Brighton Illustration festival 2026

BiF (aka Brighton Illustration Festival) began in 2015 to give illustration - and the people within it - a proper home in Brighton.

It’s always been about platforming talent, celebrating creativity in all its weird and wonderful forms, and building a space that feels open, supportive and full of life.

We’re not trend-led. We’re not follower-count obsessed. We’re here for the scribblers, the printmakers, the comic nerds, the visual storytellers, the ones still figuring it out, and the ones who’ve been at it for years.

Whether it’s a fair, a talk, a zine, or a workshop in a pub basement - it’s all part of the same thing: making room for illustration, and the community that keeps it moving.