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Another month, another Things To Do In London If You Like Comics As we are starting to return to normality, we are starting to get a few new in-person events And eyes are on New York the week, London is ramping up for the end of the month with MCM London Comic Con. Exhibitions Things To Do[...]

Last week, I went along to the Y: The Last Man Immersive Event in London Waterloo's Leake Street Arches, ahead of the launch of the TV series in the UK on Disney+ this Wednesday Based on the comic book by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra, and birthed and nurtured by Heidi MacDonald, we got[...]

NotComics: There I was, cycling back from attending an Immersive Experience for Y: The Last Man from Disney+ at London Waterloo During the live event based on the TV show based on the comic book, where all the men in the world have died, we saw lots of claims that the whole thing was a[...]

Another month, another Things To Do In London If You Like Comics As we are starting to return to normality, we are starting to get a few new in-person events And nothing to do with the Olympics, thankfully The Hackney Comic + Zines Fair is happening all this month, mostly online, but some in-person events[...]

Last night, I took a trip to Orbital Comics in London's Leicester Square, only to find my journey impeded by police reaction to Extinction Rebellion's protest, beginning a two-week series of protests across London Without the police, of course, everything would have been fine And then started belting out a warning on the loudspeaker that[...]

Find it on 8 Great Newport St, London WC2H 7JA. The gallery space opened with work from JRoldan, his "Diary Of Erroneous Times" Masks are no longer compulsory… so they dropped off pretty sharpish Everyone I spoke to was double-vaxxed though. Plenty of Shaky Kane-ness And more Shaky Kane-ness With Krent Abel to boot. With more to dive into. With even more to[...]

It's a long time since any of us have been to the theatre, everyone in attendance was double jabbed, or had a negative test, though I'm not entirely sure the security was tight enough to ensure either. The Windsors: Endgame is by George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore based on their Channel 4 sitcom The Windsors, is[...]

Another month, another Things To Do In London If You Like Comics. The third one this year! As we are starting to return to normality, we are starting to get a few new in-person events And nothing to do with the Olympics, thankfully. Exhibitions Orbital Art Gallery Krent & Able exhibition with Shakey Kane and Krent Able, until[...]

As I stood in line yesterday for tickets to comedian and comic book writer Frankie Boyle's current London show, it was slightly peculiar when I realised that the man two places in front of me in the socially distanced line was… Frankie Boyle.  Trying to get back into the theatre, to prepare for that night's[...]

The Marble Arch Mound opened today, a temporary artificial hill that sits facing the marble arch of Marble Arch. And it costs £4.50 to walk up and down

But where? Since it was a BBC show, Quentin Tarantino was asked if he would consider bringing that play to London, stated that he hadn't talked to anyone about it, but that his first instinct is to open it in the West End theatres of London Currently suffering the impact of the pandemic and shutdowns, London's[...]

Those in London should pop by and see the new place It's rather nifty Here are a few surreptitious photos taken before everyone decamped to a couple of bars and pubs – as well as the Mark Stafford Orbital invite of course Everyone in attendance got a small print of it… Will Potter, Steve Marchant, Rian[...]

Anyway, just in case anyone wants to see how South West London specifically are feeling right now… here's a quick video entitled Coming Home Through Football. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HyG9vvJhecVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Coming Home Through Football (Three Lions On A Shirt, Vindaloo, Singing for England) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HyG9vvJhec) See, it's not entirely Three Lions[...]

Numbers are strictly limited so make sure to make contact by Wednesday this week latest. And judging by the number of red stickers that started popping up on pieces, it seems that they did a roaring trade as well… Orbital Space Art Gallery is at 8 Great Newport St, London WC2H 7JA, next to[...]

Today, Gosh Comics of London  announced that they were going to have to "temporarily suspend shipping to EU countries while we sort out the confusing mess of new VAT on shipping regulations post-1st July." Gosh Comics Suspends European Sales Over Brexit Customs Issues Gosh Comics states in their blog, "we're hoping to resume as quickly as possible,[...]