THIS PAGE WAS LAST UPDATED ON SATURDAY 17th MAY 2025
Our Early Bird Offer ended on Friday 16th May 2025
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival brings the best comic artists, writers and creators to the Lake District for a packed comic art weekend spectacular and tickets are available now.
Our events will include live draws, interviews, presentations, workshops, exhibitions, book launches, Little LICAF activities, a Comics Marketplace – and provide a chance to get up close to the best comic creators in the world!
The Festival takes place across multiple venues within short walking distance.
• Get Your Weekend Pass from TryBooking here
• Get Your LICAF Opening Night Event Tickets Here (Friday 26th September)
Our traditional Friday night opener features a fast and fun live draw ... "First off, You Couldn’t Make it Up" takes the form of a quick live draw extravaganza hosted by Bill ‘The Simpsons’ Morrison and featuring guests from Iceland, the UK, Finland, Morocco and more.
Martin Rowson then bowls in with In his completely new show "Trumped", drawing on decades of political cartooning for The Guardian. He’s hellbent on having a lot of desperately needed fun finding out…Expect cartoons. Expect jokes. Expect radical analysis, and some ranting!
The evening ends with LICAF’s Awards Ceremony featuring the Sergio Aragones International Award for Excellence in Comic Art. This event is presented in association with the National Cartoonists' Society of America.
• Get Your Saturday Pass from TryBooking here
• Get Your Sunday Pass from TryBooking here
More info about LICAF Festival venues
The Festival passes
Our weekend Festival pass and Day Passes give you access to all premium events at the Festival*, access to all festival exhibitions, priority access to signings and more throughout the weekend.
* IMPORTANT NOTE: A Festival Pass does not give access to some events and workshops organised by our still TOP SECRET PARTNER - details soon! - which will be ticketed separately. More information on these events will follow in the summer.
If you buy your tickets online, please pick up your pass from the Festival Hub @ Visitor Information Centre, The Glebe, Bowness-on-Windermere
Day and weekend passes will also be available to buy from the Festival Hub @ Visitor Information Centre over the Festival weekend, 27th September - 28th September 2025.
