French Creators Set to Storm Kendal again for 2015 Comic Festival

Top French comic creator Boulet has created this poster for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2015 featuring their mascot characters, Poblin and Gang, created by Jonathan Edwards.

Top French comic creator Boulet has created this poster for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2015 featuring their mascot characters, Poblin and Gang, created by Jonathan Edwards.

 

Following up on the popularity of several Continental guests in 2014, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival  has just announced the appearance of its first four French artists coming to this year’s weekend-long event in Kendal, backed by support from the Institut Francais the Wallonie Brussels International.

Winshluss

Winshluss

Winshluss (Vincent Paronnaud) is the successful author of Pinocchio, which won the Fauve d’Or prize in Angouleme in 2009, and the recently-released In God We Trust, both published in the UK by Knockabout Comics. He also works as an award-winning director in France with such films as Persepolis (2007 Cannes Jury Prize) and Chicken with Plums.

In God We Trust is a multi-levelled retelling of The Bible which revises the founding myths of the holy book. An absurd epic with a startling range of drawing styles on display, it includes some surprise guest appearances from a muscle-bound Conan and Gotham city’s own protector!

Benoît Peeters

Benoît Peeters

Benoît Peeters published his first novel, Omnibus in 1976, followed by his second, La Bibliothèque de Villers, in 1980. Since then, he has published over sixty works on a wide variety of subjects.

An expert on Hergé, he brought out Tintin and the World of Hergé and Hergé‚ Son of Tintin (Johns Hopkins University Press), he has also written essays on Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Valéry, Rodolphe Töpffer, Jirô Taniguchi, Chris Ware…

He recently published the first biography of Jacques Derrida. The book has been translated into English (Polity Press) and six other languages.

Antoine Cossé - Self Portrait

Antoine Cossé – Self Portrait

Published in the UK by Breakdown Press, Antoine Cossé grew up in the Paris suburbs but, aged 20, moved to London to study at Camberwell College of Art.

After graduation, he published and distributed his own comics and has previously published two short graphic novels with Records Records Records as well as J.1137 with Breakdown Press, which received great critical acclaim on its launch at Comic Arts Brooklyn in 2013.

Mutiny Bay – also published in French – is his most ambitious and substantial work to date.

Boulet

Boulet

Top French artist Boulet – recently announced as a new patron for the Festival along with Stephen L. Holland, owner of the Page 45 comic ship in Nottingham – has over 25 graphic novels in print in his native country including the Raghnarok and Chez La boîte à bulles series for Glenat. Two books in the Donjon (Dungeon) series, created with Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar, are available in English.

These four French creators, each at varying stages in their careers, are just some of the international guests heading to Kendal this year alongside British creators such as Bryan Talbot and Sean Phillips, and the award-winning Canadian comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator Darwyn Cooke.

This year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival (16th – 18th October 2015) will feature a huge number of international comic creators – possibly more than any other comics event of its kind in the UK – and also include numerous programming strands. These include appearances by top shoujo manga creators from Japan, Canadian creators, British comic writers and artists, along with the return of many popular events including the children-friendly Family Zone and eye-catching Windows Trail involving over 50 local businesses keen to support the Festival’s aim to be the “Angouleme of the North”.

In addition, the Festival is supporting a number of major commissioning initiatives, working in partnership with organisations across the UK and beyond, more on which will be announced shortly.
• Tickets for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival go on sale from the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, from 1st June 2015 | Web: www.comicartfestival.com

Creator Web Links

• For more about In God We Trust and Pinocchio by Winshluss, check out Knockabout Comics: www.knockabout.com
• Benoît Peeters Official Site: www.benoitpeeters.net and AltaPlana: www.altaplana.be | Follow him on Twitter 
• Antoine Cossé is on Tumblr: antoinecosse.tumblr.com and Twitter @antoinecosse | Breakdown Press: www.breakdownpress.com
• For more information on Boulet’s work available in French visit his French site at http://www.bouletcorp.com | For details of his work in English and to read his latest web comic, The Gaeneviad, in English, visit http://english.bouletcorp.com | Follow him on Twitter 


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