THE LAKES INTERNATIONAL COMIC ART FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMICS RIGHTS MARKET FOR BRITISH PUBLISHERS AND CREATORS

Supported by the Arts Council and The Adlard Family Foundation, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce its first International Comics Rights Market, bringing European and British comic publishers together to negotiate publishing rights to their comics.

Key global comics industry players will be coming to LICAF 2024 and 2025 to find, promote, publish and distribute British comics talent through this International Rights Market. The new project is only the second of its kind in the world, the other taking place during the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême.

The Festival will also be taking a diverse group of British creators to flagship international festivals and industry events to tell the story of British comics and find new partners and advocates.

“At our Rights Market, British agents, publishers and creators will negotiate publishing rights to their comics with international counterparts across Europe, intersecting with LICAF ’s existing curated Comics Marketplace at our annual Festival,” Festival Director Julie Tait explains. “We’ll also be organising a British Comic Art Pavilion at two key comic festivals each year in North America and France will showcase the UK sector to huge audiences at global events.

The British Comics Now pavilion will feature a delegation of creators to the Toronto Comic Art Festival and Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême, attending TCAF in 2024, Angoulême and TCAF 2025, and d’Angoulême 2026.

Six British comic creators will be fully funded to join each of the delegations!!

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