Comic Book UK has announced that it will work in partnership with LICAF – the UK’s comic development agency – to promote the social value of comics and create opportunities for people from all backgrounds to engage in comic arts.
As the only comics organisation in Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Portfolio of regularly funded organisations, LICAF creates opportunities for people from all backgrounds to engage in comic arts.
LICAF runs a programme of year round projects that promote the positive role of comics in society and the wealth of innovative talent involved in the UK comics industry.
The centrepiece of LICAF’s programme is the annual International Comic Art Festival. Held each year in Browness-on-Windermere, the Festival brings together thousands of guests from within the UK and overseas to celebrate comic arts. Running since 2012, the Festival is one of the most significant annual events on the global comics calendar, alongside the Angouleme Festival in France and the San Diego Comic Con.
Julie Tait, LICAF Director, said:
“For over a decade LICAF has supported people from right across the UK to engage with comics art, work that will be supercharged thanks to our new partnership with Comic Book UK. The programmes we run together will open up new opportunities for people from all backgrounds to develop careers in comics and showcase the outstanding and diverse work being produced by UK comic creators.”
Comic Book UK will work together with LICAF to develop a new programme of initiatives that further build recognition of comics’ social and economic value and inspire new generations of talent to build careers in the UK comic industry.
