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Alexa Frank has been announced as the 2024 winner of The Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation into English at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in partnership with Comica and VIP Brands Alexa Frank won for her translation of 沖合の雷 by Saito Nazuna, a collection of stories translated from Japanese, as Offshore Lightning[...]

Lakes International Comic Art Festival is launching a search for new Comics Laureate This is the first time it has done this, previously it has announced the new UK Comics Laureate as a fait accompli This meant last time, there was a lot of bad feeling (on Twitter at least) regarding Stephen Holland, owner of[...]

The Lakes Festival has announced that its appointed UK Comics Laureate, Stephen L Holland, store owner of Page 45 in Nottingham, will continue in that role for another year, until at least October 2023 He follows Dave Gibbons in 2014, Charlie Adlard in 2016, Hannah Berry in 2018, and Holland in 2020. YouTube screencap of Stephen[...]

The Lakes Comic Art Festival, held for many years in Kendal in England's Lake District is to move to a smaller town even closer to the lakes in question, Bowness-Upon-Windermere, inside the Lake District National Park for their October 2022 show, held from Friday the 14th to Sunday the 16th of October 2022 Bleeding Cool[...]

The announcement was made as part of the opening event of this year's online event, LICAF Live, running from the 15th to the 17th of October, an online version of the annual Lakes International Comics Art Festival in Kendal replacing the usual physical Festival in Kendal due to the Coronavirus Pandemic and resulting restrictions on[...]

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is taking no chances Arranged for 9th – 11th October 2020 in Kendle, they have decided, show or no show, to put on a virtual event instead this year They have made this step so far out – even when other shows such as MCM Comic Con Birmingham are[...]

He's still a fan. been comparing local councillors to characters from vic reeves big night out but my staff are too young to understand! — Tim Farron (@timfarron) March 25, 2011 Whereas Jonathan Ross pretty much actually discovered Vic Reeves, forcing him onto television in the face of bemused television folk who just didn't understand. It's just a peculiar thing[...]

Richard Corben did the cover to Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell, Jaime Hewlett naturally did the covers to the Gorillaz albums, as well as Cud and Senseless Things before it. To Becky Cloonan's brand new cover for Clutch's next LP. They're all part of a new exhibition of comic book creators' work on album covers curated by Sean Phillips, in Kendal, ahead[...]

As they did last year, the Lakes Comic Arts Festival held in Kendal this weekend, saw the town transformed into comic books, with plenty of local shops joingin in Photos courtesy of Mike Collins, Alex Valente and the Westmoreland Gazette As they did last year, the Lakes Comic Arts Festival held in Kendal this[...]

Gary Gray writes from the The Lakes International Comic Art Festival for Bleeding Cool; Yesterday I managed to sneak away for a day for a good long drive to The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) that was being held in Kendal over the weekend of And that last word Festival is the most important word[...]

The BBC gave a rather lovely puff piece for The Lakes Comics Festival beginning on Saturday in the UK, turning the town of Kendal in Cumbria, England, into a comic book international festival And, apparently, attracting a bunch of academic types. Dr Gibson is one of 50 leading figures from the world of graphic novels who[...]

The Lakes Comics Art Festival, to be held in England's Lake District later this year in the town of Kendal, has posted their guest creator list. They include patrons Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Sean Phillips, as well as Phillips' most common collaborator Ed Brubaker, Alack Sinner artist Jose Munoz, comics journalist Joe Sacco, cartoonist-turned-film-spinoff Posy[...]