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And my seating partner didn't even ask for his two year old refund. Rowling In It runs at the King's Head Theatre, in Islington, London, Mondays to Saturdays, until the 18th of April I do hope it makes it back up to Edinburgh to complete the circle… or will we get another play about how Rowling In[...]

as I discovered when cycling along Oxford Street last night. #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; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Super Mario Galaxy X Lush, Oxfors Street, London / Rich Johnston Super Mario Galaxy X Lush, Oxfors Street, London / Rich Johnston #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float:[...]

Riki Lindhome is currently on stage in London's West End at the Soho Theatre on Dean Street, with her show Dead Inside making its London premiere But don't expect a two-thousand-strong audience; the room can fit fewer than a hundred, including those standing at the back But you get a show that outdoes anything on[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for April 2026, bang on time this month If you are tired of comics in London, you are tired of life! Wednesday 1st of April Workshop – 1st April: Aardman Model Making Workshops – Shaun the Sheep 2pm – 3pm (kids), 4pm – 5pm (kids), 6.30pm[...]

And this year it will be seen as more important because it includes London's councils as well And while it's often seen as a national poll on how the overall government is doing, it is also subject to far more local concerns, and with fewer people voting, it reflects the views more of those who[...]

@thatrichjohnston Two major Jamie Hewlett exhibitions almost next door to each other in London's West End with Gorillaz, Oxford Street and the Cartoon Museum, right now #london #jamiehewllet #gorillaz #cartoonmuseum @Gorillaz @Cartoon_Museum @OxfordStreetW1 @J Draper London ♬ original sound – Rich Johnston Right now, in London's West End, on and off Oxford Street, are two major[...]

Frank Miller is coming to London for a Frank Miller: Storyteller, Live in Conversation event at the Royal Geographical Society, on the evening of the 30th of July, in London, from 7.30 pm to 8.45 pm, courtesy of Fane and the How To Academy The listing page states; Frank Miller at the Los Angeles premiere of[...]

The upcoming production of a new Sherlock Holmes play in London, at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in May, has come in for considerable criticism First, over its use of an clearly A.I.-generated image across all its promotions… And secondly, that really looks like Peter Serafinowicz in the lead Peter Serafinowicz is a comedian, writer[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for March 2026, a little late this month, apologies With signings at Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet, events by Kev F Sutherland, an evening of Image Comics creators at Waterstones, an evening with Posy Simmonds and the Young Cartoonist Awards, with everything seeming to[...]

This is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for February 2026, starting today with the London Comic Mart, which I am currently making my way across town for, and ending with the London Spring Comic Con, which I will also be attending But along the way, there's  signings at Gosh Comics and[...]

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[...]

The productions of The Mischief Theatre may be one of my very favourite things about living and working in London The Play That Goes Wrong, Comedy About A Bank Robbery, Groan Ups, Mischief Movie Night and many more play out all the time I saw Christmas Carol Goes Wrong a couple of weeks ago, and[...]

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[...]