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Londoners, get down to Greenwich Market to take a peek at Becky Cloonan's wares on display at The Flood Gallery, a rarity in England as a place that stocks concert-poster-as-art pieces which are traditionally more popular state-side and in Australia Phantasmacosm runs until the 4th of December and prints and original art are available on[...]

For the purposes of the Thought Bubble Festival, and this article, Leeds has become a suburb of London Shush. So, things to do in London (and Leeds) if you like comic books in November… Thursday, 3rd November Gosh Comics, Berwick Street London Signing with Brian Schirmer, author of great weird west comic series Black Jack Ketchum from 5-6pm. Gosh Comics, Berwick Street[...]

 Unveiled at the MCM London Comic Con, our first look at the cover to Justice League Of America, the new series from Steve Orlando and Ivan Reis And while we knew the book would have Killer Frost, The Atom, Vixen and The Ray, until now we didn't know to expect Batman, Black Canary… and Lobo. Old-style[...]

From the Cartoon Museum's Great British Graphic Novel exhibition, currently on display in London, Hunt Emerson shows off the history of the medium in Britain – and how all the themes, influences and ideas cross pollinate… Here's how it looked when I walked around – and went upstairs. From the Cartoon Museum's Great British Graphic Novel[...]

Comica Comiket is returning to London after the show was cancelled last year. It promises a "Cavalcade of Celebrity Cartoonists drawing live throughout the afternoon in The Fabulous Drawing Parade." The Comica Comiket will take place beneath the giant Victorian glass-roofed shed that spans the gap between the brand new building for the House Of Illustration –  where[...]

Okay, in a very small font in black and white on a red background next to a piece of Eddie Campbell artwork. I had loaned a page of From Hell from my original art collection to the Great British Graphic Novel exhibition currently on display at the Cartoon Museum in London But it was overshadowed by so[...]

Want to go to the Captain America: Civil War premiere in London? Want a chance to see it as well? Here's the info you'll need… good luck! Want to go to the Captain America: Civil War premiere in London? Want a chance to see it as well? Here's the info you'll need… good luck! [...]

Print by Michael Allred from Gosh Comics, Soho, London, It was just the other day that I was meeting Bob Fingerman in a pub on Wardour Street in London where I used to regularly drink,that I discovered it used to be one of David Bowie's old haunts But then I get the feeling that's true of[...]

We may be able to arrange press access as well. "London, city of sin, London the place I grew up in, just one big old looney bin, London" – Richard Curtis, The Tall Guy First, two pieces of London knowledge Farmers' market delivery service Farmdrop, to keep you fed, watered and healthy And Uber to get you home[...]

If you missed Craig Thompson's £8 a ticket talk at the British Library in London, last night, with Paul Gravett, there's still a chance for something of that ilk tomorrow. Orbital Comics will see Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi, visit for a signing on Wednesday from 5-7pm, followed by a Director's Commentary with Craig talking the audience through his latest[...]

Tonight, the British Library in London sees an evening with comic book creator Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi, in conversation with Comica's Paul Gravett. As we;; as his previous work, they'll be talking about his new family drama colour graphic novel, Space Dumplins. In the tradition of plucky heroines like Alice, and their astonishing adventures, his new[...]

Do you live in London? Do you like comics? There's lots going on… including one event starting in just an hours time! Current Exhibitions: A Taste of Honeysett: The Acerbic Wit of Martin Honeysett at the Cartoon Museum Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics at the House Of Illustration Shojo Manga: The World of Japanese Girls' Comics, 19 March onwards The first major[...]

Frank Cho attended London Super Comic Con this weekend With blank sketch covers to pay his way… we saw two the other day, here are two more from Sunday.Oh Frank….   Frank Cho attended London Super Comic Con this weekend With blank sketch covers to pay his way… we saw two the other day, here are two[...]

https://youtu.be/5nRXqYeHwn8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: From One Side Of London Super Comic Con 2016, All Around The Place And Back Again (https://youtu.be/5nRXqYeHwn8) Here we go again… so, better or worse with an iPad Pro? https://youtu.be/5nRXqYeHwn8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: From One Side Of London Super Comic Con 2016, All Around[...]

So… what are you doing in London this month? Here are a few comic book based ideas… we start with exhibitions running through the month. Until Tuesday February 6th West Africa, Word, Symbol, Song at the British Library Spanning one thousand years of West Africa's history, this exhibition covers the empires of the Middle Ages, colonialism, independence and[...]

It runs in February through to May next year, at 2 Granary Square, King's Cross, London N1C 4BH It has been curated by Explore the world of comics through original artwork by 100 women comic creators working across genres and generations – from the 1800s to the present day; from observational comedy to surreal fantasy, challenging biography[...]

The latest Comica thing, Cityread, and the London Graphic Novel Network will be putting on a panel, S.M.A.S.H in the Barbican Library. Three subjects Three panels And there's no way I'm missing it. And we start with an informal chat – followed by a discussion with the audience, featuring: Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London) Steven Appleby (Guide to Life) Gareth Brookes (The[...]

Jess Bradley is a regular exhibitor at MCM London Comic Con And my kids have become regular customers of here and I always know that passing her at a show with my girls in tow will leave me financially worse off. To be honest, if probably would even if they weren't there. But with Hallowe'en Week upon[...]

The MCM London Comic Con promotes the principle that cosplay is not consent It was being enforced as well, by staff and cosplayers alike. I heard a number of people ask photographers if they had permission to shoot the shots they were taking But people were looking after each other, inside and out of the show, and I[...]

Joe Glass, who was exhibiting at MCM Comic Con, took photo of cosplayers who came to his table in Comic Village More cosplay pics from the past weekend's MCM London Comic Con Seems that Dragon Age is a very popular choice this time around, with Steven Universe also seeing an increasing presence at the show, which[...]

This weekend, Diamond held a retailer day at MCM London Comic Con Press were excluded, but Marvel and Mark Millar sent out PR summaries of what they wanted the world to know they announced Bleeding Cool was the only media outlet to have people at the actual retailer day reporting what was actually announced, that[...]

DC Comics Senior VP Derek Maddalena addressed comic book retailers at MCM London Comic Con yesterday It can't have been that easy with the guy who always used to do that, Bob Wayne, at the back of the room representing CBLDF. DC's biggest message to retailers was that of trade paperback persuasion Getting them to stock[...]

Mark Millar announced a lot of things at the Diamond Retail Summit at MCM London Comic Con yesterday But not everything made the PR burst that was sent to ComicBook. Such as how he sees Huck with Rafael Albuquerque as an 18 issue mini-epic, told over three years, with six issues a year. How the high concept of Empress is "what if[...]

From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of games sch as Uncharted, Executive Assault and Dark Souls III… From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of games sch as Uncharted, Executive Assault and Dark Souls III… From MCM London[...]

From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of television show panels like Sherlock, Flash, Arrow, Eve, Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Battlestar Galactica Films like The Journey, YouTube stars like Tomska And Andrew Lee Potts and Augusta Woods from Wireless x From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides[...]

Cometh the hour, cometh the cosplay – on the tubes, in the bars, on he show floor, in the open air of London MCM London Comic Con October 2015 It's official, Homestuck has all but gone, but there was more Deadpool, Harley Qunn and female Loki here than at New York a couple of weeks[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Marvel were to publish a Doctor Strange Omnibus, a full colour reprint of the Doctor Strange comic books of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Another big book will be a Star Wars Droids/Ewoks Omnibus reprinting the 8 Droids comics, 14[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Star Wars: Vader Down, the new Star Wars crossover between the two lead titles Star Wars and Darth Vader, already had over 450,000 units ordered He described it as  "so hot it burns your skin off and leaves you[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that April would see the the first ever printing of the long lost unpublished Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham Miracleman #25 comic, twenty years after it was completed. Then, as expected, Gaiman and Buckingham will finish of the Silver Age story with[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Uncanny Avengers #2 will see an apparently dead character come back to life, jokingly "possibly for the first time in comic-book history" –  and will appear on the cover of #3. This is currently the solicitation details for #2-  and[...]