Cartoon Museum celebrates Trans+ Pride Comics with new exhibition

By John Freeman on June 18, 2025

London’s Cartoon Museum is hosting a special display celebrating transgender and nonbinary British comic creators for Trans+ Pride 2025 this month and next (June/July 2025).

*Art by Charlie Guy via his social media*

The display in the museum’s main gallery features artwork by six transgender and nonbinary comic creators: Steven Appleby (cartoonist for The Guardian), Grant Morrison (DC’s Doom Patrol), and up-and-coming small press comic-makers Lewis Hancox (he/him), Leo Fox (he/him), Judy Moore (she/her) and Julian Gray (he/him).

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.

“Transgender people have always been here, in both the comic art scene and in British society as a whole,” note the Museum. “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.”

London Trans+ Pride 2025 takes place on Saturday 26th July at Langsham Palace.

• Head to www.cartoonmuseum.org for more information

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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.