Kendal, UK, 9th April 2014:
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is pleased to announce that the critically-acclaimed comic creator
Becky Cloonan has joined the event’s line-up of guests.
Born in Pisa, Italy, Becky Cloonan began her career self-publishing
mini-comics in 1999. Since then she has gone on to work with publishers
like DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Harper Collins and Marvel, winning an
Eisner Award in 2013 for her comic The Mire, the second book in a
trilogy of self-published short stories. Most recently she illustrated
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys with writers Shaun Simon and Gerard Way, as well as contributing art to series like
Young Avengers,
Batman Black and White, and
American Vampire.
More information on her career and current work can be found at
http://estrigious.com/becky
Becky is the latest addition to the guest list that includes a huge range of British and overseas creators including
The Walking Dead artist
Charlie Adlard, artist
Mark Buckingham,
Watchmen co-creator
Dave Gibbons, Flemish cartoonist
Peter van Heirseele,
2000AD artist
Jock, self-taught Japanese artist
Junko Mizuno, digital comics frontiersman
Scott McCloud, leading US comics writer
Gail Simone (right), the creator of the multi-award winning
Bone Jeff Smith, Dutch underground comics artist
Joost Swarte and
Emma Vieceli will also join other comic creators for Kendal’s second comics extravaganza.
More overseas guest are set to be announced in the near future, as well
as further top comic creators whose work spans not just comics but
design and storyboards for film and television.
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