Here you can check out the many things we’ve done in the festival’s brief history.
Saturday Events
NewsSeptember 29, 2023
Dave Coverly (Speedbump) There’s stuff on today for just about everyone:
11:00 – Children’s stories
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop
Ed Steckley reads from his children’s books in Charlie Byrne’s.
12:00 – Irish Apes
Portershed 2
Donal Casey gives a fascinating talk about the ways Irish people were portrayed in the anti-Irish cartoons of 19th century Britain and America.
1:00 – Drawing Time
A Nearby Pub or Café
Come with us for a sketchy lunch.
3:30 – Ed Steckley Masterclass
PorterShed 2
The very talented American cartoonist-illustrator will give us a live-action illustrated talk about why he loves cartooning so much. This will be amazing. Anyone who wants to make a career in drawing – or anyone who just loves to see it done well – should not miss this.
[Yes it does say “12:30” in the brochure. Sorry about that, gremlins struck. Ed’s show is definitely at 3:30.]
5:00 – Harry Burton’s Solo Exhibition
Town Hall Theatre
Every year we honour an Irish cartoonist; sometimes one we’ve loved for decades, sometimes one fresh and new. This time it’s about as fresh as it gets. Harry Burton has shot to international fame in the last few years, simply because he has an outstanding talent for political cartoons.
As if that were not enough, veteran cartoon genius Martin Rowson will deliver a few words to get the show on the road.
8:00 – Mass Drawing Event
Some Pub (Probably Neachtain’s)
OK so this isn’t so much an official event as “Woah that was some day, let’s go to the pub now”. But drawing will ensue and you’re welcome to join in.
Welcome to the Seventh Festival!
NewsSeptember 29, 2023
Welcome to all of you who will come to our workshops and our talks, who will wander around our exhibitions chuckling – it’s OK to laugh aloud in fact, this isn’t your everyday sort of exhibition – and who will take part in our live drawing events which mostly happen in pubs for some reason.
Welcome, to everyone who enjoys cartoons. You can just drop in and enjoy the jokes, or you can pick up a pen and participate.
Royston Robertson And a special welcome to the poor cartoonists of many countries who were tricked into coming here and drawing – and in many cases talking – for the amusement of Ireland in general and Galway in particular. Thank you, you lovely people. We will try to make it worth your while.
Festivities begin at 5:30pm tonight with the opening of our exhibition of fresh cartoons from all around the world, in the new PorterShed 2 (where the Connacht Tribune used to be). We’ll be having beers and hugging old friends and laughing at all sorts of things, so please come along.
And then the events begin in earnest. There are art workshops and talks which will be somehow both instructive and stupidly funny, from the likes of Ed Steckley (MAD magazine), Cristina Sampaio (SpamCartoons) and Martin Rowson (The Guardian), not to mention some of Ireland’s finest such as Graeme Keyes and Harry Burton. There will be expert caricaturists wandering around, making fun of people’s faces. There will be shows all about the city, plus related events in schools and in the Pálás cinema, as well as on Inis Oírr.
If you haven’t seen it already, here’s the programme. Feel free to download it to your phone:Our ’23 Programme!
NewsSeptember 25, 2023
Cartoon Auction Tonight!
NewsSeptember 19, 2023
It’s that time again when we auction off some of last year’s cartoon prints to help fund this year’s festival. Not only would you be helping us out, you could pick up a great gift.
And also have…
- Music on the Night
- A raffle with spot prizes
- Superb cocktails
Wednesday, September 20th
Pálás Cinema Bar
7.30pmWe would love to see you there!
Here are some cartoons that will be under the hammer:
Announcing Our Programme
NewsSeptember 16, 2023
…is what we’ll be doing on Culture Night!
Meet us at the Town Hall Theatre at 6pm, and be among the first to hear our great lineup of events and guest cartoonists for 2023.
Along with this, we’ll be unveiling “Still Crazy After All These Years”, a hilarious retrospective of gag-meister supreme Tom Mathews.
Here Comes The Poster
NewsJuly 21, 2023
Coming soon to a bare patch of wall near you, the 2023 Galway Cartoon Festival poster!
This year’s poster image is by the marvellous Jim Cogan, whose style will be unmistakable to anyone in Ireland.
Êtes-vous un dessinateur francophone?
NewsJune 26, 2023
Toutes les informations sont ici
Nol Submissions Are Now Open
NewsJune 14, 2023
For the 2023 Galway Cartoon Festival!
This year we have three separate shows that are open to public submissions. Feel free to send stuff in to any or all of them:
Artificial Idiocy
Are You Ready To Be Replaced!?
This could be the last Galway Cartoon Festival, folks. Soon they won’t need us any more. Just tell a computer what makes you laugh and it will turn out side-splitting gag after gag, all beautifully drawn in its own inimitable style.
Well, someone’s inimitable style.
What do you think – is Artificial Intelligence a useful tool and amusing toy? Or will it murder us all and boil down our corpses for useful minerals? It could go either way. Give us your artistic reaction to the rise of the machine.
While you can.
General Mayhem
Wait, you’re not concerned about humanity’s harrowing future? You have something to say about humanity’s harrowing present instead? Good on you. Or perhaps there’s a simple but hilarious gag cartoon or a comic strip you’d like to show.
Cristina Sampaio, “Público” Portugal No problem. We’ll also be doing a show about everything except AI. As is tradition, we call it General Mayhem.
Tarraing É I nGaeilge
Which is Irish for “Draw It In Irish“, and is our show specifically for cartoons in that language – the only one of its kind!
Works selected for Tarraing é i nGaeilge will be exhibited both in Galway City and on Inis Oírr in the Aran Islands.
Dean Patterson The Terms and the Conditions
- All our exhibitions are open to submissions from anyone, anywhere.
- They should be sent, as 300dpi jpegs, to: info@galwaycartoonfestival.ie – Please include a little biographical information.
- Selected cartoons will be printed and framed by the Galway Cartoon Festival and offered for sale. The Galway Cartoon Festival is a voluntary organisation promoting the art of cartoon and any sales will be put into meeting the costs of running this year’s festival.
- Submitted cartoons may be used in publicity materials for the festival. They will be credited to the artist.
- Submission deadline:
20 August ’23
The Galway Cartoon Festival 2023
NewsJune 7, 2023
Will open on September 29th and run until October 4th!
Don’t be taken by surprise.
Don’t Miss These Shows
2022, Exhibitions, NewsOctober 25, 2022
The main exhibitions of the Galway Cartoon Festival 2022 are still open, but must close soon. Now is your last chance to see…
Marilena Nardi – The Drawings of Tomorrow
Town Hall Theatre Bar
12:00pm – 5pm
Marilena Nardi teaches illustration and artistic anatomy at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, and her mastery of these disciplines is clearly evidenced by her works. She is a cartoonist of extraordinary power, a voice crying silently for justice, the passion of her meaning manifest in every line. Having appeared in leading newspapers such as Le Monde and Corriere della Sera, she now regularly contributes to Italian progressive daily Domani.
Jim Cogan Retrospective
Town Hall Theatre Foyer
12:00pm – 5pm
A brief preview of Jim Cogan at the Town Hall Theatre Each year, the Galway Cartoon Festival endeavours to choose one Irish professional to celebrate. Jim Cogan has been one of Ireland’s funniest and most famous cartoonists for decades, and deserves this honour more than most.
Tarraing É I nGaeilge
Galway City Library
10:00am – 5pm
“Draw It In Irish”, our annual showcase of cartoons and comics created in the first official language, is displayed both on Inis Oírr and – until this Thursday – at Galway City Library. It features both some of the best-known names in Irish cartooning and some completely new talent. This year we even feature contributions from Italy!
Drawing The Line
PorterShed Bowling Green
12:00pm – 5pm
And of course our main annual international exhibition, Drawing The Line, is still on show. Come and see cartoons from all around the world. Some by complete unknowns, others by the biggest names in the profession.
Included among the latter are some of the wonderful guests we had this year – Steve Bell, Hunt Emerson, Cristina Sampaio, Ivailo Tsvetkov, Brady Izquierdo Rodríguez, Graeme Keyes, Tom Mathews, Aongus Collins, Dean Patterson, Harry Burton and of course, Liza Donnelly. See their work, and much more, at the PorterShed Bowling Green.SELECTED ARTISTS 2022
2022, Events, NewsOctober 7, 2022
“Drawing The Line”
It is with huge thanks to everyone who sent work for consideration that we announce the artists who were chosen for our 2022 open international exhibition, “Drawing The Line”.
Alagon Italy Andrey Selivanov Russia Aongus Collins Ireland Bahman Jalali Nokandeh Iran Brandon Hicks Canada Brady Izquierdo Rodríguez Cuba Ciaraíoch Ireland Cristina Sampaio Portugal Dara McGee Ireland David Carmody Ireland David Hafez USA Dean Patterson Northern Ireland Dokhshid Ghodratipour Iran Doru Axinte Romania Evžen David Czechia Fabrice Matray France Fadi Toon Norway Glenn Marshall UK Graeme Keyes Ireland Harry Burton Ireland Hunt Emerson UK Ivailo Tsvetkov Bulgaria Jabar Saber Iraq Joe Boske Ireland Joey Mason USA Jon Berkeley Ireland Jonathon Bomser USA Liza Donnelly USA Mahboob Pakdel Iran Mark Winter New Zealand Martyn Turner Ireland Milko Dalla Battista Italy Nol France Philip Witte USA Raed Khalil Syria Richard Chapman Ireland Richie Brennan Ireland Salar Eshratkhah Iran Shen Hong Li China Steve Bell UK Teja Fischer Germany Til Mette Germany Tjeerd Royaards Netherlands Tom Mathews Ireland Viacheslav Kapreliants Ukraine Having received something approaching 2,000 entries this year, our chief regret is that we only had space to hang 90 pieces. We have been able to display nothing more than a brief sample of the cartooning talent that exists in Ireland and around the world.
All the chosen works remain on exhibition at the PorterShed Galway until Sunday October 9th (and will be available as an online gallery after the festival). Please come and enjoy them.
Taibhdhearc Shows
2022, Activities, NewsOctober 1, 2022
Sunday October 2nd
Tickets online or on the door.
The Comics of Jack B Yeats
4pm Tickets
Ilustrated talk by Michael Connerty with Q & A session and mini comic strip art exhibition by Jack B Yeats in An Taibhdhearc.
The State of The Art
A panel discussion with top Irish and international cartoonists in An Taibhdhearc, as part of Galway Cartoon Festival 2022
- Liza Donnelly (The New Yorker)
- Steve Bell (The Guardian)
- Cristina Sampio (SpamCartoons)
- Hunt Emerson (The Beano)
- Tom Mathews (Of Course)
Your host: James Harrold
7pm Tickets
Grand Opening
2022, NewsSeptember 29, 2022
Friday 7:00 – Tomorrow night! – The PorterShed
All cartoon fans are welcome to the opening of the Galway Cartoon Festival 2022, which takes place in the PorterShed, Bowling Green.
Join us for a drink and a chat, and of course a great deal of very funny cartoons. This event doubles as the opening of the our main exhibition, ‘Drawing The Line‘, a gathering of new and topical cartoons by some of the best in the business, including this year’s international guests Steve Bell (The Guardian), Liza Donnelly (The New Yorker), Cristina Sampaio (SpamCartoons), and Ivailo Tsvetkov.
(Note that the actual entrance to the PorterShed is on the Market Street side, via the car park, and that the PorterShed isn’t at the train station any more!)
September 30th – October 9th 2022!
2022, NewsMarch 28, 2022
Yes, it’s coming round again already
We’re excited to announce that the dates for this year’s Cartoon Festival have been set for the first week of October.
After struggling against the odds over the last couple of years, we’re hoping to really spread out again with this one. Thanks for all your support during the hard times!
We Need You!
2021, NewsApril 21, 2021
Click here to make a small donation to keep the Galway Cartoon Festival going in 2021.It’s that time of year again where the Galway Cartoon Festival must rattle our fundraising can to ensure this year’s Cartoon Festival happens! We are a completely voluntary organisation that seeks to promote the art of the cartoon each year through exhibitions, talks and workshops.
We gratefully receive funding from Galway City Council’s Arts Office and sponsorship from local businesses. However it is the public that gets us over the line each year and this year is no different! So if you’ve ever laughed at a Larson or cracked up at a Keyes please consider getting the card out!
Here’s a video of last year’s Festival:
Ciaraíoch Art Prints Now on Sale!
2020, NewsOctober 5, 2020
Friend of the Festival and cartoonist extraordinaire Ciaraíoch is now selling prints of her work through her brand spanking new site. These art prints make great gifts. Check it out and support an artist!
We interviewed Ciaraíoch a few months ago and you can read that interview here.Video: Galway Cartoon Festival: The New Normal
2020, Exhibitions, NewsOctober 3, 2020
A quick video of some of our 2020 exhibition, The New Normal, in the 2020 Hub, Cornstore Galway, and the streets of Galway!
Full exhibition can be viewed online here.Programme 2020: THE NEW NORMAL
2020, NewsSeptember 18, 2020
UPDATE 07/10/20: ALL VENUES ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED DUE TO LEVEL 3 COVID RESTRICTIONS
PLEASE VIEW OUR MAIN EXHIBITION ONLINE HERE
WE WILL UPDATE AS THE SITUATION ALLOWS.
Our 2020 poster. Image: Sergei Belozerov (Russia) EXHIBITIONS:
THE NEW NORMAL (Galway 2020 Hub, The Cornstore)
2020 has witnessed an enormous change in the world with ramifications to every walk of life. Inevitably cartoonists around the world have been responding with great humour to the Covid-19 crisis, tongues planted firmly in masked cheeks. Galway Cartoon Festival would like to mark this cartoon catharsis under this year’s theme of The New Normal. Featuring over 40 cartoonists from all over the world, you’ll get to see how much we all have in common, especially now.
TARRAING É I NGAEILGE (Galway 2020 Hub, The Cornstore)
Most cartoons in this country have words, but more often than not these are in English. Yet we have a healthy culture of Irish-language work being produced here, particularly in comic strips and illustration. To celebrate this, we are presenting our second annual exhibition to represent that scene.
GRACE GIFFORD (Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, The Cornstore)
Most people would be familiar with the song “Grace”, but not many know that she was actually a cartoonist and illustrator. We present a tale of romance, death, patriotism, history and cartoons in tribute to this remarkable woman.
ART TRAIL (Streets of Galway, map coming soon)
Featuring works from THE NEW NORMAL and TARRAING É I NGAEILGE. Have a walk around and see what you can spot!
TARRAING É I NGAEILGE, GRACE GIFFORD (Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr)
This year, we are branching out from the city and crossing the water to bring our Irish-language exhibition and our Grace Gifford Plunkett tribute to Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oírr.
EVENTS
MINI MOMA
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER, 7PM, KINLAY HOUSE, EYRE SQUARE:
Artists Caoimhe Lavelle and Kristina Collender will be bringing their Mini Moma exhibition to Galway for this year’s Festival. Reproducing famous paintings in miniature, the artists will be painting these tiny canvases live for a limited audience!
LIVE CARICATURES
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER, 1.30-3.30PM, HARBOUR HOTEL, GALWAY DOCKS:
One of Ireland’s top caricature artists and co-founder of the Festival, Allan Cavanagh, will be drawing live caricatures in the Harbour Hotel! Pop in for a sitting and take home a commemorative Galway Cartoon Festival caricature!
EXHIBITION LAUNCH: THE NEW NORMAL, TARRAING É I NGAEILGE, GRACE GIFFORD
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER, 4PM 2020 HUB, GALWAY CORNSTORE:
We launch our main exhibitions in the Galway 2020 Hub with guest speaker Ted Turton. Come in for a socially distanced gander at the cartoons we have collected from artists all over the world dealing with life in the pandemic!
READING: GERRY HANBERRY READS FROM ‘ON RAGLAN ROAD’
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER, 5PM 2020 HUB, GALWAY CORNSTORE:
Galway author, musician and historian Gerry Hanberry will read from his book “On Raglan Road” about the women who have inspired some well known songs, including featured artist Grace Gifford.
EXHIBITION LAUNCH: TARRAING É I NGAEILGE, GRACE GIFFORD
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER, 5PM ÁRAS ÉANNA, INIS OÍRR
Two strands of the Galway Cartoon Festival’s 2020 exhibition will run concurrently in Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr. This exhibition will be launched by artist and Áras Éanna Director, Dara McGee.
Galway Cartoon Festival 2020: Help Us Happen! 💰
2020, Fundraising, NewsJuly 21, 2020
UPDATE: OUR FUNDIT CAMPAIGN WAS SUCCESSFUL!
The Galway Cartoon Festival is 4 this year. Despite the pandemic we are still planning to host a physical exhibition.
Our ability to fund-raise has been severely curtailed.
If you’ve ever enjoyed an editorial cartoon please bung us a fiver.
Your Funding Benefits:
Fund €20+
Contributors will receive a copy of the festival programme, a copy of the 2020 Festival poster and will be added to our invitation list for all live and on-line events
Fund €50+
Contributors of €50 or more will receive a festival t-shirt, a cartoon print, a copy of the festival programme, a copy of the 2020 festival poster and invitations to all openings, live events and online events
Fund €100+
Premium contributors will receive a signed print by a top cartoonist, the much-sought-after festival pencil and sketch pad, a festival catalogue and poster, a festival t-shirt as well as invitations to all events.
WHAT IS THE GALWAY CARTOON FESTIVAL?
This will be the fourth year of the festival and this year we will run from Friday October 2nd to 9th October 2020 with a major exhibition in Galway City centre and a series of events and workshops. We are also planning to hold an exhibition of cartoons in Irish on the Aran Islands. All of the exhibitions will be available to view online and we will be holding a series of online interviews, talks and workshops.
WHAT WILL BE IN THE EXHIBITIONS?
We will be showcasing some of the work produced by top Irish and international cartoonists in reaction to the pandemic and how it has effected our lives and an exhibition of work in the Irish language. The exhibitions will also be available to view on our website (www.galwaycartoonfestival.ie), where we are currently running a series of interviews with top Irish and international cartoonists.
WHAT ELSE WILL BE HAPPENING?
As well as the series of interviews and the on-line exhibition, our website will also be hosting a series of workshops, talks and live drawing events. If possible, we will also host a number of live events and workshops in the exhibition venue. We will be setting up “draw on a phone box” official graffiti spaces where anybody who feels like giving it a go can become an opportunistic artist! And there will be an Art Trail, showcasing top cartoon art, in various locations throughout the streets of Galway.
Watch This Space!
2020, NewsMay 13, 2020
It’s Not Over!
2019, NewsDecember 1, 2019
A lovely science gag by Jonesy, courtesy of Private Eye We’re extending some of our exhibitions until further notice.
- Science – Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway (1)
- TwistedDoodles – Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway (1)
- General Mayhem – Town Hall Theatre (2)
- John Arden – Black Gate Cultural Centre (3)
Events, 2019
2019, NewsOctober 24, 2019
Look at all we’ve got for you! Solo shows by Ireland’s best-known cartoonist and by one of our newest talents. A display of the finest cartoons from all around the world, another of cartoons in Irish, and no less then three different shows where cartoons meet science. We also have a panel discussion, a book launch, drawing sessions and more.
Programme Launch!
2019, NewsOctober 3, 2019
Black Gate Cultural Centre
7.00pm on Monday 7th October
- Introduction by James C. Harrold.
- Auction of cartoon originals and prints.
- Spot prizes and raffle!
Auction Catalogue
ARTIST TITLE /
DESCRIPTIONMEDIUM RESERVE PRICE 1 Jim Cogan Populism Original Drawing €200 2 Igor Smirnov Arms Industry Print None 3 Russel Herneman Trigger Warning Original Drawing €150 4 Clyde Delaney Pope / Leo Original Drawing €280 5 Jim Cogan GAA Original Drawing €200 6 Dean Patterson Vet Signed Print €125 7 Eoin Kelleher Data Protection Original Drawing €150 8 Jim Cogan Lions Original Drawing €200 9 Donal Casey 1916 Print None 10 Damir Novak Escalation Print None 11 Liza Donnelly Peace Channel Print None 12 Florian Doru Crihana Spanish Arch 1918 Original Painting €200 13 Nani Tank Print None 14 Crisan and Petry Death Print None 15 Jia RuiJun Bomb Print None 16 Til Mette Magic Bullet Print None 17 Miriam Würster Say Peace Print None 18 The Surreal McCoy Riot Print None 19 Dean Patterson Men At Work Signed Print €125 20 Dean Patterson Hitler in Disguise Signed Print €126 21 Kathryn Lamb Smoking Cats Original Drawing €150 22 Gatis Sluka Vegan Print None 23 Gatis Sluka Christmas Print None 24 Dean Patterson Goldfish Signed Print €125 25 Glenn Marshall Blame Culture Signed Print €125 26 The Surreal McCoy Me Too Signed Print €125 27 Nick Newman Brexit Forecast Original Drawing €150 28 Fadi Abou Hassan Migrants Print None 29 Nick Newman DUP Original Drawing €150 30 The Surreal McCoy Duel Signed Print €125 31 Russel Herneman No WiFi Original Drawing €150 32 Florin Balaban Europa Print None 33 Martin Rowson Novichok Print None 34 Donal Casey Brexannia Print None 35 Virginia Cabras Hope Print None 36 Karol Cizmazia Flick Print None All these works are on exhibition at the Black Gate
Submissions Are Open!
2019, NewsAugust 21, 2019
We are ready to receive cartoons for the 2019 Galway Cartoon Festival.
Quiz Night!
2019, NewsJuly 18, 2019
A new date for our table quiz – now with many fabulous prizes! Monday 29 July, Black Gate, 8:00pm
Bring all of your friends, it’s only €40 per table and the prizes will be exceptional. We have so many in fact that we’ll be raffling some as well, so you don’t even have to be clever to walk off with loot. Many thanks to the generosity of our sponsors.
The quiz will be almost entirely on general knowledge, though there will be one cartoon round. So start reading comics if you want that edge…
And of course there’s a bar, many fab wines, lovely food, and that Cartoon Festival atmosphere!Enjoy The Science!
2019, NewsMay 1, 2019
8th — 18th November 2019
This year we bring you cartoons from around the world on the theme of science!
And also, a lot of other cartoons.Good Shots
2019, NewsApril 13, 2019
Our entry for the European “Most Cartooning Talent in a Single Photograph” prize: Marilena Nardi, Tom Mathews and Graeme Keyes Our guests of honour last year, Nol (France) and Marilena Nardi (Italy), have done us the favour of putting up a sweet photo album of their visit to Galway. Here’s a link and some examples:
Festival Galway – Irlande 2018
Auction Thanks
2019, NewsApril 10, 2019
Huge thanks to everyone who made our first ever cartoon auction a big success last night, especially sponsors the Liquor Lounge (upstairs at the Dáil Bar) and the Latin Quarter, and of course all the cartoonists. In particular we want to thank Tom Mathews and Gerard Crowley who donated original works to the cause.
Special thanks too to Brendan Savage who did a simply brilliant job as MC, and of course to everyone who came – especially those of you who bought cartoons.
If you weren’t there… Well, you should have been. We sold 30 pieces (23 prints and 7 original drawings), mostly at bargain prices.
It was a huge boost for us, raising enough to make some of our ideas feasible, so look out for news about the 2019 festival soon!
Auction Catalogue
2019, NewsApril 7, 2019
Join us in the Liquor Lounge (upstairs in the Dáíl Bar on Middle Street) at 8:00pm on Tuesday April 9th for a splendid auction of cartoon originals and prints. MC and auctioneer for the evening will be Brendan Savage, there will be a raffle, booze and general fun, and all proceeds go to putting on the next festival!
The Cougar
Tom Mathews
Ireland
Original Drawing
We start with a gag by the inimitable Tom Mathews.
Pail
Tom Mathews
Ireland
Original Drawing
Some call Tom the rock star of Irish cartooning.
Homer
Tom Mathews
Ireland
Original Drawing
Tom also knows a thing or two about art criticism.
Sculpture in the Park
Tom Mathews
Ireland
Original Drawing
And about art critics.
Excalibur
Tom Mathews
Ireland
Original Drawing
Not to mention mythology.
The Untouchables
Tom Mathews
Ireland
Original Drawing
And of course, fine cinema.
Irish Dancing School
Ed McLachlan
UK
Large Print
Ed McLachlan is one of the greats of British cartooning. His work appears in many publications including Private Eye.
Double Original
Gerard Crowley
Ireland
Original Drawing
Two great original drawings from comic strip The Last Resort in the Sunday Business Post.
The Legend of Bishop Moling
Hunt Emerson
UK
High Quality Giclée Print
British underground comix maestro Hunt Emerson retells the Irish legend of Bishop Moling and the fox.
The Backstop’s Here
Ian Knox
Ireland
High Quality Giclée Print
Northern Ireland’s Ian Knox on Brexit and the backstop.
The 12th
Ciaraíoch
Ireland
High Quality Giclée Print
And while we’re in the North here’s a take on the 12th, as Gaeilge.
Brexit
Cristina Sampaio
Portugal
High Quality Giclée Print
Internationally famous artist Cristina Sampaio sends this disturbing and powerful take on Brexit from Portugal.
Word War Three
Cristina Sampaio
Portugal
High Quality Giclée Print
Cristina gives us a controversial take on European politics.
Triumphal Arch
Banx
UK
High Quality Giclée Print
Another British cartoon veteran, Jeremy Banx casts a jaundiced eye on victory.
Surfing Girl
Fadi Abou Hassan
Palestine
High Quality Giclée Print
Palestinian refugee artist Fadi Abou Hassan provides this powerful image of freedom.
Avocados
TwistedDoodles
Ireland
High Quality Giclée Print
One of the funniest cartoonists working in Ireland today, TwistedDoodles tells it like it is about avocados.
Rural Chemist
TwistedDoodles
Ireland
High Quality Giclée Print
What would the local pharmacist have thought of your smartphone pictures?
Children in Cages
Liza Donnelly
USA
High Quality Giclée Print
Irish-American New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly on the Trump policy of separating migrant children from their parents.
Testimony
Liza Donnelly
USA
High Quality Giclée Print
Inspired by the Kavanaugh hearings, The New Yorker’s Liza Donnelly illustrates a woman’s struggle to be heard.
Fascistbook
Marilena Nardi
Italy
High Quality Giclée Print
Italy’s Marilena Nardi is one of the greatest talents in cartooning today. This is her take on the dangers of social media.
Give Us A Smile
Marilena Nardi
Italy
High Quality Giclée Print
Here Marilena Nardi depicts the burden of other people’s emotional needs.
Models
Marilena Nardi
Italy
High Quality Giclée Print
As well as being a leading cartoonist, Marilena Nardi teaches drawing at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts.
Mata Hari
Marilena Nardi
Italy
High Quality Giclée Print
Nardi’s portrait of Mata Hari, exotic dancer and alleged double agent during World War 1.
From Here You Can See The Future
Nicolas Vadot
Belgium
High Quality Giclée Print
From his vantage point at the end of the Great War, a soldier foresees a century of tragedy and failure.
The Battle of Bash ‘n’ Fail
Martin Rowson
UK
High Quality Giclée Print
Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson sees similarities between the muddy trenches of WW1 and the morass that is Brexit.
Social Media
Virginia Cabras
Italy
High Quality Giclée Print
An Italian cartoonist in Ireland, Virginia Cabras sees a new kind of trench warfare.
Just Be Yourself
Teja Fischer
Germany
High Quality Giclée Print
A fresh take on soldiering from German eccentric Teja Fischer.
Referendum
Jessica Lawrence
Ireland
High Quality Giclée Print
Galway comic artist Tigerjess recalls campaigning in the last referendum.
Kiss
Igor Pashchenko
Russia
High Quality Giclée Print
Russian veteran cartoonist Igor Pashchenko depicts a kiss.
Trade War Trump Style
Martyn Turner
Ireland
High Quality Giclée Print
Irish Times Cartoonist Martyn Turner gives his take on Trump’s protectionism.
Cartoon Auction!
2019, NewsMarch 28, 2019
Some fabulous news. We’re going to auction off cartoons that weren’t sold at exhibition last year. The proceeds will go towards this year’s festival.
The event takes place at 8:00 pm on Tuesday the 9th of April in the Liquor Lounge, upstairs in the Dáil Bar – the venue where we held our hugely enjoyable brochure launch last year. You’ll be able to bid on a range of framed prints by some of the greatest cartoonists, in Ireland and from around the world.
MC and auctioneer will be Brendan Savage. Prices starts as low as €20, and there will be a raffle.
Last Chance To See Exhibition
2018, NewsDecember 2, 2018
Guest of Honour Marilena Nardi with curator Margaret Nolan Sadly our exhibition for the centenary of 1918 must close in a few days. Featuring work by some of the best cartoonists from around the world and beautifully hung by Margaret Nolan, A Peace To End All Peace is an unusual and thought-provoking display of art.
The show is open in the Black Gate Cultural Centre on Frances St from 6 pm to midnight, and is best appreciated with a nice glass of wine.
I’ll be there on Wednesday evening, if anyone would like to be told some of the stories behind various works.
Here’s a complete catalogue of the works, many of which are still available to buy.
ARTIST COUNTRY MEDIUM PRICE 1 Nicolas Vadot Belgium Print €75 2 Martin Rowson UK Print €75 3 Hunt Emerson UK Print €75 4 Allan Cavanagh Ireland Original €150 5 Fadi Abou Hassan Palestine Print €50 6 Ivailo Tsvetkov Bulgaria Print €50 7 Jean-Claude Servais Belgium Print NFS 8 Jean-Claude Servais Belgium Print NFS 9 Jean-Claude Servais Belgium Print NFS 10 Huseyin Cakmak Cyprus Print €50 11 Vladislav Shirokov Russia Print €50 12 Dean Patterson Ireland Signed Print €125 13 Jonesy UK Signed Print €125 14 Russel Herneman UK Original €50 15 Teja Fischer Germany Print €50 16 Nick Newman UK Original €50 17 Gatis Sluka Latvia Print €50 18 Jeremy Banx UK Original €100 19 Florian Doru Crihana Romania Original Painting €200 20 Marilena Nardi Italy Print €50 21 The Surreal McCoy UK Print €50 22 Crișan and Petry Romania Print €50 23 Jean-Claude Servais Belgium Print €50 24 Cristina Sampaio Portugal Print €50 25 Vasiliy Alexandrov Russia Print €50 26 Crișan and Petry Romania Print €50 27 Damir Novak Croatia Print €50 28 Alexey Kivokurtseva Russia Print €50 29 The Surreal McCoy UK Signed Print €125 30 Sergei Belozerov Russia Print €50 31 Gatis Sluka Latvia Print €50 32 Nani Columbia / Spain Print €50 33 Jia Ruijun China Print €50 34 Marilena Nardi Italy Print €50 35 Miriam Wurster Germany Print €50 36 Scratch Ireland Print €50 37 Fadi Abou Hassan Palestine Print €50 38 Florin Balaban Luxembourg Print €50 39 Virginia Cabras Italy Print €50 40 Miriam Wurster Germany Print €50 41 Martyn Turner UK / Ireland / France Print €50 42 Til Mette Germany Print €50 43 Liza Donnelly USA Print €50 44 Marilena Nardi Italy Print €50 45 Jeremy Banx UK Original €100 46 Cristina Sampaio Portugal Print €50 47 Fadi Abou Hassan Palestine Print €50 48 The Surreal McCoy UK Print €50 49 The Surreal McCoy UK Signed Print €125 50 Karol Čizmazia Cyprus Print €50 51 Igor Smirnov Russia Print €50 52 Nani Columbia / Spain Print €50 53 Igor Pashchenko Russia Print €50 54 Ivailo Tsvetkov Bulgaria Print €50 55 Florin Balaban Luxembourg Print €50 56 Martin Rowson UK Print €50 57 Donal Casey Ireland Print €50 58 Igor Smirnov Russia Print €50 59 Teja Fischer Germany Print €50 60 Liza Donnelly USA Print €50 61 Steve Bonello Malta Print €50 62 Jeremy Banx UK Print €50 63 Jeremy Banx UK Print €50 64 Jia Ruijun China Print €50 65 Santiago Cornejo Argentina Print €50 66 Mustafa Tozaki Cyprus Print €50 67 Ivailo Tsvetkov Bulgaria Print €50 68 Grigori and Ilya Katz Kirgyzstan / Israel Print €50 69 Donal Casey Ireland Print €50 70 Glenn Marshall UK Signed Print €125 Follow the Cartoon Trail
2018, NewsNovember 15, 2018
The Latin Quarter
Quay St – Cross St – Middle St
We have so much art, it’s spilled out onto the streets! The windows of establishments along the streets of Galway’s Latin Quarter are festooned – yes, festooned – with cartoon works.
See Stephen Dee’s fabulous 3D miniatures in the windows of Neachtain’s and Charlie Byrne’s.
“Do Not Trust These Men” by Stephen Dee See Clyde Delaney’s enormous caricature of Irish literary greats on Cross St.
Visit the Cornstore to see not only the fantastic three-sided hand-drawn comic work of Maria Apoleika, but six gigantic posters featuring nearly fifty great cartoons that we couldn’t find room for anywhere else.
As with our other exhibitions, most works are for sale. Call Margaret at 086 875 8341 if you see anything you’d like.
Cartoons of The World
2018, NewsNovember 15, 2018
Town Hall Theatre
Mon-Sat, 10am – 7.30pm
Glenn Marshall Colombia and Croatia, Kenya and Kyrgyzstan, and many countries that don’t start with a ‘kuh’. We’ve received entries to the cartoon festival from all around the planet, and we have put as many of them as we could fit into the Town Hall Theatre gallery.
Unlike our Armistice Exhibition in the Black Gate Cultural Centre, this exhibition has no theme – it’s just whatever we thought was funny or pointed and relevant. So there are more gag cartoons in this one, from the likes of – of course – Tom Mathews, as well as some of the most famous UK cartoonists like Ed McLachlan, Nick Newman, Jonesy, Banx and Martin Rowson, whom you will have seen in UK newspapers or magazines like Private Eye.
There are also many, many lovely works by international stars of cartooning like our special guest Marilena Nardi, Liza Donnelly of the New Yorker, Cristina Sampaio of Portugal and Gatis Sluka of Latvia, as well as serious talents who probably won’t have been seen in Ireland before such as Victor Ndula and Til Mette.
Then there are just about all the famous Irish political cartoonists including Jim Cogan, Martyn Turner, Tom Halliday, Aongus “Scratch” Collins and Gerard Crowley (not to mention the solo show by Graeme Keyes which takes place in the same venue), some fantastic newer Irish talents like TwistedDoodles and Ciaraíoch, and a fine showing by local artists including Annie West, Jessica Lawrence, Jim Ward and of course Allan Cavanagh.
As with our other exhibitions, there are many prints, signed prints and even originals on sale. Call Margaret at 086 875 8341 if you see anything you’d like.
Open every day except Sunday, (and even Sundays when there’s a show on in the theatre). We recommend going along at about ten past seven in the evening, as that’s when the bar opens…
Graeme Keyes! Solo Show
2018, NewsNovember 7, 2018
Town Hall Theatre
Mon-Sat, 10am – 7.30pm
Now it can be revealed!
(Mainly, because it’s already been revealed all over the place.)
The Galway Cartoon Festival’s featured artist for 2018 is the inimitable Graeme Keyes.
Graeme first became part of the Irish public conscience as a contributor to The Phoenix magazine way back in the late ’80s. Since then he’s risen to be probably the most prolific cartoon artist in the country, not just as the Phoenix’s most recognised gag-meister or as the editorial cartoonist for the Irish Daily Mail, but also as a frequent contributor to the UK’s Private Eye.
Graeme will be showing 25 pieces that capture highlights of his career in the lobby of Galway’s Town Hall Theatre. All works are originals, and all are on sale; call Margaret at 086 875 8341 if you see anything you’d like.
Open every day except Sunday, (and even Sundays when there’s a show on in the theatre) from 10:30, though we can recommend going along at about ten past seven in the evening as that’s when the theatre bar opens.
Polish Country Dances
2018, NewsOctober 31, 2018
…is a series of drawings by cartoon artist Maria Apoleika. She will create the latest one live in the Cornstore on a large board, so you can come and watch her in action.
No actual dancing is involved – though I suppose you could if the mood takes you.
The Cornstore, Nov 11th, 12-5pm
As well as drawing live, Maria will also discuss her work with the audience afterwards – though note that this will take place mainly in Polish.
We will also be exhibiting the rest of Maria’s “Polish Country Dances” as part of our Cartoon Trail, a series of window-display exhibitions that runs between High St, Cross St and Middle St.
Maria Apoleika’s appearance in Galway has been generously sponsored by the Latin Quarter.
Biography
Maria Apoleika, graduate of National Film School in Łódź, runs the most popular cartoon and comic fanpage in Poland – Psie Sucharki (Dog Biscuits). She illustrates books, paints and draws, and so far has several dozen group and individual exhibitions under her belt.
She is interested in spaces beyond official supervision – in recent years she created two series of paintings on deurbanising spaces, and one of drawings about invisible love. Now she will present a series of graphics on Polish Contemporary Folk Dances inspired by illegal techno parties, the Slavic approach to having fun, and how the ludic mixes with modernity.
MariaApoleika, absolwentka Szkoły Filmowej w Łodzi. Prowadzi najpopularniejszy w Polscefanpage rysunkowo-komiksowy – Psie Sucharki. Ilustruje książki, maluje irysuje.
Ma na swoim koncie kilkadziesiąt wystaw, grupowych i indywidualnych. Interesują ją przestrzenie poza oficjalnym nadzorem –
w ostatnmich latach stworzyła dwa cykle obrazów o przestrzeniach deurbanizujących się, serię rysunków o nieewidentnej miłości, a teraz zaprezentuje serię grafik Polskie Współczesne Tańce Ludowe inspirowanych nielegalnymi imprezami techno, słowiańskim podejściu do zabawy i tym, jak to, co ludyczne miesza się ze wspołczesnością.
Oprócz tego uwielbia rośliny i zwierzęta – gdzie mieszka, tam zakłada miejski ogród, opiekuje się adoptowanym psem – pudlem królewskim.
Programme Launch!
2018, NewsOctober 25, 2018
At 7:00pm tonight, Thursday October 25th, upstairs in the Dáil Bar on Middle Street, we’ll be launching the 2nd Galway Cartoon Festival’s Programme of Events!
As well as announcing all that will be happening, we’ll be making available our rather fetching brochure. Both your guide to and souvenir of the festival, it contains over 70 cartoons by our exhibitors, as well as their biographical information, a run-down of all the activities, and a map of the venues.
Big thanks here to our print designer Sarah Bruzzi for a fantastic job, and to artist Marilena Nardi for allowing us to use this wonderful image.
Come along!
Our Conference Speakers
2018, NewsOctober 8, 2018
The Cartoons in WW1 conference takes place in Room G011 of the Hardiman Research Building (near the college library) on Saturday 10th of November at 4 p.m.
Speakers
Grace Neville
Grace Neville is a graduate of University College Cork, l’Université de Caen and l’Université de Lille. She is Emeritus Professor of French at UCC where she was Vice-President for Teaching and Learning, Head of the Dept of French and elected member of the Governing Body.
She is a member of several boards including the Irish Board of the Legion of Honour, AMOPA (Association des Membres de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques en Irlande), the Alliance Française de Cork and the Cork-Rennes Twinning Committee. She now spends much of her time in Paris where she is member/chair of numerous boards in the Sorbonne (where she is Chair of the Strategic Orientation Committee), the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) and the CRI (Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire).
Her recent publications include Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Iranians (co-edited with Houchang Chehabi, Ilex Foundation / Harvard University Press, 2015) and studies on Franco-Irish relations especially from the time of the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s onwards. She has been awarded the Légion d’Honneur and the Palmes Académiques.
She will give a presentation on the influence of cartoons in the Irish press after 1916.
Philip Dine
Philip Dine is Head of French at the National University of Ireland Galway. He has published widely on representations of the former French empire, particularly decolonization, in fields ranging from children’s literature to professional sport. Further projects have targeted popular culture and identity-construction in France and the contemporary Francophone world.
His presentation will focus on arguably the best-known figure to emerge from the rich Franco-Belgian tradition of cartoons and comic books, namely Hergé’s roving young reporter Tintin. This cherished character’s first three adventures – in the Soviet Union, the Congo and the United States – will be explored as representations of the new world order that emerged in the wake of the Armistice of 11th November 1918.
Coralline Dupuy
Coralline Dupuy studied French and English literature in Brest before moving to Galway for her postgraduate studies. After obtaining her PhD, she now works in French in NUI Galway and teaches in the areas of young adult literature, fairy tales, and the French language.
Her paper will focus on the politics of representation of gender in the French-language cartoons published during the First World War.
Catherine Gagneux
Catherine Gagneux is the French Honorary Consul in Galway Connacht and has been living and working in Ireland for over 20 years as a Senior ERP Business Analyst.
She has been working with the NUI Galway French Department and the organisers of the Galway Cartoon Festival to commemorate the WW1 centenary, by examining how cartoons portrayed events and influenced the ways information was relayed and interpreted.
She will give a presentation on the rise, use and influence of cartoons since WW1, making use of original drawings that will also be part of the exhibition.
Jean-Claude Servais
Jean-Claude Servais studied graphic art at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège (Belgium) from 1974 until 1976. He began his career in 1975, becoming part of the generation that modernized Belgian comics from the 1970s.
He brings to the reader emotional, and sometimes magical, character-driven stories, set against the wooded landscapes of the Belgian Ardennes and Gaume regions.
Mr Servais will explain the creative process behind his comics, with an emphasis on stories set during WW1. This presentation is sponsored by the Belgian Embassy and Wallonie Bruxelles International.
So Why ‘A Peace to End all Peace’?
2018, NewsSeptember 28, 2018
The great Hector Breeze had a cartoon in Private Eye back in 1981, set in a World War One trench. A German general in his spiky helmet is surveying no-man’s-land when an excited junior office salutes and says “The corporal here’s got this great idea for a sequel!”
The corporal of course has a side parting in his straight back hair, and a little toothbrush moustache.
Let’s See You Collect (New York World) Like so many unwanted sequels, WWII was even worse than the original. Which is one reason we don’t remember November 11 1918 with any sense of celebration. (The other being that, slice it as you like, the best you can say is that it’s the day all the murder stopped.) For while never inevitable, the Second was in many ways a direct consequence of the First – and specifically, a consequence of its ending. The Treaty of Versailles, the settlement forced on a defeated Germany, was disastrous.
The victors expected the people of Germany to somehow pay for all the damage done – a huge burden to place on a devastated nation. This alone may not explain the rise of Nazism; if it had not been for a crash on Wall Street – that ever-reliable harbinger of global tragedy – Germany might have met the onerous conditions and still remained a democracy. But that does not make the ‘punishment’ any less unjust. While certainly the Kaiser must bear some blame for going to war, the populace had bugger all part in the decision. They didn’t elect the guy. In fact resistance by ordinary Germans who had begun to see the senselessness of it all brought the war to an earlier end.
Had the pre-war mood in Germany been warlike? Yes – but so had it in Britain and France. All three were imperial powers trying to grab as much of the world as they could. Germany was the relative newcomer but coming up fast; once the slow lane of Europe, it had industrialised and armed itself at an incredible pace. It’s hard now to believe that the other powers weren’t itching for a pretext to knock it back.
The slogan “A War To End All Wars” was never anything but propaganda of course, cynically designed to motivate the young to kill. As David Lloyd George is said to have said, “This war, like the next war, is a war to end war.” But the tag-line stuck, along with its poisonous logic: If we are killing Germans to punish them for war then it must be their fault. By requiring them to pay for it, the Treaty of Versailles turned wartime propaganda into peacetime reality. Maybe it’s simplistic to see that as leading directly to the rise of Hitler, but you can understand how people who’ve been beaten, humiliated and unjustly shamed might be interested to hear the guy who’s saying no, in fact the secret truth is that you’re actually better than everyone else.
Serious errors were made one hundred years ago, which led to a far greater global conflict, which led in turn to a ‘Cold War’ which actually comprised a series of very hot wars fought between global powers in other people’s countries, which in turn gave rise pretty much directly to a ‘War on Terror’ which, when soberly assessed, would seem to mean declaring war on anything that scares you. In short, a solid century of slaughter. And us today, obviously without any idea of what the fuck we are doing. One hundred years in which the human race has got much, much better at making war but still doesn’t seem to have the first clue about making peace.
Oh, and there is one specific detail about this day that has always struck me as unbearably tragic. The Armistice (i.e., ceasefire) was called on the 11th day of the 11th month. To be precise, for the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Why? For dramatic effect. For a sense of importance. Maybe because it struck someone as cool, I don’t know.
In those last eleven hours, 2,738 soldiers were killed.
Richard Chapman
The Armistice Exhibition
2018, NewsAugust 28, 2018
Black Gate Cultural Centre
6pm – Midnight, except Mondays
In 2017 we held our first international open exhibition of cartoons, under the title “Alternative Facts”. The response was amazing; we needed two venues to display over a hundred works from more than a dozen countries. We could have shown as much again if we’d had the room.
This year we’re organising the festival around November 11th 2018, one hundred years precisely since the end of the “Great War”, and have arranged a number of festival events to reflect on this historic moment. A day of joy for many, but one also of grim resolution, as the world vowed never again to unleash the horrors of industrialised war.
I think we all know how well that worked.
A century of violence and upheaval – much, arguably, as direct consequence of this very peace settlement. From WWII through the Cold War to the War on Terror, the planet has hardly had a quiet moment since.
Which is why we’re calling this year’s open show:
“A Peace To End All Peace”
We’re not looking for submissions about these events exclusively. As always, we’re open to everything – especially everything funny. But we expect that many cartoonists will have things to say about them.
Have a look at our guidelines if you’d like to take part, or contact us with any question. The exhibition is open to submissions from all cartoonists everywhere.
Exhibitors this year include:
Steven Bonello Malta Harry Burton Ireland Virginia Cabras Italy Donal Casey Ireland Allan Cavanagh Ireland Richard Chapman Ireland Ciaraíoch Ireland Gerard Crowley Ireland Florian Doru Crihana Romania Hunt Emerson UK FadiToOn Norway Jonesy UK Eoin Kelleher Ireland Graeme Keyes Ireland Caoimhe Lavelle Ireland Tom Mathews Ireland The Surreal McCoy UK Ed McLachlan UK Marilena Nardi Italy Nick Newman UK Nol France Damir Novak Croatia Martin Rowson UK Cristina Sampaio Portugal Jean-Claude Servais Belgium Gatis Šļūka Latvia Mustafa Tozaki Cyprus Ivailo Tsvetkov Bulgaria Martyn Turner Ireland/UK TwistedDoodles Ireland Nicolas Vadot Belgium What Is A Galway Cartoon Festival?
2018, NewsAugust 27, 2018
What is the Galway Cartoon Festival? Why are we? Who do we? How do you? Very well thank you. Go Here to read the reasons behind the festival, what we plan to do, and what we hope it will achieve.
(I mean, it’s for fun mainly. But you have to have other reasons to make it sound adult.)
Where and when are we? That’s easier to answer. At several major venues around Galway city, November 10th – 17th, 2018. We hope to meet you there. Until then, here’s another cartoon:
Cartoons in WW1 – A Conference
2018, NewsAugust 26, 2018
NUI Galway, November 10
Hardiman Research Building, 4pm – 6pm
The rather handsome Hardiman Research Building For the centenary of the Armistice, the Galway Cartoon Festival presents a conference and exhibition exploring the impact of cartoons during WW1 in Europe, to be hosted in NUI Galway in collaboration with the French Department and the Embassy of Belgium.
Guests
The conference takes place on Saturday 10th of November in Room G011 of the Hardiman Research Building (near the college library).
Prof. Grace Neville of UCC, recipient of the Légion d’Honneur, will discuss the influence of press cartoons in Ireland after 1916.
Philip Dine of NUI Galway will explore the post-Armistice world order as portrayed in Hergé’s famous Tintin adventures, while colleague Coralline Dupuy will focus on the politics of gender representation in French-speaking cartoons published during the First World War.
French Honorary Consul Catherine Gagneux will give a presentation on the rise, use and influence of cartoons since WW1, using original drawings that will be part of the exhibition.
Renowned Belgian comic author Jean Claude Servais will also speak at the launch. Mr Servais will explain the creative process behind his comics, with an emphasis on the stories set during WW1. This presentation is sponsored by the Belgian Embassy and Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
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Exhibition
The associated exhibition will explore such issues as:
- The evolution of cartoons and comics during WW1.
- The use of cartoon as propaganda.
- Political cartooning in Ireland from 1916 to 1918.
- The reactions of cartoonists to the 1918 Armistice and subsequent peace initiatives in Europe.
As a link and follow up, there will also be a small exhibition on ERASMUS.
Comic Art Workshop
On Thursday 15th of November, NUIG will also invite students from secondary schools in Galway to explore issues through drawing, in an art workshop led by professional cartoon and comic artists.
A New Festival Website
2018, NewsAugust 26, 2018
It’s up at last, the all-singing all-dancing website of the all-drawing festival!
Welcome. This is the place for news and information on the shows and events we’ll be bringing you this November. Drop by regularly (or subscribe, using the form to the left) for updates, cartoonist-related talk, and of course the cartoons themselves, which we’ll be uploading frequently.
Here’s one right now from the redoubtable Mr Tom Mathews, a member of our very committee:
Tom Mathews
