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4th Lakes International Comic Art Festival

Bryan was one of the artists lined up to work on this year’s 24 Hour Comic Marathon project, set to begin at 3pm on Thursday 13th. So our festival experience started early. This year a single story had been written … Continue reading →

September-October update

The past few weeks have been non-stop. Since our Edinburgh Festival weekend at the end of August, we’ve been at festivals in four other countries. I’ve posted about our trip in September to Avilés in Spain already. From 29th September … Continue reading →

Avilés Comics Festival

Recently back from the Jornadas Internationales de Cómic in Avilés, a small, friendly Spanish festival in Asturias that’s now in its 21st year. With the hotel and everything else located in the peaceful old town centre, we had a very … Continue reading →

Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal

The full programme for the 4th Lakes International Comic Art Festival is now online and available to download here. It’s fabulous, packed with an enormous range of events. Tickets are now on sale, so now’s the time to take a … Continue reading →

Foreign language editions in the pipeline…

We seem to be finding gainful employment for translators all over the place! The French edition of The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia is released in September from Editions Vuibert. The publishers asked Bryan to recreate the lovely … Continue reading →

Here I Stand

A new teen anthology from Amnesty International, Here I Stand will be published by Walker Books on 4th August 2016 and available here. At a time when we are seeing a nightmarish surge in hate crimes, this anthology is, unfortunately, … Continue reading →

Reflection and raspberries

Before the last General Election, Alwyn Talbot and I contributed a 4-page strip to 64 pages of reflection and raspberry blowing published by Disconnected Press. We called it ‘Preparation for Leadership’; the collection was Cross – A Political Satire Anthology. … Continue reading →

Beatrix Potter’s Inspiring Legacy in Kendal Museum

On Tuesday we went to the launch of an exhibition at the museum in Kendal, Cumbria. Beatrix Potter’s Inspiring Legacy exhibition marks the 150th anniversary of her birth. Rather than focusing on her illustrated children’s books, which are known worldwide, … Continue reading →

Wonderlands in Sunderland and the Bradford litfest

A hectic month has finally come to a close. The weekend before last Bryan and I were guests at the Bradford Literature Festival. For the first time, the festival was running a strand of events devoted to comics, which took … Continue reading →

Looking back at Red Virgin launch week

Creating a graphic novel is a slow process, and most of the time a solitary one. The creation of The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia began, for me, back in 2013, as I embarked on a long trail … Continue reading →