Sono passati appena 15 giorni dalla decima edizione Lakes International Comic Art Festival che quest’anno si è svolta a Bowness-on-Windermere, ed ecco che un po’ a sorpresa lo staff del LICAF comunica in anteprima le date della prossima edizione.
“Fumettomania Factory – APS” , con sede in Sicilia, da poco iscritta al RUNTS (il Registro Unico Nazionale del Terzo Settore), è felice di comunicare che supporterà anche l’edizione 2023 del Lakes Festival , nella quale spera di poter presentare anche la sua mostra collettiva itinerante ANTHROPOCENE.
Nota bene: la prossima settimana vi raconteremo l’edizione 2022 con le parole di Damiano, Cesare e William, i tre soci di Fumettomania che vi hanno partecipato.
Mario Benenati,
curatore di Fumettomania Factory Magazine
Lakes International Comic Art Festival returns to Bowness in September 2023
Tuesday 1st November 2022:
After the success of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere the dates for next year’s event have been announced as 29th September – 1st October 2023.
Putting the Lake into the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, the weekend-long event will be just part of a dynamic, year-round programme of international comic art activity, based in the heart of the Lake District National Park.
With its continuing mission of using comics to change the world, the Festival’s work, which includes an academic conference in February at the University of Manchester, is supported by major partners that include Arts Council England, the Lake District National Park Authority, South Lakeland District Council, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and Lancaster University.
Since its inception in 2013, the annual Festival has been held in Kendal, but for its tenth year, the core of the Festival took over multiple venues within Bowness-on-Windermere, on the east banks of Lake Windermere. The move was met with delight by locals and comic fans alike, and plans for next year will incorporate feedback from this year’s attendees to make the very most of the new location.
Guests have yet to be announced, and exhibitor applications will open in January.
Comics Laureate Stephen L. Holland gives a talk on “The Secret History,
Medium & Mechanics of Comics” in the Windermere Jetty Museum’s iconic Boat House. Photo: Chris Payne
Julie Tait, Festival Director said: “We’ve been blown away by the response to the move to Bowness-on-Windermere, which we always knew would present an incredible opportunity to bring the wonder of comics to new audiences, within an iconic, world-heritage landscape.
“The move was always about re-imagining the Festival for a new era, and the feedback we’ve had will really help shape our offer next September.
“We are looking forward to welcoming our regular Festival visitors and new audiences to LICAF 2023.”
Lakes Arts Festivals, who run LICAF, is also planning to run comic art activity in many other cities and towns throughout the UK, including Kendal, along with an extensive international programme.
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Bill Morrison’s “Yellow Submarine” exhibition continues at Windermere Jetty Museum until 2nd January 2023
FESTIVAL IMAGES
The “Wander More with Welsby” trail, featuring unique creations by world-renowned duo Jonathan Edwards and Louise Evans aka Feltmistress, continues around Bowness into the Winter months. The Trail was created with funding from the Lake District National Park Authority. Photo: Chris Payne
Award-winning comic creator Alison Bechdel on stage with Hannah Berry at LICAF 2022. Photo: Chris Payne
Twins Cartoons – brothers Haitham and Mohamed El-seht – share the challenges of creating comics in the Middle East, at the Old Laundry Theatre. Photo: Chris Payne
NOTE EXTRA
Per i redattori e i sostenitori
I seguenti articoli sono informazioni di base sul Lakes International Comic Art Festival che potresti trovare utili per altri articoli per la tua testata giornalistica sulla nostra organizzazione. Li includiamo in ogni comunicato stampa a scopo informativo e per ringraziare i nostri numerosi finanziatori e principali sostenitori.
Festival Guests and Exhibitors in 2022
LICAF 2022 l’elenco degli ospiti include:
Charlie Adlard, Dimitris Anastasiou, Mehdi Annassi, Lucie Arnoux, Bianca Bagnarelli, Alison Bechdel, Fred Campoy, Matthew Dooley, Ulla Donner, Oliver East, Karrie Fransman, Lina Ghabeih, Dave Gibbons, Paul Gravett, Kalle Hakkola, Jaime Hernandez, Eva Hilhorst, Bryan Hitch, Stephen L. Holland, Rian Hughes, Marc Jackson, Michael Lark, Leomacs, Marine des Mazery, Vojtěch Mašek, Joe McGarry, Luke McGarry,
Steve McGarry, Mick McMahon, Bill Morrison, Bex Ollerton, Dean Ormston, Jacob Phillips, JAD, Sean Phillips, Mike Perkins, Tim Pilcher, Ram V, Mollie Ray, Tom Richmond, Greg Rucka, Andrea Settimo, Katie Skelly, Posy Simmonds, Václav Šlajch, Fiona Stephenson, Maria Surducan, Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot, Petteri Tikkanen, Jörg Tittel, Twin Cartoons, Judit Vanistandel, Asya Voitenko, and Andi Watson
• Profiles of all LICAF guests feature here on the official Festival web site
Lakeview Comics Marketplace Exhibitors 2022
For full profiles visit this page on our web site
Exhibitors at the Lakeview Comics Marketplace were: A&A Co., Art-Bubble, B7 Comics, Beatrice Mossman, Benjamin Dickson, Bryan Talbot, Bungaroosh, Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain, Catfood Comics, Clarice Tudor, Clark Bint, CoCo Comics, Comics Youth CIC, Coming Home – Re-Live, Drew Marr of Gold Lion Comics, Fanfare Presents, Gustaffo Vargas, ILYA GRAPHIC, J Webster Sharp, James Chapman, Joe Latham,
Kate Mia White, Komiket, Kev F Sutherland, Lyndon White, Markosia Enterprises, Martin Geraghty, Matt Smith! (Smith vs Smith), Myriad Editions, Nick Brokenshire, Olivia Sullivan (ZEB.KO), Peter Morey Comics, Rachael Smith, Roger Langridge, Schnumn, SelfMadeHero, Story Forest, Teesside University, The 77 Publications, The Cartoon Museum, Tom Ward, Twins Cartoons, and Una
About Us
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is the only one of its kind in the UK, centred on events and comics projects brought to you from one of the country’s most beautiful areas – the English Lake District, in the market town of Kendal. Modelled on European-style festivals, such as Angoulême in France, the annual Festival usually takes over the whole town for a weekend of comic art every October.
The Festival’s aim is to celebrate the whole spectrum of comic art, inspiring existing comic art fans and creators and, it hopes, generating new audiences and creators too. It invests in creators through a commissioning programme and has an emphasis on developing international collaborations.
The Patrons of the Festival are comic creators Yomi Ayeni, Kate Charlesworth, Comics Laureate Stephen L. Holland, Sean Phillips, Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Zoom Rockman.
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. It is supported by Cumbria County Council, Lake District National Park Authority, South Lakeland District Council and Kendal Town Council
Our main sponsor is Lancaster University and main partners are Kendal College, the Windermere Jetty Museum, the Old Laundry Theatre, NCS, Lakeview Bar and Grill and Baha.
We are also supported by The British Council, The Czech Literary Centre, The Finnish Institute in London, Institut Francais, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the National Cartoonists Society, and other international partnerships
We also receive support from publishers David Fickling Comics, publishers of The Phoenix comic, Fanfare Press and Knockabout Press
Thanks also to our generous donors: Charlie Adlard, Lynette Adlard, Graham Dury, Peter Kessler, Bryan Talbot, Sean Phillips and Simon Thorp.