For Festival 2024

We have three four! shows that are open to everyone:

Beasts!

Beasts. Of the air, of the field, of the seas. Beasts of burden and beasts of buoyancy. Beasts in human form. Beasts in human pants.

Beasts from beyond, and from whatever the opposite of beyond is. Just… any sort of beast. What does the word mean to you?

I’ve written it too many times now, I can’t remember.

Just send us some funny animals.

Be it cute fluffy puppy or the deadly banana slug, mythological monstrosity or bouncy birdy, we want your beasts!

General Mayhem

And then there’s the show for everything else – especially topical and satirical cartoons – from any place and on any issue around all the world.

Including any great gags that happen not to be about beasts.

Tarraing É I nGaeilge

Tá Féile cartúin na Gaillimhe ag cuartú Cartúin as Gaeilge!

Déanfar taispeantas ar ghach iontrál a ghlacfhainn an Fhéile, i nGaillimh agus ar Inis Oírr. Spriocdáta ná an 30ú Lúnasa.

Which is Irish for “Draw It In Irish“, and is our exhibition specifically for cartoons in that language – the only one of its kind in the world today!

Works selected for Tarr­aing é i nGaeilge will be shown both in Galway City and on Inis Oírr in the Aran Islands.

Women In Techno­logy

(NEW!)

We’re adding another show. The theme of this one is “Women in Technology”.

We invite cartoonists from all around the world to celebrate the achievements of women working in technological fields, and mark the challenges that they have faced and still face today.

This show is being produced by the Galway Cartoon Festival in cooperation with the Insight Centre and Galway Science and Technology Festival.

The selected entries will be on display as part of the Cartoon Festival (4 – 9 October) in a city centre venue, with entrance free to the public.

The Terms and the Condi­tions

• All our exhibitions are open to submissions from anyone, anywhere.
• You can send as many as you like to each exhibition.
• Digital submissions should be sent, as 300 dpi jpegs please, to: info@galwaycartoonfestival.ie
• Please include a little biographical information.
• The selected digital submissions will be printed and framed by the Galway Cartoon Festival. These framed prints will be offered for sale to help meet 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.

The Submission Deadline Is:

Friday 30 August ’24

But earlier entries stand a better chance of being selected, so please get them to us soon!