We provide a forum for academics to meet up and network at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (The Friday Sessions) plus a series of events targeted at an academic audience.
Since drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, Marvel Zombies, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, Sean has concentrated on creator-owned books with Ed Brubaker including Criminal, soon to be a television series on Amazon Prime, Kill Or Be Killed, Incognito, Fatale, The Fade Out, Pulp, Night Fever, Where The Body Was and the Recklessseries.
He lives in the Lake District in the UK, where he is currently drawing the next Brubaker/Phillips book.
Born in 1965 to simple coal mining folk, Simon Thorp attended grammar school in Pontefract, winning the Rev. JJ Christie Prize for the most outstanding boy in the first year. He went on to spend 3 years studying fine art at a world famous and prestigious university, the name of which escapes him. He sold his first cartoon to Punch in 1983, and his last cartoon to the same magazine at the same moment. He has a wife and three children, the names of whom escape him.
Mary M. Talbot is an academic turned graphic novelist. Her first graphic novel, Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (with Bryan Talbot), won the 2012 Costa Biography Award. Her books also include Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington, and Rain, bothwith Bryan Talbot, the latter a rallying cry to protect the planet.
Bryan and Mary Talbot are both founding patrons of The Lakes International Comic Art Festival.
Born in 1952, multiple award-winning artist and writer Bryan Talbot has worked on underground comics, science fiction and superhero stories such as work for 2000AD and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. Bryan was awarded a Doctorate in Arts and another in Letters and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Charlie has been a “veteran” of the comic industry for over 25 years. He’s spent the majority of his time since 2003 working on The Walking Dead, which finished in 2019, and has received many industry awards for his work on the series culminating in winning the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art in 2019.
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