A selection of images from last year’s fantastic The Art of Sean Phillips exhibition has just opened in a Kendal café, to help raise local awareness of this year’s upcoming Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17th – 19th October)
Festival patron Sean, who lives in Milnthorpe, is a regular at Baba Ganoush, drawn(!), we’re told by their much-loved fishfinger sandwiches, and the exhibition includes the portrait of comedian Russell Brand, above. It’s another great example of how the Festival has got local business involved in the three day comics event, that enthusiastic particaption even more in evidence when the Windows Trail launches.
Drawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, Eisner Award winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. Since drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, Marvel Zombies and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, Sean has concentrated on creator-owned books including Criminal, Incognito, Seven Psychopaths and Void. He recently finished drawing Fatale and is now working on Fade Out, a new project with his collaborator Ed Brubaker that’s part of a major five-year creator-owned project deal with the US publisher.
“It’s great to be involved with any festival that is interested in promoting the vast range of comics out there,” says Sean. “Comics is a medium, not a genre. It’s not just superheroes and the Beano, and this festival is a good chance to see that there are comics for everyone, no matter what their interests are.
“Comics can be used to tell any type of story in any genre, and that should be celebrated.”
Sean will be appearing at the Lakes Festival alongside designer and artist Rian Hughes for an event titled “Divas and Fatales“.
• Baba Ganoush is at Unit 4, Berrys Yard 27, Finkle Street, Kendal LA9 4AB. Web: www.baba-ganoush.co.uk
• Check out Sean’s web site at: www.seanphillips.co.uk
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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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