Details of the upcoming Cartoon Museum Conference coming this month via our pals there end. Our Andy spoke at this a few years back and can confirm it’s an excellent day of talks and discussion…
Cartoon Museum Conference 2026
- Join us for our fifth annual conference and learn how to survive and thrive in the cartoon and comic arts world.
- Hear from experts in their field and pick up tips to support your own practice.
- Network with like-minded individuals and build your contacts!
Speaker info:
Madeline Horwath is an American cartoonist for The Guardian who will be discussing their love of stupidity, how it takes being very smart to pull off stupid and how you can balance the two to create dynamic work. You will be challenged on what is “stupid” and “ugly” and transform your approach to comic humor as a result. They will be discussing how you can punch down all that is high brow and create something hilarious. It will be 30 minutes of discussion followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.
Dr. Colleen Douglas: Ringo! Award nominee (2023), comic book creator, editor and writer. Colleen was the first black woman to be published by Caliber comics in its 35 year history. As a native of the former British colony of Guyana – a country rife with superstition, she loves mystery buildings and all things supernatural (as can be seen in her comic book Silk Cotton). She lives in West London and has a PhD in Ancient Monetary Systems and a love for old comics.
Holly Burrows: Commercial Manager at The Cartoon Museum, Co-Director of Illustrators’ Fair, lover of cats and chocolate. Holly will discuss the best ways to prepare your work for retailers to give you the best chance of actually seeing your work on shop shelves.
Samuel Ojo: A cartoonist and Illustrator who contributes to The Guardian and BusinessDay Newspaper. His work has also appeared in The Morning Star Newspaper and has been exhibited at The Cartoon Museum, Chatham House, The International Exhibition of Press Cartooning in France.
Karrie Fransman: Karrie Fransman is a comic creator. Her comics have been published in The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, The Telegraph, the BBC, The New Statesman and by The Arts Council. Her illustrated books, ‘Gender Swapped Fairy Tales’ (2020) and ‘Gender Swapped Greek Myths'(2023) were co-created with Jonathan Plackett and published by Faber & Faber. She published two graphic novels with Penguin Random House; ‘The House That Groaned’ (2012), and the award winning ‘Death of the Artist’ (2015). She developed an award winning comic, ‘Over, Under, Sideways, Down’ about an Iranian teenage refugee, for The British Red Cross, created an installation for the British Council and Southbank Centre and was commissioned to make a ‘Selves Portrait’ for an exhibition with Manchester Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. She has spoken and run workshops at The Guardian Masterclasses, Tate Modern, TEDx, Central Saint Martins, Oxford University, The Hay Festival, The Big Draw, House of Illustration and The British Library, and presented her work worldwide from Russia to Bangladesh, Lebanon and Mexico. You can find more of her work at www.karriefransman.com She will be speaking about her work at CCIC – The Comics Cultural Impact Collective. https://www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/
Jules Darriulat
Jules is a Co-Founder of Concept101 and CG101 and has been working in the Film and TV industry as a concept artist for the last 4 years. Having worked across a variety of projects such as Wednesday, The 3 Body Problem, His Dark Materials, Doctor Who, Paddington 3, How to train your dragon and much more, Jules has experience working within film and TV art departments as well as with vendors such as Framestore. Jules will be talking on his working experience on film and TV shows as well as his own world building project “Umae”.
Elpida Kyriakou
Elpida is a character artist working at Framestore. She’s worked on projects like Tom & Jerry The Movie, Ring a Ding from Dr Who, Sandman and Avatar: The Last Airbender. She is passionate about bringing CG characters to life, both for TV and movies. She also teaches character art at The Animation Workshop in Denmark. Elpida will be giving an introduction into working in VFX and Framestore. Then will give a breakdown of a character she worked on, Ring a Ding, from Dr Who – explaining how they started from concept art, developing both his cartoon and 3D design, to how they went through the whole VFX pipeline in order to make his creepy scary version. This will also give a good idea on what it is like to work as a character artist in VFX.
Contact Holly shop@cartoonmuseum.org for further information or queries
