About 
Yes I know they're late, I've been out for my birthday, here you go, Marvel's full February 2025 solicits, kicking off One World Under Doom.
Posted in: Comics | Tagged: cartoon museum, Comics, entertainment, forbidden planet, gosh, london, orbital, things to do, things to do in london
Things To Do In London In August If You Like Comics
Wow. So much. August is jam-packed-full if you are a comics fan in London. Time for me to pick and choose…
Saturday August 1st
Mark Buckingham Signing, Exhibition Launch and Musical Evening at Orbital Comics. 5-7pm.
Mark Buckingham is signing Fables #150, and every purchase puts you into a raffle to win an original page of art from the final issue. And music by Matt Stevens.
Alice In Cartoonland exhibition, The Cartoon Museum, running through the month.
Alice in Cartoonland celebrates Alice's many misadventures at the hands of cartoonists, caricaturists and satirists, animators and graphic artists through 150 years of parodies and pastiches, jibes, jokes and gags aimed at making political points, social comment or just intended to make us laugh.
Artists represented range from Low, Vicky, Shepard and Illingworth to via Searle and ffolkes to Scarfe, Steadman and Rowson. There are Alice posters by Gilroy advertising Guinness, cartoon strips featuring Flook and Snoopy, pages from comics and graphic novels and original animation art from film and TV versions of Alice.
The exhibition features works on display from Kenneth Koch, Joe Brainard and Bianca Stone and a range of reading copies of books including Howl: A Graphic Novel by Eric Drooker and Allen Ginsberg and Beowulf Cartoon by Mike Weller.
Sunday, August 2nd
Showmasters Presents: London Comic Mart. Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, from noon.
Monday, August 3rd
Creating Cartoon Characters, Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm, Cartoon Museum
Make A Mini-Comic, Ages 8-12, 2pm-4pm, Cartoon Museum
Tuesday, August 4th
Professional Assignment – Spend the day drawing like a professional cartoonist. Cartoon Museum.
Wednesday, August 5th
Process: Gosh! Comics monthly event featuring artists discussing their working process, explaining how they go about crafting comics with Julian Hanshaw
Thursday, August 6th
Animal Antics with Richy K Chandler, Age 8-12, teaching creating animal characters, Cartoon Museum, 11am-1pm
Create A Beano Comic-Strip, Age 8-12, 2pm-4pm, Cartoon Museum
Friday, August 7th
Nine Worlds, Radisson Blu Edwardian, Heathrow,
More Manga, Age 8-12, 11am-1pm, Cartoon Museum
Caricatures, Age 8-12, 2pm-4pm, Cartoon Museum
Launch for Tim Ginger, the new graphic novel from Top Shelf by Julian Hanshaws, at Orbital Comics. 7pm on.
Everything is Teeth Launch Party with Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner at Gosh Comics. 7-9pm.
Saturday, August 8th
Bodies & Supreme Blue Rose signing with Tula Lotay and Si Spencer at Gosh Comics. 1-2pm.
Nine Worlds, Radisson Blu Edwardian, Heathrow,
Sunday, August 9th
Nine Worlds, Radisson Blu Edwardian, Heathrow,
Monday, August 10th
Create A Beano Cover, Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm, Cartoon Museum
Create A Comic Strip, Ages 8-12, 2-4pm, Cartoon Museum
Tuesday, August 11th
Comics & Manga Masterclass: Hands, Faces, People & Places, Ages 12-15, 11am-3.30pm, Cartoon Museum
Wednesday, August 12th
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie signing Phonogram: Immaterial Girl #1 at Gosh Comics. 6-7pm.
Comics Gosh!p: Gosh Comics Monthly Reading Group this month featuring – 'The End of Summer' by Tillie Walden & 'A Quiet Disaster' by Alex Potts
Paul Cornell and Neil Edwards signing This Damned Band and Doctor Who: The Four Doctors at Forbidden Planet 6-7pm
Jay Faeber signing Copperhead at Orbital Comics, 6-7.30pm
Thursday, August 13th
Superheroes, Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm, Cartoon Museum
The Adventures Of You, cartoon portraits and comic strips, 2pm-4pm, Cartoon Museum
Friday, August 14th
Creating Cartoon Characters, Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm, Cartoon Museum
Alice In Cartoonlans, Ages 8-12, 2pm-4pm, Cartoon Museum
Saturday, August 15th
Join Nick Abadzis, Al Ewing and Rob Williams for Titan Comics' Doctor Who Day. Forbidden Planet, 1-2pm
Annihilator Signing with Frazer Irving – Gosh, 1-2pm
With an exclusive bookplate.
Monday, August 17th
More Manga, Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm, Cartoon Library
Simpsonize, Ages 8-12, 2pm-4pm, Cartoon Library
The Bind Launch Party with William Goldsmith, Gosh Comics, 7-9pm. With drinks.
Tuesday, August 18th
Where Do You Get your Ideas From? Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm Cartoon Museum
Make A Mini-Comic, Ages 8-12, 2-4pm Cartoon Museum
Wednesday, August 19th
Animal Manga, Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm Cartoon Museum
Monster Mash, Ages 8-12, 2-4pm Cartoon Museum
Frazer Irving signing Annihilator, Forbidden Planet, 6-7pm
Capers!: Gosh! Comic's monthly discussion group designed to introduce new readers to the world of superhero comics and give seasoned readers achance to share their views – The Inhumans
Thursday, August 20th
Create A Beano Strip, Ages 8-12, 11am-1pm Cartoon Museum
Joke Cartoons, Ages 8-12, 2-4pm Cartoon Museum
Friday, August 21st
Safari Festival Pre Party and Double Book Launch Gosh Comics, 7-9pm
Saturday, August 22nd
Breakdown Press present: Safari Festival Studio 2, Protein, 31 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch EC2A 3EY 11-6pm. New Waves in Contemporary Comics & Art with Babak Ganjei, Richard Short, Donya Todd, Jack Teagle, Elena Kalorkoti & more.
Summer Zine Fest @The Feminist Library The Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7XW 12-5pm
Wednesday, August 26th
Comica Social Club The Central Bar, The Foyer, Royal Festival Hall, 6pm
Thursday, August 27th
Alecos Papadatos and Abraham Kawa in conversation with Tom Holland about their new graphic novel, Democracy, Gosh Comics, 6-7pm.
Enjoyed this? Please share on social media!
Stay up-to-date and support the site by following Bleeding Cool on Google News today!
