The Cartoon Museum: Young Cartoonist Awards 2024
The Cartoon Museum champions cartoon and comic art, highlighting its importance to culture and society. Since 2006 it has received 420k visitors, and built a nationally important collection of 4,300 cartoons, comics and caricatures, and a library of 18k items. It runs a well-attended school programme and sell-out school holiday workshops, and over 50k children and adults have attended cartooning, comics and animation workshops at the museum. In 2023 the Museum was awarded a Museums & Heritage award and recognised at the Best in Heritage awards for its autism provision.
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Young Cartoonist Awards 2024
The Young Cartoonist Awards 2024 are open and The Cartoon Museum and British Cartoonists Association are looking for the next big cartoonist!
The Awards are to anyone under the age of 30 who is resident in the UK. We are accepting submissions of pocket (gag) cartoons, political cartoons and short strip cartoons. We are looking for a wide range of cartoonists from different regions within the UK, and with different backgrounds.
What we are looking for
Entrants are invited to submit one cartoon per person, on any topic, in colour or black and white, with or without captions or speech.
Entries may be drawn freehand to a maximum size of A4 or digitally as a pdf or jpg (under 5mb).
Strip cartoons should be no more than four panels (so comics, graphic novels, and pages thereof will not be accepted).
How to enter
Entrants must provide their age and contact details. Personal details will only be retained and used by the Young Cartoonist Award organisers for the purposes of this competition and will not be passed on to third parties.
Group entries, such as from school classes or after-school clubs are welcome to be sent together.
What we are offering
Each cartoon will be judged in one of two categories, depending on the entrant’s age. The winners in their respective categories will receive:
Under 18s - £250
18-30s - £250
Woodcock Prize (most surreal cartoon from either category) - £100
The winners and runners up will receive their awards at a ceremony at The Cartoon Museum on 20 March 2025, where their work will be displayed.
All copyright remains with the artist; however, the winning entrants agree to the use of their work, names and photographs in relation to publicity material. If you are responsible for an entrant under 18 and have a safeguarding question regarding this usage, please contact: hello@cartoonmuseum.org
The Cartoon Museum will not be responsible for any files lost in the post and no entry can be returned. Entrants are advised to keep a copy of their own work.
Dates: The deadline for entries is 2 February 2025.
Art Forms: Art, Writing
Cost: Free
Contact
Please send entries to hello@cartoonmuseum.org or The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells St, London W1A 3AE.
If you have any access needs in making this application, please get in touch with us at hello@cartoonmuseum.org
