Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with  Pierre Van Hove, an illustrator and graphic artist whose credits include Memoirs of a Book Thief, written by Alessandro Tota.

A free exhibition of art by Junko Mizuno, including paintings, drawings and sculptures, goes on display at the University of Cumbria's Brampton Road Campus in Carlisle, Cumbria in October - and the artist herself will make an appearance 10th October.

Junko Mizuno grew up in Tokyo, Japan but now lives in San Francisco. She has achieved international success with many exhibitions, festivals and books featuring her work over her career to date. She has even had art works made and retailed by Ikea.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Emma Price, a multidisciplinary graphic designer and illustrator who, among other things, designs comic books. She's created logos and books with many talented teams including Image Comics' Savage Town and Angelic, Vertigo's Motherlands and Aftershock Comics' Stronghold.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Kristina Ricken, a Danish artist perhaps best known as the creator of the web comic, Live fra Lolland (Live from Lolland), which has been collected into three books to date.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Estonian artist Joonas Sildre. Currently living in Tallinn with his wife and four kids, he studied graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (graduated 2004). Since then, he has been working as a freelance comic artist, illustrator and designer.

The stage is set! From the Depths, a celebration of the acclaimed Hellboy artwork of Duncan Fegredo opens this Saturday (21st September) in Kendal, ahead of this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month.

As we previously reported, the exhibition will delve into Fegredo’s working techniques and uncover how images are summoned from the written script. 

Marking an impressive landmark bringing over 200 hours of comics content to your ears, the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast  - Episode 60, no less! - brings with it a smashing interview with artist and author Kate Charlesworth, talking all about her new book Sensible Footwear, A Girls Guide. The book looks at the history of the LGBT community and the hardships (and joys) she dealt with through her own life.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with artist Laurence Campbell, who has been working on BPRD - a spin off from the Hellboy comic - for the past seven years.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Milena Huhta, a Finnish-Polish artist with macabre inclinations, based in Helsinki.

Working on everything from record and book covers to editorial illustrations to tattooing, Milena incorporates a wide range of inspiration into her multidisciplinary work.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Elyon's, the founder of Bilili BD Festival, the first festival dedicated to comics in the Republic of Congo, whose work, The Diary of Ebene Duta will be launched in English for the first time at this year's event in Kendal.