Sequent’ull Comic Art Festival

For Freedom Festival 2024 Humber Mouth and Hull City Council are delighted to be supporting Sequent’ull – Hull’s first independent comic art festival.

Called Sequent’ull as a playful nod to the term sequential – used to describe art forms that use images in a particular order (or sequence) in graphic storytelling – the festival features twenty exhibitors selling comics, graphic novels and prints. 

Scarborough Zine Library are also running zine-making workshops throughout the day. No experience necessary – just join in!

Come along and find out more about some of the best cartoonists working in comics today.

Artists

Alex Potts is an animator, illustrator, storyboard and comic artist based in London. alexanderpotts.com

Breakdown Press is a comics publisher based in London, UK, dedicated to publishing the very best in comics art, whether the cutting-edge work of new cartoonists or undiscovered classics of the past. Breakdown Press is Simon Hacking, Tom Oldham, Joe Kessler and Josh Palmano. breakdownpress.com

Colossive Press is a zine-publisher and small press established in Penge, SE London, by Tom Murphy and Jane Gibbens Murphy. colossive.com

Dan White is an illustrator & comics artist. Creator of Sticky Ribs, Cindy & Biscuit, and Terminus. instagram.com/the_beast_must_die

Douglas Noble was raised in The Borders and makes comics of unfriendly romance and geographic unease. strip-for-me.com

Erika Price is a UK-based comic artist/cartoonist. instagram.com/erikapriceart

Footprints Workers Co-op is a small printing business that specialises in riso printing, based in Chapeltown, Leeds. footprinters.co.uk

Gareth A Hopkins is an artist and illustrator from South-East England best known for his work in abstract comics, notably the autobio comic Petrichor, the graphic novel Found Forest Floor and his ongoing project The Intercorstal. grthink.com

Jake Machen makes comics, zines, prints and stickers, and draws stuff. patreon.com/jakemachen

J Webster-Sharp lives in Yorkshire. She began her career as a portrait painter before giving it up and committing herself to comics. jwebstersharp.com

Lilly Williams is an artist, illustrator and cartoonist based in Hull. She works across media, with a central focus on comics and storytelling. lillywilliams.net

Lucy Sullivan is an artist/writer based in London. Her debut graphic novel BARKING – based on her own experience of a mental health crisis – was published in March 2020. lucysullivanuk.com

Mark Stafford is Cartoonist in residence at the Cartoon Museum, illustrator and co-creator of The Bad Bad Place, Lip Hook, The Man Who Laughs and Cherubs. instagram.com/marxtafford

Michelle Freeman is an author-illustrator based in Liverpool, UK. She makes picture books, comics and graphic novels as well as graphic medicine which explore the big themes of life in accessible ways. michellefreemanillustration.co.uk

Sarah Gordon is an artist and printmaker living in the sprawling beast that is London. She spends a lot of time making comics. notsarahgordon.bigcartel.com

Scarborough Zine library formed by artists/zine librarians Joel Hague and Nathan Wackett with support from Crescent Arts, is an open and accessible archive of local (and also wide-ranging) zines and small indie publications. crescentarts.co.uk

Find out more 

You can find out more about some of the artists taking part in Sequent’ull in these Q&A interviews with Sean Azzopardi, available on the comics website downthetubes.net

About

Sequent’ull is organised by Sean Azzopardi [phatcomics.co.uk] and Just Ink and Paper, a Hull-based cartoonist collective. Originally conceived by Gareth Sleightholme [ironshodapecomics.com], Just Ink and Paper are busy building a cartoonist network and community in Hull.