Lakes Festival Focus 2019: Julie Rocheleau

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 Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Julie Rocheleau, who's perhaps best known for her graphic novel About Betty's Boob, published by Boom! Studios - and heads to Kendal this month as part of a Festival-organised Comics Cultural Exchange supported by the British Council and Quebec BD.

Exhibition News, Dungeons & Dragons delights and more!

With little over a month to go before this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival (11th – 13th October 2019) in Kendal, work is proceeding apace on a number of exhibitions at the event, These will include an exclusive take on the Hellboy comics of Duncan Fegredo, the previously-announced Smurfs and Tom of Finland exhibitions and more.

Evelyn Dawsquire by Fatimah Waghat

// Clarity: The origin story of Vampire Relations Representative Evelyn Dawsquire

Original story written by Fatimah Waghat, UCLan Illustration student

A stage magician who goes by the name of Evelyn (Eve) Dawsquire is a master of beautiful illusions and elaborate fabrication, among a lineup of other performers, who travel together as a Cirque du Magique.

Lakes Festival Focus 2019: Writer Simon Spurrier

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 Simon Spurrier, who describes himself as "a writer of actual words", currently working on new television and comic book projects.

Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Ephameron

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 Ephameron (Eva Cardon), a Belgian artist who explores a sensitive side of the world, where small and intimate dramas of life are documented.

Ephameron is the creator of Wij twee samen (Us Two Together), published in 2015, a moving autobiographical story about her father’s struggle with dementia and the impact of the disease on the family.

Polina Dove by Sefikhan Agabekov and Kirill Coronen

Polina’s father is a vampire and her mother is the Slavic goddess Tara.

Tara is the patroness of all living things, especially forests, because of this Polina is half vampire and half goddess. She realised that her gift is special and therefore she went to war.

Sefikhan Agabekov Online

Twitter: @Sefikhan_Agabek

Angellus by Phillipa Carrington

The chakram is a throwing weapon with a sharpened edge, it is not attached to Angellus’ body but floats behind his head, reminiscent of an angelic halo.  

Angellus also has ‘wings’ which are not what they appear. They are actually portals to other dimensions where he is able to go and fight against the evil doings of others.

The clothing that Angellus wears is designed so that he can achieve ease of movement and the back of his tunic is open to accommodate the wings.

Lakes Festival Podcast 59: Rob Davis

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast team chat to comic creator Rob Davis in their latest episode, creator of the abstract adventure trilogy that began with the British Comic-Award-winning The Motherless Oven, continued with The Can Opener's Daughter and is completed by The Book of Forks, which launches at the 2019 Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month.

The Forgotten Shadow: Ozulla’s Return by Niamh Young

With revenge on her mind for Hell and for those who put her down there, a mysterious old man has offered her a way out and an insight at what her actions actually mean.

With her staff - Statera - in hand and lessons from her new friend she’s finally able to understand the rest of the world - a world she’s forgotten and who’s forgotten her.

Yvonne: Shape Shifter by Josephine Haughin

// Yvonne

Yvonne happened to be born like any other mythological individual, by chance.

No-one, including herself, knows who she really is and many have since made fables of how she executed her own family, waged wars, abducted maidens, and used the appearance of dragons to slaughter anyone who dared face her... But in the end, they are only fabrications produced by humans.

Yvonne is a forlorn creature; she can force the illusion of any living entity that she has touched before onto others and can even tamper with traits of different species at once.