Festival Podcast chats "Old Haunts" with artist Laurence Campbell
On this week's Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast (Episode 75), Pete Taylor chats to 2000AD and BPRD artist Laurence Campbell, and podcast hosts Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates chat to writer and comic book enthusiast Jordan Thomas about his comic "jam" project, Quarantine.
...a book launch supported by the Czech Literary Centre (Zátopek), a conversation (The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists) and a sketch (When I Came Out).
Colouring Fun part of new Outreach Projects from the Lakes International Comic Art Festival
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is supporting local Cumbrian schools and aspiring comic creators – well, colourists – with two special initiatives.
Both are part of the organisation’s outreach programme and commitment to comics as a creative art, growing the Festival activities beyond its best-known project, the annual Festival weekend in October. This work includes continued international partnerships, publishing and working with aspiring creators alongside those established to develop their skills, through workshops or projects such as Breakthrough.
Comics Laureate Hannah Berry has launched a long-planned UK Comics Creator Survey, for everyone making comics in Britain today, aiming to “snapshot” the industry – and use the results to help support it.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2023 is delighted to announce comic writer, artist, tutor and editor Bobby Joseph as the new Comics Laureate.
The latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast leads with a chat with Rees Finlay, creator of Reaffirmation - a ground-breaking new book merging comic book and novella in a 200-page journey from diagnosis of his autism to epiphany, published thanks to a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign.
Topical and contemporary issues dominate the shortlist for the competition and show that the graphic novel is very much alive and kicking in Lockdown 2020.
Podcast probes former Tharg Steve MacManus
The latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast sees Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates in conversation with former The Mighty One himself, ex-2000AD editor Steve MacManus.
