Galway Cartoon Festival 2024

4 - 9 Sep, 2024, Galway Events Calendar

A celebration of cartooning, caricature and illustration ✏️

The Galway Cartoon Festival is an international celebration of funny drawings, hosted in Ireland’s most sociable city. Along with the main exhibitions, the Cartoon Festival will feature live caricature sessions, a schools’ cartoon workshop and competition. The 2024 festival will run over 6 days and will showcase some of the most talented cartoonists from Ireland and abroad across many venues in Galway, as well as on Inis Óirr in the Aran Islands.

What to expect

Cartoonist of a high caliber are known to attend the festival including renowned French caricaturist Jean-Michel Renault, Ed Steckley, Vice President of the American Cartoon Society and best known for his contributions to the legendary MAD magazine, Martin Rowson, Chair of the British Cartoonists’ Association, and award-winning Portuguese artist Cristina Sampaio.

Other artists that often attend include Tom Mathews (Hot Press, Irish Times, Sunday Independent), Harry Burton (Irish Examiner), Jim Cogan (Sunday Independent, Irish Farmers Journal, The Phoenix), Dean Patterson (Private Eye), and Caoimhe Lavelle, an Irish language cartoonist.

The majority of events will take place in locations spread out over the city, including the brand-new Portershed, the Townhall Theatre, An Taibhdearc, Pálás Cinema, City Library, and the City Museum. Beyond the boundaries of the city, the ras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oorr is involved, presenting Irish-language cartoons and arranging drawing demonstrations at nearby schools.

About the Cartoon Festival

Galway Cartoon Festival can guarantee to bring a smile to your face! With a major exhibition of over 100 cartoons, making light of everything from politics, current affairs and life in general.

The festival will be bringing a bit of colour and humour to the streets of Galway with our Cartoon Art Trail in various premises throughout the streets of the city. A detailed map of the trail will be included in our programme, available soon.

All the main elements of the festival will be available to view on-line at www.galwaycartoons.eu

Overall the festival promises to be fun for children and adults alike with something for people of all ages.