Cartoonist Posy Simmonds announced as 2022 winner of Sergio Aragones Award

Cartoonist Posy Simmonds is the winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art for 2022

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced cartoonist Posy Simmonds as the winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art for 2022. Posy Simmonds Posy Simmonds, whose career spans 50 years, is best known for the strip cartoons and serials that were published in The Guardian and the books that derive from them. She has also written and illustrated…

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Dave McKean announced inaugural winner of International Award for Excellence in Comic Art Dave McKean is the inaugural winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art. The announcement was made at the opening ceremony of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Full story: http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2017/10/13/dave-mckean-announced-inaugural-winner-international-award-excellence-comic-art/

Award-winning comic creators join this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival lineup

More international guests announced for this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced another fine mix of guests for its annual Festival (29th September – 1st October 2022) in Bowness-on-Windermere, including Hunt Emerson, winner of the 2018 Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art, and caricaturist, cartoonist and humorous illustrator Tom Richmond. Hunt, Tom and Jad (George Khoury), Fouad Mezher,…

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Sergio Aragonés heads to Kendal to present first ever Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art

Sergio Aragonés heads to Kendal to present first ever Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art

Sergio Aragonés As we’ve previously reported, Sergio Aragonés, the world’s fastest cartoonist, will be making a rare appearance as part of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (13th – 15th October in Kendal, Cumbria). One of the most famous and influential living cartoonists, Sergio, perhaps best known for his work on MAD Magazine, is world renowned for his fast and witty cartooning style.…

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More European Comic Creators join October's Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up

More European Comic Creators join October’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2019 has announced a number of European comic creators who will be heading to Kendal in October for this year’s weekend-long Festival.

Joining the recently-announced Belgian and Belgium-based creators Serge Baeken, Ephameron, Loic Gaume, Ben Gijsemans, Valentine Laffitte, Pascal Lemaitre, Marine Schneider,Judith Vanistendael.and Joris Vermassen will be J…

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Charlie Adlard wins Sergio Aragones International Award For Excellence In Comic Art

Charlie Adlard wins Sergio Aragones International Award For Excellence In Comic Art

Charlie Adlard

The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard won the Sergio Aragones International Award For Excellence In Comic Art at this year’s Reubens Awards, held over the weekend at the inaugural NCSFest in Huntington Beach, California.

Charlie will collect his Award at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, Cumbria, in October.

“I’m honoured, overjoyed, and humbled,” said Charlie.…

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Hunt Emerson wins Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art

Hunt Emerson wins Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art

Hunt Emerson at work

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced Hunt Emerson as the winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art for 2018.

Hunt, who is highly regarded internationally for his work as a graphic novelist, and as a cartoonist for a variety of magazines including Fortean Times and Beano, was announced as winner at the opening ceremony of…

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New Hunt Emerson exhibtion opens in Birmingham

New Hunt Emerson exhibtion opens in Birmingham

Calculus Cat by Hunt Emerson

Just opened at the Primitivo Bar in Birmingham is a fantastic exhibition of art by this year’s Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art winner Hunt Emerson, which runs until February 2019.

It includes a splendid Calculus Cat silkscreen print, made specially for this exhibition.

Hunt’s career spans all-ages comics like The Beano as well as more…

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Artist Dave McKean announced as inaugural winner of the International Award for Excellence in Comic Art

Artist Dave McKean announced as inaugural winner of the International Award for Excellence in Comic Art

Arkham Asylum artist Dave McKean was announced as the inaugural winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art at the weekend. The announcement was made at the opening ceremony of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival which runs from 13–15th October in Kendal, Cumbria. Sergio Aragonés, one of the most famous and influential living cartoonists, made a rare UK…

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