The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in partnership with Lancaster University, has announced further details of this year’s Festival Weekend Opening Night event on Friday 14th October – “Clash of the Toon Titans“, a battle between comic superstars Asterix and Tintin… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that top indie comic creator Frank Santoro will be at this year’s event, bringing his Comics Workbook project to Britain for the first time with fellow creators Aidan Koch and Connor Willumsen. The Comics Workbook events are just… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced a new sponsor for 2016 in comiXology, the revolutionary digital comics platform. ComiXology will be supporting several activities at this year’s Festival (14th-16th October). Festivalgoers will be treated to free digital comics downloads featuring the… Read More ›
Is the North of England leading the way in a new type of comics event? By Ian Wheeler There are many types of events for fans of comics. The large “Film and Comic Cons” which incorporate comics as part of… Read More ›
Join legendary illustrator, filmmaker and musician David McKean as he talks to the Observer’s Rachel Cooke and Imperial War Museum curator Richard Slocombe about his astonishing new graphic novel and performance, Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash at London’s… Read More ›
Working in partnership with The Finnish Institute in London, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce the forthcoming appearance of several top comic creators from Finland – a country steeped in storytelling often inspired by its rich mythology… Read More ›
Last night saw the world premiere of illustrator, filmmaker and musician Dave McKean‘s multimedia performance of his new graphic project Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash in Kendal Town Hall – the first of a number of shows across the… Read More ›
Created by Dave McKean Publisher: Lakes International Comic Art Festival and Hourglass (the Artist’s Book, limited edition of 300 – a graphic novel edition will be published by Dark Horse in October Let me start this item by saying that this is neither a ‘Preview’ nor a… Read More ›
I was very sad to learn yesterday of the sudden passing of the extraordinary Canadian comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator Darwyn Cooke, whose death to cancer was announced by his family this weekend. He was just 53. This short statement,… Read More ›
Award-winning comic creator Dave McKean has just released two new tantalising images from his amazing new project Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash, which gets its world premiere, multimedia launch in Kendal at the end of this month. As… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just announced appearances by two top Spanish comic creators at this year’s Festival (14th-16th October) – Torpedo and Jonah Hex artist Jordi Bernet and Paco Roca, best known for his award-winning graphic novel Wrinkles…. Read More ›
The list of nominees for this year’s Eisner Awards has been announced and includes a number of British creators – and a nomination for the anthology 24 By 7, edited by Dan Berry and published by Fanfare, featuring strips created during… Read More ›
Lancaster-based comic creator Flintworks – whose work includes the eponymous Flintworks and Aquabats, on sale via BigCartel – has published this comment on library closures featuring a couple of well-known comic characters. Flintworks will have a table at Lancaster Comics Day. Follow Flintworks on Twitter @flintworks or on Instagram. The guest… Read More ›
This year is the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter – a literary and artistic icon who is synonymous with the English Lake District. Her books have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over 35 languages. Beatrix… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just announced the upcoming appearance of two top British, California-based comic creators at this year’s Festival, who will be bringing their unique cartooning talents to bear on a host of activities throughout the weekend. Steve… Read More ›
As we’ve previously reported, Cumbria will host a world premiere performance and the launch of a unique graphic novel – Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean – as part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s official arts… Read More ›
In 1872, Maharajah, an Asian Elephant, walked from Edinburgh to his new home in Belle Vue Zoo with his keeper Lorenzo Lawrence. Oliver East, a Manchester-based artist, walked the same route in April 2016, as inspiration for a full-length comic,… Read More ›
Not an April Fool’s hoax! Not a dream! The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just revealed this year’s Festival art by top artist Ken Niimura – who is also one of the lead guests at the event (14th-16th October). Winner of the Golden Prize in the… Read More ›
Busy comic creator Marc Jackson has just launched his brand new, self-published totally goofy action/adventure comic, Bionic Battle Rabbit – and yes, it is as wacky as it sounds! “It’s the story of Chester Hare a computer game designer,” says Marc, “Who,… Read More ›
Artist Dave McKean has revealed more details of his upcoming project Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash, his new work co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and On a Marché sur la Bulle in a new video… Read More ›