The third Crouch End Comic Art Festival (CECAF) will take place at the Earl Haig Hall, Crouch End, London on June 18th, 2016. The show will host the best and brightest cartoonists and independent publishers currently active in the UK comic scene. The past 5 years have seen a huge growth in creators, publishers and consumers of comics. Crouch End is home to some of these cartoonists, so it seems natural to bring this ...
The East London Comics & Arts Festival is an annual festival dedicated to showcasing the best in comics, graphic novels, sequential art, illustration and storytelling. We are very excited to be exhibiting work at the festival again this year! Please do come along and say hi! ...
The Thought Bubble Festival is the UK’s largest event of its kind – an annual celebration of sequential art in all its forms, including everything from superhero comics to independent and small-press artists and writers....
A full festival with talks, workshops, and of course exhibiting artist. Akin to a traditional comics marketplace & artists’ alley, The Comics Clocktower occupies the whole building for the weekend, spread across a number of rooms: one large main hall and several smaller rooms and provide space for approximately 70-80 creators, retailers and publishers....
Ladies and gentlemen! Presenting printmaker, textile artist and comics creator Gareth Brookes. Gareth studied printmaking at the RCA and started making small press comics in 2006. His first graphic novel The Black Project was published by Myriad Editions in 2013. Hi Gareth! Could you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? I guess I’m an artist and writer, I spend most of my time on graphic novels these days, b...
Ladies and gentlemen! Alexis Deacon’s musings on graphite, animals and meaning, and dancing… Alexis Deacon is a writer and illustrator of comics, picture books and children’s fiction. His books have twice been selected for The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award. In 2008 he was chosen by Booktrust as one of the ten best new illustrators of the last decade. Hi Alexis! Could you tell us a...
Interview by Vicky Woo Claudia Piras is 27 years old and drew her first doodle in Cala Gonone, Sardinia. She is currently living in Urbino, where she finished her studies at PERF in animation and cartoons last summer. Claudia is one of the ten young cartoonists behind the recently released GAP zine. Hi Claudia! It’s wonderful to have this opportunity to talk to you about your art! Your work often features portr...
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Ho Sin Tung has made waves in the Asian art scene with her quietly subversive works, which usually take the form of paper-based paintings and pencil drawings (although she also tackles film and installation, on occasion). She continues to exhibit extensively in prominent Hong Kong galleries amongst various other cities. ~Interview by Ysabelle Cheung. How would you describe your work and...
Okay folks it’s news-breaking time! We are finally able to announce the winning entries from our #DrawAThon – held with Atlantic Press and 64 Killigrew Street and featuring PRIZES from Derwent Pencils! But first, A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU to everyone who joined us. We were blown away by all the gorgeous art and the sheer joy of sharing pencil love and had an enormously hard time trying to choos...
LAY SOME LEAD & BURN SOME RUBBER! Listen up folks! We’ve got some exciting news! To celebrate the release of Tiny Pencil IV: Death & Resurrection we’re having a #DRAWATHON with our friends at 64 Killigrew and Atlantic Press (Check out their gorgeous books here!)! We want to see YOU and YOUR comics and drawings! Send out and share with the world your doodles, dalliances and masterpieces in lead. Fr...
