The Lakes International Comic Art Festival recently announced it was going virtual with LICAF LIVE for 2020 – and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast team have an exclusive chat with Festival Director Julie Tait, who reveals more about the plans for this extraordinary and exciting step into the digital world.
Julie also talks to podcast hosts Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates about how she and the Festival team go about organising the festival year on year, as well as the challenges the team face in ensuring this wonderful event happens as smoothly as possible each October – with plans already in the works for the return of the physical Festival to Kendal in October 2021.
Also in this episode, Tom Stewart reviews Midwinter (1982-1998) by Tim Bird – and it’s Round D (Zombies vs Drama) in the Genre World Cup with Pete Taylor and Mike Williams. Unfortunately, technical issues means there’s only half of the round this episode – but the rest will appear in a future episode!
Ian and Nikki also talk about El Marvo (by Ben Errington, Luke Kondor, Dan Butcher, Will Robson and Vincent Cyril), Reanimator Incorporated #1 (by Andy Perry and Lyndon White), coming soon to Kickstarter; and Conan the Frost-Giants Daughter (by Kurt Buiek and Cary Nord).
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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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