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Who We Are
The Committee, in order of appearance Richard Chapman Allan Cavanagh Margaret Nolan Sarah Bruzzi Tom Mathews Willy Brennan Catherine Gagneux Ivona Kwiek
Cartoonist & Artistic Director Caricaturist & Co-Founder Artist & Curator Poster & Brochure Designer Cartoonist & Guru Organiser & Competent Adult French Liaison & Dynamo Polish Liaison & PR Consultant
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Welcome! Thank you for visiting Galway's second-ever celebration of funny pictures. We're proud and moved to bring you so much work by so many fantastic artists from around the world. We hope they will make you smile. This year we're basing the festival on the centenary of the First World War. Which, yes, doesn’t sound like the funniest thing in the world. But humour runs through all of human life, even - maybe especially - its darkest places. Thanks to NUI Galway's French Department and the Belgian Consulate we are able to present a conference on the many roles cartoon played in that war. And as this anniversary also marks the birth of modern Poland we have a live drawing performance by one of their finest. We are immensely grateful to them all. We're grateful too for the support we've had, from the city and our sponsors. For my own part, I'm hugely thankful to the team that came together to do this. And all of us are grateful most of all to the cartoonists who contributed the work. Some of them are famous names you will know from newspapers and magazines. Some you won’t have heard of. Some may be from countries you won't have heard of. But all of them are working to cut through the bullshit. Richard Chapman
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The 2nd Galway Cartoon Festival 10th -17th November, 2018
The Events Conference
Cartoons in WW1 NUI Galway (1), Hardiman Research Building, Room G011, Saturday 10th Nov, 3pm – 6pm Invited speakers discuss the rise and influence of cartoons in the First World War throughout Europe as well as in Ireland, their depiction of gender roles, and the post-war world order as portrayed in Tintin. Hosted by the NUIG French Department with the support of the Belgian Embassy, it will be addressed by Prof. Grace Neville and other leading academics as well as respected Belgian comic artist JeanClaude Servais. On display will be a collection of cartoons from the era. The public are welcome. See GalwayCartoons.eu for more details.
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The Graeme Keyes Retrospective Town Hall Theatre Lobby (2), Mon-Sat, 10am–7.30pm One of Ireland's favourites, best known from The Phoenix, Private Eye, and Irish Daily Mail, Graeme will present highlights of an illustrious career in political and gag cartooning.
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A Peace to End All Peace Black Gate Cultural Centre (3), Tues-Sun, 6:30pm–Late For the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1, artists were invited to recall the momentous events of a century ago - and their consequences. Showing work by some of the biggest names in cartoon from around the world, including Liza Donnelly of the New Yorker, Martin Rowson of the Guardian, and Nick Newman of Private Eye and The Sunday Times.
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Cartoons of the World Town Hall Theatre Bar (2), Mon-Sat, 10am–7.30pm There's more to life than peace! An open exhibition of gags and satire by every cartoonist in Ireland we could find and many more from all around the world. With Tom Mathews, Martyn Turner, Annie West, TwistedDoodles, Til Mette and countless others, this exuberant and colourful exhibition spills out of the Town Hall Theatre Bar, joins the Cartoon trail, and finishes up at the Cornstore.
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Humour and Vine Rouge Restaurant (5) & Le Petit Pois Restaurant (8) Mon-Sun, 6pm-12am French cartoon festival Humour & Vigne comes to Galway on tour, with a selection of exhibits in celebration of laughter and wine. Includes work by Ralph Steadman, Marilena Nardi and Cristina Sampaio.
Cartoon Performance
Caricature Sessions Connacht Hotel and Other Locations, Sunday Nov 11 and other times Some notable caricature artists, including Allan Cavanagh and Tim Leatherbarrow, will be about the town to draw your face. Check website / social media for times and places.
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School Cartoon Class and Art Prize NUI Galway (1) (This event is by invitation only) Two Galway cartoonists will give a workshop to school pupils on drawing and narrative techniques in comic arts. There will also be a prize for the judges' favourite artwork.
Cartoon Performance
Maria Apoleika The Cornstore (4), Sunday 11th Nov, 12pm–5pm
Maria Apoleika, an illustrator, painter and creator of popular Polish cartoon Psie Sucharki (Dog Biscuits), will draw live in the Cornstore on large format boards. You are invited to watch her at work and chat about her art afterwards. Courtesy of the Latin Quarter.
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Alexey Kivokurtseva RUSSIA
Alexey Kivokurtseva was born in 1962 in the city of Perm, Russia. He is a member of the 'Bakery' club of Perm cartoonists, and of the Polish satirical movement The Good Humour Party. He has participated in - and won - many contests in Russia and around the world, and has had solo exhibitions in France and Spain. In 2017 he took part in the UN International Exhibition of the Ecology of the Planet.
Allan Cavanagh IRELAND
Allan's cartoons have appeared in various publications, including Holland's Diep magazine and a school textbook in Germany. He has exhibited in Galway, France, and Algeria. He represented Ireland at the 49+ la BD Francophone Cartoon Festival Tourcoing in 2008, and in 2009 represented Ireland at the 2eme Festival Bande Dessinee in Algeria. Allan draws live caricatures at weddings and corporate events. From January to June of 2016 he drew around 600 people. His live caricatures are much sought-after for weddings, where he draws guests on personalised paper. His customised caricatures are also very popular for retirements, birthday gifts, and wedding presents.
Annie West IRELAND
Annie is an award-winning illustrator living & working in Ireland. Born in 1961, she graduated from Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design in 1979 with a Diploma in Design for Communications and the Alfred Beit, Nora McGuinness and NCEA Patent Practitioners' Awards. She worked in art direction for television and film before leaving in 1991 to concentrate on illustrating and cartooning. Annie has over a dozen children's books published here in Ireland, in the UK and America. She has recently completed work on a series of illustrations for Children's BBC and has a number of books in development. Annie won the Illustrators' Guild of Ireland Best Book Illustration award in 2003 and 2004. She exhibits annually in Dublin, Sligo and Galway as well as in her online gallery, illustrating figures from history, literature and science with mischief in mind.
Caoimhe Lavelle IRELAND
Caoimhe Lavelle organises spoken word events & club nights around Dublin – a hula-hooping poet DJ who draws comix and writes about music, her enthusiasm for subculture takes many different forms. Caoimhe's first solo exhibition was at Ranelagh's Art Centre, March 2017. Since then she has exhibited/performed at BBC Radio Four and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her poem 'Self Belief Poem (Ha Ha)' promoted Poetry day 2016. She has exhibited comic strips at Kilkenny Animated Festival and drawings at the Sin exhibition Galway, February 2018. She has written pieces and reviews for the Overblown.co.uk music zine, DJ'd at Thomas House, MVP, The Bernard Shaw, WigWam, Fibbers, Jigsaw, and A4 Sounds, and worked as part of the Body | Battleground collective of artists challenging prejudices towards diverse, queer, trans and disabled bodies.
Ciara Kenny (Ciaraíoch) IRELAND
Ciara Kenny (Ciaraíoch) is a part-time doodler from the wilds of County Kerry. She draws regular cartoons for the Irish language site NOS.ie, and has contributed work to magazines, newspapers, websites and podcasts, as well as illustrating books for Valerie Loftus and Vogue Williams. She works under the name Ciaraíoch and can be found far too often on both Twitter and Instagram at @Ciaraioch.
Clyde Delaney IRELAND
Clyde Delaney is a prolific caricaturist and comic artist from Ireland. He has cartooned with a number of publishers, beginning with The Star newspaper in 1989. He had the privilege of being the first to put a cartoon face to Mrs Brown for Brendan O'Carroll, and has worked for RTÉ and The Irish Daily Mail (formerly Ireland On Sunday), illustrating the D4 strip with Graeme Keyes.
Horia Crișan and Bogdan Petry Romania
Horia Crişan was born in 1960 in Hunedoara and started publishing cartoons in 1979. He has taken part in more than 500 international exhibitions in 55 countries, won 120 prizes, and has published eight personal books. He founded Caricatura Magazine & HumoDEVA International Cartoon Contest, is owner of w ww. bestcartoons.net, and claims to be the first Romanian cartoonist to draw on computer. Bogdan Petry studied graphics and worked as an animator and storyboard artist. He has won 30 international prizes including: 1st Prize Vercelli, 2014 Italy; Special Prize Nasreddin Hodja, 2015 & 2017 Turkey; FCW 2017 Trento, 2018 Italy. He has worked as a cartoonist for The Oregonian (USA), and for the Romanian editions of Penthouse, Maxim and others from 2004 to the present.
Cristina Sampaio PORTUGAL
Cristina Sampaio lives in Lisbon where she graduated in 1985 from the School of Fine Arts and has worked since as an illustrator and cartoonist for magazines and newspapers both in Portugal and abroad - namely Expresso, Kleine Zeitung, Courrier International, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She has also worked in animation, multimedia and set design, and published several children's books. Her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, and among other plaudits she received an Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design (USA) in 2002, 2005 and 2009. In 2006 and 2010 she received the Stuart Award for the best Portuguese press cartoon. In 2007 she received first prize in the editorial category of the World Press Cartoon awards, as well as Honourable Mentions in 2009 and 2015.
Damir Novak CROATIA
Damir Novak was born in Mali Mihaljevec, where he still lives today. He studied both catering and to be a fire technician before taking up drawing, becoming a member of the Croatian Cartoonists Association in 1980. He has participated at many international and national festivals and he has won prizes from Korea to Canada. He runs the ÄŒakovec cartoon festival in Croatia.
Dean Patterson IRELAND
Dean Patterson (deAn) is an Irish cartoonist whose work has appeared in Private Eye, Police magazine, and Cambridge Apex among others. He is a regular cartoonist for The Phoenix and a contributing cartoonist for The Reaper. His greatest love is a dog named Peculiar, but he also quite likes dark rum, doing crosswords, and finding dropped money in the streets (especially notes).
Donal Casey IRELAND
Donal Casey is a Dublin-based cartoonist and illustrator, originally from Athlone. His political cartoons have appeared regularly in Magill as well as trade union magazines such as Work & Life (the magazine of IMPACT), the journal of the new amalgamated 'super union' FĂ“RSA, and various publications of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He also draws regular cartoons for VOX Magazine. Some of his political cartoons can be seen on the international political cartoon website Cartoon Movement. Donal also participated in a study by Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interactions Institute on how professional cartoonists create. Further information can be found on www.donalcasey.com
Ed McLachlan UK
Ed 'McLachlan' McLachlan is one of the best-loved and most prolific cartoonists in Britain, born in Humberstone, Leicestershire in 1940. Instantly recognisable, his idiosyncratic and stylish work has been appearing in such magazines as Private Eye, Punch, The Spectator and The Oldie since 1961. His detailed and friendly drawing offsets a bizarre and frequently dark sense of humour. In 1980 McLachlan was voted CCGB Illustrative Cartoonist of the Year, followed by Advertising Cartoonist of the Year in 1981. In 1997 CAT voted him Gag Cartoonist of the Year. In addition he has written and designed the ITV series Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. Wally Fawkes called him 'the cartoonist's cartoonist'.
Eoin Kelleher IRELAND
Eoin Kelleher is a junior doctor, cartoonist and busy-body from Dublin, Ireland. He is the cartoonist for the Medical Independent, a fortnightly newspaper for healthcare workers. His work has also featured in The Phoenix, Ireland's leading current affairs magazine, the Sunday Business Post, and many other publications.
Fadi Abou Hassan Palestine
Fadi Abou Hassan (FadiToOn) is a widely published and awardwinning freelance cartoonist. He lived as a refugee in Syria until the uprising in 2011, and is known for his many cartoons commenting on everyday life and political events in Syria and the Middle East in general. His cartoons focus on human rights, women's rights, and the political violence taking place in that country. Since he began cartooning in 1989 his work has been published in numerous major print and online outlets in Europe, the Middle East, and the USA. He also publishes his cartoons online, on the Dutch web page Cartoon Movement, the French web page Cartooning for Peace, and Don Quixote magazine (Germany). He is Editor-in-Chief of Cartoon Home Network International (Facebook), a member of the Good Humour Party (Poland), and organizer of 'A Colorful Human World' International Cartoon Contest & Exhibition, Norway 2018.
Florian Doru Crihana ROMANIA
Florian Doru Crihana was born in 1958 in Galati, Romania where he graduated from the Naval Architecture Institute and still lives today. Having received more than 80 international cartoon awards, Chrihana's monograph Satirische Idyllen was published under the coordination of Dieter Burkamp by the German art book publisher Kerber Verlag in 2009. With a 30 year career as a successful cartoonist, Florian Doru Crihana drew the attention of the French Press in 2014 when Le Monde chose one of his artworks for the series 'Value of Poverty'. The same year, in Rome, the magazine Migranti published Crihana's complete series of 40 paintings on the same topic. We are honoured that he has has created two oil paintings specifically for the Galway Cartoon Festival.
Florin Balaban Luxembourg
Florin Balaban was born in 1968 in Nircoresti, Romania and is a self-taught artist. His drawings have been published in the daily Luxemburger Wort since 1996, and have been exhibited in Luxembourg, Romania, Germany, Scotland and Switzerland. He was awarded the Premio Internationale Satira Politica in Forte dei Marmi (Italy) in 2002, an Honourable Mention in the World Press Cartoon (Sintra, Portugal) in 2008, and 3rd Prize in the World Press Cartoon in 2009. His publications include Nach mei Elefanten aus der Ronn with Franz Coling (2004), I'm Pregnant (2004), Informal There's Nothing Like It (2006) and Parce Que Vous Les Valez Bien (2011). He founded the Caricature and Cartoon Museum in Vianden and organizes the Vianden International Caricature and Cartoon Show.
Gatis Šļūka Latvia
Gatis Sluka was born in Cesis, Latvia. His first cartoon was published in 1993, and since 1998 he has worked at the daily newspaper Latvijas Avize. Since 2001 he has participated in many cartoon and caricature exhibitions around the world and print art exhibitions in Europe. In 2005 he received a Master's degree in graphic fine art at the Art Academy of Latvia. He works as a freelance illustrator and animator in advertising, book illustration, packaging, etc. In 2006 his cartoon and caricature book 'Gatis Sluka. Karikaturas' came out. In 2008 he won Third Prize in UMO – the 4th International Cartoon Contest in India. A second book 'Gatis Sluka. Karikaturas 2' came out in 2015.
Gerard Crowley IRELAND
Gerard Crowley's cartoons have appeared in The Sunday Tribune, Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, Daily Star, Evening Herald, In Dublin, The Phoenix, Dublin Opinion, and Irish Business magazine amongst others, as well as The Yellow Press, an independent comic produced in Dublin which he edited in the 1990s. He has illustrated books including 'Bog Cuttings' and 'The Trueish History of Ireland'. These days his work mostly appears in The Sunday Business Post and The Irish Farmers Journal.
Glenn Marshall UK
Glenn Marshall was raised in Shropshire and trained at Shrewsbury & Newport Schools of Art (but missed the week they taught how to draw noses). Throughout his career as a Creative Director and designer in the broadcast industry he has worked as a cartoonist and illustrator, mostly doing topical cartoons for publications such as Private Eye, The Spectator, The Oldie, Punch etc. He has also done regular weekly strips for the broadcast and media trade press, as well as a short stint writing for Spitting Image. At present he is trying to get some scripts for satirical short films off the ground. Twitter: @marshallcartoon
Graeme Keyes IRELAND
Graeme Keyes was born in Derry. He lives and works in Dublin, and is the editorial cartoonist for the Irish Daily Mail. He regularly contributes to The Phoenix and Private Eye. He won Political Humourist of the Year in 2006, and has published three collections of his cartoons: 'Hung Like a Small Chicken' (1992), 'Eyeball Soup' (1996) and 'So... Graeme Keyes' (2001). With Paul Farrell, he has published two humorous books: 'Outrageous Guide to the World Cup' (1994) and 'Stuff it All: The Survivor's Guide to Christmas' (1997)
Grigori and Ilya Katz Kirgyzstan / Israel
Father Grigori and son Ilya Katz were born in Kirgyzstan, in 1948 and 1972 respectively, and have lived in Israel since 1992. They like to present their works in thematic pairs, two visions on the same topic, two expressions by an older and a younger artist, giving each a dramatic conflict to the whole. Grigory and Ilya have won a great number of prizes in competitions around the world, from the USA to China, Azerbaijan to Argentina. Their '2Katz' joint exhibitions have been held in Kruishoutem (Belgium), Boechout (Belgium), and Presov (Slovakia).
Harry Burton IRELAND
Harry is a political cartoonist and illustrator based in Dublin, Ireland. He is the resident cartoonist of the Dublin Inquirer and has had work featured in The Phoenix, The Irish Examiner and the Guardian among other publications.
Hunt Emerson UK
Hunt Emerson has drawn since the early 1970s, for publications as diverse as The Beano, Fiesta, Fortean Times, Melody Maker, and The Wall Street Journal. He's published around 30 comic books and albums, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Casanova's Last Stand, and Dante's Inferno. His latest is Bloke's Progress, an exploration of the ideas of John Ruskin. His strips have been translated into 10 languages, and he has won several prizes. In 2000 he was chosen for the exhibition 'Maîtres de la bande dessinée européenne' by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the CNBDI, Angoulême. This year - 2018 - he has been given a Sergio Award by the National Cartoonists Society of America. He lives in Birmingham.
Hßseyin Çakmak Cyprus
Huseyin Cakmak was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and started drawing cartoons in 1976 under the influence of the 'Gir-Gir' humour magazine of Turkey. Since 1983 his cartoons have been published in various newspapers and magazines in Cyprus and abroad, exhibited in more than 70 countries worldwide and published in international collections. He has won 147 awards in various national and international cartoon contests and has many times been elected Cartoonist of the Year. He is one of the five founding members of the Cypriot Turkish Cartoonists' Association which was established in 1986, and has been its President for 23 years.
Ian Knox NORTHERN IRELAND
Ian Knox was born in Belfast and is a political cartoonist for the Irish News. He worked in animation from 1970 to 1975 for Halas & Batchelor in London, Potterton Productions in Montreal, and Kotopoulis Productions in Toronto. He then joined Red Weekly and Socialist Challenge as a political cartoonist, while also contributing to various children's comics for IPC from 1975-88. He signed much of his political work 'Blotski', and he and Republican News cartoonist Cormac worked together as 'Kormski', drawing the anti-clerical strip 'Dog Collars' for Fortnight Magazine. Beginning in 1996 he contributed the 'As I See It' feature to Hearts and Minds on BBC2 Northern Ireland. From 1997-98 he was political cartoonist for Ireland on Sunday.
Igor Pashchenko RUSSIA
Igor Pashchenko was born in 1958, and is an artist of the newspaper 'Kaliningradskaia Pravda'. His work has won prizes at exhibitions in Ancone, Gabrovo, Marostica, Skopje, Porto, Budapest, Cuneo, Legnica, Tallinn, and Moscow. He has had personal exhibitions in Kaliningrad, Saint Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Sovietsk, and Sofia, and was the first exhibiter at the Center of Humour (Association of Soviet Cartoonists), 1990. His works are in private collections in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and France.
Igor Smirnov RUSSIA
Igor Smirnov was born in 1944 in Moscow where he graduated from the Art College. Since 1970, as well as painting canvasses, laying mosaics and doing interior design, he has been a cartoonist and illustrator for various newspapers and magazines. His first cartoon was published in 1971 in Krasnaya Zvezda and from that time thousands of his works have been published around the world. He has participated in more than 250 exhibitions in Russia and many other countries, held solo exhibitions in Russia as well as Turkey, France, Spain, and Mexico, and won more than 60 prestigious awards and medals. His artworks are displayed in galleries and private collections around the world. He is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, the Moscow Union of Journalists, and the International Federation of Artists. He is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, the International Academy of Culture, and also of the French Academy of Cartoonists.
Ivailo Tsvetkov BULGARIA
Ivailo Tsvetkov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria where he still lives and works, and studied at the Art School in the ceramics department. He cartoons for the Bulgarian newspapers Monitor and Telegraph and for the magazine Tema. He is also a member of United Bulgarian Artists and the President of the Federation of Cartoonist Organizations (FECO) Bulgaria. Tsvetkov has won more than 70 international cartoon prizes including 1st Prize Angler, France 1993, Prize of Ministry of Culture, Gabrovo, Bulgaria 1999, Diploma of Excellence, Haifa, Israel 2002, Honourable mention, Kruishoutem, Belgium 2005, 1st Prize, Pisek, Czech Republic 2006, Master Prize, Master Cup Cartoon Biennial, China, 2007, and Googlm Cartoon Contest, China 2008, among many others. He has had solo exhibitions in Osijek (Croatia, 2006), Surgut (Russia, 2008), Presov (Slovakia) and Kruishoutem (Belgium), and has published two cartoon books in 1996 and 2016
Jean-Claude Servais BELGIUM
Jean-Claude Servais studied graphic art at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège (Belgium) from 1974 until 1976. He began his career in 1975, becoming part of the generation that modernized Belgian comics from the 1970s. He brings to the reader emotional, and sometimes magical, character-driven stories, set against the wooded landscapes of the Belgian Ardennes and Gaume regions. During our conference, Mr Servais will explain the creative process behind his comics, with an emphasis on stories set during WW1. This presentation is sponsored by the Belgian Embassy and Wallonie Bruxelles International. www.jc-servais.be
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Jeremy Banx UK
Jeremy Banx is an award-winning cartoonist published in Private Eye, Punch, She, The Week, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, the Mail on Sunday, American Bystander, Wall St Journal, Barron's, Humorist Weekly, Vice.uk, etc‌. His strips have appeared in Oink!, Toxic! and the Daily Express. Since 1989 he has been the pocket cartoonist for the Financial Times. He was twice voted pocket cartoonist of the year by the Cartoon Art Trust in 2008 and 2012. His books include: 'Cubes', 'The Many Deaths of Norman Spittal', 'The Dewsburys' and 'Frankenthing'. 156 short animated films have been based on the 'The Many Deaths of Norman Spittal'. For ten years he designed floats for the Nice Carnival. The Derby winning Thoroughbred race horse Dr Devious was named after one of his characters. He lives and works in Greenwich, London, with his wife Elaine and has four children.
Jim Cogan IRELAND
Jim Cogan studied graphic design at the National College of Art & Design (1963 – 1968). He started out in advertising before quitting it all for a career in cartoons, becoming famous throughout Ireland for his work in the Irish Independent.
Karol ÄŒizmazia SLOVAKIA
Karol Cizmazia was born and lives in Bratislava. Since 1981 he has been publishing his cartoons in Slovak and foreign periodicals, and his drawings are also included in several books. As a member of the Slovak Union of Cartoonists he participated in numerous exhibitions in many countries worldwide. In 2013 and 2014 he was appointed an Academician of the Humour Academy for the category 'Cartoons and other recession artworks' at the multi-genre European Festival of Humour and Satire 'Kremnica Gags'. In 2011 he founded a virtual gallery of European cartoons (www.cartoongallery.eu), which has the honour to present the best artwork of more than 150 leading cartoonists from 48 countries.
Jessica Lawrence IRELAND
Galway-based comic artist Jessica Lawrence turns everyone she meets into cute, stuffed-toyanimal versions of themselves. Since her comics are all based on real-life events, and Jessica is also a political activist, this leads to some odd art where a cute cuddly polar bear suggests starting a riot and targeting councillor's families to make progress in the housing crisis. In Jessica's spare time, you'll find her having quiet drinks in the local gay bar, gently crying into a Bali Iced Tea and lamenting either: the current state of America, the unnecessary gender binary, or how the Irish government has shat the bed this week.
Jia RuiJun CHINA
Jia RuiJun works on the Discipline Inspection Committee of Damao, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia. At the end of the 80s he began to use his spare time to create cartoons, and won more than 60 awards in domestic competitions. More than 4,000 of his cartoons have been published in more than 400 newspapers and websites, and his work has been selected in literally hundreds of cartoon contests in countries throughout the world. In January 2009 he won 3rd place in the Turkish 'Drought and Water' International Cartoon Contest. In 2011 he took an honour at the Russian 'Patient and Doctor' theme contest and a nomination award at an Argentinian international competition, and in 2013 Bronze in a US-China International Art Competition. In 2014 he won 3rd place at the Lebanese 'Condemnation of Terrorism' theme contest and also the 7th China Jiaxing International Comic Biennale Best Theme Award. He has published a collection of his 'Low Vision' and 'Low View' comics.
Kathryn Lamb UK
Kathryn Lamb is a British cartoonist, illustrator and writer. The daughter of Sir Archie Lamb, a former British Ambassador to Kuwait and Norway, she was educated at St Hugh's, Oxford where she received a Bachelor's degree in English. Her work was first published by Private Eye in 1979 while she was still a student. She has written and illustrated numerous books including the Alex and Best Mates Forever series for teenagers, and Eco-Worriers, a series for younger readers. She lives in Gillingham, Dorset, with her six children and five cats.
Liviu Stanila ROMANIA
Liviu Stanila was born in Deva, Romania in 1962, and has been drawing cartoons since 1986. He has illustrated two books of humour and over 40 books for children. His work has been exhibited in many countries and has won prizes in 16. He is a co-organiser of the Romanian HumoDeva Cartoon contest.
Liza Donnelly USA
Liza Donnelly is an award-winning cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker Magazine and The New York Times, as well as a cartoonist at CBS News. Donnelly is the creator of digital visual journalism, live-drawing news and cultural events; she has covered presidential press conferences, the Oscars and the Women's March, among other events. Donnelly's book Women on Men was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and her history of women cartoonists, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, is considered a resource for historians. Donnelly delivered a very popular TED talk that was translated into 38 languages, and she travels frequently to speak about women's rights, freedom of speech and international cartoons. She has curated and been in numerous exhibitions around the world and is Vice President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists.
Marilena Nardi ITALY
Marilena Nardi combines a talent for extraordinarily beautiful drawing with the fearsome eye of a satirist. One of Italy's best known cartoonists, her work has appeared in Corriere della Sera, Diario, Barricate! and L'Antitempo. She has received more than 50 awards in her career and is the current (and first female) holder of the prestigious World Press Cartoon Grand Prix. She is now drawing for Il Fatto Quotidiano, for the quarterly magazine Espoir, and for online newspapers such as Aspirina, la rivista. She is also a member of United Sketches and France Cartoon, and teaches illustration at the Academy of Arts in Venice.
Martin Rowson UK
Martin Rowson is a British editorial cartoonist, writer, and 'visual journalist'. His work appears frequently in The Guardian and the Daily Mirror, and he contributes freelance cartoons to publications such as The New European. Rowson's books include graphic adaptations of The Waste Land and Tristram Shandy as well as two novels. He also drew the title sequence of the film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. In 2008 he published 'The Dog Allusion: Gods, Pets and How to Be Human', arguing that religion is a complete waste of time and money — much like keeping pets.
Martyn Turner Ireland/UK/France
Martyn Turner has been contributing cartoons to the Irish Times since 1971, the year he graduated from the Queen's University of Belfast. Eighteen books of his cartoons and writing have been published and can be found lurking, unloved and abandoned, in second hand book shops throughout the country, or on Amazon, or Ebay, in your parents' attic maybe, propping up a table in Termonfeckin perhaps, all the usual places.
Miriam WĂźrster GERMANY
Miriam WĂźrster was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied design, illustration and the basics of cartooning in Bremen where she lives and works in a former carton (!) factory. As a freelancer, she publishes in magazines like Stern, Charlie Hebdo Germany, Spiegel online, Titanic and Nebelspalter. In 2015 she was awarded the silver German Cartoon Prize. In January 2018 she was awarded first prize at the political German Press Cartoon Awards.
Mustafa Tozaki CYPRUS
Mustafa was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at Istanbul University in 1980. He has been contributing to local journals and magazines since 1983 in parallel with his professional career, which has seen him work in the private sector as a Veterinary consultant. He has been an active member of the Federation of Cartoonist Organizations (FECO) Cyprus and FECO World for the past 23 years. Mustafa has received several local and international awards for his outstanding work. Some of his work has been unveiled in individual and group exhibitions both in Cyprus and Europe at large.
Adriana Mosquera (Nani) Colombia / Spain
Adriana Mosquera (Nani) is a Spanish-Colombian caricaturist, biologist, designer and writer. She is the creator of Magola, one of the best-known comics in Latin America, through which she deals with social issues, current affairs and gender equality. She has participated in exhibitions in various countries, and works to increase the visibility of women in cartooning around the world. She has many awards, among them the Grand Prize Diogenes in Argentina. She is an honorary professor of humour at the University of Alcalรก de Henares, and has lived in Spain since 1997.
Nick Newman UK
Nick Newman is an awardwinning cartoonist and writer, working for Private Eye since 1981 and The Sunday Times since 1989. His cartoons have appeared in many other publications including The Guardian, Punch and The Spectator. He was the Cartoon Art Trust's Gag Cartoonist of the Year in 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2016. He won the Sports Journalists Association's award for Sports Cartoonist of the Year in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In 2013 he edited the humour bestseller Private Eye: A Cartoon History. With Ian Hislop he has co-written many TV shows and films, including the BAFTA nominated The Wipers Times. This and another of their plays, Trial by Laughter, are currently touring.
Nicolas Vadot BELGIUM
Nicolas Vadot was born in the UK and has triple French, British and Australian nationality. He spent his childhood in France, moving to Belgium at the age of 17 where he studied visual communication at the Ecole de Recherches Graphiques (ERG) in Brussels, graduating in 1993. He works with two major Belgian publications: weekly news magazine Le Vif/L'Express (since 1993) and financial daily L'Echo (since 2008). His cartoons are also published in Courrier International and Presseurop. com. He received the second prize of Press Cartoons Belgium in 2011 and 2012, the third prize of Press Cartoon Europe in 2011, and is a member of the Geneva-based Cartooning for Peace Foundation. Vadot regularly publishes compilations of his cartoons, and also works as a graphic novelist.
Arnauld Van Der Donck (Nol) Netherlands / France
Arnauld Van Der Donck (Nol) is a Dutch cartoonist living in Jonzac, near Bordeaux in France. There he's the organiser of the biennial 'Humour et Vigne' international cartoon festival, which mingles the celebration of funny drawing with appreciation of the grape. Sounds good. Check out their exhibition, visiting Galway as guest of the festival.
Richard Chapman (Serg) IRELAND
Richard Chapman is a Galway cartoonist, designer and writer. He has created several comic strips including Hidden Galway, Rational Being Comics, Sergei's Solutions and Club Senseless, and his cartoons on human rights and other issues are used around the world. His work has been appearing nationally since 1988, currently in The Phoenix magazine. He has also authored two cartoon books, a weekly newspaper column, and the play 'Shellgame'. He holds degrees in both arts and science, and writes about politics and technology for the blog I.Doubt.It. He has exhibited in several countries, most notably in 2015 when he was the Irish representative at the Cartooning for Human Rights exhibition in the European parliament.
Maria Apoleika POLAND
Maria Apoleika, graduate of National Film School in Łódź, runs the most popular cartoon and comic fanpage in Poland – Psie Sucharki (Dog Biscuits). She illustrates books, paints and draws, and so far has several dozen group and individual exhibitions under her belt. She is interested in spaces beyond official supervision – in recent years she created two series of paintings on deurbanising spaces, and one of drawings about invisible love. Now she will present a series of graphics on Polish Contemporary Folk Dances inspired by illegal techno parties, the Slavic approach to having fun, and how the ludic mixes with modernity. In addition, she loves plants and animals. Where she lives there is an urban garden and she looks after an adopted royal poodle. Maria Apoleika’s appearance in Galway has been generously sponsored by the Latin Quarter.
Russel Herneman UK
Russel Herneman is an awardwinning British cartoonist whose work has appeared in Private Eye, The Spectator, Prospect, The Sunday Times and many others. He has exhibited in London for both the Professional Cartoonist Association and the Society for the Graphic Fine Arts.
Santiago Cornejo ARGENTINA
Santiago Cornejo (Corne) is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in publications around the world, including MAD (Germany), Nebelspalter (Switzerland), and Cracked (USA). He has published three books of his cartoons in China and Spain, and illustrated more than 30 books for children. His work has also appeared on greeting cards, posters, murals, etc. and he has won prizes in more than 40 cartoon contests. He is also the director of 'Enroc Illustration' as well as 'Catrasca Comunicaciรณn', a company that syndicates cartoons in more than 50 newspapers every week, as well as providing other humourbased communications.
Sarah Boyce UK
In Sarah's words 'Cartooning started out as a bit of fun and became completely absorbing'. Over the last four years she has had work published in The Oldie and Private Eye and has participated in Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, the Herne Bay Funny Women Exhibition and most recently Not The National Gallery Exhibition in London. She is a member of the Professional Cartoonist Organisation and lives in Hertfordshire.
Scratch IRELAND
Aongus Collins (Scratch) started his career in publishing as a technical writer, rising to editor of Technology Ireland magazine. He has been writing, drawing and designing as a freelancer since 1986, and is an online editor and web designer for private and public sector organisations. He has drawn a weekly cartoon for the Health Supplement of the Irish Times since 2003, topical cartoons for the Irish Independent since 2006, educational illustrations for Foinse since 2009, and a weekly topical cartoon for The Sunday Tribune from 20012011. He has illustrated many books, some in Irish, and has had three of his own published: The Legend of Charlie Haughey (1988, revised in 1998), Government Health Warning (2007), and A History of Sex and Morals in Ireland (2001).
Seรกn Lennon IRELAND
Seรกn lives in Dublin where he works as a full-time cartoonist, illustrator and painter. He has published widely in Irish newspapers and magazines, including the financial pages of the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, and The Phoenix magazine. He has also published seven books (and a booklet!), the most recent of which, 'Godot Go Deo', was described by Books Ireland as a 'piece of Beckettry that no collector should overlook' and by the Irish Independent as a 'welcome antidote to the po-faced product of so much of the Beckett industry'.
Sergei Belozerov RUSSIA
Sergei Belozerov graduated in foreign languages from the Voronezh State Pedagogical Institute, then worked as a school German teacher and a deputy director. His first cartoon was published in 1998 in the Kommuna-Sport newspaper, then in different magazines like 'Funny Pictures', 'Eralash', the 'Pionerskaya Pravda' newspaper and other Russian and foreign children's press. He participated in the 'Laughter' Voronezh cartoon exhibition in 2012, and is an artist of the 'Moyo!' newspaper. www.facebook.com/risunochki
Stephen Dee IRELAND
Dun Laoghaire-based porcelain artist Stephen Dee works mainly in humour and has exhibited in mixed and solo shows for many years, notably at Kenny's Gallery, Galway, and Zozimus, Dublin. He has created commissioned inter-media shows for the Galway Arts Festival and the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, Kilkenny, and his bust of Brendan Behan is in the National Museum of Ireland's permanent collection. He toured the UK in 2002 in Pot Valiant, curated by comedian Johnny Vegas, and in 2011 created a series of notable Irish-American sculptures at the JFK Library, Boston, as part of the Irish International Immigrant Center Solas Awards celebrations.
“As far as I know it’s the only one with a bowling alley”
Stephen Jones (Jonesy) UK
Just six short years ago Steve Jones swapped tripe juggling for cartooning and never looked back, mainly because he finds it easier to draw facing forwards. He has been published in Private Eye, Harvard Business Review, The Phoenix, Reader's Digest, The Oldie, Prospect Magazine and The Spectator. He's been hung within spitting distance of The National Portrait Gallery too, but survived to tell the tale. Finally, he's been known to turn his hand (clockwise and anti-clockwise) to caricaturing and illustration.
Steve Bonello MALTA
Steve Bonello has contributed a weekly editorial cartoon to the Sunday Times of Malta since 1991, has had two solo exhibitions, and appeared in many group shows in Malta and abroad. As well as creating cartoons and book illustrations, he writes about art and travel and is a keen photographer. His latest book No Man's Land is now on sale.
Teja Fischer GERMANY
Teja Fischer is a 42 year old German copywriter and cartoonist who lives in Hamburg. Since 2012 his cartoon work has been published in German magazines such as Titanic, Stern and Eulenspiegel. You can see more of his work on his Instagram profile @clownsandbananas. (The cartoon shown above was published in the book 'Kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen' by Holzbaum Verlag.)
The Surreal McCoy UK
A cartoonist and illustrator. Published worldwide in the New Yorker, Spectator, Prospect, Fortean Times, Reader's Digest and Oldie magazines, as well as the Sunday Times, Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers in the UK. Illustrated Sandi Toksvig's Girls Are Best, Alex Through the Looking Glass by Alex Bellos, and Women Deliver - The World Receives, curated by Liza Donnelly. Featured in The Inking Woman - 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain, published 2018 by Myriad Editions. Exhibitions include the UK, USA, Australia, France and Greece. A full-length graphic memoir The Wolf of Baghdad is coming soon.
Til Mette GERMANY
Til Mette studied Art and History at the University of Bremen, Germany, where he helped found the local daily paper Tageszeitung-taz. He works as a staff cartoonist for Stern magazine and as editorial cartoonist for Bremen daily Weser-Kurier. He has twice been awarded the German Cartoon Prize - bronze in 2003, and gold in 2009.
Tom Halliday IRELAND
Born in England in 1958, living and working in West Cork since 1989. Published almost every week in The Sunday Independent and The Southern Star since 1992.
Tom Mathews IRELAND
Tom Mathews is a Dublin-born cartoonist, painter and writer. After working for a time in advertising he studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, and since graduating has worked as freelance writer, critic, and cartoonist. His works have appeared regularly in The Irish Times and the Sunday Independent, as well as in Cara Magazine, Hot Press, The Yellow Press and many other publications. He has had countless solo shows including three exhibitions of paintings in the Living Art, the National Portrait Show and the RHA, and his cartoons are in many public and private collections. Tom has illustrated a dozen books, written a novel, and produced three collections of cartoons and one of poetry. He has also designed magazine covers, record sleeves, posters, tee shirts, hoardings and postcards, for clients including Guinness, the National Museum, and Bovril. He lives in Dublin, where he is due to be declared a national monument.
Tony Davis (Theo) IRELAND
Tony Davis is a Dubliner and a retired banker, for which we have a letter of apology on file. He was a regular contributor to The Phoenix magazine and occasionally Private Eye during the early 1990s until career matters intervened. He returned to drawing cartoons in 2016 and is again featuring in The Phoenix.
Twisted Doodles IRELAND
Maria Boyle is a scientist and illustrator based in Dublin. Maria is best known as the creator of 'Twisteddoodles'. Her work covers a range of subjects from parenting to science, Irish culture to popular culture. She has an international following and her comics have been translated into different languages. Her work has appeared in a number of places such as TV3, RTE, The Guardian, BBC, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, as well as popular science websites I F*CKING LOVE SCIENCE and AsapSCIENCE. Her cartoons appeared in Colm O'Regan's best selling book Bolloxology and she is currently writing her own book to put a few cartoons into that too.
Vasiliy Alexandrov RUSSIA
Vasiliy Alexandrov was born in St. Petersburg, educated at the Institute of Mechanics, and worked as an engineer-designer. Since 1983 he has been a member of the St. Petersburg Cartoonists' Club, and is published in numerous newspapers and magazines. He has participated in over 500 cartoon competitions and exhibitions in 46 countries, and has won about 50 prizes and diplomas in international cartoon competitions, including 'Not God but Man ... Clean Pot and Pan', Perm Russia 2012 (First prize), MIKS 'Ancient Astronauts', Sisak Croatia 2017 (Special Mentions Award), 'Smile of the Sea' Novorossiysk Russia 2017 (Second place) and Seferihisar Cittaslow Cartoon Competition, Turkey 2018 (Second prize).
Victor Ndula KENYA
Victor Ndula is an editorial cartoonist, illustrator and comic artist who lives and works in Nairobi Kenya, where he lends his voice to social commentary through his cartoons. A member of the global organizations Cartoon Movement and Cartooning for Peace, he has attended and exhibited his work at Cartoon festivals in Switzerland, France and Germany. His work has also been exhibited in Peru, Doha Qatar, Amsterdam, and at the London School of Economics. Victor Ndula was recognized as Cartoonist of the Year in 2010 and Best Editorial Cartoonist of the Year in 2010 by KATUNI (East African Association of Cartoonists) and Best Editorial Cartoonist in 2012 by the Media Council of Kenya. In 2012 he was the first prize winner of the Ranan Lurie International Cartoon Competition and in 2013 he came in second in a cartoon competition on Africa's Union 50th anniversary in Berlin.
Virginia Cabras ITALY
Alagon was born in 2012 from the hands of Virginia Cabras, an archaeologist, illustrator and multitasking mother. He took his first steps in the world of Italian political satire with irreverent cartoons and short animations on the news talk-show "Dentro la Notizia" for Tuscan TV network Italia 7. In 2016 he started publishing his cartoons in the most famous Italian satirical online magazines: Kotiomkin, Scorazzata, Ultima Voce, Vignettisti for the Constitution, etc. In 2018 Alagon moved to Ireland. This is his first Irish exhibition
Vladimiras Beresniovas (VLABER) Lithuania
Vladimiras Beresniovas (Vlaber) is a Lithuanian artist, humourist, poet, and cartoonist. He has been an active participant in the Lithuanian and world artistic communities for more than 40 years. In the last 10 years he has illustrated more than 100 books, published weekly cartoons in local newspapers, and been named in 'Who's Who in Lithuania' in 2008. He is a member of the Lithuanian Artists' Association, the Lithuanian Journalists' Union, and the Lithuanian National Cartoonists' Association 'Humor Sapiens'. He has been a participant in and laureate of many international cartoon exhibitions and competitions.
Vladislav Shirokov (SHIR) RUSSIA
Vladislav Shirokov (SHIR) is from Siberia in Russia, and has worked as a newspaper cartoonist since his youth. He was born on November 11 1968, making this centenary of the Armistice his own half-century.
Last-Minute Inclusions Anthea West
Anthea West is a comic artist/illustrator, or possibly a bunch of sheep in a coat. She lives in Dublin, runs Dustbunny Studios, and has an award-winning graphic novel The Earthbound God.
Evanna O Boyle
Evanna O Boyle was born and lives in Dublin. She has exhibited widely, and has published cartoons – including her well-known strip 'Seamus and Vera' – in the Irish Times, Hot Press, and Image magazine among others.
Francis Kaye (Kinndi)
Francis Kaye is a local Galway painter, designer and cartoonist.
Jia Meng
Jia Meng has published comics in China Water Conservancy, Life Times, Philatelic Comics, and Xilinguole Mail. The stamp cartoon 'Maintenance' won the National Egg Photography and Calligraphy Contest Silver Award.
Jim Ward
Jim Ward was born and raised in Galway. He studied industrial engineering at NUIG and works as a digital marketer and freelance writer/cartoonist at Eden Training.
Sergey V. Sokolov
Sergey V. Sokolov is from Snezhinsk, Russia. Since 1989 he has published cartoons in many newspapers and magazines, including Komsomolskaya Pravda. For the last 16 years he has been a staff artist on the most popular Snezhinsk newspaper, Okno.
Martina Gleeson
Martina Gleeson is an Illustrator from Limerick. She has written and self-published a book, designed the new One 4 All Gift Cards in Ireland, painted murals for Shannon Airport and created activist illustrations for Everyday Stories. Martina works as a freelance Illustrator and visual artist in London.
Jack McCann Tyaransen
Jack McCann Tyaransen was born in Galway in 2006. He was one of the winners of the City Council's 'Keep Galway Litter Free' art competition in 2017. Earlier this year, Jack's work was featured in The Beano. His stated future ambition is to "stay at home, draw stuff and sell it."
Cover Image: Marilena Nardi