Galway Cartoon Festival Turns 10
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The Galway Cartoon Festival celebrates their 10 year anniversary this week running Oct. 1-6. Featured guests include Glenn Marshall, Martin Rowson, Nicolas Vadot, and Fergus Boylan. The theme this year is “Having a Laugh.”
Looking to meet-up fellow cartoonists or attend one of their events, here is the list of cartoonists and the day they are presenting. See the festival’s event page for times.
Thursday, Oct 1
- Joey Mason – Masterclass on visual storytelling
Friday, Oct 2
- Fergus Boylan (“Infinite Guff”) – Featured Irish cartoonist
- Martin Rowson – Stand-up performance
- Belgian Art History in Cartoons – Travelling exhibition from the European Cartoon Centre in Kruishoutem, featuring about 25 Belgian cartoonists.
Saturday, Oct 3
- Joey Mason – use clues to find where Joey is hanging out somewhere in town.
- Mick O’Hara (Micko) – his recent cartoon work.
- Fabrice Matray – leads children in drawings for the Freedom Wall
- Nicolas Vadot – Presentation on 33 years of political cartooning
- Saskia Gheysens – Talk on challenges facing women in the profession
- Marjane Satrapi animated film Persepolis screening
- Glenn Marshall – recreating the Wooden Horse of Troy with audience help.
Sunday, Oct 4
- Glenn Marshall – Kids teach the cartoonist to draw
- Annual exhibition of new Irish-language cartoons
The festival also features this year’s resident artists: Dean Patterson and Brady Izquierdo Rodríguez.
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