UK Comics Fund: Boosting Cultural Market & Industry Growth

The CCIC, founded in February 2023, has released a record based on considerable examination with comics makers, booksellers, occasions, publishers and agents to back up its require the funding, which the organisation states would certainly turns the comics industry into a “thriving cultural market for the UK”.

Comics Fund: A Smart Investment

Rhiannon Griffths MBE, owner of Comics Young people and additionally a CCIC co-director, included: “The UK Comics Fund is a clever, critical investment: it produces jobs, develops IP, and unlocks the economic potential of an underfunded yet high-impact field. Extra than that, it sends out a powerful message. Comic books have actually constantly been an area for working-class, young and marginalised voices– this fund turns that energy right into possibility, sustainability and growth. It’s not just excellent business economics– it’s cultural justice.”

Levelling the Playing Field for Comics

Hannah Berry, ex-Comics Laureate and CCIC co-director, stated: “This fund is regarding levelling the playing area. With the appropriate support, we can transform a hugely talented however under-resourced community right into a lasting, revenue-generating sector.

The record has until now been supported by Charlie Adlard, Dave Gibbons, Posy Simmonds, Alison Sampson, Jamie Smart, Emma Vieceli, the Beano, the Anime Museum, DACS, the Society of Authors, the National Proficiency Count On, the Royal Culture of Literature, Idea Bubble Festival, The Wellcome Count On Collections and LDComics, to name a few.

The record proposes a UK Comic books Fund in the model of the UK Games Fund, which the CCIC claims would create “robust opportunities for comics manufacturers and businesses, […] letting loose the possibility of comics as a valuable element of the UK’s creative industry”.