Last year, Bleeding Cool reported the news that the longstanding London comic book store of 44 years, Mega City Comics in Camden would be closing after the owner Martin Kravetz retired We then heard it would be continuing under new ownership And now we know how Mega City Comics at 18 Inverness Street in Camden[...]
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The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for February 2025. including the return of the London Comic Mart for 2025, signings from Michael D Kennedy, Alan Class, Nick Neocleous, Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard, and events with Vivian Truong, Quan Zhou Wu and Paul Gravett And what is happening[...]
Last year, Bleeding Cool reported the news that the longstanding London comic book store of 43 years, Mega City Comics in Camden would be closing after the owner retired Though the shop has certainly had a boost in attendance in the recent month, with a closing down sale from heaven But we now have some[...]
Three familiar British comic book creators, Chris Geary and Simon Lewis of Flesh And Blood and Skin And Bone graphic novels, and Joshua Spiller of Protean Masks, have headed from London to the Western world's biggest comic book festival being held this week, the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and arrived earlier this morning[...]
60 shots of cosplay from this weekend's MegaCon Live 2025 at the London ExCel Centre, and a little light TikTok to go with it
Getting to London MegaCon Live 2025 at the ExCel Centre in London this weekend was a bit of a trial The Dockland Light Railway had been closed for engineering, which wouldn't have been an issue if the Elizabeth Line, which makes travel to the ExCel a dream, also suddenly closed on the Saturday due to[...]
Welcome to… from One Side Of The Show To The Other for the London Toy Fair 2025 It's Press Day today, so it's a bit easier on the feet You can also choose whether to watch it on YouTube or a truncated version on TikTok A walk around the show, taking place today, and for[...]
Showmasters, the organisers of the London Comic Con, the London Film and Comic Con, and the London Comic Mart have announced the cancellation of the London Comic Con Spring, planned for March 2025 They posted to social media, saying;
"We have an important and difficult announcement to make With all the extensive fires in the Los[...]
The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for January 2025, a new year, a old city, new things to do… including the First Graphic Novel award, social meetings, comics readings and the launch of AOS with Alan Moore at the end of the month.
Thursday, 2nd of January
Troopers, Soho, from[...]
Earlier this week, I went to see a new play in London, Squires, by Hannah Brecher, which was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe festival earlier this year, but hasn't been seen anywhere else since, and may never again And that would be a crime of medieval proportions To all intents and purposes, this is[...]
The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for December 2024 includes Emma Vieceli signings at Gosh Comics, Garth Ennis at Forbidden Planet and Keanu Reeves at Waterstones That's December in comics in London for you! And it begins tomorrow with a comic book mart and a social get-together in[...]
Organizers for the London Games Festival 2025 revealed new details this past week about the event, set to run from April 2-13 across multiple locations in the city The flagship event will still be run out of Trafalgar Square; however, we now know a few new details about what to expect This includes the addition[...]
The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for November 2024 includes signings at Gosh Comics, often in conjunction with Thought Bubble in Harrogate Which is also happening on the same weekend as the London Winter Comic Con 2024 I'm going to a Steve Bell event on my birthday And[...]
The top 16 teams from the Survival Stage will advance to the Last Chance stage to fight for the final 6 Grand Finals spots, where they will be joined by host region invitee, Guild Esports.
Only the best teams can proceed to the 2024 PMGC Grand Finals between 6th – 8th December at the ExCeL Centre in London, and only one will[...]
Earlier this year, the Pop Culture Marketing Trends Summit held at MCM London Comic Con in May saw Chris Whittle, CEO of the London-based pop culture marketing agency Experience12, share data that they had been gathering from attendees at many MCM London Comic Cons over the years This included the observation that attendees were bigger[...]
The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for October 2024 includes signings at Gosh Comics, Forbidden Planet and events with Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Steve Bell Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Jamie Smart, Dan Slott, Babs Tarr, Alison Sampson, Cecil Castellucci, Jim Zub, Kevin Maguire, Emma Vieceli and Martin Rowson. And[...]
The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for September 2024 includes signings at Gosh Comics, 60 Years Of Comics at the French Institute, the Lord Of The Flies graphic novel exhibition, with September the 11th being a real crunch day for comics in the capital…
Thursday, 5th of September
Troopers, Soho,[...]
Which, to be fair, is around the same audience numbers I have seen the very best works of theatre.
Right now, so much of the small, interesting theatre in London… is in Edinburgh As are many of the Londoners who would go to see it What that does mean, for this play above a pub, and[...]
It's New Comics Day today in London 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[...]
A week today, London's Cartoon Museum is hosting a very special evening focused on the release of Dr Colleen Douglas' new graphic novel Silk Cotton, with Jesus C Gan and Lorenzo Palombo which is published this week from Rosarium Publishing Dubbed "The Caribbean Supernaturals, reclaiming oral traditional folklore and lost identities," the evening will see[...]
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[...]
And then, after we'd finished the free gin, the free popcorn, and the free hot sauce, we had it, an intro from the stars, talking about filming the movie in and around London, and so happy to show the footage to us first I held my iPad up and filmed Check it out, from the[...]
I went to London Film And Comic Con last weekend, where they were giving out free bottles of water branded with either Deadpool or Wolverine from the upcoming Deadpool And Wolverine movie.
Photo/ Rich Johnston
All through the show, guests were kept hydrated with bottles, and they were handed out to paying customers as well[...]
I rocked up late today at the London Film And Comic Con at Kensington Olympia to be faced by this magnificent monstrosity of a booth at the show in the Comic Zone Blimey.
Two tables and a cosplay backwall, which will no doubt come in very useful this weekend Expect to see a lot of this.
This[...]
I went to see Guys And Dolls at the Bridge Theatre in London last week for a ridiculously low price An amazing immersive version of the Broadway classic, the cast is full of amazing turns and tricks, and I found myself elevated on stage for five seconds while the Dolls admired my cologne It was[...]
The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for July 2024 includes the London Film And Comic Con (I'll be there!), the opening of the Jam bookshop in Notting Hill, the Alice Oseman popup, Gosh Comics signings, Cartoon Museum events, and so much more…
Thursday, 4th of July
Troopers, Soho, from 7pm[...]
I went to the opening night of Slave Play last night, the London West End debut of Jeremy O.Harris' play, with a number of members of the US cast but now also starring Kit Harington alongside an ensemble cast of Fisayo Akinade, James Cusati-Moyer, Aaron Heffernan, Chalia La Tour, Annie McNamara, Irene Sofia Lucio and Olivia[...]
At London's Wembley Stadium, it was global phenomenon Taylor Swift At London Stadium, it was rock gods Foo Fighters In New York City, it was us – feeling very bitter that we weren't in England to check out Swift and Foo Fighters And then some stuff hit social media that knocks us back to our[...]
You want more of the global phenomenon? We're going to give you more of the global phenomenon – like how Swift got the "royal treatment" (you're welcome) across the pond as she kicked off the first London night of her "Eras" tour in Wembley Stadium – not exactly a small venue Of course, how can[...]
So what did we get this time?
Your intrepid reporter and gumshoe and Bleeding Cool founder, Rich Johnston, hit the streets of London on Friday to secure himself a ticket a month ago, with the Vue cinema in Fulham Broadway being the chosen location on the basis that a) it was pretty close to home and[...]