An 18-month mentoring initiative aiming to give under-represented individuals a chance to express themselves through the medium of comics and to hopefully open up a career pathway within the publishing industry.
Lakes Festival Comics Clock Tower - Have You Applied?
Applications are being invited from exhibitors who would like to feature in the Comics Clock Tower at the 2019 Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, Cumbria – the seventh annual gathering of comics creators and fans, taking over the whole town with events, workshops, free stuff, film screenings – and Smurfs!
This year’s festival will run from Friday 11 to Sunday 13 October with the Comics Clock Tower open for business as usual on the Saturday and Sunday.
Wallonia-Brussels International, with the help of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, is bringing an exhibition of The Smurfs to the Lake District later this year.
We may already be enjoying a big Happy New Year already resplendent with inexplicable outrage over new pastry-based products from Greggs, but that doesn't mean there isn't time to look back at 2018, a great year in the world of comics.
It's Christmas - and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast has a very special guest - Aaron Rackley, the founder of Little Heroes Comics, a charity comic bringing joy through sending comic kits to children in hospitals.
Our "Festival Journal" for 2018 is now available to read online, via the digital comics service Tapas.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) takes place every year in Kendal, a small town in the Lake District of the UK. The next LICAF will take place 11th - 13th October 2019.
The three-day festival features a diverse range of international guests from all corners of the comics industry and a mix of talks, panels, signings, exhibitions, window displays, workshops, performances, film screenings and kids areas.
The latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast co-hosted by Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates features an exclusive interview with crowdfunding publisher Unbound's comics and graphic novels Commissioning Editor, Lizzie Kaye.
What does the European Union mean to you? What are its benefits? In these turbulent times, the latest Animate Europe competition is challenging comic creators worldwide to come up with a comic addressing the value of the EU - and four finalists will have their work published in anthology in 2019.
An award- winning comics project helping young people to improve their literacy is being celebrated with an exhibition in Lancaster - and will then go on tour around Lancashire.
The Comic Literacy Project is part of The Dukes Cultural Partnership with our Festival partner, Lancaster University, which provides cultural outreach activities to young people, especially those facing barriers to education.
The Partnership has won the North West Cultural Education Award in 2017 and 2018.
We may already be enjoying a big Happy New Year already resplendent with inexplicable outrage over new pastry-based products from Greggs, but that doesn't mean there isn't time to look back at 2018, a great year in the world of comics.