Arts Foundation Futures Awards include Comics for 2020

By John Freeman on June 20, 2019

Comics are one of the art forms being included in The Arts Foundation Futures Awards in the UK for 2020.

The Arts Foundation was set up by anonymous bequest in order to support UK-based artists from across the spectrum of the Arts. The annual Arts Foundation Futures Awards (AFFAs) gives out five £10,000 fellowships every year. These are awarded on the basis of past work and enable future development.

“2020 sees ‘Comics’ take its rightful name place on the awards table along with Visual Arts bringing its usual formidable mix of applicants,” say the Art Foundation. “As befits the title, this award includes the plethora of comic art practices in the UK both on the web and on paper.

“From monthly sequentials to graphic novels and webzines the award will include self-published and published work focusing on those that are pushing the boundaries of the artform.

“Artists, who will be a minimum of three years out of education with a track record, are nominated by both practitioners and experts involved in the art form.

“The finalists each receive £1,000 with one artist in each artform receiving the £10,000 fellowship.”

• For more information visit artsfoundation.co.uk/affas/2020

With thanks to Paul Gravett

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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.