LICAF Board


We are very pleased to introduce our inspiring Lakes International Comic Art Festival Board!

We will be announcing new members soon.


Gemma Sosnowsky

"With upwards of sixteen years experience as a secondary school librarian, and more recently as a Health and Medicine Faculty Librarian at Lancaster University, Gemma Sosnowsky is passionate about promoting reading for pleasure though the diverse medium of comics. She enjoys advocating the benefits of comics through using comics in the classroom, her role as an Excelsior Award Shortlist Judge, her extra curricular role as an Arts Award Adviser, and exploring the uses of Graphic Medicine in higher education.

Maheen Murtaza

Maheen Murtaza is a student of Sociology at the University of Manchester with a keen interest in comics, anime and gaming. Maheen is the programmer of LICAF’s new anime festival which will now launch in 2021. She also acts as a volunteer at the University’s Counselling Service and joined the LICAF Board in 2019.