Art from Blacksad by Juanjo Guarnido / Photo of part of the Laughter in the Long Twentieth Century exhibition at the University of Kent British Cartoon Archive

Inspired by the Twentieth Century: Alex Fitch looks at the work of cartoonists influenced by the culture of the Twentieth Century. In a Q and A recorded at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, artist Juanjo Guarnido discusses his much loved anthropormophic graphic novel series Blacksad, and in a conversation recorded at Cartoon County, Digital Archivist Clair Waller discusses the British Cartoon Archive in Templeman Library, University of Kent and their current exhibition Laughter in the Long Twentieth Century.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival returns to Windermere on 26th and 27th September, and the exhibition Laughter in the Long Twentieth Century rund until the end of October.

Shorter edit originally broadcast on Resonance FM, on Weds 17th September 2025

For more download formats, and to stream the podcast, please visit archive.org

Links: Juanjo Guarnido and Blacksad
The British Cartoon Archive in Templeman Library, University of Kent and their current exhibition Laughter in the Long Twentieth Century