Art by Graeme McNee
The latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast is again bursting with interviews from the annual Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal held last month, conducted by co-hosts Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates.
Episode 40 includes interviews with Canadian artist Guy Delisle, Benjamin Dickson, whose new graphic novel A New Jerusalem – a stunning tale of post World War Two trauma – was published by Myriad Editions / New Internationalist earlier this year.
(It’s well worth tracking down, addressing issues that range from what we now know as PTSD to teenage angst as a broken father returns from the battlefront).
Also interviewed are artist and writer, Una, author of Becoming Unbecoming and On Sanity: One Day In Two Lives and John Wagner, co-creator of “Judge Dredd” and writer of many 2000AD tales and more.
Also featured is part of the “Crime Lords” panel from the weekend, hosted by Alex Fitch with guests Ian Rankin and John Wagner.
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Banner art by Graeme McNee for a Journal of the Festival which will be published shortly
John Freeman
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. Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek 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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