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Yesterday was the final day of the MCM London Comic Con May 2024 show at the London ExCel Centre The sun stayed strong through the day, only breaking late in the evening, great for cosplay There were Donald Trumps and Boris Johnsons, but no one did a drowned Rishi Sunak Permission was sought from all[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for May 2024 is a little bit late, but we have everything from Free Comic Book Day to MCM to Comica to comic marts. Wednesday, 1st of May My Hair is as Long as a River Launch Party With Charlie Castle and Emma Farrarons,[...]

I just found myself on Shaftesbury Avenue at the Apollo Theatre, in London's West End to get up close and personal with John Cleese As in, I am in the second-to-front row, the stage is before me, and it looks like the familiar set of the TV sitcom Fawlty Towers, recorded fifty years ago, except[...]

The London Cartoon Museum has opened a new exhibition, Heroes: The British Invasion Of American Comics, running until October And looking at how British artists and writers worked in the American comic book industry, and going a lot further back than some might have thought First, how the likes of Buster Brown, Miss Fury and[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for April 2024 is a little bit late, but we have everything from Bryan Hitch to the return of Comica to Easter events in schools and the Cartoon Museum. Tuesday, 2nd of April Islington Comic Forum April 2024, North Library, Manor Gardens, Islington 6.30-7.30pm. Meet[...]

Last year, London's Century Club on Shaftesbury Avenue hosted the long-awaited return of Paul Gravett's Comica, The London Comics Festival with everyone from Armando Iannucci to Posy Simmonds, from Brian Bolland to Iain Sinclair, Dave McKean to Dave Gibbons, from Lizzie Stewart to Lucie Arnoux and Lucy Sullivan[...]

It's the final day of London Book Fair, and I have been wandering around picking up all manner of stuff, meeting all sorts of people as well as bumping into the likes of Mike Holman from Diamond, Dirk Wood from Image Comics, Alan Payne from Dynamite Entertainment, Jamie Elby from Rebellion, Joel Meadows from Tripwire,[...]

I bumped into lots of people at today's London Book Fair 2024 Including John Maher of Publisher's Weekly, who opened his own precis of the show, quoting me. "You know they're spending money when there's carpet," Rich Johnston, the founder of the British comics news site Bleeding Cool, says, gesturing at the rich royal blue carpeting lining[...]

London Comic Con (Spring) was a very Doctor Who affair The big lines on Saturday were for Billie Piper and Anita Dobson – though Anita probably had the edge This was Anita Dobson's first comic con, and her fame from her years on Eastenders has now been dwarfed, within the chilly walls of London Olympia,[...]

But in London, Showmasters kicked things off with a small but perfectly formed convention in London's Olympia Hall with the London Comic Con (Spring) 2024, well, one of them at least Full of cosplay, comics and autograph hunters. There was also higher ratio of comics guests this year, a smaller show still saw Tony Lee, David[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for March 2024 begins tomorrow with London Comic Con Spring over at Olympia in Hammersmith/Earls Court way. Saturday, 2nd of March London Comic Con Spring, Olympia 9am-6pm Your first comic con fix of the year starts with the return of London Comic Con Spring, at[...]

The London Comic Con (Spring) run by Showmasters is on this weekend Naturally I'll be in attendance, as it's the only comic convention I can (and do) cycle to Held at London Olympia just two weeks before London Book Fair in the same location Some attendees might do well to just not bother packing up[...]

There was also the routine when he told a joke on Conan O'Brien about wanting his body to be fed to the lions at London Zoo on his death and how a Sun journalist got a response from the zoo as if it were a serious proposal So he got to have a go at[...]

I just went to a screening of the new film Wicked Little Letters in London's Leicester Square at the Odeon De Luxe West End, just after seeing Ricky Gervais' new show – more on that later But before the press got a screening of the film we got an impromptu unplanned introduction from three of[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for February 2024 It's half term week coming so lots of stuff for the kiddies, there's a comic mart, an anime con, the International Black Speculative Writing Festival, a 2000AD Walking Tour held at the exact time as a Gosh 2000AD signing[...]

Welcome to… from One Side Of The Show To The Other for the London Toy Fair 2024 It's Press Day today, so it's a bit easier on the feet And you get the choice of whether to watch it on YouTube or a truncated version on TikTok A walk around the show, taking place today,[...]

They are represented by Bandai in the UK, and they did indeed have their shelves at Toy Fair 2024 in London But, as ever, getting a press appointment with Bandai's PR folk proved impossible again, and they were fully booked every time I popped by To add insult to injury, they had blinds over the[...]

Today was the opening Press Day at Toy Fair London 2024 I managed to turn up as the door opened and wandered around Olympia Hall taking photos where I was allowed to, and through windows of places where I was not Though "blinds" and frosted windows seem to be the new black this year at[...]

The Red London Telephone Box is an iconic symbol of British heritage that holds quite significant of cultural and historical importance Originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott back in the 1920s as locations for telecommunication, they have surpassed their original purpose to become more of a cultural landmark LEGO has just revealed that the[...]

That was MegaCon Live London 2024, the now-contractually-allowed inaugural London show from Malo Events And following MegaCon Live shows in Dublin, Birmingham and Manchester, from co-founder of MCM Comic Con, Bryan Cooney.  The show is around a quarter of the size of MCM, which is also about the size of MCM when it began However,[...]

It's Sunday morning, and I am on the bus heading back to the inaugural  MegaCon Live London 2024 at the London ExCel I'll be reporting from here all day That's when I'm not slumped in a corner whimpering, while stroking the very nice carpet At Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch,[...]

Hello Neil Gibson of Twisted Tales! Thank you for introducing the From One Side Of MegaCon Live London 2024 To The Other video above! This morning I set off from Kingston Vale to the London ExCel Centre, but for the first time in two decades, not for MCM London Comic Con Instead, it is home[...]

The doors of Megacon, the new London comic convention have opened at the ExCel Centre, usually home to MCM This show is organised be the folk who used to run the MCM until they sold to ReedPOP ten years ago Yes, that will be interesting, won't it? I'll be reporting from here all day And[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for January 2024 Frazer Irving will make a rare public appearance at a Gosh Comics signing for Sherlock, and I've just booked my tickets for an evening of satirical cartoons. Wednesday, 3rd of January London One Piece Anime and Manga Meetup Group, Meltdown London,[...]

Alex Taylor, also known as azbt, has won the First Graphic Novel Award 2023, presented tonight at Waterstones Picadilly in London, where the seven shortlisted entrants showed their work Publisher Emma Hayley, whose company SelfMadeHero will award the winner a contract for publication, said, "The fun and colourful art style belies the intricate plot lines[...]

I was preparing my regular Things To Do In London If You Like Comics list for December 2023 More than anything, I use it as a guide for myself, but I know some visiting Editor-In-Chiefs have found it very handy Today is Saturday the 2nd of December and, while there is some stuff on, there's[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for December 2023 And I have to say, next Saturday is looking like a monster comic book day in London and may deserve its own special post tomorrow… Friday, 1st of December London One Piece Anime and Manga Meetup Group, Meltdown London, 342 Caledonian[...]

I always like to highlight things to do in London if you like comics, but this one is pretty special The first Helsinki Comics Festival in London, at the end of this month I mean, it's the 38th Helsinki Comics Festival from the Finnish Society but the first that decided to take a trip It[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for November 2023 And that includes towards the end of the month, the London Film And Comic Con's Winter event – held at the same time as Thought Bubble in Harrogate… Thursday, 2nd of November Troopers Soho, from 7pm Those who know, know. Peckham Writes[...]

MCM London Comic Con October 2023 has begun at the ExCel Centre in London's Dockland district And I am there along with around eighty thousand other folks This will tip into six figures tomorrow as everyone who can't get away from work turns up I have found out, though, that Pete Townshend, whom I was[...]