london book fair Archives

Heartstopper Vol 6 Gets A Half-Million American Print Run
without Charlie. Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, underage drinking, and sexual references. 'The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.' Gay Times As reported by Bleeding Cool from the London Book Fair, where Alice Oseman was appearing as Creative of the Fair, they were given a YA Book Prize Special Achievement Award for[...]
Don't Steal This Book At London Book Fair
This week's London Book Fair 2026 saw a striking protest that blended activism, publishing, and a clever nod to countercultural history Thousands of authors, nearly 10,000 in total, collaborated on a project titled Don't Steal This Book, an intentionally "empty" publication designed to spotlight concerns over AI companies training models on copyrighted books without permission[...]
Cover & Characters For Black Mirror: San Junipero, The Offical Comic
The Black Mirror graphic novel based on the fan favourite episode San Junipero launched at the London Book Fair yesterday and already smashed through its crowdfunding goal, heading to a record for the publisher and licensor of Black Mirror, Twisted Comics As of reporting, they have raised $61,468 (£45,959) against a $20,000 (£15,000) goal They[...]
London Book Fair: William Blake' Comic Book Origin Story
One of the biggest scenes at the London Book Fair 2026, and one that needs extra security to get past, denied to a senior member of Publishers' Weekly team yesterday, is access to the literary agents' tables Rows upon rows of agents, gathered in one place, here to do deals with authors, artists, publishers and[...]
From One Side Of London Book Fair 2026 To The Other
Talking to Panini/Marvel representatives at the London Book Fair 2026, they told me that, as well as the usual reprinting and repackaging of the US Marvel material, which this year will mean a lot of Doctor Doom, they also have a few other, more unusual projects. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img[...]
Alice Oseman at London Book Fair 2026, receiving a Bookseller YA Award
As Heartstopper comes to an end, on the page as well as on the screen, creator Alice Oseman took to the stage at the London Book Fair yesterday with their editor You can see much of it with the embedded TikToks below, including receiving a special YA Bookseller Award she was surprised with But first,[...]
Dave Elliott at London Book Fair 2026
Farewell! Farewell! The London Book Fair 2026 on yesterday, today and tomorrow, will be the final show at Hammersmith/Kensington Olympia, also home to Toy Fair and the London Film and Comic Con Possibly other shows as well, but those are the ones I go to, three times this year so far But as of next[...]
SCOOP: Magdalene Visaggio To Write The Rocky Horror Show Comic Book
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[...]
Auto Draft
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[...]
SCOOP: Star Trek: Red Shirts from IDW Publishing
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[...]
Frostbite, a Graphic Novel by Ian Boothby & Pia Guerra From Scholastic
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[...]
Darryl Cunningham's Elon Musk Graphic Novel Finds An English Publisher
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[...]
Toy fLondon book fair
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[...]
Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean Adapted As New Romantasy Graphic Novels
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[...]
John Patrick Green Donates Prize Win, Signs Seven New Graphic Novels
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[...]
Details Of British Comic Creator R.E. Burke Detention By ICE Emerge
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[...]
David Fickling Books of Bunny Vs Monkey, No Longer a "Small Publisher"
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[...]
Kids Graphic Novels Sold a Record £20 Million in the UK in 2024
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[...]
Flying Eye Books Moves To Abrams & Chronicle With Waterstones Nominee
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[...]
Harriet Maxfield Sloane Wins Lord Of The Flies Prize With Graphic Novel
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[...]
Puffin Graphic Novel Competition.
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 London Book Fair Launch Three-Body Problem Graphic Novel
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[...]
One Shot Studios Launch at London Book Fair, Supporting Graphic Novels
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[...]
Max and Chaffy Jamie Smart.
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[...]
Things To Do In London If You Like Comics In March 2025
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[...]
Max and Chaffy Jamie Smart.
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[...]
Finding Comics & Graphic Novels at London Book Fair 2024
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,[...]
From One Side Of London Book Fair 2024 To The Other (Video)
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[...]
From One Side Of London Book Fair 2024 To The Other (Video)
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[...]