Lancashire city Preston will host its first ever major comic con event, Preston Comic Con, on Saturday 25th October, a one day event Preston’s Guild Hall, with comic artist Carlos Ezquerra and 2000AD writer John Wagner heading up the guest… Read More ›
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Malta Comic Con 2013 announces full line up, exhibitions
Malta Comic Convention 2013 – the biggest and most awaited comics related event on the Islands – is less than a month away, and the organisers have just released full details of the event, which includes appearances by a number… Read More ›
Photo Report: Creators At Lakes 2013
The inaugural Lakes International Comic Art Festival took place in a rather damp Kendal over the weekend of 18-20 October 2013. The festival had a great many creators selling their wares in both the main sales venue, Kendal Town Hall… Read More ›
Photo Report: Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2013
The weather was stuck on the rinse cycle, or at least that was how the BBC weatherman described the weekend of the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival over 18-21 October 2013, but while the rain and unseasonably mild temperatures… Read More ›
Gatehouse and Windett launch “Kaci Bell Mysteries”
Ace creators John Gatehouse and Dave Windett have just launched a web strip, The Kaci Bell Mysteries, set in a Bluewater Cove, California – where life is never quite normal! When high school students turn into super-powered freaks and go on… Read More ›
Lakes Comic Festival back next year
Buoyed by its undoubted success, the organisers of the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival have confirmed the event will return in October 2014, with some planning already being worked on for key threads to the event. Thousands of comics… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival kicks off in style
The weather is mixed but far from the howling storms some nay sayers feared when the Lakes International Comic Art Festival came up in conversations earlier in the year. And even despite some rain, the greeting to Kendal could not… Read More ›
Reading for pleasure helps kids in the classroom, says study (we know, say scientists)
Children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school than their peers, according to new research from the London-based Institute of Education. All the more reason to give them a comic, then – an ethos adopted… Read More ›
Free Comics Family Zone at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival launched
Free events and activity for all the family (even if they’re not all in to comics) will take place in the Comics Family Zone at The Westmorland Shopping Centre and Kendal Library during the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in… Read More ›
Gatehouse, Windett unleash "Lazarus Lemming"
Lazarus Lemming is the top special secret agent of Department X, the covert government agency that investigates eXtraordinary happenings worldwide. When the world’s cows are kidnapped to steal their farts, or all the citizens of Transylvania are turned into mindless… Read More ›