Lakes Festival Focus: An Interview with Comic Artist Mike Perkins

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 Mike Perkins!

Mike Perkins is a comic book illustrator who has worked on Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man, and much more.

Martin Rowson joins LICAF line up with "BoJo" tribute event

Award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson will be joining the international lien-up of comic creators at this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival, with a special presentation to mark the end of Boris Johnson's reign as Prime Minister - as only he can!

Lakes Festival Focus 2022: Bryan Hitch

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 Bryan Hitch!

British comic artist and writer Bryan Hitch began his career in the United Kingdom for Marvel UK in mid 1987, shortly after his 17th birthday, working on titles such as Action Force and Death’s Head.

Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson is a multi-award-winning political cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, author, performer and poet. His work currently appears regularly in The Guardian and Byline Times, and hitherto he's been published by almost everyone you can think of apart from Private Eye and The Sun (they never asked him). 

“Comics on Comics” gala set to kick off this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in madcap style!

Charlie Higson, Lucy Porter and Adele Cliff are three of the UK’s funniest comedians, and they are on the line-up this year’s upcoming Lakes International Comic Art Festival Opening Night event, “Comics on Comics”, alongside artists Bill Morrison (The Simpsons, Futurama) and, beaming in from Los Angeles, Luke McGarry (“Sad Chewie” and much more).

Lakes Festival Focus 2022: A Chat with Jaime Hernandez

As we countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month in Bowness-on-Windermere (14th – 16th October 2022), here’s the first in a series of interviews with some of the guests – a quick chat with Jaime Hernandez, of Love and Rockets fame!

“The Last Worker”, new game featuring art by 2000AD’s Mick McMahon, on course for October release

Publisher Wired Productions, Writer/Director and comic creator Jörg Tittel and pioneering independent games studio Wolf & Wood have announced that first-person narrative adventure The Last Worker, featuring design work by 2000AD artist Mick McMahon, will come to PC first, launching on Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG on 19th October 2022.

Yellow Submarine exhibition launches at Windermere Jetty Museum

Windermere Jetty Museum will be hosting Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s feature exhibition “Yellow Submarine - Bill Morrison’s Odyssey Through Pepperland”. The exhibition opens on 23rd September 2022 and runs until 2nd January 2023.

Re-Live charity unites military veterans and comic creators for new “Coming Home” anthology launch

Having established themselves firmly in the theatrical arts space, Welsh Arts in Health charity Re-Live are turning their attention to the world of comics as a fresh way to share stories of military veterans in a new anthology comic, entitled Coming Home, featuring a cover by the late Ian Kennedy – his last commissioned painting before he passed, earlier this year.

Comics with a Cause

Getting a message across, in powerful visual form, is important to many of the comic creators at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, the organisation itself utilising the comics form with its international Ten Years to Save the World project (www.10yearstosavetheworld.com), supported by the British Council, in partnership with Komiket in the Philippines and Manchester-based Creative Concern.