees get naked, winds skitter and skirl, and the dead take their holidays in the land of the living.
It is time to embrace the otherworld. We bring, from all corners of this benighted planet, a gathering of the most horrific humour.
Town Hall Theatre, Courthouse Square
Free Entry
The “Show Me What You Got” of Galway Cartoon Festival events. The rules go out the window on this one. We just want artists around the world to send us their own favourite work. We don’t care if it’s only really topical in Venezuela, or if it’s weirder than that time Gary Larson allegedly took acid. If we think it’s funny then it’s in.
| Albert Ohams | Nigeria |
| Boris Erenburg | Israel |
| Caoimhe Lavelle | Ireland |
| Cristina Sampaio | Portugal |
| Dave Coverly | USA |
| Dean Patterson | Ireland |
| Florian Scheurerer | Germany |
| Graeme Keyes | Ireland |
| Greg Smith | Australia |
| Grigori Katz | Israel |
| Haidari Natalija | Belgium |
| Harry Burton | Ireland |
| Ivailo Tsvetkov | Bulgaria |
| Jess Judge | UK |
| Jim Cogan | Ireland |
| Kak | France |
| Kipper Wiliams | UK |
| Liviu Stanila | Romania |
| Mahshid Hashemi | Iran |
| Mark Winter | New Zealand |
| Mick O'Hara | Ireland |
| Muzaffar Yulchiboev | Uzbekistan |
| Nancy Ohanian | USA |
| Pete Songi | UK |
| Phil Witte | USA |
| Ron McGeary | UK |
| Stellina Chen | Taiwan |
| Steve Jones | UK |
| Teja Fisher | Germany |
| Tjeerd Royaards | Netherlands |
| Tom Fiedler | Germany |
| Vlad Zadneprianski | Ukraine/USA |
Opening 11.30am, Saturday 4th October
2.00-3.00pm, Sunday 5th October. Free Entry
This year we point the spotlight at Ian Knox, who has had – and indeed is still having – one of the most extraordinary careers in Irish cartooning. Born in Belfast, by the early ‘70s he was working in animation in London and then Canada. From there he went on to cartoon politically for left-wing periodicals Red Weekly and Socialist Challenge, while simultaneously drawing for various UK children’s comics.
He signed much of his political work Blotski, and he and Republican News cartoonist Cormac worked together as Kormski on the anti-clerical strip “Dog Collars” for Fortnight Magazine.
Beginning in 1996 he contributed the “As I See It” feature to Hearts and Minds on BBC2 Northern Ireland, and from 1997-98 he was political cartoonist for Ireland on Sunday. He is now the editorial cartoonist for Northern daily The Irish News.
Created During the Festival. Free Entry
Andy Leuenberger is a Berlin comic artist, producing and self-publishing the retro-SciFi comic Dead Time Data since 2021. He also regularly self-publishes satirical cartoon/comic/art/zine/whatever books.
His drawings, screen-prints and books have been presented in exhibitions and festivals for micropublishing, screen printing and comic art around Europe and beyond.
7.30pm, Tuesday 7th October. Free Entry
As well as an exhibition, Andy will give us a workshop on creating and publishing your own comics. Work created in the workshop will become another exhibition!
This is an evening event for adults, including young adults. Materials will be provided but you can bring your own.
Among the factors that brought the Galway Cartoon Festival into being, perhaps most catalytic was the murder of twelve people – five of them cartoonists – at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris. A thing like that can change a when to a now.
Ten years on we look back in sadness, but also celebration. We embrace the artists lost that day and the spirit of satire that inspired them with a conference for cartoonists and set of related events.
We wish to thank Lyon-based media education group Ça Presse for joining us in this project, the Embassy of France in Ireland and the Galway French Consular Agency, and the city of Galway for substantial support via the CAIRDE fund.
Talk: 5.30pm, Saturday 4th October
Tignous (Bernard Verlhac) was a much-loved star of French cartooning, who began to contribute to Charlie Hebdo, Fluide Glaciale, Marianne and other major comic and satirical publications at the age of 23. While his work covered about any social or political issue you could name, he was most associated in the public mind with environmental causes – the plight of the panda particularly.
We are grateful to his widow Chloé for allowing us to exhibit his work, and for speaking to us about the artist she knew.
Free Entry
Mar chuid den fhéile, beidh taispeántas de chartúin as Gaeilge ar siúl i gCathair na Gaillimhe agus ar Inis Oírr. Seo é an séú taispeántas bliantúil de Tarraing é i nGaeilge, agus seolfar é in Áras Éanna (Inis Oírr) ar Dé Luain, 6in Deireadh Fómhair. Cuirfidh an taispeántas raon leathan de stíleanna agus éagsúlacht ábhair ó chartúnaithe ar fud na hÉireann agus fiú amháin thar lear os comhair an phobail. Tá súil againn go mbeidh an taispeántas suimiúil agus spreagúil – agus thar aon rud eile, go bhfuil sé greannmhar.
As part of the festival, there will be an exhibition of cartoons in Irish in Galway City and on Inis Oírr. This is the sixth annual exhibition of Draw it in Irish, and it will be launched in Áras Éanna (Inis Oírr) on Monday, 6th October. The exhibition will showcase a wide range of styles and a diversity of subject matter from cartoonists all over Ireland and even abroad.
We hope the exhibition will be interesting and stimulating – and above all else, funny.
| Name | Type | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Mathews | Original | €225 |
| Tom Mathews | Original | €225 |
| Dean Patterson | €65 | |
| Dean Patterson | €65 | |
| Dean Patterson | €65 | |
| Donal Casey | €65 | |
| Donal Casey | €65 | |
| Mick O’Hara | €65 | |
| Caoimhe Lavelle | Original | €225 |
| Caoimhe Lavelle | Original | €225 |
| Rose Anne Prevec | €65 | |
| Rose Anne Prevec | €65 | |
| Vlad Zadneprianski | €65 | |
| Vlad Zadneprianski | €65 | |
| Fíona Moore | €65 | |
| Fíona Moore | €65 | |
| Aidan Cooney | €65 | |
| Maarten Wolterink | €65 | |
| Dara McGee | Original | €225 |
Is féidir leat an chuid is mó de na saothair seo a fheiceáil mar phriontaí in Ionad Siopadóireachta Chearnóg an Fhaiche. Tá na bunsaothair ar taispeáint go heisiach in ionad ealaíon Áras Éanna ar Inis Oírr.
You can see most of these works as prints in the Eyre Square Shopping Centre. The originals are on display exclusively at the Áras Éanna arts centre on Inis Oírr.
This year we thought we’d put some of our favourite cartoons from both main exhibitions out on the street where everyone can see them.
Follow our Cartoon Trail from Charlie Byrne’s to Portershed A Dó.
| Title | Translation | Name | Country | Location | Type | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Out For The Count | Caoimhe Lavelle | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Culhwch and Olwen Part 1 | Gareth Allen | Spain/Wales | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | Enquiries Welcome | |
| Zombie | Caoimhe Lavelle | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Dan’s Macabre | Tom Mathews | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Lautrec And Van Goch | Tom Mathews | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Billy Roll Morton | Caoimhe Lavelle | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Egg | Tom Mathews | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Culhwch and Olwen Part 2 | Gareth Allen | Spain/Wales | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | Enquiries Welcome | |
| Starters | Tom Mathews | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Red | Tom Mathews | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Big Ask | Tom Mathews | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Bread | Tom Mathews | Ireland | Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle St | Original | €225 | |
| Potential Martyrs Are Advised That The 72 Virgins Aren’t | “Those Charlie guys are hot!” | Nicolas Vadot | Belgium | Cava restaurant, Middle St | €65 | |
| Coalition | Jim Cogan | Ireland | Designs of Ireland, Cross St | Original | €225 | |
| Hot Press | Jim Cogan | Ireland | Designs of Ireland, Cross St | Original | €225 | |
| Dance Macabre | Jim Cogan | Ireland | Designs of Ireland, Cross St | Original | €225 | |
| Mouse | Lucie Arnoux | France | Tigh Neachtain, Cross St | Original | €225 | |
| Danse Macabre 1 | Joey Mason | USA | Tigh Neachtain, Cross St | Original | €225 | |
| Danse Macabre 2 | Joey Mason | USA | Tigh Neachtain, Cross St | Original | €225 | |
| Brick Or Treat | Steve Jones | UK | Nelly’s, Cross St | Signed Print | €65 | |
| Where The Wild Things Are | Steve Jones | UK | Nelly’s, Cross St | Signed Print | €65 | |
| Rocky Horror | Dara McGee | Ireland | Bernie Keogh’s Gallery, Cross St | Original | €225 | |
| Macron’s Terrorism Memorial Museum | “I’m preparing an exhibition on my red period” | Lasserpe | France | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | |
| Tignous Ten Years On | “And my flies, how are they?”“Don’t worry. In a world of shit, they rule” | Lasserpe | France | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | |
| Death to all religions! | “Have some respect” | Lacombe | France | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | |
| EU 27 | Thibaut Soulcié | France | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | ||
| Washington Post | Nicolas Vadot | Belgium | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | ||
| Debate on Freedom of expression | “Ah shit, I’m out of arguments” | Lasserpe | France | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | |
| World Cartoon Appreciation Day | “Take a good look, press cartoonists will soon be extinct due to a lack of females” | Thibaut Soulcié | France | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | |
| Boss Love | Tignous | France | Portershed A Dó, Market St | Not For Sale | ||
| Bloody Pencil | Mark Winter | New Zealand | Portershed A Dó, Market St | €95 | ||
| Wrong Place | Steven Jones | UK | Portershed A Dó, Market St | Signed Print | €95 |
