Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in partnership with downthetubes, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that’s not including creators you’ll find in the Comics Clock Tower).

This Festival Focus for 2018 is Emmi Nieminen, a visual artist, illustrator and comics artist from Tampere, Finland.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in partnership with the downthetubes web site, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that’s not including creators you’ll find in the Comics Clock Tower).

This Festival Focus for 2018 is with Orijit Sen, a graphic artist, cartoonist and designer based in New Delhi, India.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in partnership with the downthetubes web site, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that's not including creators you'll find in the Comics Clock Tower).

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in partnership with the downthetubes web site, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that's not including creators you'll find in the Comics Clock Tower).

This Festival Focus for 2018 is with Bobby Joseph, the critically acclaimed comic book author of Skank Magazine, Black Eye and the Scotland Yardie graphic novel.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has some big plans for family fun at this year's weekend-long celebration of all things comic related, working hand in hand with the team at Westmorland Shopping Centre to deliver some full-on creative craziness.

Drawing challenges, comics workshops, face painting and more are all part of the exciting Family Zone line up of free events at the shopping centre, taking place on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th October at this year's Festival.

Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in partnership wiht the downthetubes web site, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that's not including creators you'll find in the Comics Clock Tower), so we thought we'd better start now! 

Our first Festival Focus for 2018 is with writer, John Wagner, best known for his work for 2000AD, having co-created Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Robo-Hunter and many other memorable characters.

One of the creators of Ben 10 and the writer of the magnificent I Kill Giants, Joe Kelly is the guest on the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast.

Our Festival has played host to creators of many nations - and this year, the Scots will be among the nations in the spotlight over the weekend in October.

Robbie Morrison, co-creator of 2000AD's "Nikolai Dante", is the guest of the latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast - available now.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce a new international partnership with France’s Lyon BD Festival and the US-based National Cartoonists Society to bring a new comics event to Huntington Beach, California, in May 2019.