On October 16th, 2014, seven artists entered a room together as part of The Lakes International Comic Festival in Kendal, a market town in the beautiful English Lake District. Their mission was to each draw a 24 page comic in 24 hours. By the evening of the following day the stories were all drwan and boxes of the comics were being picked up from the printers to go on sale at the show. This book collects those stories. Nominee: 2016 Eisner Awards, Best Anthology and Best Short Story for Kristyna Baczynski's "Hand Me Down"On October 16th, 2014, seven artists entered a room together as part of The Lakes International Comic Festival in Kendal, a market town in the beautiful English Lake District. Their mission was to each draw a 24 page comic in 24 hours. By the evening of the following day the stories were all drwan and boxes of the comics were being picked up from the printers to go on sale at the show. This book collects those stories.

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Comics & Graphic Novels

Johnson-Cadwell, Warwick

Baczynski, Kristyna

Berry, Dan

Decie, Joe

Graphic Novels

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Tom is a stand-up comedian with a burgeoning career. At one point everyone thought his sister would join him to make up a comedy duo but Ellen was always more minded towards drawing and art in general. But she remained the driving force behind Tom's chosen path. Then one day she came to Tom with some cruel news she had pancreatic cancer. Surgery was followed by hospitalisation. Nothing to laugh at you'd imagine, but Tom and Ellen continued to bounce humour off each other with Tom running the gauntlet of the doctor's ire to take Ellen out to see the trees and her favourite statue The Mad Maiden by Rik Wouters inspired by the dancer Isadora Duncan. To her dying day Ellen thought the statue looked mad with joy!

Mad with Joy: A Graphic Novel

Vermassen, Joris

'Lunatic' is an unusual and striking graphic novel in the tradition of wordless books by the likes of Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward and William Gropper. Part fable, part classic adventure in the tradition of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and M©li¬s, the tale is told in nearly 200 full-page, wordless images in a variety of media from pencil, pen and ink, ink wash and paint that lovingly evoke the artistic styles of its period setting, and classic illustrators from Charles Dana Gibson and Toulouse Lautrec to Edward Gorey. The word 'lunatic' derives from Latin, meaning 'of the moon', or 'moonstruck' and in this sense it describes the protagonist of this story: from infancy she develops a magical, almost intimate relationship with the moon itself, a celestial being who acts as her friend, lover, mentor. Our heroine is a dreamer, an outsider, never feeling like she quite belongs to this world. We follow her through the stages of life, infancy, childhood, youth and adulthood, at each point guided by

Lunatic

Mazur, Dan

About the Author\nXu Ziran graduated from the Film and Television Animation School of the Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, China. He started to work on comics full time in 2013. In 2018, he was invited to participate in the creation of a World Cup comic collection by a French publishing house. Many of his comics have been published in France. Born in 1990, Qin Chang graduated from Tianjin University Animation Department. He used to work in games, film, and TV design for many years. He created the ‘White Pupil Series’ collection. In 2018, he participated in the National Culture and Art Fund training project. He was also invited to create the back cover of the French master of manga, Edmond Baudoin’s, French language comic book, China notebook. Ni Shaoru is a muslim artist who graduated from the French Gobelin Animation Academy and studied plastic art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts for four years. He has experience and skills in modeling design, visual development, storyboards, and screen writing. Wu Yao graduated from the Animation Department of the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. In 2007, she started to publish comic booklets. She was involved in the creation of many series of comic book collections. In 2019 she won the gold award in the “Second Sino-Japanese comic strip competition” jointly held by China and Japan. Wang Ning was born in 1971 and came through animation to form Total Vision in 2004 whose main purpose is to export copyrights on Chinese comic books around the world. His success is measured in numbers when from 2007 to 2018 Total Vision sold over 170 rights in three continents accounting for 1.1 million copies printed and winning many awards worldwide. They have participated in many shows and exhibitions in that time including 15 consecutive years at Angouleme International Comic Festival.\nONE-CHILD POLICY. It is estimated that there are over 218 million only children in China today following more than three decades of a one-child policy by their government. Under the ruling, which ran from 1980 to the end of 2015, most couples were only allowed one child under penalty of fines, forfeiture, and even sterilization. Government figures state that around 400 million births were prevented in that time. But some unforeseen circumstances caused much heartache and grief for upwards of 10 million couples who lost that only child and this book tells four of their tragic stories. The couple whose only boy child was seemingly abducted for resale; the 27-year-old only child who died of cancer, leaving her parents alone and childless; the old man who adopted a little girl some years after losing his only child; a mother who sells up everything to give her dying daughter the best years she can. Sensitively written by Wang Ning from all-too-common real life situations, some of them first-hand, and beautifully illustrated by four of the best individual talents in Chinese comics today who have all been touched by this policy.

My Only Child

WANG, NING

Imagine . . . You only have good intentionsAlways mean wellBut no matter whatNo matter how hard you trythings always go wrongVeryVeryWrongWELCOME TO THE WORLD OF DICKIE!Dickie is a loser. He is constantly betrayed by his own shortcomings, desires and naivety, crushed by the indifference of the world in these one-page silent cartoons. His female counterpart, Vickie, fares no better!Originally published in Belgium in 2001 under its Flemish name "Boerke" the comic is well known for pushing boundaries and challenging traditional comic norms. The creator beautifully combines a satirical and cynical dark humor with his innocent graphic style to both shock and surprise the reader. Now his storytelling skills and creative genius can be enjoyed in silent English!

Dickie: Natural Born Loser

DE POORTERE, PIETER