Artist John Higgins joins Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up

John HigginsAward-winning comic artist John Higgins has been added to the line up for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, running 12th – 14th October in Kendal, Cumbria.

John’s career as a freelance comic artist started in 1977 soon after he left art college and has seen him work on such diverse characters as Judge Dredd, Batman, John Constantine and Jonah Hex.

He’s possibly best known for his work on Watchmen and Batman: The Killing Joke. He’s also the creator, writer and artist on Razorjack, an independent comic book published first by Higgins’ own Jack Publishing and later by Com.X and Titan Comics.

In 2017, John was commissioned to illustrate a special set of Royal Mail stamps to commemorate the 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of London, which won the prestigious D&AD award.

A retrospective exhibition (covered here on downthetubes) of John’s work at Liverpool University’s Victoria Gallery & Museum in 2017, was extended due to popular demand and ran for a full year ending in February 2018.

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Razorjack Cover - Titan ComicsThe exhibition gave John the opportunity to write and design an accompanying autobiographical art book, Beyond Watchmen & Judge Dredd: The Art of John Higgins which includes many examples of his work and also shows how it was produced with illustrated steps on how a comic story develops from an idea to script to printed page.

• Tickets for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal (12th – 14th October 2018) are on sale now from: www.comicartfestival.com | Facebook | Twitter | Podcast

Check out our overview of the Festival and what’s happening over the weekend here

JOHN HIGGINS ONLINE

• www.artofjohnhiggins.com
• @RazorJackRealm
• Facebook

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