Cartoon Saloon And Lighthouse Studios Will Host Kilkenny Animated Later This Month

• A ‘Roaring 20s’-themed opening night gala featuring live jazz music and projections of cartoons from the era.
• Comedy and animation will meet as stand-up comedian Dylan Moran performs accompanied by projected original illustrations. Additionally, New Yorker illustrator Matt Diffee will present stand-up gag cartoon shows and illustrator and stand-up comedian Aoife Dooley will perform a show.
• Cartoon Saloon will host a sneak peek at the studio’s upcoming Netflix original feature My Father’s Dragon, directed by Nora Twomey.
• American author-illustrator Cece Bell will host a talk about her graphic novel El Deafo, the source material for Apple TV+’s animated series adaptation which was animated at Lighthouse Studios.
• Dave Wasson, creator of Netflix’s The Cuphead Show, and art director Andrea Fernandez will speak with Lighthouse Studios’ Gilly Fogg about adapting a video game as a series. Cuphead Show was also animated at Lighthouse.
• Cartoon Saloon founder Tomm Moore will speak with comic author and artist Declan Shalvey about his work on several comic book series including Marvel’s Moon Knight.
• Workshops will be hosted by Screen Ireland, Animation Skillnet, National Talent Academy – Animation, and Animation Ireland.

The full festival program and ticket purchase info is available on the Kilkenny Animated website.

Pictured at top: “My Father’s Dragon,” “The Cuphead Show”