Lakes Festival to host "Art of Stranski" Exhibition
We're delighted to announce that we'll be hosting The Art of Stranski at this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival, an exhibition of Lorenzo Etheringon's 1940s opus, Stranski.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast took a trip out to Oldham Comic Con 2018 last weekend and landed plenty of conversations with some terrific comic creators.
"We had a great time and it really was a well ran event," says co-host Ian Loxam.
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In the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, the team chat to Jerome Saincantin about his role as a translator for Cinebook.
Cinebook are publishers of best selling European books in the English language. Their titles include Valerian, Lucky Luke, Thorgal and XIII – to name but a few. Jerome talks about the success of comics in Europe and which comics in particular we should be enjoying.
Hero(ine)s - an international exhibition reimagining comic heroes in their female form
Being a comic hero has traditionally been the dominion of the male. This is about to be challenged through a new exhibition called ‘Hero(ine)s’ featuring iconic comic heroes re-interpreted and reimagined in their female form.
Female mutant ninja turtles, Vulverine and the Visible Woman feature in Hero(ine)s – a new exhibition on gender and comics
Hero(ine)s features work from over twenty artists including Steven Appleby, Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, Finnish artist Kaisa Leka, Swiss artist Hélène Becquelin and Belgian comic artist Brecht Vandenbroucke.
Simpsons co-creator David Silverman joins Festival Weekend line-up
We're delighted to announce that The Simpsons co-creatorand cartoonist David Silverman will be joining the line-up at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival weekend in Kendal (12th – 14th October 2018).
David will be on stage during the weekend chatting with cartoonist and fellow animator Steve McGarry about his amazing career – and there are some other special events planned. Which include playing the tuba!
Carlisle Comic Con focus for latest Festival Podcast
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast team took a trip up to Carlisle Comic Con recently and the latest podcast features interviews with some of the comic creators featured there.
