Saturday 27th June would have been this year’s 5th MACC-POW comic event in Macclesfield – but of course, the Coronavirus has claimed the real world event.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce the launch of its Virtual Comics Clock Tower ahead of LICAF LIVE, the virtual comics event taking place 9th – 11th October 2020 that replaces the usual Lakes International Comic Art Festival this year.
Lockdown proves an inspiration for new Cumbrian art
The Coronavirus Pandemic lockdown has been devastating to many artists and small businesses, but at the same time, it has been a chance to slow down, reflect, and engage with a much smaller area around us.
For Cumbrian artists, it’s proven an opportunity to capture a unique moment in human history, reflected in the upcoming book, Dreaming through the Locking Glass, an artistic response to confined times.
Exhibition: The Weirdest Comic Book Panels of All Time
We’ve been collecting the most bizarre, disturbing, accidentally hilarious and just plain wrong comic panels that have ever appeared in print.
And now they’re yours to enjoy!
Comics Festival part of new Creative Europe project
The Creative Europe Project, "Comics: A New Language for Europe", the European project initiated by France’s Lyon BDFestival, alongside Belgium’s Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, Spain’s Escola de Comic Joso, Denmark’s Forlaget Fabel/ Arts Bubble and Britain’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, has been selected for support by the European Commission.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced some of its programming plans and guest line-up for LICAF LIVE, the virtual comics event taking place 9th – 11th October 2020 that replaces the usual Lakes International Comic Art Festival this year.
A free virtual Festival bursting with ready-made content, plus a special live strand throughout the weekend, LICAF Live aims to enthral, inspire and entertain you.
On a special episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast the team go all grim dark with a look at the Warhammer comic universe, leading with a chat with comics writer and author Dan Abnett.
Dan, whose comics career began as an editor and writer at Marvel, UK, and currently writes strips for titles such as 2000AD, including “Sinister Dexter” and “Kingdom”, has also written Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
Over the weekend of 9 - 11 October we celebrated the amazing world of comic artists, creators and writers with LICAF Live!
A free virtual festival bursting with ready-made content plus a special live strand throughout the weekend, LICAF Live... with online videos and workshops hoping to enthral, inspire and entertain you.
