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Orbital Comics in London is situated close to Soho, the gay mecca of London And on Frith Street, lies CIRCA, a gay club that opened last year. To celebrate the wedding of Northstar & Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51 Orbital will be hosting a wedding reception/party at there on Tuesday June 19 from 7:15pm. There will be[...]

Thanks to Heri Mkocha for a great collection of  MCM London Cosplay photos and, for a change, taken in the bright British sunshine.  What a fantastic tonic for the rainy weather right now… Thanks to Heri Mkocha for a great collection of  MCM London Cosplay photos and, for a change, taken in the bright British[...]

Kieron wanted me to call this article "A Little Whine". I didn't. Anyway, here is the writer of Uncanny X-Men, Kieron Gillen, who has just bought a glass

Mark Millar, Frank Quitely, Dave Gibbons and Nacho Vigalondo held host to the Millarworld panel at Kapow in London today Giving us a first look at this Quitely Jupiter's Children cover… and a barrage of Hit Girl and Secret Society imagery. Dave Gibbons talked about that, while Mark prefers American settings for his comics, given their[...]

If you're exhibiting fun stuff at either Big Wow or Kapow this weekend, do let me know. The Glasgow League of Writers (GLoW) will be out in force at Kapow

Next weekend, Britain's lergest comics conventuion, the MCM London Expo, have basically handed over the comics side to ShiftyLook. They've brought in creators such as Marv Wolfman, Ben McCool, Dean Haspiel, Matt Moylan, Dax Gordine and Jim Zubkavich to the UK – including the launch of Wolfman's comic for ShiftyLook on Friday in their panel at[...]

This year alone has seen London Super Comic Convention, Bristol Comic Expo, Cardiff Comic Expo, Exeter Comic Expo, and Hi-Ex (Inverness) and we're not even halfway through the year Still on the horizon are MCM Expo (London), Kapow (London),  2D Festival (Derry), Thought Bubble (Leeds), and probably loads I haven't remembered! The fact is, with so many shows,[...]

Gosh Comics in London hosted the book launch for Nick Abadzis' Hugo Tate complete collection tonight It also took the opportunity to show off its new window designs, created by a batch of comic creators during Free Comic Book Day. The night went well, with attendance from the likes of Mark Stafford, Steve Marchant, Ilya, John[...]

A good, reliable comic convention. Then next weekend it's Kapow in North London, the MillarCon, with Mark Millar, Joe Quesada, Jonathan Ross, Warren Ellis, Jonathan Ross, Scott Snyder, Sara Pichelli, Olivier Coipel, Terry Dodson, Charlie Adlard, Bryan Hitch, Lucha Britannia, Dave Gibbons, Paul Cornell, C.B Cebulski, Nick Spencer, Barry Kitson, Eric Stephenson, Kieron Gillen, Peter Milligan,[...]

Have you ever seen the TV sitcom Nathan Barley? Because that's where I was last night, a Shoreditch brick walled club filled with hundreds of gorgeous

On Saturday from 6pm, Nick Abadzis will be signing at Gosh Comics in London for the launch of the collection of his seminal graphic novel, Hugo Tate Serialised in the likes of Deadline, and partially collected through Atomeka/Tundra, it tells the gradual shifting changing story of a happy go lucky stick figure, corrupted by complexity[...]

Though for whatever technical reasons exist, this will only be made available through the Knockabout co-owned Gosh! Comics in London. A seven inch doo-wop single by Eddie Enrico and His Hawaiian Hot-Shots, with Alan Moore singing as the fictitious version of Elvis Eddie Enrico appeared with his Hong Kong Hot-Shots in the Thomas Pynchon novel, Vineland[...]

Spotted on the London Underground the other day… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MJhqCKyW_A[/youtube] Limited edition Absolut London bottle available at Selfridges, designed by Jamie Hewlett. But who are these folks of Absolut London? Well it's all part of some kind of Facebook game to win bottles, glasses or prints… [...]

On Saturday morning, we'll be getting the bus, then two tube trains into Central London with a gaggle of young girls to raid the comic shops of London like they are giving away free comics Which they are. Orbital Comics will have Simon Furman, Andy Wildman, Stephen Baskerville, John-Paul Bove and Jason Cardy signing copies of[...]

Ha. I walked up the red carpet with my good lady wife last night, for the premiere for Avengers Assemble held in London's biggest shopping mall, Westfield We passed Jenny Agutter (playing one of Nick Fury's mysterious semi-bosses), and several reality TV stars trying to get recognised Jonathan Ross was on the stage introducing members of[...]

As well as Crossed: Badlands from Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, Crossed: Wish You Were Here, is a free weekly Crossed webcomic also launched, by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. Well, Si Spurrier popped by Orbital Comics in London yesterday, and found some makeup waiting for him A quick session with an artist later,[...]

Well, Steve Gerber's long delayed graphic novel with Kevin Nolan from the eighties is now scheduled for October.. LondonWatch: A massive comic book jamming session in London yesterday? I was wondering how I missed that Ah, London, Canada… A March break activity, Comic Book Jam at the Central Library on Wednesday was a time for workshops, comic creations,[...]

Free Crossed comics, a new Crossed series by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, masks, all sorts of giveaways… and a number of stores have transformed themselves into dens of gore to join in the celebration. This is Orbital Comics of London and their staff today Si Spurrier, writer of the Crossed Wish You Were Here webcomic, also[...]

Kapow, the London convention run by Mark Millar and his family, and funded by Titan, has been criticised both this year and last for having no announced female comics guests, namely a "sausagefest" Last year, there were actually female comics creators at the show, but some people didn't realise the same thing would probably happen[...]

The London Super Comic Convention has brought many faces out of the woodwork for a comic convention that is actually about comics again No movie studios, no TV stars, it's all comics, and thousands came out to check it out. Okay, many of them were here for Stan Lee, this is expected to be his final[...]

LondonWatch: Sitting on the bus, off to London Super Comic Convention… see one or two of you there? NewWatch: I, Sherman, a new comic from new publisher Twin Robotz will debut at the East Windsor Comic and Collectibles Show this weekend. I, Sherman is the brainchild of Wally Czyzniak, the creator and writer of the new comic[...]

This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest

Bleeding Cool ran an article yesterday on accusations that the upcoming London convention, Kapow, was a bit of a sausagefest when it came to comic book creators, based on the observation that every announced comics guest was, again, male. We also pointed out that, as last year, they would be female creators at the show, just[...]

I remember going to Orbital Comics in London when it first opened ten years ago I was working in Soho for the ad agency Radioville, and this new comic shop had opened on Old Compton Street, and was suddenly my closest comic shop And fickle customer that I am, that meant I stopped going to[...]

Next month sees the London Super Comic Convention, a new comic con focusing solely on the comics medium, being held at the London ExCel Centre, the same venue that hosts the twice-yearly MCM London Expo. Of course, what the London Super Comic Convention has, is Stan Lee, making his first signing appearance in the UK for decades[...]

At the time of the arrest, police called it the largest collection of images of child abuse they had even seen. Rob Barrow, organiser of the London Comic Marts and British early comic conventions that ran from the mid seventies to the present day was sentenced yesterday to one year prison sentence, suspended for two years[...]

Even the badly-recut version of the film released on video in the US could not suppress the sheer sense of madness and Tarkovski-esque grandeur of Dust Devil. In the summer of 1996, Richard Stanley had returned from the debacle of the production of The Island of Doctor Moreau (I won't go into that story here, as[...]

And that for next year, an American Vampire mini-series set in London. Regarding his DC Universe books, he mentions that Dick and Bruce Wayne will have a major falling out in Batman next year, which may set the tone for the rest of the Batbooks And that Swamp Thing and Animal Man will get their first[...]

No one in the UK actually calls the newspaper The Times Of London, it's just The Times But foreigners still like to And it has a certain feeling of Victoriana about it. Which is rather appropriate, as The Northern Children's Book Festival has just seen the announcement that The Baker Street Irregulars, their new graphic novel[...]

I attended the MCM London Expo this weekend Met up with friends, found some cool stories, saw lots of cool comics, costumes and finery and my two daughters enjoyed themselves too But not everyone seems to have had a great time. Ian Sharman is a comic book creator who has created his own mini-publishing empire as[...]