The annual Galway Cartoon Festival takes place from tomorrow September 30 to October 9 2022. The French refer to cartooning as the ‘Ninth Art’. Drawings that are usually intended to be read as much as to be looked at, cartoons, caricatures and comics can be as important and influential a part of the overall popular culture as movies, music and theatre.
Whatever way you choose to view them, there’ll be no shortage of thought-provoking, guffaw-inducing, gloriously silly, and sometimes shocking material to be perused at this year’s Galway Cartoon Festival.
This year’s Festival is themed ‘Drawing the Line’. The Festival has a strong literary flavor with ‘JamesJoyce Remembered’ — a unique exhibition of illustrations from Ulysses alongside a selection of different portraits of one of our most notorious novelists. There’s also an illustrated talk of the little-known comic strip art of Jack B. Yeats, a retrospective of the surreal scribblings of Tom Mathews, a series of workshops by famed French caricaturist Fabrice Matray, a solo show by renowned Dublin cartoonist Jim Cogan, an Irish language themed cartoon exhibition, and much more besides.
The Galway Cartoon Festival is returning to Inis Oirr for its third year with three exhibitions in the Áras Éanna gallery and events including a plaque unveiling at Tigh Ned’s. As always, the festival will be happening all across the city — in the pubs, the library, the theatres, the shop windows, the streets, out on Inis Oírr … and in the very air.
Time to draw the line under the last couple of miserable years, and start having some festive fun again. Enjoy! www.galwaycartoonfestival.ie https://www.facebook.com/galwaycartoonfestival https://www.instagram.com/galwaycartoons/ https://twitter.com/GalwayCartoons
