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 Jean-Baptiste Pollien, aka Jibé, a French cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer from Lyon.

The seventh year of the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival brings with it the annual “Windows Trail“, now bringing Kendal alive with comics in the run up to the annual weekend of comic creator-led fun, over 11th – 13th October.

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 French graphic novelist Fabien Toulmé, a comic creator who Fabien started in publishing with some stories on the web and then in magazines.

The Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival have released details of their Comics Cultural Exchange taking place this autumn.

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 Árni Beck Gunnarsson, a comics creator whose goal as a promoter of the comics form is simple – to promote what he thinks are good comics and to help creators, who have little or no time, to promote their works internationally.

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 Lars Jakobsen, director and founder of the Art Bubble festival in Denmark, responsible for contacts with the Festival's guest artists, alongside the coordination and promotion of Danish cartoonists at foreign festivals through the Art Bubble network.

Lars is also a documentary filmmaker, illustrator and graphic designer, and owner of publishing house Fabel.

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 Robert Deas is a British comic artist and the creator of "Troy Trailblazer", the science fiction adventure series appearing inside the pages of The Phoenix and The Sunday Times.

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 a Belgian author of graphic novels Judith Vanistendael, whose credits include Dance by the Light of the Moon, When David Lost His Voice and Mikel (which will be published in English in September 2019).

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.