LDComics is celebrating 15 years, and to commemorate this anniversary, they’ll host an Online Comics Fair in July.
Back in 2009, Dr Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman launched Laydeez Do Comics to champion comics work based on life narrative and the drama of the everyday. Streeten and Lightman shared an interest in comics and graphic novels that were not about superheroes, but were focused on “the domestic and autobiographical.”
Since then, Laydeez Do Comics has turned into LDComics, become a Community Interest Company, hosted an annual festival from 2018-2020 in conjunction with a prize for graphic novels in progress, set up a mentoring programme and residencies, delivered an international British Council project and delivered workshops and talks. Most importantly, they have continued to host monthly events hosting guests’ illustrated presentations, welcoming everyone to attend free of charge.
Find out more information and meet selected exhibitors here.
• LDC Online Comics Fair 2025 | 1st – 31st July 2025 | Online Event – More details here
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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.
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