Galway Cartoon Festival offers fresh view on life

All of human life, with a few plants and some aliens wil be on the menu for this year’s Galway Cartoon Festival which was launched on Monday night at the city’s Black Gate Cultural Centre. It will run from November 8-18 and feature established and emerging Irish and international talent.

Science, in all its wonder, weirdness and worries, is the central theme of this year’s festival, with three exhibitions on the subject, including a solo show by scientist-cartoonist TwistedDoodles, one of Ireland’s hottest new talents. It will open in NUIG’s Millennium Arts Building on Friday November 8.

Over the past four years, the micro-biologist and cartoonist has charted her life as the mother of young twins, a scientist and someone who has issues with coffee. She recently published a parenting book, The Newborn Identity, with Penguin while her cartoons will shortly feature in New Scientist magazine.

That opening will be followed by an exhibition of drawings by the late playwright John Arden and an all-cartoonist panel discussion, both at the Black Gate on Francis Street.

Once described by The Guardian as Britain’s Brecht, the British-born, Galway-based Arden was also a talented artist. These pictures, in acrylics, watercolour, collage and pen-and-ink, are from his final collection Gallows as they follow the footsteps of the artists of the Victorian Toy Theatre.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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