Wonderful to see Sequential Scotland back for a second outing this August. And with a really cool list of headlining/guest artists…
Sequential Scotland is back on the 8th of August at the DoubleTree by Hilton for 2026, and we’re open for table applications!
The headline artist this year is the incredibly talented Fran Morton. Fran is a freelance illustrator and award winning comic creator from Edinburgh. She worked in animation for several years and has been making comics in some form since she was a teenager. In 2024 she won Best Short Comic at the Selkie Awards, and in 2025 she was shortlisted for the inaugural Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize for work that engages with medieval history.
Her work is primarily inspired by history, folklore, Arthuriana, and a fondness for tragedy. Her first comic, With Malicious Intent, was a small collection of short stories about murder and misadventure, and her second, Tide, was a fantasy story about murder and making deals with mermaids. Currently she’s working on a historical graphic novel set in the borders of 18th century Scotland, which she’s aiming to finish this year, as well as a couple of Arthurian comics.
The remaining guest creators are a showcase of the amazing talent currently working in the UK small press and indie space.
Blue Fox comics was founded in 2015 by Simon Birks & Marielle Bouleau, and has rapidly grown to become a publisher of distinct, high-quality, character driven genre comics, graphic novels and gamebooks. From slice of life, through sci-fi, fantasy and horror, they have titles to suit everyone of all ages, and an online shop with low cost shipping worldwide from their base in Scotland.
Simon is an award-winning writer of comics, novels, plays, poetry, and films. With co-founder Marielle Bouleau, Blue Fox have successfully funded many comics including Hexes, Gone, Sinners, Robyn, The Girl in the Midnight Gown and House Bound. Marielle Bouleau is an English writer, based in Scotland. She can usually be found fervently scribbling in a notebook, no matter where she is or what she’s supposed to be doing. She runs Fox Red Comics, writes the comic Busy Little Bees and will soon be debuting her new comic, Tides.
Chris Lau Manson is a mixed Scottish-Hakka Chinese artist based near Glasgow. Originally from Hong Kong, he has built up a career in comics and illustration alongside maintaining a career in business technology, and will be attending the Glasgow School of Art in 2026. Outside of art and storytelling, he loves to cook and enjoys cycling whenever the west of Scotland weather allows for it.
Chris’ comic work draws from his twin Scottish and Chinese heritages to tell stories infused with magical realism. The themes of his stories often deal with how tradition can help reinforce ourselves, but strict adherence to traditionalism holds us back.
https://www.chrislaumanson.co.uk
Erika Price is a cartoonist based in the East Midlands. She’s been making comics since 2018 and printing her work since 2020. Her comics have been featured in Razorblades (image comics) Viscere (stregasporka) and When I Was Me (Quindrie Press).
Her first longform comic, Disorder, was a nonlinear bodyhorror comic about self destruction, self creation, disability, transness and the horror of living in a world built upon broken queer bodies. Her current series, Worms, is a gothic horror inspired by being raised catholic and queer, it explores themes of abuse of power, guilt and self loathing, and complicity in atrocity
https://erikapriceart.bigcartel.com/
John Lees is an award-winning writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Across a 15-year career, he has built up a critically-acclaimed body of work, and collaborated with a range of publishers, including ComixTribe, Vault Comics, AWA Studios, IDW and Mad Cave Studios. While principally known for his work in the horror genre due to early breakout work on AND THEN EMILY WAS GONE and SINK and high-profile success with HOTELL (recently optioned for film), John has also written comics in the genres of crime, action, fantasy, comedy and romance. John has also been a longtime fixture on the Scottish comics scene, and was a founding member of the Glasgow League of Writers.
Table Applications opened on 03/04/26 and will close on 24/04/26. Like last year we will be looking for sequential art such as comics, zines, art books and TTRPG books. We want to see creators’ own original works that utilise the interplay between text and image to tell a narrative. This definition is flexible on purpose so that we can judge each application on a case-by-case basis, and hopefully show the true breadth of this artform. We can’t wait to see what everyone’s been creating!
