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 graphic novelist Sayra Begum, whose work focuses on female and marginalised voices. Her style is inspired by Islamic miniatures and Surrealism.

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 Metaphrog – Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, winners of The Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards Best Visual Artist 2016.

The annual Lakes International Comic Art Festival may be virtual this year, but it isn't forgetting its roots, ahead of its weekend-long comics celebrations next month.

Plans are afoot for a special "Illuminos" event to promote the Festival's virtual plans with a "lighting up" of Kendal Town Hall, the week before the virtual event kicks off on Friday 9th October - a weekend long-digital delight combining pre-recorded interviews with some live events, which will be beamed across the internet from a secret location in the North West.

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).

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).

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).

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).

So, you’ve read the UK Comics Creator Survey Report co-ordinated by Comics Laureate Hannah Berry. As a comic creator, you’ve laughed, you’ve cried, you’ve kicked an inanimate object. But what does it all mean? What does that data tell us about the comics scene, exactly?

What are the implications of the findings, and how can they be applied? And why did Hannah and the Survey Team ask the questions they did, anyway?

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).