Lakes Festival “Pass the Panel”

This past weekend I took part in the Lakes International Comic Art Festival based in Kendall, UK. Like everything else on Planet Earth these days, it was held online rather than in person. That didn’t stop it from being fascinating and a lot of fun. In fact they did a fantastic job with the online experience.

One of the events I participated in was a “Pass the Panel” collaborative comic, where 16 different comics artists were challenged to draw a page on an ongoing comics story. The idea is that the first artist (in this case Luke McGarry) draws a page starting a story, and then the next artist advances the story with their own page, etc. There was no overriding plot or direction, each artist was free to do what they wanted with the characters and the storyline. Then we passed it on to the next poor schlub, who had to try and fix whatever mess the story was left in! The best part is that each artist had to do a video of their process, so you get to hear and see the comic being created.

My page is above, which was page eight. There was a total of 16 artists that participated. You can see the entire comic here, and here’s the documentary video:

Great fun, and the lineup of creators who worked on this is pretty amazing. There is quite a variety of styles and approaches.