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British Comics Now at Brussels Comic Art Museum next month

By John Freeman on September 16, 2025

The full programme for the Comic Art Museum – Brussels and Lakes International Comic Art Festival‘s special British Comics Now event, taking place in the Belgian capital next month, has been released.

We previously reported that LICAF has been invited by the Comic Art Museum in Brussels to run a British Comics Now weekend, running 17th October – 19th October 2025.

Five comic creators – Neill Cameron (Mega Robo Bros, Donut Squad), Peony Gent (Sixth Illustrator in Residence for the House of Illustration), Shane Melisse (The Last Kaiju, They’re Coming Down the Stairs) and Jenny Robins (Biscuits), will represent the UK, alongside artist, writer and Festival patron Lucy Sullivan (Barking).

The creators, selected by a group that included Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver, creator and UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph and Festival Director Julie Tait, will have the opportunity to experience one of the world’s most important and famous comic art museums, promote their work as part of a co-ordinated and well-publicised/attended weekend, and receive feedback from publishers and others and meet Belgian counterparts.

The Museum has now announced the full “British Comics Now” event programme, which includes a variety of activities for young and old alike: workshops, meetings, performances, and a very special event, “Museum Night Fever” – live drawing performances set to music by the HarmonieOrkest Brussel orchestra!

The Programme

2.00 – 4.00pm, 18th October 2025: KIDS – Collage comics workshop : “Collaging memories”
2.00 – 4.00pm, 18th October 2025: ADULTS – Workshop : Movement in action scenes and composition (layout and panel) registration required, here. Panel with comic book authors Shane Melisse and Lucy Sullivan.
7.00 – 1.00am, 18th October 2025: Museum Night Fever – Live-drawing & Orchestra
11.00 – 1.00pm, 19th October 2025: KIDS – Workshop How to make awesome comics
2.00 – 4.00pm, 19th October 2025: FAMILY – Live portraits of the visitors

• Find out more about the British Comics Now project on Comics Can Change the World: https://comicscanchangetheworld.com/our-projects/british-comics-now/

• Comic Art Museum – Brussels

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John Freeman

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.