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But 2023 came and went without… issue. But at the London Book Fair yesterday, I got word that Dark Horse will be publishing the Rocky Horror Show #1 comic book for Halloween 2025, as the 50th anniversary of the film from 1975. Oh yes, and that it will be written by Magdalene Visaggio. Magdalene Visaggio is a prominent comic[...]

Coming out of the London Book Fair, I get the news that Boom Studios, publishers of the Power Rangers series, are to launch a new VR Troopers comic book series in June written by Mairghread Scott. The VR Troopers have already popped up in the Power Rangers series, and in May, Boom Studios are launching a[...]

Coming out of the London Book Fair, I get the word that IDW Publishing is to put out a new Star Trek comic book series in July written by regular Star Trek comics writer Christopher Cantwell called Star Trek: Red Shirts I guess we can see where this is going With covers by Chris Shehan, JJ Lendl, and Declan[...]

Hits include Dav Pilkey's Dog Man and Captain Underpants, Amulet, Baby-Sitters Club, Wings Of Fire, Five Nights At Freddy's, Bone and graphic novels by Raina Telgemeier. Now, to coincide with London Book Fair, they are launching the Graphix imprint in the UK as well, with the comics of Pilkey and Telgemeier alongside authors Kazu Kibuishi, Molly[...]

Big thanks to Delcourt for having the courage to publish the book." Well, at the London Book Fair today, it seems that someone stepped up A poster on the wall at the Turnaround Distribution Services booth, which doubles as a get-together spot for comic book folk at the show, was identified as coming from Seven Stories[...]

I had a rather interrupted London Book Fair this year I got some kind of con crud fast, and so by Tuesday, I had been stuffed in an Uber thanks to Josh Spiller and whizzed home to cups of Lemsip, fever dreams and a cat sitting on my chest like some kind of shaman willing[...]

But it is also being adapted into a series of graphic novels as well, announced for London Book Fair The first book in the Empyrean series, Fourth Wing, was published in 2023 by Red Tower Books And it will be the first of a new series of graphic novels as well, courtesy of a six-book[...]

As London Book Fair kicks off, John Patrick Green, creator of the InvestiGators and Agents of S.U.I.T series of graphic novels for kids won the inaugural Scholastic Graphic Novel Prize last year, worth £1,000, with InvestiGator's All Tide Up as voted on by schoolkids And, ahead of this year's London Book Fair, he has donated that[...]

Burke's Detention By ICE Emerge were amongst the most-read stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday, and still top the charts while I am at London Book Fair right now Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded sixteen years[...]

But what of the smaller publishers? On the morning of the London Book Fair, the Bookseller's Small Publishers charts in 2025 measures those with annual sales of less than £5 million in the UK as measured by Nielsen in 2024 One comic book publisher, David Fickling Books, jumped above that last year, thanks to Jamie[...]

London Book Fair, kicking off today, has a greater graphic novel and comic book presence than ever, and it's not hard to see why. Publishers and presses at the IPG Conference at the end of last month saw Wilson talk about a shrinking children's book market in the UK as birth rates fall, cost-of-living pressures rise, and[...]

Ahead of this week's London Book Fair, independent British children's book publisher with a fine line in graphic novels Flying Eye Books will move from Grantham Book Services to Abrams and Chronicle Books Ltd for sales and distribution, coinciding with the publisher's warehouse move from Grantham Book Services to Macmillan Distribution Limited Based in East[...]

Ahead of this week's London Book Fair, Faber and the National Literacy Trust have announced the winners of the schools competition that was launched to mark 70 years of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, alongside an exhibition of the graphic novel adaptation of the classic novel For the competition, pupils across the UK were[...]

This year will see the first Puffin UK-originated Puffin Graphics title, Unfairies by Welsh comics-creator Huw Aaron, which will be published in August. Puffin Graphic Novel Competition Now, ahead of the 2025 London Book Fair starting tomorrow, Puffin Graphics has launched a new Puffin Graphic Novel Competition The winning project will receive a publishing contract with Puffin,[...]

Yilin Press, a literary imprint of Phoenix Publishing and Media Inc, one of China's largest publishing groups, will showcase the another graphic novel adaptation of The Three-Body Problem at the 2025 London Book Fair, tomorrow This will include a rights signing ceremony with French publisher Editions Glénat, at 3pm with Yilin Press, an imprint of[...]

Ahead of the London Book Fair, kicking off tomorrow, a new agency called One Shot Studios has launched with the intent of supporting "publishers, estates and media organisations expanding into the graphic novel market." They state that "One Shot Studios are specialists at producing graphic novels based on big-time novels by big-time publishers.  Our team[...]

This week sees the London Book Fair launch in the capital, filling the Olympia conference centre across the halls and around the galleries; also home to Toy Fair and London And Film Comic Con at other points in the year And that's where the Observer newspaper comes in today, with Arts & Media Correspondent Vanessa[...]

Oh and the London Book Fair is in town… Thursday, 6th of March Troopers, Noho, from 6pm Those who know, go New location for 2025. The Cartoon Museum Fundraiser, The Fitzrovia Chapel, Noho, 6.30 – 8.30pm The Trustees of The Cartoon Museum are hosting a champagne reception at The Fitzrovia Chapel to raise funds to support the Museum and[...]

Free Comic Book Day Under Diamond was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool again yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

Comics artist and British Book Awards winner Jamie Smart has been confirmed as the first-ever Creative of the Fair for London Book Fair in March, where he will host an interactive draw-along where guests will be able to recreate his characters It's not hard to tell why, according to Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market charts, Jamie[...]

It's the final day of London Book Fair, and I have been wandering around picking up all manner of stuff, meeting all sorts of people as well as bumping into the likes of Mike Holman from Diamond, Dirk Wood from Image Comics, Alan Payne from Dynamite Entertainment, Jamie Elby from Rebellion, Joel Meadows from Tripwire,[...]

Reed Exhibitions/ReedPOP owns both the London Book Fair and the MCM Comic Con brand, but until this week the two had never met That changed, as MCM Comic Con set up shop at Book Fair with a big message Launch your book at MCM Their NYCC shows had a big Book Contingent, and it is[...]

I bumped into lots of people at today's London Book Fair 2024 Including John Maher of Publisher's Weekly, who opened his own precis of the show, quoting me. "You know they're spending money when there's carpet," Rich Johnston, the founder of the British comics news site Bleeding Cool, says, gesturing at the rich royal blue carpeting lining[...]

DC Thomson, publishers of The Beano, have announced their range of annuals for 2024/2025, with both the Beano, Dandy, Oor Wullie and The Broons  getting volumes, and released in time for London Book Fair tomorrow From one of the longest-standing comic book publishers in the world, the Beano Annual especially is iconic to the country,[...]

Live from London Book Fair! And it has come back hard-ish Smaller than at its heyday, it's still much bigger than last year The masks are (mostly) gone, the big publishers are in play and, yes, there are plenty of comic books around the place Some you'll know, some you'll get to know Saw some[...]

London Book Fair seems as busy as ever for its 50th event, but that may be deceptive Certain big name publishers  are absent No Dargaud, no Rebellion, no Scholastic, no DFC, no Blank Slate, Self Made Hero, not even a Soaring Penguin presence As a result there are also not a lot of the MG[...]

State Department and local health agencies." Penguin Random House had also joined other publishers from pulling out of the London Book Fair, also run by Reed, in the same week Well, this morning the news broke that Reed had cancelled the London Book Fair The event scheduled from 10th-12th March at Kensington Olympia, had seen dozens[...]

They ran a forty volume Deadpool partwork and of 2019, are going full blast with X-Men: The Essential Collection. And, because today is London Book Fair, this is where it all begins. With, if you can believe the spine image, there will be sixty volumes… And here's how they begin… Issue 1 MUTANT GENESIS 2.0 The X-Men's mission begins anew![...]

I've just been to London Book Fair in Kensington Olympia, and had a little wander around Found Titan Books, Turnaround with Knockabout, Dark Horse, Kodansha and Marvel UK/Panini, as well as Diamond Comic Distributors and even found BHP Comics who had 29 meetings today alone I also spend some considerable time around the French publishers,[...]

The London Book Fair is a place for publishers to pitch to distributors, publishers to license from other publishers and people to sit around having meetings This year, at London Olympia, I took a wander round, taking shots of anything vaguely comic-booky I found a few stories along the way I'll be back on Thursday[...]