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MCM Comic Con returns to ExCel, and a steady run of book launches and signings at Gosh Comics from Beck Kubrick's Dead Girls to Avery Hill's double bill of Kristyna Baczynski and Darryl Cunningham Forbidden Planet hosts signings that range from Bob Gale on Back to the Future to Jasper Fforde's final Thursday Next novel[...]

But now it looks like I have to add a couple of more from Gosh Comics in Soho, London, as one of my favourite comic book creators of all time, Paul B Rainey, is launching his new graphic novel, Murder School, from Drawn & Quarterly there in under two weeks' time, on Saturday the 19th[...]

Today is Gosh!Fest 2026 in Gosh Comics, London They did one in 2025, but that was a whole year ago, and this is Gosh Comics' 40th anniversary this year The event celebrates self-published and independent comics I turned up a little late, but Gosh Comics says they are "hosting almost 50 of the country's most[...]

I have just picked up my comp copy of Count Binface The Comic from Gosh Comics in London, the only comic shop currently with copies The comic book anthology will be more widely available next week, ahead of the Clacton by-election. I am also dropping off comp copies for Myfanwy Tristan, Scarlett & Sophie Ricard, Ilya,[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for August 2026, and it begins with the rescheduling of Frank Miller's appearance to sign his new memoir at Forbidden Planet and a kids' comics festival at Gosh with Jamie Smart As well as plenty for the month, signings, workshops, conventions, festivals, marts, even[...]

Comics Small Press Festival at Gosh Comics, an amazing weekend small press comics Arc Festival, with exhibitions, talks and parties over in Peckham, and Frank Miller coming to talk and launch his new memoir UPDATE: and now including a signing at Forbidden Planet. Wednesday, 1st of July Forbidden Planet Matthew Hardy and Rob Jones Signing The War Of[...]

Pratt Abigail Rai / Zara Gee Alex Taylor Anaïs Sière Andrés Magán / Peep Media Anna Haifisch Anna Readman Antoine Cossé Antoine Orand Anu Ambasna (CAMP!) Arara x FAWW Gallery Avery Hill Publishing Babak Ganjei Beam Press Beingernst Enterprises Ben Wheatley Blue Funnel Books Bobby Joseph Books Brie Moreno Breakdown Press Broken Frontier 'Six to Watch' Camberwell Comic Club Cameron Arthur Clarice Tudor Clio Isadora Colossive Press Cram Books Dan Cox Dan Byron (Manga Originals) Dan White Dark and Golden Books Darren Cullen (Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives) Dayeon[...]

Yesterday I took a wander around Central London for Free Comic Book Day, mainly between Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet, with signings from Kieron Gillen, Ram V, Garth Ennis, Ben Wheatley, John Higgins, Steve White, Steve McManus, and more And also picked up a lot of Free Comic Book Day comics along the way Reports[...]

If you are tired of comics in London, you are tired of life! And this month begins with Free Comic Book Day, runs through with the Waterstones Comic Shop Pop Up at Picadilly, with more classes at the London Cartoon Museum, signings at Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet, and MCM London Comic Con at the[...]

Noho 2-3.30pm Whether you're new to the world of Japanese comics, or if you love manga and anime characters and would like to create your own, we'll be looking at the basics of drawing manga, creating our own character, and then featuring them in a page of manga artwork. Odnal's Pral – An Audience With Oepedius Flax[...]

With signings at Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet, events by Kev F Sutherland, an evening of Image Comics creators at Waterstones, an evening with Posy Simmonds and the Young Cartoonist Awards, with everything seeming to happen on the 26th of March If you are tired of comics in London, you are tired of life! Wednesday, 4th[...]

But along the way, there's  signings at Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet, a special Batman sale, a Royal College of Nursing look at the politics of health in cartoons, the Cartoon Museum Conference, and Karrie Fransman teaching gender swap If you are tired of comics in London, you are tired of life! Sunday, 1st of February London[...]

Based on true events, set in three centuries, and hand-drawn over a decade, More Weight is a stunning visual symphony — a unique and profound inquiry into the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they still cast on us all." Joe Latham, Hari Vol 3 Signing Event by Gosh London, Berwick Street, Soho, 6-7pm "Read[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for September 2025, kicking off a Comics & AI university event on Thursday, Gosh Comics launches for Acid Box (including after hours rave), Pizza Witch, Elon Musk, Everything Amplified, How To Make Life Better and My Dad Fights Demons, a medical launch for This[...]

Including what we are dubbing BechdelCon from Foyles, the Barnes Children's Festival, a host of clumped signings and the return Drink And Draw at Gosh Comics, Forbidden Planet Camden joining the signing crowd with Dave Hill, Pride events at the Cartoon Musuem and more… Thursday, 5th of June Troopers, Soho, from 6pm Those who know, go. Aristotle's Cuttlefish[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for May 2024 is a little bit late, but we have everything from Free Comic Book Day to MCM to Comica to comic marts. Wednesday, 1st of May My Hair is as Long as a River Launch Party With Charlie Castle and Emma Farrarons,[...]

Frazer Irving will make a rare public appearance at a Gosh Comics signing for Sherlock, and I've just booked my tickets for an evening of satirical cartoons. Wednesday, 3rd of January London One Piece Anime and Manga Meetup Group, Meltdown London, 342 Caledonian Road, 7.15-9.15pm. "Come join us to talk about the latest One Piece episodes, Chapters, Theories,[...]

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,[...]

Japanese Embassy 101-104 Piccadilly, London, W1J 7JT Saturday, 3rd of July Krent Able and Shakey Kane signing, Gosh Comics, for the release of their new Image Comics collection Kane & Able 1-2 pm on Saturday 3rd July to get a signed (and bookplated) copy After the signing the bookplate edition is available for order on Gosh's webstore[...]

And we took the chance to go on a walk through London from Gosh Comics to Forbidden Planet to Orbital Comics, by way of a Detective Pikachu pop-up and the Harry Potter stage play. Fancy taking a walk with us? We mostly managed to avoid the bad weather Hail would come later… highlights are probably the[...]

I went out with the girls to enjoy the sights, the music, the clothes, the general free spirit of liberation and the lesson that they are free to be whoever they are. It's a pretty good lesson, underlined by ice cream and frozen yoghurts from the appropriate venues along the way. And since the parade was winding[...]

The third in a series 30th Anniversary prints for Gosh Comics, here is the latest from Jillian Tamaki. These are the links to blogpost and product page of the print. It will be as a A3 print retail at £20 each in-store and online, and the A2 Giclee retails for £50 exclusively through our web shop Nancy and Tonya comes as an[...]

Bleeding Cool is looking to spotlight individual stores plans for the day, feel free to send your store's info to richjohnston@gmail.com. But today we are looking at the quite magnificent plans of Gosh Comics in London With four separate events for four separate audiences stripped and stranded across the day…  Usually one of these events would[...]

One year on. It was the night of the Phonogram Vol 3: The Immaterial Girl signing at Gosh Comics in Soho, London To which the comickeratti of London flocked. With creators of the Phonogram B-side stories that remain only available in the single issues, not the collection, Julia Scheele, Tom Humberstone and Sarah Gordon, they signed up[...]

Gosh Comics in London is situated on Berwick Street, a historic road when it comes to British pop music, and part of the London Soho scene. Which makes Mike Allred's exclusive print for the store very apt, showing the comic shop surrounded by the biggest names on the British music scene from decades past, on the streets that[...]

And one of their sales opportunities was Gosh Comics, in Soho London…. You could almost see Porn Alley…. Time for a wise and learned negotiator to reel them in…  Will they know what hit them?  Blimey, where did he come from?£7 books for £1.75 each? That will do nicely… @richjohnston Yep! Still got some Snottydink from #TheApprentice[...]

Talk to the folks at Gosh Comics about it. That's better.   Are you planning to buy a copy of the Walking Dead Vol 22? Does it have a signed and numbered bookplate in it by Charlie Adlard? It doesn't? Well that will never do. Go sort yourself out Talk to the folks at Gosh Comics about it. That's better. [...]

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[...]

But the 4 comics–for-£2 bags were also popular and the place was busy busy busy. But, for the kids, Gosh was the star Running a workshop with some of the worlds finest cartoonists, encouraging kids to create characters and tell their stories.   With lots of free comics available in the basement… And cartoonists adding their skills to the[...]

1 – 2pm. Comica Comiket – CANCELLED Monday 3rd November Kieron Gillen Talks Watchmen. Gosh Comics, Berwick Street. 7.30pm-9pm. "A year ago in the pub, a friend asked writer Kieron Gillen what the big deal is about WATCHMEN It got him thinking This speech was the result of all those Kieron Gillen head thinks about that famous eighties comic with the[...]