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Women in technology, beasts and ‘general mayhem’ will be the three themes of this year’s Galway Carton Festival, set to run for six days from October 4.

“It can be a bit of a loner’s business all this doodling” jokes cartoonist Jim Cogan. “We’re just sitting at home in our studios. At least a festival gets us out to look at each other.”

The annual Galway Cartoon Festival takes place from tomorrow September 30 to October 9 2022. The French refer to cartooning as the ‘Ninth Art’. Drawings that are usually intended to be read as much as to be looked at, cartoons, caricatures and comics can be as important and influential a part of the overall popular culture as movies, music and theatre.