Kendal, UK, 30th April 2014:
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce that the award-winning comic creator
Eddie Campbell
has joined the event’s line-up of guests, as one of the “extra” names
for the weekend-long event in October that will be revealed across the
next few months.
Eddie Campbell has been working in comics for over thirty years. His works include the huge
From Hell in collaboration with Alan Moore;
Bacchus, concerning the further adventures of the 4,000-year-old God of Wine, and
Alec, an autobiographical comic he has been drawing since 1981.
Recent books have included
The Fate of the Artist,
The Lovely Horrible Stuff, and
The From Hell Companion, a book crammed full of theory, anecdote and outtakes. This summer he is undertaking a tour with Neil Gaiman to promote
The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountain, a performance/reading now turned into a book.
He has also collaborated with Audrey Niffenegger, author of
The Time Traveller's Wife, on a strip published last weekend by
The Guardian, "Thursdays, Six to Eight p.m".
Many of his works have been published in print by Britain's
Knockabout Comics in partnership with
Top Shelf Productions, and digitally by Festival sponsor
SEQUENTIAL.
“It's exciting to see Britain getting a proper comics festival like they
have in France and Italy,” says Eddie of the Lakes International Comic
Art Festival’s programme.“ And it's even more exciting to be a part of
it."
He also reveals his talk – which he re-works from event to event – has
the intriguing title “Eddie Campbell talks about living in a comic.”
Eddie is the latest addition to the guest list that includes a range of
British and overseas creators including acclaimed comics creator and
newspaper strip artist
Nick Abadzis (author of
Laika);
Walking Dead artist
Charlie Adlard, artist
Mark Buckingham;
The Mire and
Wolves creator Becky Cloonan; Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons; 2000AD artist Jock; Japanese artist Junko Mizuno; digital comics frontiersman Scott McCloud; Drowntown co-creator Robbie Morrison; leading US comics writer Gail Simone; the creator of the multi-award winning Bone Jeff Smith; Grandville and Luther Arkwright author Bryan Talbot, one of the Festival’s patrons alongside Sean Phillips and Mary Talbot; and Emma Vieceli will also join other comic creators for Kendal’s second comics extravaganza.
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