Comics Clock Tower 2020: Applications Invited

We are delighted to invite applications from exhibitors who would like to feature in our Comics Clock Tower at the eighth Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal.

This year’s Festival will run from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th October 2020, with the Comics Clock Tower at Kendal Town Hall open for business as usual on the Saturday and Sunday. Admission to the venue will again be free.

Bobby Joseph, Martin Rowson, Bryan and Mary Talbot join Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2025 line up

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce its fourth tranche of guests for its annual weekend of comics celebration, taking place across Bowness-on-Windermere over Friday 26th – Sunday 28th September 2025

Pertti Jarla

Pertti Jarla is mostly known for his Fingerpori syndicated strip series, launched in 2006. Its humour is largely based on Finnish puns, and has been adapted to film and theatre. He has also done all kinds of illustrations and editorial cartoons, and has self-published his own comics

Pertti Jarla Online

• Instagram
• Fingerpori in English! By Pertti Jarla

Khaled Jarada

Born in 1996 in Gaza, Palestine, Khaled Jarada is an independent visual artist and children’s book illustrator. He has illustrated many children’s books, such as Cane Talk and School Uniform, with several publishing houses. He has worked as an animator, taught art of performance and participated in several local and international exhibitions. He did an artistic residency at the Al Qatan foundation in 2020 where he exhibited his project Metres.

Abbigayle Bircham

Abbigayle Bircham is a Norwich-based comic artist with a penchant for the weird and wonderful, who is probably scribbling away in her favourite tea shop at this moment. A Lakes International Comic Art Festival Breakthrough Initiative participant, she has published work with Soaring Penguin Press and the Rat Pack Collective, dreams of having her own cartoon show one day, and first met Bobby Joseph when taking his Writing Comics short course. Now he can’t seem to get rid of her.

Phoenix Fest 2025 Guests for Lakes International Comic Art Festival Announced

The Phoenix comic and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) are delighted to announce the Phoenix Fest 2025 guests heading to Bowness-on-Windermere during this year’s Festival weekend, including Jess Bradley, Neil Cameron and Jamie Smart.

Phoenix Festival 2025 Guests

The Phoenix comic and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) are delighted to announce the Phoenix Fest 2025 guests heading to Bowness-on-Windermere during this year’s Festival weekend, including Jess Bradley, Neil Cameron and Jamie Smart.

Levenshulme Old Library hosts "Mulberry Tree" Exhibition

Levenshulme Old Library is the latest venue for "Enter The Mulberry Tree and Fly Free"  first seen at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2024, the first exhibition of comic art from Palestine of its kind to take place outside of the Middle East and North Africa region. 

The exhibition, offering a unique glimpse into the world of Palestinian comic art, features the works of twelve incredible artists who explore personal identity, geopolitics and the nuances of everyday life in Palestine.

Philip and Shelly Bond in the Spotlight in Between the Lines #5

The fifth issue of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival's Between the Lines online magazine, available now, edited by John McShane, includes an interview with comic creators Philip and Shelly Bond, guests at this year's Festival in September. Find out more about Geezer, a terrific new series about a rock star who hasn’t quite made it yet.

The Phoenix Comic brings Phoenix Fest 2025 to the Lakes

 The Phoenix comic and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) are thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership that will see Phoenix Fest 2025 coming to the heart of the Lake District this autumn.

For the first time ever, Phoenix Fest – the UK’s best-loved children’s comics festival – will join LICAF for a weekend of storytelling, creativity, and comic fun in Bowness-on-Windermere, from Friday 26th to Sunday 28th September 2025.