london book fair Archives

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[...]

London Book Fair is big Really big I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the London Book Fair Listen… So comic books could get lost within its vast maw But they still manage to stick out Here's a few I found yesterday lunchtime,[...]

Tomorrow, in my role as Avatar Foreign Rights Manager (I know, I laugh just to type it) I'm attending the London Book Fair at Earl's Court (sans children for once, though I'll have the little one with me on Tuesday and Wednesday) courtesy of Diamond Book Distrubutors. They're putting the boat out of this one, with[...]