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MCM London Expo In Pictures

The MCM London Expo is going on this weekend, with an array of cosplay, lots of anime and manga displays, a comics village with British comic creators, big and small, film and TV previews and cast panels, comics programming and basically lots of stuff. There are far more people than at Big Apple last weekend, and stars from Doctor Who, Star Trek, Red Dwarf and the like doing their thing. And it's growing, show my show. What I initially mocked years ago has blossomed into a pop cultural highpoint of London and is a credit to all those involved.

Of course there is still room for some mocking, as this checklist from one attests to.

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But damn if it isn't a superb show and infectiously gleeful. Tony Lee sold most of his stock by 11am on Saturday and was completely out by the afternoon. One small press self publisher who had never been to a show before told me he sold more comics that day than he had in the previous year. And I was talking to one publisher in the pub determined to create content specifically designed for the MCM audience. Looking at the money being spent, it seems like a no brainer. I'm planning on a table myself next year. The comics village section alone has more publishers and creators than Birmingham or Bristol, and probably more than the old UKCAC seem to have. As well as a non-converted audience to preach and sell to.

"Yes... My Precious... My Precious Blackest Night Rings..."
"Yes... My Precious... My Precious Blackest Night Rings..."
"Ooh... a Black Lantern..."
"Ooh... a Black Lantern..."
"Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood... probably"
"Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood... probably"
"Ian Sharman, taking lessons from Tony Lee"
"Ian Sharman, taking lessons from Tony Lee"
"A waistcoat-off"
"A waistcoat-off"
"Ben Templesmith, lagged"
"Ben Templesmith, lagged"
"Paul Duffielf of Freakangels being called to heaven"
"Paul Duffield of Freakangels being called to heaven"
"Pages from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's SWORD #1 backup"
"Pages from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's SWORD #1 backup"
"Jamie drawing another page of SWORD"
"Jamie drawing another page of SWORD"
"Jacen Burrows and Al Davison, eye to eye"
"Jacen Burrows and Al Davison, eye to eye"
"And boy are his arms tired..."
"And boy are his arms tired..."
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"They ain't getting on no plane, foo..."
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"Templesmith, Johnston, Lee and Grant on adaptations"
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"Allo allo allo, Harry Markos of Markosia marking up stock!"
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I never knew Dean Lerner was in True Blood"

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"It's all in the spin-off game..."
"It's all in the spin-off game..."

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"Oh my... it's the Doctor. Unrecognised by all these twenty-somethings"
"Oh my... it's the Doctor. Unrecognised by all these twenty-somethings"
"Craig Charles with Tom Baker in the back"
"Craig Charles with Tom Baker in the back"
"...and from the other side"
"...and from the other side"
"It wouldn't be cosplay without one slightly chubby bespectacled Slave Princess Leia!"
"It wouldn't be cosplay without one slightly chubby bespectacled Slave Princess Leia!"
"... and from behind"
"... and from behind"
"Peeyow! Peeyow!"
"Peeyow! Peeyow!"

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"All by myself.... don't wanna be..."
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"Cosplayers finally feed"

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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