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From Trafalgar Square, tonight. They rememebred, remembered the fifth of Novembered.   You know, in the original scene filmed at Parliament for the V

Oops, this one fell through the cracks a little… Frank Spotnitz, and Adam Rayner were talking up the new BBC/HBO TV action series Hunted at MCM London Expo, and showing off the first five minutes of next week's episode Including how they get past last week's rather explosive cliffhanger… and it does indeed involve a little[...]

MCM London Expo has outgrown the area it takes up of the London ExCel and needs to expand., Everywhere was full but some places, say the bottleneck between the showfloor and the cosplay area was dangerous Vendors weren't too pleased with the crowds in places either, with crowds trying to get past blocking any traffic[...]

From the mid-afternoon arriving in the DLR, to leaving at night (via the pub) a look at some of the cosplay on display at MCM London Expo today Of course tomorrow it will be all this times five And I'm bringing the kids… oh and the kid Doctor is Elliot, who asked the question about[...]

This is the first MCM Expo since the release of Cockneys Vs Zombies. I do hope we get a reprieve of it somewhere. Set in the Docklands, MCM is Britain's

So I was in the Comics Museum in London this weekend, as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, as my kids got an impressive lesson in character design from Steve Marchant.Turns out I may have to be back for halt term next week, here's what they have planned as far as children's lessons are concerned… I[...]

My favourite place in London to go on the weekend with the kids is the South Bank Fom the London Eye to Tate Modern, there are always plenty of performers, stalls, theatre events for us all to enjoy, the skateboarders, the parkour, the boats and bridges, there's always something going on. On the 27th October though,[...]

Went to the Entertainment Media Show at London Olympia to see what was what A film/TV/wrestler show, it also managed to have a fairly decent comic book contingent, and lots of natural light Which was all the excuse I needed… Chris Claremont in the place of his birth, and facing a tonne of X-Men comics to[...]

Went to the Entertainment And Media Show at Earl's Court Olympia today with my eldest daughter Eve... so she could meet her favourite writer Dan Slott

Welcome to Clapton in London Originally "Clopton", meaning "farm on the hill" and now more infamous as London's "murder mile". And today, home to a Tamara Drewe promotional cow. Created to promote the graphic novel-adaptation from a few years back, its udder has been signed by Episodes' and Black Books' Tamsin Grieg. And now dumped out by the[...]

At the end of next month, timed to coincide with Phillip Pullman's Grimm Tales For Young And Old, Pullman will be sitting down for an evening of conversation about fairytales with Neil Gaiman at the Cambridge Theatre in London, currently showing Matilda. If you want to go, you had better click here fast. At the end[...]

Designer, cartoonist and comic creator extraordinaire Rian Hughes has created a series of portraits of London's burlesque performers, including sketches from life, graphic illustrations and paintings in a variety of media and styles Here is the introduction to Image Comics' upcoming Soho Dives, Soho Divas, for November. I'm sure that, like me, you're wary of unsolicited[...]

They now write; " IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED THAT THIS IS INDEED A FAKE NAME RELEASED TO US AND HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AS NOT COMING" As you were. The original article runs below: Wow. Earlier this year, the new London Super Comic Convention persuaded Stan Lee (or rather paid him around $200,000) to attend the show, where he signed, chatted,[...]

Don't stop me now... featuring Jessica Ennis, Victoria Pendleton, Nicola Adams, Sir Chris Hoy, rower Pete Reed, Robert Grabarz, the Brownlee brothers and

This might be called a simpler ceremony than the original, less layering of cultural and historic references, but there are still one or two that might do with pointing out… The opening shot takes a more direct aerial route across London, this time at night, to the Olympic Park and Olympic Stadium. The crowd count the chimes[...]

The London Olympic Games is coming to a close It has been a very controlled media circus, whether that be Mastercard being banned, BBC cameras being turned to avoid shopping centre advertising or an East End kebab shop having to change its name from Olympic Kebabs to Lympic Kebabs. But this little beauty, parodying the London[...]

From Glastonbury Tor, to the uprooting of the countryside by the cities of the Industrial Revolution, the beginning of the Olympic Opening Ceremony in London was not that familiar to many Americans watching… except those who had been reading recent issues of Journey Into Mystery, with the arrival in Otherworld of the Manchester Gods. While watching,[...]

Here's a bullet point reference guide to the Olympics, as complete as Brendon and Rich can get it… please feel free to add more bullet points in the comments and we will integrate them. The shipping forecast, played late at night on British radio, ostensibly to help sailors, but now an institution, a comfortable, recognisable sign[...]

In last night's Olympic Opening Ceremony, during the Frankie And June Say Thanks Tim section celebrating a century of music and technology, when Frankie

The countdown of numbers took examples from across Britain, and especially London 18 in neon was taken from the sex shops of Soho. 4 The trip down the Thames was incredibly stylised from its mythical start through institutions of Henley, Richmond, the Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race and into London, with the a snatch of the theme tune[...]

[issuu width=420 height=280 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120723105036-386d6f34f4334c25abfca98fcaad4929 name=ellipsis_issue1_preview username=richjohnston tag=bleedingcool unit=px v=2] Launching this Friday at Gosh Comics in London is Ellipsis, a new comic book by The guy behind Solipsistic Pop, Tom Humberstone, published through his own publisher Solipsistic Pop Books. Take a peek… El•lip•sis (noun)[...]

There's something very special about the three central London shops, Orbital, Forbidden Planet and Gosh, in that they are flanked by all the major movie studio offices in London, as well as all the production companies that create special effects and the like Throw a bagel on Wardour Street and you'll hit three people working[...]

Jake Capps writes for Bleeding Cool; I just spent five hours in a line wrapping around the back alleys of London's Soho district This was my first British queue  Today Gosh Comics hosted the release of Alan Moore, and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century 2009  I arrived at 1030, and found myself a[...]

There's the man himself wearing a fetching black vest and exposing his manly arms to the elements.   The queue was immense, and both Alan Moore and

Today, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill will be signing copies of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - both the new Century 2009 book but also the launch

Here's a scene from tonight's launch of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring the wedding of Northstar and his boyfriend Kyle, from Orbital Comics in London, and the gay nightclub CIRCA Blinding. Of course, that was before the footie began… Here's a scene from tonight's launch of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring the wedding of Northstar and his boyfriend[...]

A number of artists and designers have recreated a large number of London phone boxes, now becoming obsolete due to the proliferation of mobile phones, and have instead been recreated as pieces of art, and distributed across to London. And one, in Shoreditch, metres from today's East London Comics & Arts Fair still going on, and[...]

Last month I went to the launch of Dudebox, a new customizable vinyl figure line, at a club in East London.  It was the most Nathan Barleyish event I'd ever been to and I used to work in advertising. Tomorrow that venue will host ELCAF, the East London Comics & Arts Festival I may have to[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72wqAS_K-s[/youtube] Thanks to Heri Mkocha, who gave us this collection of outdoor MCM London Expo cosplay snaps for this video featuring a cosplay rave at MCM London Expo a couple of weekends back. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72wqAS_K-s[/youtube] Thanks to Heri Mkocha, who gave us this collection of outdoor MCM London Expo cosplay snaps for this video featuring a cosplay rave[...]

This is Boris Johnson, Mayor of London on drugs A couple of classic quotes; "Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs It's time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it's happening." "I can't remember what my line on drugs is[...]