The Lakes International Comic Art Festival

From 2013 until 2021 LICAF took place in Kendal, a market town on the edge of the English Lake District, United Kingdom.

In 2022 LICAF moved to multiple venues in Bowness-on-Windermere for the tenth festival,[2] in South Lakeland, Cumbria.

[5] The award was established as a partnership between the National Cartoonists Society and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival.

[8] In 2019, in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, the National Cartoonists Society hosted the inaugural NCSFest in downtown Huntington Beach, California, United States, from 17 to 19 May.

The appointment is made biennially to a distinguished comics creator, writer or artist in recognition of their outstanding achievement in the genre.