The Galway Cartoon Festival is an international celebration of funny drawings, hosted in Ireland’s most sociable city. Galway is a place obsessed with art and culture, with festivals for everything from literature to furniture. But noticeable by its absence was the ‘ninth art’ – comics, caricature, and cartoons. In 2017, the Galway Cartoon Festival began and changed that.

Along with the main exhibitions, the Cartoon Festival will feature live caricature sessions, a schools’ cartoon workshop and competition. The 2025 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.

Feature image by Jean-Michel Renault.