Cartoonist Posy Simmonds announced as 2022 winner of Sergio Aragones Award
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce cartoonist Posy Simmonds as the winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art for 2022.
Wolf & Wood Creative Director Ryan Bousfield joins Lakes Festival line up
We’re delighted to announce we’ll have a special guest joining comics and games writer Jörg Tittel on stage with 2000AD artist Mick McMahon on Sunday for “Our Love of Gaming” panel at the Old Laundry Theatre next weekend: Ryan Bousfield, creative director of Wolf & Wood, developers behind the hugely-anticipated, already award-winning, The Last Worker game.
Lakes Festival Focus: An Interview with comic creator Bianca Bagnarelli
As the countdown continues toward the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this month in Bowness-on-Windermere (14th – 16th October 2022), here’s another in a series of interviews with some of the guests – a quick chat with comic creator Bianca Bagnarelli, an Italian cartoonist and illustrator.
Her first comic volume, Fish, published by Nobrow, won the gold medal for the short form at the Society of Illustrators of New York.
Lakes Festival Focus: An Interview with Matthew Dooley
As the countdown continues toward the Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month in Bowness-on-Windermere (14th – 16th October 2022), here’s another in a series of interviews with some of the guests – a quick chat with comic creator Matthew Dooley.
Matthew won the Observer Graphic Short Story Prize and his debut FLAKE, published by Cape in 2020, went on to win the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize, the first time for a graphic novel. It was also a Guardian Book of the Year.
Women Shaping the World: Lucie Arnoux and Marine des Mazery Drink & Draw
Unleash the artist within, learn a thing or two about drawing and enjoy a drink with an inspiring sketching social with two French comic artists at the the Institut français du Royaume-Uni in London next month.
As the countdown continues toward the Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month in Bowness-on-Windermere (14th – 16th October 2022), here’s another in a series of interviews with some of the guests – a quick chat with comic creator Bex Ollerton.
Bex Ollerton creates introspective comics about mental health, neurodiversity and the general struggles of being a human being in an overwhelming world.
We're holding out for a hero/ heroine/ anthropomorphic adventurer/ ridiculously brave robot!
The most dramatic, powerful and beautiful area of the UK deserves a hero – or villain – to match its status. But – unbelievably – there are no Lakes-based comic characters!
(Well, apart from our new mascot, Tizzie-Whizie, of course, designed by Luke McGarry, but we're still waiting for his/her/its comic strip).
Lakes International Comic Art Festival set to bring comic art wonder, wow and a little bit of weird to Bowness-on-Windermere
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival will be held in Bowness-on-Windermere, within the heart of the Lake District National Park, for its tenth anniversary year from October 14 – 16th 2022. The best comic artists, writers and creators from over 25 countries are heading to the Lake District for a packed comic art weekend extravaganza.
Lakes Festival Focus: An Interview with comic creator and musician Marine des Mazery
As we countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month in Bowness-on-Windermere (14th – 16th October 2022), here’s another in a series of interviews with some of the guests – a quick chat with comic creator and musician Marine des Mazery!
What are you working on, comics-wise or illustration wise, right now, and when will it be published?
