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Madeline Horwath’s Cartoon Museum exhibition will have no survivors!

By John Freeman on 1 July 2026 • ( 0 )

Bringing their love of history and more importantly, having fun with it, to London’s Cartoon Museum, it’s Well Actually: An Accurate Enough Collection, a collection of comics that Madeline Horwath did the research for. From Medieval poetry to Medieval diseases to Medieval art, this expansive collection of topics will have no survivors!

*“Turn Your Cat into an Ugly Medieval Cat” by Madeline Horwath*

Madeline ‘Mads’ Horwath is a cartoonist and humorist who sold their first cartoon to The New Yorker in 2019. They use their dark sense of humor to make comics about history. Since they’ve begun cartooning, they became a regular with The New Yorker, LA Times, and Chicago Reader before focusing their full attention to becoming a regular cartoonist for The Guardian in 2025.

Having made a few cartoons go massively viral, they are able to balance out making personal work and freelance work for institutions like The Wellcome Trust in England. Currently, Madeline is working on a humorous art history book set to come out in 2027.

Replacing the Evan Bond: Young Cartoonist in Residence exhibition which closes 5th July, Well Actually: An Accurate Enough Collection joins another exhibition, Does My Head Look Big in This? The Art of Portrait Caricature, which runs until Sunday 1st November 2026

• Check out our guide to comic related exhibitions and venues around Britain here, including the recently reopened Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.