2020: LDC goes entirely online to host an awards festival, residency and monthly meetups on a global scale!
2019: Bristol, Dundee & Manchester Meet Ups Launched
2018: Launched the LDComics Festival & Awards Ceremony
We launched the first women-only prize for graphic novels in progress at the one day LDC Day festival! Winner Emma Burleigh went on to get other publishing deals and started up the Bristol LDC meet up
2018: The Inking Women: Exhibition & Book Launch
The Inking Woman, edited by LDC founder Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate, spotlights the story of women cartoonists to the present day, and has LDC as a chapter of the UK’s tapestry of comic book history.
2017: International Girl Gang in Angouleme
We were invited to the 44th Angouleme International Comics Festival 2017, the third largest comics art festival in the world. Joining forces with Comic Book Slumber Party (UK), FEMSKT (Finland), and Laydeez do Comics (UK), we formed the International Girl Gang and hosted a series of feminist-focused events and panels at the festival.
2016: “Hometown” Comic Anthology
In this 60 page unique anthology, members of LDC Brum share their emotional stories about their Hometown. It was a great chance for LDC Birmingham members to work together and share their skills, knowledge and contacts to produce their first self-published zine. It was printed in it’s hometown by Rope Press, a not for profit printer of small press in Birmingham.
2015: Birmingham Meet Up Launched