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 Our events will include live draws, interviews, presentations, workshops, exhibitions, book launches, Little LICAF activities, a Comics Marketplace, our second International Comics Rights Market – and provide a chance to get up close to the best comic creators in the world! 

Throughout the year, The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) delivers a wide range of projects using comics to achieve positive change. Under the title Comics Can Change the World, LICAF is delivering projects in our local community, across our region and country and with partners internationally. 

We continue to explore how comics can galvanise efforts to address the climate emergency, how they can play a significant role in education – from primary schools to higher education – and much more! 

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Festival Guest 2025: Martin Rowson
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Festival Guest 2025: Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson is a multi-award winning cartoonist and writer Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: Martin Rowson

Festival Guest 2025: Kev F Sutherland
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Festival Guest 2025: Kev F Sutherland

Kev F Sutherland has written and drawn for Beano, Doctor Who Magazine and Marvel Comics Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: Kev F Sutherland

Festival Guest 2025: Mary Talbot
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Festival Guest 2025: Mary Talbot

Mary M. Talbot is an academic turned graphic novelist Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: Mary Talbot

Festival Guest 2025: Bryan Talbot
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Festival Guest 2025: Bryan Talbot

Multiple award-winning artist Bryan Talbot has been working in comics for over forty years Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: Bryan Talbot

Festival Guest 2025: VIZ
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Festival Guest 2025: VIZ

In their own usual hyperbolic words, “better than nothing”, VIZ have become a regular feature, if not an institution of sorts, at LICAF for good reason – there’s nothing in the world quite like them/it! Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: VIZ

Phoenix Festival guests 2025
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Phoenix Festival guests 2025

The UK’s Best Kids’ Comic Festival has joined forces with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival – and here are the guests, including Jamie Smart Continue reading Phoenix Festival guests 2025

Phoenix Fest 2025 Guests for Lakes International Comic Art Festival Announced!
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Phoenix Fest 2025 Guests for Lakes International Comic Art Festival Announced!

The UK’s Best Kids’ Comic Festival has joined forces with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival – and here are the guests, including Jamie Smart! Continue reading Phoenix Fest 2025 Guests for Lakes International Comic Art Festival Announced!

Festival Guest 2025: Will Potter
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Festival Guest 2025: Will Potter

William Potter is bass player in UK indie band CUD, comic-book writer, children’s genre and activity book author Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: Will Potter

Festival Guest 2025: Serge Bloch
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Festival Guest 2025: Serge Bloch

Serge Bloch is the illustrator of many children’s books, including SamSam and the Max and Lili series Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: Serge Bloch

Festival Guest 2025: The Rickard Sisters
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Festival Guest 2025: The Rickard Sisters

Scarlett and Sophie Rickard are sisters who work together to make graphic novels Continue reading Festival Guest 2025: The Rickard Sisters

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 Our events will include live draws, interviews, presentations, workshops, exhibitions, book launches, Little LICAF activities, a Comics Marketplace, our second International Comics Rights Market – and provide a chance to get up close to the best comic creators in the world! 

Throughout the year, The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) delivers a wide range of projects using comics to achieve positive change. Under the title Comics Can Change the World, LICAF is delivering projects in our local community, across our region and country and with partners internationally. 

We continue to explore how comics can galvanise efforts to address the climate emergency, how they can play a significant role in education – from primary schools to higher education – and much more! 

Categories

  • British Comics Now
  • Comic Resources
  • Comics Can Change The World
  • Comics Laureate
  • Comics Up Close
  • Conferences
  • Events
  • Exhibitors
  • Guests
  • International Partnerships
  • Interviews
  • Lakes International Comic Art Festival
  • LICAF Books
  • LICAF Residencies
  • News
  • Podcasts
  • UK LICAF Partners
  • Volunteers
  • Young Comics Laureate

Latest News

  • Comic Marketplace Applications Open for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival
  • Lakes International Comic Art Festival brings the very best of comic art from across the world back to Kendal in 2026
  • Cartoon Museum gets set to host “A 100-year Journey of Diversity and Representation in Comics”
  • British Comics Now Delegation heads to Brussels
  • Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on the BBC

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