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At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, IDW's VP Marketing Dirk Wood announced a very special project to UK retailers. That IDW would be publishing a comic based on the Action Man property. For our colonial brethren, Action Man was the UK version of GI Joe that never shrunk down[...]

Jittery, blurred, rushed, it's from one side of the show to the other, at London MCM Comic Con October 2016… the cosplay, the comics, the commentary…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAvwQP5MA7IVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: From One Side Of MCM London Comic Con October 2016 To The Other (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAvwQP5MA7I) [...]

It's MCM London Comic Con today! The UK's largest comic book event by far… at the London ExCel Centre. You know what to expect Comics Village, lots of cosplay, an announcement or three and plenty of media stars Diamond are holding a very private meeting in which Mark Millar, David Gabriel and more will be holding[...]

Or check the "bobbies" and wrong London buses from previous issues Or how you can't have a glottal stop before the indefinite article in "bit o' a history buff" – if you are going to write it in this fashion it would be "bi' ovva history buff" or "histree" if you were really getting into[...]

At the DC Access All Area panel at New York Comic Con, Jimmy Palmiotii talked through the upcoming new Harley Quinn series, Harley Quinn's Little Black Book. In which Wonder Woman gets knocked out, Harley decides she has to wear Wonder Woman's costume and spends much of the issue trying to get it on. But the comic will also[...]

These materials are attractive to children, especially ones who are not normally interested in reading or read stuff outside the general realm of interest." Nominees: Illusive Comes and Games – Santa Clara, California Comikaze and Toys – Goodyear, Arizona Daydream Comics – Iowa City, Iowa Dragon's Lair – Austin, Texas Best Graphic Novel Section Gosh! Comics – Soho, London Nominees: Comikaze and Toys –[...]

First, a plug that has noting to do with comics but I consider it a public service to Londoners Farmdrop.co.uk, a farmer's market that delivers across London, charges less that the actual farmers markets and gave me the most amazing shoulder of lamb and smashed veg the other day… do try the Bread Ahead rosemary loaf that I[...]

London has them all beat. Pick up your small dog, pop on your tartan, trim your beard, make your farmdrop.co.uk order (use 'Richard Johnston' as a referral to get discount), pop on your extra thick rimmed glasses and balance your unicycle to the most well mexico comic book festival of all, Safari, being held in London's most fashionably arty[...]

August is jam-packed-full if you are a comics fan in London Time for me to pick and choose… Saturday August 1st Mark Buckingham Signing, Exhibition Launch and Musical Evening at Orbital Comics 5-7pm. Mark Buckingham is signing Fables #150, and every purchase puts you into a raffle to win an original page of art from the final issue[...]

A sunny Saturday morning in old London town and what does the postman bring? Something for the electoral register, cinema tickets, a magazine subscription and… the new Loot Crate! The July Heroes edition So what's inside? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCL7ETHE61w[/youtube] To recap, a Loot Crate exclusive Batman '66 Q-Pop figure with redrawable speech balloon against the Gotham set of the[...]

Two days before the Spider-Man announcement, Tom Holland posted some of his moves from his South-West London home on Instagram… Fun fun fun A video posted by ✌️ (@tomholland2013) on Jun 21, 2015 at 7:37am PDT Bored A video posted by ✌️ (@tomholland2013) on Jun 21, 2015 at 7:44am PDT Bored A video posted by ✌️ (@tomholland2013) on Jun 21, 2015[...]

I live in London Maybe you do too Maybe you are visiting Maybe it's worth traveling across the world Because here are a bunch of comic book events happening in my fair city in the month of June Which is now, I just checked… Running exhibitions: Declan Shalvey exhibition, Orbital Comics A display for the Arkham Knight Batmobile. Joe[...]

Cosplay courtesy of Promotipisa who attended MCMC London Comic Con on behalf of Bleeding Cool…. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Cosplay courtesy of Promotipisa who attended MCMC London Comic Con on behalf of Bleeding Cool…. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:[...]

Situated at the east of the east of the east end of London, the MCM London Comic Con 2015 takes place at the Excel Centre, this time sharing space with a Christian convention No joke. Still, the two could be easily told apart In that the MCM Comic Con had slightly more men wearing dresses[...]

From one side of MCM London Comic Con 2015 to the other on Friday… the quiet day Otherwise this would have taken a lot longer. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5o-PGoxJqQ[/youtube] From one side of MCM London Comic Con 2015 to the other on Friday… the quiet day Otherwise this would have taken a lot longer. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5o-PGoxJqQ[/youtube] [...]

Announced at MCM London Expo, in the Comics Village panel, is a new comic book project, Project Autumn A 128 page graphic novel created by regulars at the MCM Comics Village One story, ten artists, following the lead character Orion as he moves from world to world, accompanied by a card set that will feature many[...]

Back from Free Comic Book Day in London with the kids and some of their friends And lots of comics were bought (though I did have to move one child away from the Mercury Heat and towards the Spongebob Squarepants). London was out for free comics The line at Orbital snaked around the block from opening[...]

Bleeding Cool understands that the head honcho at Wizard World, John Macaluso, took meetings last week in London at the O2 dome, often known as the Millennium Dome. On the right side of the Thames, just over from the Excel Centre where the MCM London Expo and London Super Comic Con are held, the O2 benefits[...]

Max Brooks, the author of World War Z, is signing his new graphic novel The Extinction Parade: War in Waterstones, Piccadilly Circus from 5.30pm this evening. It's published in the UK by Titan Books, courtesy of Bleeding Cool's own publisher, Avatar Press, and appears here in advance. In fact, I'm going to pop down myself, working as I go, to[...]

London, Dublin and Paris, though only the first two have these posters… …which I have to say, is a rather fun way to join his two big comic book projects together right now, Sex Criminals and Howard The Duck.. Quack.   Chip Zdarsky is doing a European tour in April London, Dublin and Paris, though only the first[...]

Tomorrow sees the The Cartoon Museum in London launch their new Comics Gallery and Comics Creators project It's completely free, though booking is essential, with this bevy of talent available through the day. The Comics Creators project has been awarded over £160,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to buy original pieces of comic book artwork  for the Cartoon[...]

I've just been to see both with the kids – but thought I'd write about the shorter one first. It was a surprise for the press-and-the-kids crowd that I managed to attend in London's West End this morning, and the place went mental when the guy from Disney announced it on the stage Mostly from the[...]

A look at a few comic convention and comic art festival announcements of late… London Super Comic Con, London, March 14th-15th LSCC has announced their seventh wave of guests. Henry Flint Ben Oliver Jonathan Ross Yannis Roumboulias Alessendro Vitti They also welcome Valiant for the first time to the UK Gracing the convention cover with Bloodshot and offering a[...]

Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London Thank you Wikipedia. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton. The grounds, which had remained private property, were acquired by London County Council in 1895. And tonight, the location for the filming of Mission Impossible 5.  Keep an[...]

The London Super Comic Con has released a bunch more comic attendees at the show… oh look, Max Brooks, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen… you can see that Bleeding Cool's publisher must be in attendance! The new names are Arthur Adams, Simone Bianchi, Brian Bolland, Max Brooks, Mark Buckingham, Joyce Chin, Garth Ennis, Kieron Gillen, Adi Granov, Tabitha Lyons, Ron Marz, Ireland Reid, Esad Ribic, David Roach, Laura Sindall, Rachel Stott, David Wachter and Jeremy[...]

I live just outside Kingston-Upon-Thames, on the far south west of London It's over an hour into central London for the triumvirate of West End comic stores, Forbidden Planet, Gosh and Orbital. In 2011, a comic shop, Holy Goat Comics opened in Kingston And closed. So, made my first trip to Kingston's Holy Goat Comics today[...]

MCM Comic Con is coming for you, wherever you live, it seems. The British Comic Con organiser, responsible for the MCM London Comic Con, and then spinning off around the country, went abroad this year, with shows in Ireland and Sweden And that's just the start. This year saw two MCM London Comic Cons, as well as MCM[...]

His collaborator, Sarah Lightman, is an award-winning artist, curator and arts journalist based in London who is researching a PhD at The University of Glasgow on Autobiography in Comics. Gekiga: Alternative Manga from Japan Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street Gekiga was the spark which, between 1956 and the early 1970s, transformed manga from being the preserve of the young[...]

Frazer Brown writes: Stan Sakai's beloved and iconic Samuarai Leporidae Usagi Yojimbo has been making his stage debut last Friday at London's Southwark Playhouse. The same venue that brought "Howl's Moving Castle" to Magical life in 2011. The Eisner award winning adventures have been freshly adapted for the stage by
 Stewart Melton and are directed by Amy Draper The cast includes: Joji Hirota
, Amy Ip
, Haruka Kuroda,
 Siu Hun Li
, Jonathan[...]

His collaborator, Sarah Lightman, is an award-winning artist, curator and arts journalist based in London who is researching a PhD at The University of Glasgow on Autobiography in Comics. Gekiga: Alternative Manga from Japan Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street In the 1950s Japan was emerging from US occupation and embarking on the economic resurgence which was to make[...]