Joined Jun 2020 Kendal, UK
LICAF (The Lakes International Comic Art Festival) takes place every year in Kendal, a small town in the Lake District of the UK.
The festival features a diverse range of international guests from all corners of the comics industry, from established artists at the peak of their careers, to “old school” legends, up-and-coming stars, and newbie creators displaying their work for the first time. The three-day event features a mix of talks, panels, signings, exhibitions, window displays, workshops, performances, film screenings, kids areas and over 90 exhibitor booths.
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The digital anthology of select entries to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival‘s Race Into Space Challenge is now available to read for free online. It includes the winning strip by Spacewarp artist James Newell, alongside entries from a variety of both established comic creators and newcomers to the world of comics.
Judged by comics editor John Freeman and publisher Andrew Mark Sewell of B7 Media, this digital anthology features strips by (in order of presentation) entries by James Newell, David Livens, Gavin Pollock, Martin Cater, Craig Fletcher, newcomer Naomi D’Silva, Alan Holloway and Ed Doyle, the publishers of Sentinel, Fred Eggs Comics publisher David Robertson, Eagle Award shortlisted creator John Maybury and 2015 Observer/ Cape/ Comica graphic short story prize winner Richard Woods.
A wide range of entries were received, mix of straight adventure, humour, surreal – no easy choice – from creators of different ages, from all over the world.
The anthology includes only entries published with the express permission of their creators and features on the LICAF Tapas channel, where you can also read other LICAF-published works such as Edward Taylor’s Godzilla’s Lockdown Diary and more.
Backed by the Arts Council, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival supports a number of projects spotlighting comic creators work from the UK and beyond.
More about Lakes International Comic Art Festival Special Projects can be found on the Festival web site - https://www.comicartfestival.com/projects
Judged by comics editor John Freeman and publisher Andrew Mark Sewell of B7 Media, this digital anthology features strips by (in order of presentation) entries by James Newell, David Livens, Gavin Pollock, Martin Cater, Craig Fletcher, newcomer Naomi D’Silva, Alan Holloway and Ed Doyle, the publishers of Sentinel, Fred Eggs Comics publisher David Robertson, Eagle Award shortlisted creator John Maybury and 2015 Observer/ Cape/ Comica graphic short story prize winner Richard Woods.
A wide range of entries were received, mix of straight adventure, humour, surreal – no easy choice – from creators of different ages, from all over the world.
The anthology includes only entries published with the express permission of their creators and features on the LICAF Tapas channel, where you can also read other LICAF-published works such as Edward Taylor’s Godzilla’s Lockdown Diary and more.
Backed by the Arts Council, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival supports a number of projects spotlighting comic creators work from the UK and beyond.
More about Lakes International Comic Art Festival Special Projects can be found on the Festival web site - https://www.comicartfestival.com/projects
In 2020, as part of the online event #LICAFLIVE, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival challenged 16 artists to create a 16-panel story with the loosest of storylines, directed by Luke and Joe McGarry.
The result was this ‘Pass the Panel’ original comic, created by artists from around the world exclusively for LICAF Live - and you can read it now here on Tapas.
Pass the Panel reveals the speed, style and sheer imagination of these incredibly talented creators, who are, in order of appearance: Luke McGarry, Duncan Fegredo, Steven Appleby, Rick Stromoski, Steve McGarry, Craig Gleason, Johnny Sampson, Tom Richmond, Lucie Lomová, Charlie Adlard, Bill Morrison, Sean Phillips, Michael Lark, Francis Desharnais, Jibé, and Alex A
Pass the Panel was edited by Joe McGarry, with music by Pop Noir and with special thanks to Thomas-Louis Côté and Richard Foster. This digital edition was designed and edited by John Freeman.
All art and story © respective artists and writers.
Find out more about the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and its many publishing projects at www.comicartfestival.com
The result was this ‘Pass the Panel’ original comic, created by artists from around the world exclusively for LICAF Live - and you can read it now here on Tapas.
Pass the Panel reveals the speed, style and sheer imagination of these incredibly talented creators, who are, in order of appearance: Luke McGarry, Duncan Fegredo, Steven Appleby, Rick Stromoski, Steve McGarry, Craig Gleason, Johnny Sampson, Tom Richmond, Lucie Lomová, Charlie Adlard, Bill Morrison, Sean Phillips, Michael Lark, Francis Desharnais, Jibé, and Alex A
Pass the Panel was edited by Joe McGarry, with music by Pop Noir and with special thanks to Thomas-Louis Côté and Richard Foster. This digital edition was designed and edited by John Freeman.
All art and story © respective artists and writers.
Find out more about the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and its many publishing projects at www.comicartfestival.com
We're delighted to launch "Godzilla’s Lockdown Diary" today, published here for the very first time by the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, a project that emerged from a long series of drawings that Edward Taylor did in 2017, which looked at what Godzilla did underground when he wasn’t above ground fighting ludicrous monsters.
40 of these drawings were exhibited at the Brewery Art Centre during the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2019.
This diary was started in February 2020, a month before the Coronavirus Pandemic shut everything down. These pages were drawn from mid-March to mid-May.
Sue Auty provided a valuable editorial eye as the stories emerged on paper.
Edward Taylor has spent 38 years touring nationally and internationally with the Whalley Range All Stars (www.wras.org.uk) a street theatre company he formed with Sue Auty. Drawing plays an important part in the early stages of every company production.
In the last few years, Edward has worked on a variety of comic strip stories as a side-line to the theatre shows.
Godzilla's Lockdown Diary is © 2020 Edward Taylor
40 of these drawings were exhibited at the Brewery Art Centre during the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2019.
This diary was started in February 2020, a month before the Coronavirus Pandemic shut everything down. These pages were drawn from mid-March to mid-May.
Sue Auty provided a valuable editorial eye as the stories emerged on paper.
Edward Taylor has spent 38 years touring nationally and internationally with the Whalley Range All Stars (www.wras.org.uk) a street theatre company he formed with Sue Auty. Drawing plays an important part in the early stages of every company production.
In the last few years, Edward has worked on a variety of comic strip stories as a side-line to the theatre shows.
Godzilla's Lockdown Diary is © 2020 Edward Taylor
We're delighted to add two projects here on our Tapas presence. The first is our LICAF Journal for 2018, presenting a snapshot of the event; the second, "Lost in Space" the winning entries in the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2014 competition, run in conjunction with Titan Comics. This was a challenge to find undiscovered talent with a “Lost in Space” theme. The winners were announced at Lancaster Comics Day in 2015 by the digital project’s editor, John Freeman.
The competition, co-ordinated by Katie White and Phil Welch asked comic artists and writers to to create an original comic of four to six pages in length, with the winners seeing their strips published in a digital anthology, originally released by Titan Comics on behalf of the Festival.
The competition, co-ordinated by Katie White and Phil Welch asked comic artists and writers to to create an original comic of four to six pages in length, with the winners seeing their strips published in a digital anthology, originally released by Titan Comics on behalf of the Festival.
We're delighted to join the Tapas community. Look out for more digital editions of just some of our comic projects here soon
