LDC Online Comics Fair 2025
COMING SOON!
LDComics is celebrating 15 years! In 2009, Dr Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman launched Laydeez Do Comics “to champion comics work based on life narrative and the drama of the everyday. Streeten and Lightman shared an interest in comics and graphic novels that were not about superheroes, but were focused on the domestic and autobiographical.”
Since then, we’ve changed our name to LDComics, become a Community Interest Company, hosted an annual festival from 2018-2020 in conjunction with a prize for graphic novels in progress, set up a mentoring programme and residencies, delivered an international British Council project and delivered workshops and talks. Most importantly we have continued to host our monthly events hosting guests’ illustrated presentations, welcoming everyone to attend free of charge.
To commemorate our fifteenth anniversary, we’re hosting an Online Comics Fair, and we invite you to be a part of it. THANKS to everyone who applied to be in our live Online Comics Fair from 1-31 July 2025. We’ll be announcing a list of the participants soon!
Here’s what you need to know about LDC Online Comics Fair:
- The LDC Online Comics Fair will be live online for one month, NEXT YEAR, from 1 to 31 July, 2025.
- Participants will be notified by email by 30 July, 2024 if they are successful or not.
- Each selected artist will submit one new original DIGITAL comic for sale at our LDC Online Comics Fair, between 8-32 pages in length. Deadline for this will be 1 June, 2025.
- Selected artists will have a page featuring their digital comic, short bio, as well as a link to their own website and/or social media page. We encourage you to create a NEW comic for this event.
- The registration fee is £50, which will go towards creating the platform, marketing and administration, can be paid here.
- Sales revenue from all copies of sold digital comics will go directly to the creator.
Our online fair is a comprised of creators from around the globe. Some have been part of our community for the past 15 years.
FAQs
- When do I pay the registration fee, and how?
- Are there any concessionary rates?
- Do I have to submit a comic with my application?
No, we are encouraging NEW comics to be made specifically for this event, so we will be looking at your website and/or social media for consideration.
- Can my comic be old work?
We encourage NEW work debuted for this event.
- If I sell my comic at the fair, do I have to post it out to buyers?
It’s all digital downloads, so no posting/mailing is required.
- If I sell my comic do I get the money, and if so how and when?
Yes, of course. All creators will be paid within a month after the event, via bank transfer. Any bank charges will be deducted from the amount received.
- What about conversion fees or bank transfer fees?
- What genres are accepted?
All genres are welcome, however we reserve the right to refuse any content deemed offensive. Thank you for understanding.