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Nov 9 2026
Event Harrogate, United Kingdom

Thought Bubble Festival 2026

Thought Bubble Festival

Thought Bubble is a major UK comics festival. It runs a week of events across Yorkshire and ends with a two-day comic convention at Harrogate Convention Centre. The festival week r...

9–15 November 2026 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Nov 15 2026
Competition Paid Remote Alcalá de Henares, Spain

15th GIN-UAH Graphic Humour Contest 2026: Diet, nutrition and sport

Fundación GIN, Instituto Quevedo de las Artes del Humor (IQH) and Universidad de Alcalá

An annual graphic humour contest run by the University of Alcalá's humour institute with the GIN Foundation. The 2026 theme is healthy living through diet, nutrition and sport, loo...

Closes in 1 week Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Nov 30 2026
Competition Paid Remote Knokke-Heist, Belgium

Golden Hat 2027 — International Cartoon Contest

Cartoonfestival Knokke-Heist

One of the longest-running cartoon contests in Europe, run by the Cartoonfestival in Knokke-Heist. The theme is free choice, so it takes work you already have rather than asking fo...

Closes in 3 weeks Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Dec 1 2026
Competition Paid Remote Lucerne, Switzerland

Fumetto International Comic Competition 2027: "Blubb"

Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern

Fumetto in Lucerne runs one of Europe's longest-standing open comic competitions. The 2027 theme is "Blubb", a bubbling sound word that can be read any way you like: fish, diving,...

Closes in 3 weeks Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Dec 31 2026
Competition Unpaid Remote Turkey

18th International Tourism Cartoons Competition

Anatolia Tourism Academy

An annual competition on a tourism theme, this edition on being a tourist in Cappadocia and on hot-air-balloon tourism. A long deadline by the standards of this page — the end of t...

Closes in 1 month Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Jan 27 2027
Event Angoulême, France

Angoulême comics festival, January 2027

M:BD (Groupe Morgane), selected by ADBDA

After the crisis that led to the cancellation of the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival, a new comics event will take place in Angoulême in January 2027. It is run by a n...

27–31 January 2027 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Mar 6 2027
Event Lucerne, Switzerland

Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern 2027

Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern

Fumetto is Switzerland's international comics festival. Each year it fills Lucerne with around ten main exhibitions of international and Swiss comic artists, plus dozens of smaller...

6–14 March 2027 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Apr 17 2027
Event New York, United States

MoCCA Arts Fest 2027

Society of Illustrators

MoCCA Arts Fest is New York's annual independent comics and illustration festival, run by the Society of Illustrators. It brings together exhibitors ranging from first-time self-pu...

17–18 April 2027 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
May 7 2027
Event Toronto, Canada

Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) 2027

Toronto Comic Arts Festival

TCAF is a festival of comics and graphic novels, best known for its focus on independent, literary and international work rather than film and merchandise. It features an exhibitor...

7–9 May 2027 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
May 7 2027
Event Barcelona, Spain

Comic Barcelona 2027

Ficomic

Comic Barcelona, organised by Ficomic, is Spain's largest comics festival. It brings together Spanish and international publishers, guest authors, exhibitions, professional activit...

7–9 May 2027 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Mar 27 2027
Event Kruishoutem, Belgium

Euro-Kartoenale 2027 exhibition, Kruishoutem

European Cartoon Center (ECC) Kruishoutem

The European Cartoon Center in Kruishoutem shows the selected and prize-winning cartoons from the 26th Euro-Kartoenale competition. The 2027 theme is "The power of humour – its imp...

27 March – 13 June 2027 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway
Jul 8 2027
Event Paris, France

Japan Expo Paris 2027

Japan Expo

Japan Expo is a large Paris event dedicated to Japanese popular culture, with a strong focus on manga, anime and video games alongside traditional culture, music and cosplay. Manga...

8–11 July 2027 Posted by Arifur Rahman Norway

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