It’s time to cast your votes - or at least your "Likes" - for the upcoming LICAF LIVE presents... A Coronacartoon Virtual Exhibition!

Over the past few months, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has collected together cartoons on the theme of Covid-19 and the Coronavirus Pandemic, and plan to put these into a virtual exhibition over the weekend of LICAF LIVE (9th - 11th October).

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, this year running as the virtual LICAF LIVE, we bring you a series of interviews with both guests and participants in the Comics Clock Tower (This year, also virtual).

Today, we’re talking to Paul Cornell, who has three new creator-owned comics series underway in 2020 and who has written episodes of Elementary, Doctor Who, Primeval, Robin Hood and many other TV series, including his own children’s show, Wavelength.

Lakes International Comic Art Festival team member Maheen Murtaza is running a challenge to design a comics-inspired outfit in the social simulation video game series Animal Crossing using the Custom Designs app.

The team at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast have gone for a bit of a mix tape/ jam style over the past two episodes, the regular team stepping back as Pete Taylor and Mike Williams lead “The Bootleg Boys” with a great mix of reviews and more, with the help of comics writer and podcaster Tony Esmond, Tom Stewart and Fernando Pons from That Comic Smell, plus artist and writer David Robertson and museum curator, artist, cartoonist and zoologist 

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) has revealed further details for LICAF LIVE – a free online festival of comic art wonders from across the world taking place 9th – 11th October 2020.

Replacing its physical Festival in Kendal in the Lake District this year, which regularly attracts some 15,000 comic fans, LICAF has brought together some of the biggest names and rising stars from the comic art world, including creators, writers and artists from all genres of comic art. to share their creative talent.