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This sharing will be held in English supplemented with Chinese. Sir Ian Livingstone & Jonathan Green Signing Magic Realms: The Art Of Fighting Fantasy, Forbidden Planet, Covent Garden, 2-3pm Magic Realms celebrates the incredible art of the brilliant and highly respected fantasy and science fiction artists who, over the years, worked with the Fighting Fantasy authors to[...]

And new comics signing day today, with two high profile signings ongoing on simultaneously in London's West End, at both Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics. Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue on the corner of Covent Garden has Dr Kieron Gillen, Casper Wijngaard and Rian Hughes signing The Power Fantasy #1, from 6pm to 7pm. "Superpowered You have[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for August 2024 includes signings at Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet, Small Press Day at Goash and the Cartoon Museum and lots and lots and lots of comic book classes for the kids during the summer holidays A special note to Colleen[...]

It seems likely that this was an editorial mandate at the publisher, as science fiction-themed covers became practically dominant across the entire Archie teen humor line over the next several months and remained quite prevalent at Archie for the next year. Woggon's cover for Katy Keene #62 is an obvious homage to the iconic movie poster[...]

So why are comics their medium of choice? How do you decide what subjects you share and what approach you take? And how do you grapple with realising your first book-length comic from idea to publication? Woodrow Phoenix, graphic novelist of Rumble Strip, She Lives, Donny Digits and others and also a tutor in comics, talks with[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for February 2024. It's half term week coming so lots of stuff for the kiddies.

While at Forbidden Planet on the other side of Charing Cross Road to Gosh, Ben Aaronovitch, James Swallow & Andrew Cartmel signing Rivers Of London: Here Be Dragons also from 2 to 3 pm Fantasy comics fans will have to time a mad dash between the two. That's if they are not at the British Museum for[...]

You can pre-order a signed copy from Gosh for collection or mail-order. Ben Aaronovitch, James Swallow & Andrew Cartmel signing Rivers Of London: Here Be Dragons, Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, Covent Garden, 2-3pm. Some say a dangerous monster is at large above the streets of London A monster red in tooth and claw, with wings, and fire[...]

£14.99 in British pounds. And now Forbidden Planet has its own version of Doctor Who: Once Upon A Time Lord, divided into two parts, one for the Tenth Doctor and Martha cover and one for the Ninth Doctor and Rose cover Well, it was Dan Slott's first comic book shop after all Only 250 editions of[...]

After you are invited to stay at Karaoke Night and have fun!" Saturday, 4th of November John Rain signing Superbook: The World Of Superhero Movies According Yo Smersh Pod, Jam Bookshop, Hackney, 4pm OverBoard London – games, films, comics & geek culture, The Thirsty Bear, 62 Stamford Street, Southwark, 2-8pm If you're looking for a laid-back Saturday playing some[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for October 2023. And that includes towards the end of the month, MCM.

And then The Devil's Cut #1 signing with Jock, Tula Lotay, Lee Garbett, Emma Price, Jamie McKelvie, Ram V and Christian Ward following at Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue from 3 pm to 4 pm. And if Damn Them All and the Devil's Cut isn't hellishly themed enough for a sweltering London, then the Cartoon Museum[...]

The first volume of Damn Them All follows Ellie Hawthorne, an occultist-for-hire, hell-bent on exorcising the 72 devils that plague the planet. DSTLRY Presents: The Devil's Cut Launch Event, Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, Covent Garden, 3-4pm. The Devil's Cut launch event with Jock, Tula Lotay, Lee Garbett, Emma Price, Jamie McKelvie, Ram V & Christian Ward will[...]

Learn how to draw yourself and have fun drawing an adventure featuring the 'new you' in a comic strip! Saturday, 26th of August Al Ewing Signing The Immortal Thor, Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, Covent Garden, 2-3pm. Comics for research, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Bloomsbury This workshop is aimed at young persons age 11 to 17 years who are[...]

Start and finish at Shoe Lane Library, with a short walk exploring nearby landmarks. Comic Cartoons at Dragon Café in the City, Shoe Lane Library, 1 Little New Street, City of London, Free, 1.30-2.30pm Fancy having a go at your own comic cartoons? Illustrator & writer Richy K Chandler will show you how. Saturday, 10th of June Claudia Christian[...]

Pearson, Lee Garbett, Martin Simmonds, Meghan Fitzmartin, Mike Perkins, Ram V, Tula Lotay and Zoe Thorogood. Josk will also be on hand to sign the MCM London Comic Con Exclusive edition of Marc Silvestri's Batman/The Joker: Deadly Duo #7 Virgin Spot Foil cover, at the Forbidden Planet Booth n900 on the Saturday from 11am to noon. If[...]

But Dead By Daylight #1 will debut this Friday at the Forbidden Planet stall at MCM London Comic Con with an exclusive Claudia Ianniciello Foil Variant, the first of 4 Legion portrait covers (one for each issue #1-#4) Dead By Daylight Forbidden Planet Variant #1 features Frank & is limited to 650 copies worldwide. Dead By[...]

The comic will not only contain Claudia Christian's likeness for the main character Major Jessica Steele as BRZRKR recently did with its co-writer Keanu Reeves, but will also feature the likenesses of other Babylon 5 alumni including Patricia Tallman and Bruce Boxleitner. Claudia Christian will be appearing at the London Film and Comic Con at London Olympia[...]

And even more to buy! The rain and the reign may have put off some, the line at Forbidden Planet didn't snake around the block and Gosh Comics wasn't chokka on opening But I expect it will pick up later when the big signings at Gosh kick off I grabbed a bag full at each store,[...]

Many businesses in Britain will be shut during the celebrations, but Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics in London will most definitely be open, sharing the influx of tourism to the city. Here are Gosh Comics plans for the day in Soho. From 10-11am, we welcome our friends over at Bog Eyed Books who'll be running a workshop[...]

Forbidden Planet International, traditionally the one of the two Forbidden Planet chains that is more northern, is to open a new store further south than it has ever been before, the south coast, and Brighton It's even further south than the Forbidden Planet from the other half of the split franchise that used to be[...]

Perfect for readers who enjoyed Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age and Helene Tursten's An Elderly Woman Is Up to No Good. Saturday, 25th of February Sins Of Sinister Marvel Signing Event, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing & Si Spurrier signing Sins Of Sinister #1, Storm & The Brotherhood Of Mutants #1, Nightcrawlers #1 & Immoral X-Men[...]

Forbidden Planet International is to open a new comic book store in the North of England, namely, Hull city centre, on the 21st of November for my fiftieth birthday Okay, maybe not because of that, but still They will have a Grand Opening on the 26trh of November with activities, cosplay and gaming, with giveaway[...]

Mike Luckman was the founder of Forbidden Planet and Titan, with Mike Lake and Nick Landau And it was Mike Lake who had to break the news on social media, posting "I've just heard that Mike Luckman died this morning Not all of you will know the name but Mike and Nick and I set[...]

The recommended retail price is around £83.50, but Forbidden Planet is selling the book in its variant covers for £57.62 plus £5 postage That's less than the Americans will pay even through Amazon, without international shipping Other comic shops are available as well, of course. Anyway, if you are looking to buy someone the Miracleman Omnibus,[...]

But talking to Andrew Sumner on the Forbidden Planet video podcast, they revealed that they have a special Christmas Criminal story appearing in December's Image! anthology from Image Comics for December for which Sean Phillips has also done the cover Presumably Jake Phillips as well. Forbidden Planet podcast screencap Criminal tells stories around a set of characters[...]

Our copies of Suzane come with a beautiful Gosh! exclusive bookplate signed by Tom Humberstone. Saturday, 3rd of September Phillip Kennedy Johnson Signing Alien #1, 5-6pm, Forbidden Planet Megastore, Shaftesbury Avenure, Covent Garden A small colony of synths have settled in secret on a backwater moon When a company of United System soldiers come to them for[...]

In his most recent Forbidden Planet vlog guest spot, Marvel EVP Tom Brevoort talked about the upcoming A.X.E Judgment Day crossover between Avengers, X-Men and Eternals. "It seemed initially to simply be a conflict between the Eternals and the X-Men in which the Avengers got caught in the middle and what it's sort ofblown up into,[...]

Forbidden Planet, London Megastore, Covent Garden   Golden Rage Signing With Chrissy Williams & Sofie Dodgson, 6-7pm Perhaps best known in the comics world as the longtime editor on The Wicked + The Divine, Chrissy also edited the excellent Over the Line: An Introduction to Poetry Comics Outside of the comics world, her debut poetry collection Bear[...]

Leigh Baulch, Group Operations Director of the Titan Entertainment Group, and the Forbidden Planet comics retail chain, retires today after 36 years of helping build Forbidden Planet from a shopfront in Denmark Street, into one of the top three retailers of comics in the English-speaking world Within the pop culture business, Leigh is primarily known[...]