Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. Junko Mizuno is a self-taught manga artist and painter who is recognized for her unique style of powerful and erotic female imagery. Her art has a decidedly pop-art and psychedelic flair. Mizuno has participated in the Angoulême International Comics Festival and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. This arresting image features a combination of cute, psychedelic girl, equally cute mouse, and two large pieces of steak. It was created at a live draw event in 2014. Indian ink on paper. 42cm x 30cm...more

Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. Simon Thorp has been writing and illustrating Viz since 1985. Along with Graham Dury, he is behind many of the iconic British comic's greatest and most scurrilous creations. This piece is a superb, original design for the cover of Viz #235 (May 2014). It's 46cm x 31cm-ish, drawn in pen & ink, acrylic ink, gouache, watercolour, probably a bit of coloured pencil, Tippex, Newfoundland drool and tea stains on a sturdy bit of cardboard, and according to Simon, 'It's quite a nice one, though I say so myself'. He's right. The final printed version is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. In 2014 the British Library ran a superb exhibtiion entitled 'Comic Unmasked'. The poster for it was a great image by Jamie Hewlett of a moody caped superhero. The Viz boys responded with their own take oin the poster: San and Tray, the Fat Slags from Newcastle recreating the Hewlett heroine's pose. Their poster was to promote their own exhibition, 'Viz Unmasked' at the Lakes Festival. A perfect piece of Viz artwork, 42cm x 30cm, ink on board. The final printed poster is also shown here....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Mark Buckingham has been working in comics for over 25 years, building a reputation for design, storytelling and a chameleon-like diversity of art styles. He is synonymous with some of the greatest comics of the modern age, including Miracleman (Marvelman), Hellblazer, Sandman, Death, Shade the Changing Man, Generation-X, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, The Titans and Peter Parker:Spider-man. Since 2002 Mark has been the regular artist on "Fables" for DC Comics, working with its writer and creator Bill Willingham, for which they have earned numerous comic industry awards. Mark himself won the Eisner Award for best penciller on the series in 2007, so we are delighted that he has chosen to contribute an original page from this epoch-making series. Pencil on board, 43cm x 28cm. The final published version is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Dave Gibbons is the UK’s first Comics Laureate and known worldwide as the co-creator, with Alan Moore, of Watchmen. He has won several Jack Kirby and Will Eisner awards, and his work ranges from the underground to major publishers including Marvel (Hulk, Spider-Man, Captain America), DC (Batman, Superman, Green Lantern) and 2000AD (Rogue Trooper, Dan Dare). He has also worked on Dr Who and, with Frank Miller, created the acclaimed Martha Washington series. This picture is from the series of postcards specially commissioned this year by LICAF from seven leading illustrators, with the collective title, 'Wish You Were Here – Postcards from the Edge of Reality'. The cards celebrate the landscape of the Lakes and the power of comic art, each in its own unique way. Dave's image is a H.G. Wells-ian reimagining of the famous Lake District promotional posters of the 1930s. It's a one-off digital print, so can not be reproduced beyond this single copy. For reference, the original poster that inspired it is also shown on this page. 43 x 29cm...more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. From Bambi to Bart Simpson and Mowgli to Moe, Bill Morrison has drawn them all, and almost everything in between. For the past few years he has spent most of his waking hours on projects related to The Simpsons, including video games, books and posters. When the Simpsons’ creator, Matt Groening, set up Bongo Comics Bill was hired as art director and realised his cartoonist’s dreams when he drew the very first Simpsons comic. With Bongo he also created his own comics, including 'Roswell - Little Green Man', which (along with the Lake District) provided the inspiration for this gorgeous picture. It is from the series of postcards specially commissioned this year by LICAF from seven leading illustrators, with the collective title, 'Wish You Were Here – Postcards from the Edge of Reality'. The cards celebrate the landscape of the Lakes and the power of comic art, each in its own unique way. Bill says, 'My characters Roswell and Julienne Fryes come from the postwar 1940’s, an era when people sent "Wish You Were Here!" postcards to their loved ones as a matter of routine whenever they went on trips. I was delighted when the festival folk asked me to participate in this reinvigoration of that vanishing tradition!' The final printed postcard is also shown on this page. Ink on paper....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£14, USA-£20, Europe-£18, Far East-£20. Sean Phillips is a phenomenally talented artist who started in comics over 20 years ago. He has worked on a huge variety of books including 2000AD, Hellblazer, Invisibles, Uncanny X-men and Batman. This picture is from the series of postcards specially commissioned this year by LICAF from seven leading illustrators, with the collective title, 'Wish You Were Here – Postcards from the Edge of Reality'. The cards celebrate the landscape of the Lakes and the power of comic art, each in its own unique way. Sean's image evokes both the bleakness and the grandeur of Morecambe Bay: the tragedy of its dangers and the happiness brought to the world by the man who took its name, Eric Morecambe. It was drawn using Manga Studio software and it's a one-off digital print. To quote the artist: 'I won't be making any more'....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. Jonathan's work first appeared in 1993 in Deadline and Tank Girl Magazine with strips such as Dandy Dilemma, Simon Creem, The Squabbling Dandies and one pagers about, amongst others, Scott Walker, Sly Stone, Nancy Sinatra, Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys. Since then he has worked for the Guardian, Mojo, Q, Mad, The Black Eyed Peas, The Glastonbury Festival, and most significantly as designer of the Lakes Comic Arts Festival programme 2014. Jonathan has been a regular contributor to the Guardian since 1999 and illustrated the Hard Sell weekly column in The Guide from 2002 to 2011. This picture is from the series of postcards specially commissioned this year by LICAF from seven leading illustrators, with the collective title, 'Wish You Were Here – Postcards from the Edge of Reality'. The cards celebrate the landscape of the Lakes and the power of comic art, each in its own unique way. Jonathan's beautiful and funny piece is a LICAF-style reinterpretation of Castlerigg Stone Circle, one of Lakeland's most iconic locations. 21cm x 29.5cm indian ink. The final colour postcard is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Steven Appleby is the visionary behind cartoon strips such as Captain Star (N.M.E., The Observer, Die Zeit & Nickelodeon), Small Birds Singing (The Times & a series of short stop-motion animated films), and of course Loomus (The Guardian). But he's created stage shows (Crocs In Frocks), BBC Radio 4 series (Steven Appleby’s Normal Life), as well as numerous books, including "Antmen Carry Away My Thoughts As Soon As I Think Them" and "Jim - The Nine Lives Of A Dysfunctional Cat". This brilliantly dreamlike image is from the series of postcards specially commissioned this year by LICAF from seven leading illustrators, with the collective title, 'Wish You Were Here – Postcards from the Edge of Reality'. The cards celebrate the landscape of the Lakes and the power of comic art, each in its own unique way. Steven's postcard was inspired by Arthur Ransome’s much-loved book Swallows and Amazons. He said: “My postcard is a thank you to Arthur Ransom for the pleasure and inspiration his Swallows and Amazons books gave me when I was growing up. I got lost in the books as a child and have reread them many times since. They made me aware for the first time that it’s possible to rename and reimagine the world - and then step into it.” This complementary set of two includes the original pen and ink drawing (29cm x 21cm) and the finished, coloured print. NB. It is the only print of this image that has been made by the artist, and is numbered 1/1. 48cm x 33cm....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve are, respectively, award-winning children's artist and writer in their own right, with a string of accolades including Smarties, Blue Peter, Leeds and Sheffield Children's book awards. As a partnership they create fun, beautifully illustrated adventure stories such as 'Oliver and the Seawigs', 'Cakes in Space' and most recently 'Pugs of the Frozen North'. Those pugs are highly invasive, and they get heavily involved in this lovely picture. It is from the series of postcards specially commissioned this year by LICAF from seven leading illustrators, with the collective title, 'Wish You Were Here – Postcards from the Edge of Reality'. The cards celebrate the landscape of the Lakes and the power of comic art, each in its own unique way. This image was created digitally, and the item for auction is the sole print in existence. Print on card, 42 x 29.5cm....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Award-winning comic writer and artist Bryan Talbot is credited as the man who created the first-ever British graphic novel, 'The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'. Throughout his career Bryan has pushed boundaries, challenged expectations, and won legions of admirers across the globe with works like 'One Bad Rat', 'Alice in Sunderland' and the COSTA Award-winning story 'Dotter of His Father's Eyes' (with Mary Talbot). He's also one of the patrons of the Lakes Festival, and so we are honoured that he has donated several of his rare original works for this auction. This picture is from the series of postcards specially commissioned this year by LICAF from seven leading illustrators, with the collective title, 'Wish You Were Here – Postcards from the Edge of Reality'. The cards celebrate the landscape of the Lakes and the power of comic art, each in its own unique way. Bryan's image pokes fun (and rifles) at the festival's own mascots. Ink on paper. The final printed postcard is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Rian Hughes is "one of the most successful and prolific designer/illustrators of the past 20 years" (Roger Sabin, Eye Magazine). He's a graphic designer, illustrator and comics artist, noted for his work on 2000AD, where he illustrated Robo-Hunter, Tales from Beyond Science, Really and Truly and Dan Dare, among others. Since leaving comics illustration, Hughes has become a successful advertising artist, graphic designer and font designer. He runs his own company, Device, with clients including Virgin Airways, Penguin Books, DC Comics, Eurostar, the BBC and a range of magazines and newspapers. His work dares to be two-dimensional and bold in its use of large expanses of flat, bold colours. The work Rian has donated is a set of four limited-edition prints inspired by his drawings of London’s burlesque scene, which are collected in his book "Soho Dives, Soho Divas". Rian used vintage found type, and the drawings were processed to achieve “the inky and slightly misregistered effect of vintage print, which adds warmth.” Each 16.5-by-11.5 print is signed and numbered by Rian....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£12.50, USA-£20, Europe-£20, Far East-£20. Mattias Adolfsson describes himself as a "freelance compulsary drawer" who lives in Sigtuna, just outside of Stockholm, Sweden. He has worked on everything from computer games to children's books. "The Second in Line", featuring work from his sketchbooks and published by Sanatorium won "most beautiful Swedish book" in 2014 and has won several other awards. He has created this beautiful, funny and distinctly subversive image of the Lake District especially for our auction....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Award-winning comic writer and artist Bryan Talbot is credited as the man who created the first-ever British graphic novel, 'The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'. Throughout his career Bryan has pushed boundaries, challenged expectations, and won legions of admirers across the globe with works like 'One Bad Rat', 'Alice in Sunderland' and the COSTA Award-winning story 'Dotter of His Father's Eyes' (with Mary Talbot). He's also one of the patrons of the Lakes Festival, and so we are honoured that he has donated several of his rare original works for this auction. This superb piece of art is page 86 from the third book in the phenomenally successful 'Grandville; series, 'Grandville Mon Amour'. It shows our hero Inspector Lebrock in a climactic encounter with the villainous Baron Krapaud. Ink on card. The final published version is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Award-winning comic writer and artist Bryan Talbot is credited as the man who created the first-ever British graphic novel, 'The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'. Throughout his career Bryan has pushed boundaries, challenged expectations, and won legions of admirers across the globe with works like 'One Bad Rat', 'Alice in Sunderland' and the COSTA Award-winning story 'Dotter of His Father's Eyes' (with Mary Talbot). He's also one of the patrons of the Lakes Festival, and so we are honoured that he has donated several of his rare original works for this auction. This page comes from Part Two of Luther Arkwright's Adventures, 'Heart of Empire'. It displays many of Bryan's trademarks: strong, clear lines, witty, subversive details and wonderful use of period patterns. Ink on board. The final published version is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Award-winning comic writer and artist Bryan Talbot is credited as the man who created the first-ever British graphic novel, 'The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'. Throughout his career Bryan has pushed boundaries, challenged expectations, and won legions of admirers across the globe with works like 'One Bad Rat', 'Alice in Sunderland' and the COSTA Award-winning story 'Dotter of His Father's Eyes' (with Mary Talbot). He's also one of the patrons of the Lakes Festival, and so we are honoured that he has donated several of his rare original works for this auction. This piece is an absolute one-off: a portrait, done in the inaugural year of the Lakes Festival (2013) of the Festival Director herself, Julie Tait. Resplendent in her own superheroine outfit, Julie is surrounded by twenty-one iconic characters from the world of comics. Can you name them all? Ink on paper....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Award-winning comic writer and artist Bryan Talbot is credited as the man who created the first-ever British graphic novel, 'The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'. Throughout his career Bryan has pushed boundaries, challenged expectations, and won legions of admirers across the globe with works like 'One Bad Rat', 'Alice in Sunderland' and the COSTA Award-winning story 'Dotter of His Father's Eyes' (with Mary Talbot). He's also one of the patrons of the Lakes Festival, and so we are honoured that he has donated several of his rare original works for this auction. This piece is an extremely rare donation, and unlike anything normally made available to comic art collectors. It is the original ink on acetate outlines for a page from the award-winning 'One Bad Rat', plus the hand-painted watercolour backgrounds that fit behind the ink images to create the finished article. Hand-colouring like this is rarely done nowadays, so as well as being a rare contribution and a beautiful piece of art, this item is also a piece of history. The pictures show the ink on acetate layer, the watercolour layer, the two combined, and the final published version....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. Jonathan's work first appeared in 1993 in Deadline and Tank Girl Magazine with strips such as Dandy Dilemma, Simon Creem, The Squabbling Dandies and one pagers about, amongst others, Scott Walker, Sly Stone, Nancy Sinatra, Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys. Since then he has worked for the Guardian, Mojo, Q, Mad, The Black Eyed Peas, The Glastonbury Festival, and most significantly as designer of the Lakes Comic Arts Festival programme 2014. Jonathan has been a regular contributor to the Guardian since 1999 and illustrated the Hard Sell weekly column in The Guide from 2002 to 2011. This is a page from '21st Century Tank Girl' (self published by Alan Martin in 2014 and serialised this year by Titan Books). Alongside Tank Girl it features cameos from Little & Large and Alan Humphries from Grange Hill - something for everyone! It’s A3 (420 x 297mm) cartridge paper and is drawn in indian ink. The final published version (minus speech bubbles) is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Boulet is a French institution, best described in his own words: "Boulet, age 39, French. 6 feet 2, 200lbs. Blood Type A+. Draws comics (more than 25 books published in France. Check out "Notes", "Dungeon", "La page blanche", "Raghnarok"...). Likes: TV shows, science books, whisky (Single Malt Islay), french fries. Hates: Astrology, homeopathy, people who say "In my humble opinion". Motto: "Heavy is the cinderblock of reality on the strawberry pie of our illusions". Has a wonderful translated website: english.bouletcorp.com . Probably loves you." While visiting the Lakes festival in 2015, Boulet created this frankly magnificent drawing depicting English life as he sees it: a meeting between the hum-drum normality of everyday life, and the bizarre possibilities of technology. It's witty, haunting and beautiful, and it's ink on art paper, approx A3 size. As a little bonus, there's a typical piece of Boulet playfulness on the back, which is also shown on this page....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Darwyn Cooke is a graphic designer, storyboard artist, director and animator who turned his attention toward cartooning in the late 1990s. He is perhaps best known for his work on comic books such as 'Catwoman', 'DC: The New Frontier' and 'The Spirit'. He has probably drawn every superhero known to humankind including: The Spirit, Batman, Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Catwoman. Cooke has won multiple Eisner, Harvey and Shuster awards, as well as the US National Cartoonist Society's Best Series award. In 2008, he was Emmy-nominated for the animated adaptation of his magnum opus, 'The New Frontier'. He also recently illustrated IDW's edition of 'Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter' novel. Darwyn was the writer/artist of 'Before Watchmen: Minutemen' and in 2014 he released a 'Batman Beyond' animated short celebrating the 75th anniversary of Batman. Given his experience with superheroes, it's no surprise that Darwyn has donated a couple of DC classics to our auction. Darwyn's style often has a nod to the 50s, and his interpretation of Superman harks back to that more innocent age, our hero smiling with joy as he shatters some chains. His second image is a portrait of DC super-heroine Zatanna, ranked fourth in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list! 2 pictures. Ink on art paper, A2 size....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£13.50, USA-£22, Europe-£22, Far East-£23. Writer and artist Seth (born Gregory Gallant) has been an A-list talent in the comic book world for over twenty years. His series Palookaville, which he both writes and draws, is a mainstay in independent comics. His stories, filled with lost, lonely characters searching for meaning, often reaching back into the past, are deeply affecting and exquisitely drawn. He has exhibited throughout the world in a variety of group and solo shows, his comics have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, and his illustrations have graced the pages of The New Yorker and The Walrus amongst many others. This perfect little Mitty-esque illustration appeared in Canada's Globe and Mail. It's watercolour and ink, 9 x 10 inches. NB since this donation was a last-minute contribution, it will still be in transit to the UK at the time of the auction, and will be posted to the winning bidder as soon as it arrives, hence there will be a short delay....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Darick Robertson has illustrated hundreds of comics in his twenty-plus years in the industry. His body of work ranges from science fiction characters of his own creation to headlining on renowned classic characters from Marvel and DC Comics. Darick is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the biting satires TRANSMETROPOLITAN and THE BOYS. This artwork is a characteristically dark moment from Darick's internationally-acclaimed collaboration with Garth Ennis, THE BOYS, from issue 4, featuring antihero Butcher closing in on the self-harming super-heroine Popclaw. Ink on comic art board. The final published version is also shown here for comparison. Since this contribution was a last-minute gift it is in transit from the USA at time of auction and there will be short delay before despatch....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Darick Robertson has illustrated hundreds of comics in his twenty-plus years in the industry. His body of work ranges from science fiction characters of his own creation to headlining on renowned classic characters from Marvel and DC Comics. Darick is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the biting satires TRANSMETROPOLITAN and THE BOYS. Darick has given a very special (and last-minute) contribution to our auction. It's not one but a pair of artworks: the front and back cover images from the forthcoming ABSOLUTE TRANSMETROPOLITAN VOLUME 2. As you can see, the pictures complement each other perfectly. Each work is in blue pencil and ink, and measures 11 x 17 inches. Since this contribution is in transit from the USA at time of auction there will be short delay before despatch....more

Shipping Costs: UK-£21, US:£45, Europe:£40. Far East:£60. Steve Bell began to work for the Guardian in 1981 and his cartoons have appeared in the paper ever since. He is the author of seven previous collections, most recently IF... Bursts Out (2010). In his early career he drew comic pages for children's comics, including 'Whoopee', 'Cheeky' and 'Jackpot', and has produced illustrations and comic strips for many different magazines including 'Social Work Today', 'Punch', 'Private Eye', 'New Society', 'The Radio Times', 'The New Statesman', 'The Spectator' and 'The Journalist'. The list goes on and on. Steve's work has been exhibited all over the world, and he is widely credited as being one of the leading satirists of our day. He was a guest at this year's festival and donated this unique, bizarre and brilliant image of George Osborne MP (complete with trademark testicles) in the guise of an alien from a resently discovered planet that may support life. Ink coloured pen on paper, approx 23cm x 23cm....more