Thought Bubble Festival 2026
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
The Golden Helmet (Zlatna kaciga) is a Serbian festival of humour and satire with a caricature competition and a written satire competition. The 35th edition, in 2027, has a free t...
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...
Euro-Kartoenale is the international competition of the European Cartoon Center in Kruishoutem, Belgium. The 2027 theme is "The power of humour – its impact on people and society"....
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...
The Maison des auteurs in Angoulême hosts professional authors working on graphic narrative projects: comics, animation, multimedia or transmedia, individually or as a team. It is...
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...
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...
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...
Comic Barcelona, organised by Ficomic, is Spain's largest comics festival. It brings together Spanish and international publishers, guest authors, exhibitions, professional activit...
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...
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...
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