The World of TAYO – Outdoor Cartoon Exhibition at Limoges International Airport, France

*His dream was to draw cartoons, and as a teenager, he began drawing cartoons in Nigerian newspapers such as in the Daily Times, The Concord, and Punch newspapers. He then went international, drawing for magazines in London such as West

Africa and New African and BBC Focus on Africa magazines, to mention a few. and has drawn cartoons for the US-based EURweb since 2008, and the New York Amsterdam news

The Cartoon Festival of Saint-Just-le-Martel has partnered with Limoges International Airport, Bellagarde in west-central France, to exhibit the cartoons of Tayo Fatunla at the airport’s concourse.

Tayo presents his works at the airport, drawn in the diaspora, from an African perspective, on global issues and which he has drawn through the years. He has exhibited his drawings at the International Press and Humour Drawing Exhibition in Saint-Just-le-Martel, France, for 25 years. It was there that he was given his first international award for his contribution to press drawing and was awarded the “International Press” Porcelain Pencil Award in 2001.

In Rouen, Normandy, at a cartoon exhibition put together by Courrier International for international cartoonists, the President and founder of The International Salon of Editorial and Gag Cartoon of Saint Just Le Martel, Gérard Vandenbroucke, met with Tayo and invited him to take part in the Saint Just Le Martel cartoon festival and attend. Years later, his cartoons will now grace the airport’s concourse.

THE WORLD OF TAYO  at the Limoges International airport, France, exhibition runs from 29 September to 30 October 2025 –

TAYO Fatunla whose work has been featured on MSN.com via EURweb.com is an award-winning British-Nigerian Comic Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Writer, and Illustrator. He is recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and series – Famous people in Black History. TAYO Fatunla is a former cartoonist with some Nigeria news publications and was honoured as the Professional Creative Cartoonist of the year at the 2024 Annual Achievement Recognition Awards, presented by The Building Blocks Initiative in the United Kingdom. TAYO is the illustrator behind the pictorial Black history walk map on a lectern that guides the walk in Camberwell, South East London, U.K. https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123