9th Galway Cartoon Festival Ireland 2025

Announcing the opening of submissions to the 9th Galway Cartoon Festival in Ireland.

It seems a long way off right now, with Galway’s summer rain still splashing happily on our heads, but by the time the Festival comes it will be autumn, the great seasonal change we have celebrated since ancient times as Samhain, or Hallowe’en.

So this time we explore the mysterious, the seasonal and supernatural, the liminal and grotesque. Witches, monsters, mythologies. Life and death itself.

The title of this exhibition?

Danse Macabre.

While we are still open to all kinds of cartoons, work that fits with this theme will have a better chance of being chosen.

The deadline for this and for all our exhibitions is:

August 30 2025

Submission Details:

- Submissions are welcome from anyone, anywhere.

- You can send as many as you like.

- All our exhibitions are open to submissions from anyone, anywhere.

- If you wish to sell an original drawing or signed print, please state the price you are asking for it.

- Digital submissions should be sent, as 300 dpi jpegs please, to: info@galwaycartoonfestival.ie

- Any sales of digital submissions will go towards the costs of the Festival.

- With all submissions, please include a little biographical information.

- Submitted cartoons may be used in publicity materials for the festival. They will be credited to the artist.

- The selected images will be exhibited throughout the Festival, as well as on our website.

- Original drawings and artist-signed prints should be sent to:

Richard Chapman

The Galway Cartoon Festival

17 Middle St

Galway H91 XY60

Ireland