The first Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast of 2022, features a great chat with a new comic creator, Lancashire-based artist and writer Mollie Ray, whose first graphic novel, Giant, will be published by Faber and Faber, supported by a grant from the Society of Authors.

Mary Talbot, author of the prize-winning Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, and one of the founding patrons of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, is in Lancaster next month to give her Inaugural Lecture as Visiting Professor of Graphic Narrative at Lancaster University, discussing the art of graphic biography.

Three more comic creators have been added to the growing line up of announced guests for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, taking place this year for the first time in Bowness-on-Windermere.

Two top European comic artists, Eva Hilhorst and Judith Vanistendael, will be in the Lake District next month, heading up an innovative Lakes International Comic Art Festival partnership project to find out more about Kendal residents concerns about flooding and climate change.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is pleased to announce the first guests for its weekend-long Festival, taking place this year in Bowness-on-Windermere (Friday 14th – Sunday 16th October 2022) - and reveal this year’s Festival promotional art, by Sean Phillips.

Lakes International Comic Art Festival reveals “Lakeview Comics Marketplace” plans, opens applications from creators and publishers

The latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast brings us an all-new interview with Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson, who chats to show hosts Nikki Bates and Ian Loxam about his career, and how he got into political cartooning. 

Oh, and what exactly was in the cocktail, the “Martin Rowson”…

Award-winning author Mary Talbot, a former Lancaster University student, patron and one of the founders of the popular Lakes International Comic Art Festival, has returned to Lancaster to take up a role focusing on the dynamics and benefits of comics storytelling.

The free Ten Years to Save the World exhibition has opened at MediaCity, Salford, running until 14th January 2022, a showcase of comic artwork and storytelling in response to the climate crisis by leading comic artists in the UK and the Philippines.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast team are celebrating as they hit 100 episodes – our congratulations to the hard working team. Since launching back in 2017, they’ve delivered a huge range of content – comic creator interviews, reviews, and plenty of fun along the way.