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Zoom Rockman heads to Lakes International Comic Art Festival

By John Freeman on March 18, 2015

Talented 14-year-old comic creator Zoom Rockman, the award-winning teenager who has been publishing his own humour title – The Zoom – since the age of nine, with 10 biannual issues under his belt, is to be another guest at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal in October.

Among other things, he’ll be doing #SkankyPigeon comic workshops and DJing a Black Hook Press-backed #Bartkira gig over the weekend. (Black Hook Press is a blogger,publisher, and organiser, based in Yokohama, Japan).

The Zoom features satirical strips looking at modern culture and life in London as well as reoccurring characters such as Skanky Pigeon who has also appeared in The Beano. The comic has attracted plenty of press interest and acclaim from a huge range of comic critics.

• The official Zoom comic site is at www.thezoom.co.uk | Follow Zoom Rockman on Twitter @the_zoomcomic

• For the latest news on the 2015 Lakes International Comic Art Festival visit: www.comicartfestival.com

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as 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.