Top digital comic creators from both sides of the Atlantic form part of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up, and several events will focus on this rapidly-evolving comics form, which offers the tantalising opportunity of reaching out to… Read More ›
Titan Comics has just announced it is teaming-up with the Lakes International Comics Art Festival to launch a competition for unpublished comics creations. The competition goes live today (Thursday 1st May) and is an exciting opportunity for fledgling comic creators to submit completed… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just announced that the award-winning comic creator Eddie Campbell has joined the event’s line-up of guests, as one of the “extra” names for the weekend-long event in October that will be revealed across the next few months…. Read More ›
The Felt Mistress (aka Louise Evans) has just released a “first look” at a real-world “Poblin”, one of the mascots for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival designed by Jonathan Edwards. (See News story) Expect to see Poblin and chums… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that tickets are now on sale for its massive weekend of comic events in Kendal, Cumbria in October (17th – 19th October 2014). In just its second year the Festival features an… Read More ›
Grab your sonic screwdriver and set the time-space co-ordinates on your TARDIS for Kendal, 17th October 2014! The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just announced a number of events to celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who in comics, the world’s longest-running science fiction TV-inspired… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that the critically-acclaimed comic creator Becky Cloonan has joined the event’s line-up of guests. Born in Pisa, Italy, Becky Cloonan began her career self-publishing mini-comics in 1999. Since then she has gone on to… Read More ›
Britain has a long tradition of humour comics such as The Beano, Dandy and VIZ – so it should come as no surprise that the cheeky gang at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival have lined up a number of… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced six more guests for its 2014 event, including welcome return visits from The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard and Vampire Academy artist Emma Vieceli. Top designer and comics creator Rian Hughes, Fables… Read More ›
Guardian and MAD Magazine cartoonist Jonathan Edwards has created “Poblin’s Gang” — a family of mascots for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, which returns to Kendal from 17th – 19th October. Poblin and family reflect the inclusive aims of the… Read More ›
Nottingham’s Page 45 comic shop is celebrating after being shortlisted for The Bookseller’s Independent Bookshop of the Year award. The renowned store, which was established in 1994 and will be celebrating its 20th anniversary “on the road” at the Lakes International Comic… Read More ›
Hot on the heels of announcing the final creative line-up for its 24 Hour Comics Marathon, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just announced a number of top comic creators who will be attending their event in Kendal in… Read More ›
After a huge amount of deliberation, grinding of teeth, frustrated wails, and budget-nudging the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that not one but two artists will be joining its first 24 Hour Comics Marathon – Joe Decie and… Read More ›
Manchester-based comic artist Oliver East has just launched his latest project, The Homesick Truant’s Cumbrian Yarn (ordering information for the first book below), a “walking comic” centred on the artist’s travels in the county dominated by the Lake District, commissioned… Read More ›
Five of the six creators for the 2014 Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s 24 Hour Comic Challenge have now been revealed – with one more to find. On Thursday 16th October, as part of the Festival, six comic artists will… Read More ›
Innovative and multi-award comic creator Scott McCloud has been announced as the first official overseas guest for the 2014 Lakes International Comic Art Festival. The announcement comes hot on the heels of the event’s launch of its 24 Hour Comic… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that the prestigious Abbot Hall gallery in Kendal is to host a tie-in exhibition, entitled “The Great War in Comics” – featuring art from the classic war strip Charley’s War drawn by… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17-19th October 2014) has announced plans to host a 24 Hour Comic Marathon hosted by ace comics creator and educator Dan Berry – and they’re looking for comic artists to take part. Here’s the… Read More ›
Important news about the next Lakes International Comic Art Festival: if you are a creator, publisher or retailer, the Comic Clock Tower, their version of a comics marketplace and artists’ alley, is now open for applications. From this year, entry… Read More ›
Infinity #5, the free digital magazine of graphic novels and sequential art published by Panel Nine, is out now. This issue contains features on Alan Moore, reviews of Isabel Greenberg’s Encyclopedia of Early Earth, Paul Gravett’s Comics Art, Gareth Brookes’… Read More ›