Children's Events at LICAF 2025 - Saturday

Saturday, 27 September, 2025 - 10:00
We have lots of fun activities for children and their parents or guardians who are planning to attend this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere!

Children’s activities at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival include…

A COSPLAY COMPETITION!

Dress up as your favourite comic character and take part in this year’s Cosplay Competition!

More details here soon!

A SPECIAL GEOCACHE ADVENTURE

A new special Geocaching adventure is coming – like a digital treasure hunt – more details soon!

Our Geocaching Adventure involves approximately 45 minutes walking, with free stickers from the Tourist Information Centre if completed.

Find out more about our previous geocache adventure, “The Ghost of Windermere” here!

THE WINDOWS TRAIL

Local shops have kindly teamed up with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival to present comics in their windows! Which comic characters you will find? The shops involved feature in a special map in our Festival programme! 

BELGIUM COMICS EXHIBTION!

Check out some amazing comics from Belgium in a FREE exhibition!

More details soon!

THE LAKESIDE COMICS MARKET PLACE

Admission to the Lakeside Comics Marketplace is free!

Check out new books from child-friendly publishers such as Cinebook and creators who create comics for all age audiences, such as Kev F Sutherland (Beano)!

The Lakeside Comics Marketplace our creative hub where the public can meet our talented artists, publishers and exhibitors. We are proud to invest in this marketplace and make it free to the public so that hard earned pennies go straight to the creators.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PHOENIX FEST WORKSHOPS ARE SOLD OUT!

All Phoenix Festival Workshop Tickets – the workshops taking place at the Windermere Jetty Museum and the Old Laundry Theatre – are sold out and places will not be not available at the weekend

Signage will clearly indicate these events – thank you to everyone who bought tickets and supported Britain’s best-selling weekly comic and its creators!

Head to The Phoenix website for details of their regular online comic workshops!