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Neil Gibson of Twisted Comics introduces the From One Side Of The Show To The Other video below at London MegaCon Live, being held at the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands this weekend It's about a quarter of the size of the centre that MCM Comic Con takes up, and has a smaller audience, but[...]

There are two more yet to be announced, in London and Liverpool And Bleeding Cool has seen the sign that their much-demanded first London location will be on Eden Street in Kingston-Upon-Thames, in the far south west of London Quite literally, behind some hoardings, and very close to my local comic shop, Piranha Comics in[...]

Written by Doctor Who writer and comic book writer Andrew Cartmel, directed by Jenny Eastop, and presented – whatever that means – by Rivers Of London's Ben Aaronovitch, I managed to utterly miss this when it was on two years ago at the Tabard due to my incompetence, and I'm very grateful it came back[...]

Publishers Knockabout Comics and comic book store Gosh Comics of London are to publish the final comics work of Kevin O'Neill, to follow League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Cinema Purgatorio and The Moon And Serpent Bumper Book Of Magic And Silent Pictures by Kevin O'Neill will contain Feartreland and The Balaclava Kid Presented as a slipcased set[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for January 2026, with Megacon Live, the First Graphic Novel Award, Gosh Comics signings and more… Thursday, 1st of January Troopers, Soho, from 6pm Those who know, go. Friday, 2nd of January Comic and Manga Creators Group London, 7.30-9pm,  Meltdown London, 342 Caledonian Road, Islington "If you are interested[...]

He did so in London with Ian Sinclair and Victor Rees, with the presence of Alan Moore over their heads, zooming in from his home in Northampton And it was Northampton that joined the two together. Rich Johnston The book is about Giles Corey, an eighty-year-old farmer from the Boroughs of Northampton, where Moore has lived his[...]

Yesterday I went shopping for cheese on Christmas Eve, from Neal's Yard Dairy, in London's Covent Garden It is my favourite cheese shop in the world, and so naturally I took a photo of the line, and my place in it. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for December 2025, which may have fewer events, what with Christmas and all, but considering they include an Alan Moore event with Ben Wickey and Ian Sinclair, a Forbidden Planet day of signings and the Reads Christmas Quiz, there will be plenty to go[...]

This week, the 43rd Golden Joystick Awards took place in London, with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 coming out as the biggest winner of the night. The title took several awards, including Ultimate Game of the Year, Best Storytelling, Best Visual Design, and Best Soundtrack, along with two of their actors, Jennifer English, who took Best Lead Performer, and Ben[...]

Wicked Witches is a pantomime with even more drag than usual, and straddling the family/adult audience for traditional Christmas pantomimes by giving us both a family-friendly version and a decidedly more adult affair, at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington, London I do hope the performers remember which audience is which But to be fair, pantomime[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for November 2025, is jam packed with London Comic Con Winter 2025 on the same weekend as everyone goes to Thought Bubble in Harrogate Gosh Comics has so many signings, Forbidden Planet has a few too, Joe Sacco comes to town for talks and[...]

Pour Decisions is a brand-new play, which debuted at the Edinburgh Festival this summer, and has been making its London debut at The Glitch, near London Waterloo, for one week only It's from writer Alice Mogridge, who co-stars in this hour-long two-hander as Frankie, with Sasha Van Diepen as Jess I saw it last night; it only[...]

It's not often someone says, "Hey, you wanna come out to England to play a park tycoon game about dinosaurs?" But we got the chance to play a demo of Jurassic Park Evolution 3 in the heart of London Frontier Developments invited a bunch of journalists and content creators out to have a special experience,[...]

Today, you could have found me at Piccadilly Circus in London for the Tron Ares activation event YouTube above, TikTok below Last night, Disney Studios took over the Piccadilly Circus Lights for Tron: Ares, staging the first-ever rooftop red carpet as Jared Leto unveiled exclusive content on the giant screens, joined on the rooftop by[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for October 2025, we have signing and launch parties at Gosh Comics with Craig Thompson, Tom Guald, David Hine, Glenn Fabry, Mark Stafford, Paul Cornell, Rachael Smith, and more, a look at comics from the Holocaust Library, and Kev F Sutherland's comic art classes,[...]

This was too late to get into Things To Do In London If You Like Comics earlier this month, so consider this a special edition The Eisner-winning Craig Thompson, creator of the graphic novels Blankets and Habibi, is coming to London for one night only Hosted by Paul Gravett in the West End private members[...]

Which would have been slightly more interactive than they may have been going for. Playbill Written by Joel Marlin, directed by Quentin Beroud, designed by Ismini Papaioannou, sound/lightning designed and produced by Simon Beyer and Metal Rabbit Productions, The Statesman is currently on at the Theatro Technis, Morning Crescent, London for another week. The Statesman is a[...]

I previously took one of their new Superman watches to the Off-West End Theatre of London to see the play Lost Watches and they liked that so much that they sent me their "Batmobile" Batman watch to match I had a Batman watch when I was seven years old and loved it, and now I[...]

But now I learn that Diamond UK is to hold one at next month's MCM London Comic Con – if that is what they are still called. As part of the bankruptcy dealings, Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., the debtors in the chapter 11 bankruptcy, has sold its interest in Diamond UK to the company's management team[...]

As promotion begins for the paperback edition of Alan Moore's first Long London novel, The Great When, we also get details for the second novel Set almost ten years after the first novel, in 1958, this sees Grace Shilling find her way into The Great When, a parallel version of London, with Dennis Knuckleyard following[...]

On Thursday night, Whoopi Goldberg took to the stage of London's Hammersmith Apollo – now known soullessly as Eventim – for the first time in three years and on the eve of her seventieth birthday She gave us stand-up, crowd work, and even hugged a man who had tattoos of her all over his body[...]

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[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for August 2025, kicking off with the Drink And Draw and the first British Douijin convention this weekend, as well lots of comics classes for kids at the Cartoon Museum, life drawing for adults, signings at Forbidden Planet and Gosh, evening with Moomins at[...]

And all I have to do at this weekend's London Film And Comic Con, is host some panels… with Adi Granov and Esad Ribic on the Saturday and with Mike Golden on the Sunday Will I see you there? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /*[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for July 2025, kicking off with the London Film And Comic Con, signings at Gosh and Forbidden Planet (both of them) and Waterstones creating comic book days… Thursday, 3rd of July Troopers, Soho, from 6pm Those who know, go. Friday, 4th of July Comic and Manga Creators Group[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for June 2025 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[...]

Okay, I've just signed up to access to the MCM Comic Publishing Summit at MCM Comic Con in two weeks at the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands as a part of MCM Comic Con in just two weeks The summit will be open to all industry ticket holders and will "consist of five panels, covering[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for May 2025 Including Free Comic Book Day, with Black Mirror signings, MCM London Comic Con, CSM Comic Con, and the Women Claim Your Story graphic novel workshops in Wimbledon. Thursday, 1st of May Troopers, Soho, from 6pm Those who know, go. Friday, 2nd of May Comic and[...]

No April fooling, this is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for April 2025 Including the grand opening of Forbidden Planet Camden, formerly Mega-City Comics, with signings from Ram V, Dave Gibbons and Al Ewing, more signings from Gibbons and friends at Gosh Comics, Easter workshops for kids at the Cartoon Museum[...]

The slightly late new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for March 2025, with a Cartoon Museum fundraiser, signings with Becki Barnicoat, Fumio Obata, Tor Freeman, Nicola Kent, and Balthazar Pagani at Gosh Comics and Ryan Parrott at Forbidden Planet, comic cons at Elstree, Hemel Hempstead and Norwood Junction Oh[...]