Trans+ Pride 2025 at The Cartoon Museum
Opens 12 June 2025
The Cartoon Museum are delighted to announce a special display celebrating transgender and nonbinary British comic creators for Trans+ Pride 2025.
From Steven Appleby’s Guardian strips to Grant Morrison’s iconic run on DC’s Doom Patrol, to up-and-coming small press comic-makers, transgender people have always been here, in both the comic art scene and in British society as a whole. At a time of rising prejudice across western societies, right now we should be listening to Trans+ people and their stories and ensuring there are public spaces for their voices to be heard.
The new display in the museum’s main gallery draws from artworks in the museum collection along with new loans to showcase stories by six transgender and nonbinary comic creators: Steven Appleby (he/her), Grant Morrison (they/them), Lewis Hancox (he/him), Leo Fox (he/him), Judy Moore (she/her) and Julian Gray (he/him). The display will hang in the museum’s main gallery during June and July 2025 to celebrate London Trans+ Pride, and to recognise the contributions of transgender and nonbinary comic artists to comics culture in the UK.
The museum has also commissioned artist Charlie Guy (he/him) to create a special trans pride banner for the museum, which will be displayed and then collected into the museum’s archive.
copyright Lewis Hancox
‘We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase these fantastic comic creators and do our bit to uplift trans people in the UK.’
Hannah Whyte, Collections Curator
‘I’m absolutely buzzing to share a piece of my trans experience and my family’s love at the Cartoon Museum! I’m so thrilled and grateful for the museum providing a platform for trans cartoonists like me to share our work and stories.’
Lewis Hancox, Artist
“I love that the Cartoon Museum is celebrating people simply being themselves”
Steven Appleby, Artist
About The Cartoon Museum
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 for its community engagement work, and was recognised at the 2024 Best in Heritage awards for its autism provision.
