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Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival organisers thank all artists, sponsors and supporters for making this year’s Festival a huge success! Some pictures of the Festival appear below and more will be posted on the gallery shortly. The Festival exhibitions and the Shrewsbury Smile trail continue after the Festival weekend. Dates and details are below and in the events section.
Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival 2009 on 24th - 26th April celebrated the theme of Science and the 200th anniversary of the natural scientist, Charles Darwin, the town’s most famous son.
Since 2003 the town has hosted this international event which attracts around 40 full-time, professional cartoonists and caricaturists from the UK and abroad.
The Festival offers unique opportunities to see artists at work; 20 of them on huge boards in The Square during the weekend, others drawing caricatures and some running cartoon workshops for all ages. To see more photos of previous year's Festivals click here.
Highlights of the 2009 Festival include exhibitions of work by political cartoonist Steve Bell and eminent Czech cartoonist Miroslav Bartak. We are also thrilled to be showing an exhibition of cartoons about science from the year of Darwin's birth, 1809 to the present day. The British Cartoon Archive, the Cartoon Museum and the British Museum have lent work for 'Science Friction' and the selection has been made by Festival patron Professor Colin Pillinger. Cartoons by Kate Charlesworth, cartoonist for The New Scientist, will also be exhibited and a big hit of the Festival is always the themed selling exhibition of new work, originals and prints by Festival cartoonists - 'Boffination' sees cartoon artists from all over the UK and beyond interpreting the theme of the Science of Nature with their usual respect and reverence. Click here for a preview of this year's themed exhibition.
April 2nd to May 11th - Stroll the Shrewsbury S-mile
A walking trail / rambling exhibition featuring cartoons by the festival participants. We link all the festival sites with window displays & encourage you to stroll round town, exercising your laughing gear & tummy muscles. Separate trail leaflet available from Visitor Information Centre, Rowley's House. Tel: 01743 281200
Alternatively, please download a copy by clicking this link.
To download a copy of the Shrewsbury cartoon festival brochure, please click
here.