Main funders:

Arts Council England
Creative Scotland
Cumbria County Council
Lake District National Park Authority
South Lakeland District Council

In partnership with:

Better Leisure
Kendal College (Founder)
Lakeland Arts
Old Laundry Theatre
Sheffield Hallam University
The University of Manchester
Windermere Jetty Museum

International Partners

Belgian Comic Strip Center
British Council
Czech Literary Centre
Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles au Royaume-Uni
Escola Joso - Centro de Cómic y Artes Visuales
Finnish Institute in London
Flanders Literature
Institut français du Royaume-Uni
Italian Cultural Institute in London
Lyon BD Festival
National Cartoonists Society
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Rada and Mutaz Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at the American University of Beirut
Wallonia-Bruxelles International

Other commercial partners and publishers

David Fickling Books, publishers of The Phoenix comic​
Fanfare Press UK
GetMyComics, publishers of SHIFT
MTP Media
Panini Comics

Thank you to our patrons:

Yomi Ayeni, Kate Charlesworth, Comics Laureate 2023 - 2025 Bobby Joseph, Keli Lark, Michael Lark, Sean Phillips, Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Zoom Rockman

Huge thank you to our donors:

Generous donation from the Adlard Family Foundation, Graham Dury, Peter Kessler, Festival Patron Sean Phillips, Bryan Talbot and Stephen Parkes - and to all the artists who contribute to our annual fundraising auctions.