Main funders:

Arts Council England
Cumbria County Council
Lake District National Park Authority
Westmorland and Furness Council

In partnership with:

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

With additional support from:

Clip Studio Paint
Fanfare UK
Knockabout
Page 45
MTP Media
The Belsfield Hotel

Plus our international partners:

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

Thank you to our patrons:

Sean Phillips, Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot, Zoom Rockman, Kate Charlesworth, Yomi Ayeni, Keli Lark, Michael Lark and Stephen L. Holland, owner of the award-winning independent comic shop Page 45 in Nottingham.

Huge thank you to our donors:

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