Komiket - the Filipino Komiks and Art Market which helps nurture the local komiks community, discover new creators and readers, and launch new local komiks - is launching the PICOF - the 1st Philippine International Comics Festival this summer (12th - 14th June 2020).

Mike Williams catches up with The77 anthology team member Ben K Sy for the latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, editor of the new retro anthology. Currently seeking crowdfunding support, its original target well and truly smashed, the new comic will showcase both new and established talent.

We're delighted to present a wonderful Festival Journal by Jean-Baptiste Pollien, a.k.a. Jibé, celebrating last year's weekend-long event in Kendal - before we head at a rapid pace into this year's event in October!

Jibé recounts his experience of visiting the Festival with other European guests, and it's quite clear that, like attendees, this talented comic creator enjoyed his time in the Lake District last year!

The latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast features chats with the creator of Follow Me In, Katriona Chapman and comic creator Gustavo Vargas, creator of the independent dystopian SF thriller comic, Manu.

Former Lakes International Comic Art Festival guest and top MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond is running two workshops in Europe this summer, one in Vienna and another in Dublin.

"The Dublin one is just a few chairs short of a sellout but I’ve still got some open spots," Tom tells us.

There are more openings for spaces in Vienna, so if you fancy a trip to Austria and the opportunity to be taught by a great cartoonist, now's your chance!

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced Terry Moore, creator of Strangers in Paradise, Rachel Rising, Motor Girl, Echo and Five Years, as a special guest of its eighth Festival in Kendal, 9th - 11th October 2020.

A new episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, co-hosted by Nikki Bates and Ian Loxam, has just gone live. Episode 68 finds Pete Taylor chatting to The Whore Chronicles creators Tony Esmond and Sarah Harris on this episode, discussing the creation of the book and how it all came about.

The National Cartoonists Society – a US-based organisation of professional cartoonists in the United States, but with a chapter in the UK thanks to its partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival – has issued a reminder about its annual call for entries to its Reuben Awards.