Lakes International Comic Art Festical is coming...
It's that Lakes International Comic Art Festival time of year again!
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is the only event of its kind in the UK taking over the whole town of Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District, Cumbria from 12th to 14th of October 2018.
Celebrating the amazing world of comic artists, creators and writers, they bring the biggest names in comic art to Cumbria with over 70 special guests from across the comic world. There really is something for everyone, whether you’re a comic veteran, new to comics or just love seeing amazing artists at work!
This year, once again, French comics artists are among their special guests including Owen Michael Johnson and Satoshi Kitamura. Join in to meet Guy Delisle, Edmond Baudoin, JC Deveney!
Guy Delisle is a Canadian animator and comics artist. In 1994, he made his first short, Trois petits chats, which piqued fellow filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit’s interest. Dudok de Wit asked Delisle to collaborate on his film Le moine et le poisson, which won the César for best short film in 1995. He worked on travelogues : Pyongyang, Burma Chronicles and Jerusalem (Penguin), for the latter title, he won the award for Best Album at the 2012 Angoulême festival.
Edmond Baudoin slipped his first short comic-strip stories into Le Canard Sauvage in 1974 and subsequently into Circus, Pilote and L'Echo des Savanes. Les Yeux dans le mur (Dupuis), the first of his works that he coloured for the Collection Aire Libre and one that he composed in collaboration with a young admirer and model, Céline Wagner, is a perfect illustration of this characteristic. Edmond Baudoin's Dalí, a graphic biography of the great surrealist painter, is published in English by SelfMadeHero (October 2016).
JC Deveney is a French author and screewriter. In parallel with these writing activities, he works within the Lyon Bd Festival to organize international co-creation projects and exhibitions. He also teaches scriptwriting and dramaturgy for comics and illustration schools and animation school.
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