The Ocean At The End Of The Lane is now The Ocean At The West End Of The Lane, having transferred from South Bank to the Duke Of York Theatre, holding its
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Last night saw the Press Launch for the West End debut of The Ocean At The End of The Lane, at the Duke of York Theatre, on St Martin's Lane in London Bleeding Cool was there, and on the way in (and out), spied a number of celebrated types, from Simon Callow to Ruby Wax,[...]
Tonight is the press night for the West End debut of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. I saw an earlier version, and am expecting great
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.
Exhibitions
BLACK is a special exhibition to celebrate Black History Month, exploring the story and world of the graphic novel of the same name – an unflinching[...]
Orbital Comics was one of the three comic book shops of Central London, accompanied by Gosh Comics and Forbidden Planet round the corner It won the Spirit Of Retailers Eisner Award and for years was my comic book store of choice coming into London First emerging from the wreckage of B-Hive on Denmark Street, it[...]
But I saw Dune at the BFI IMAX in London Waterloo last night And as impressive as the film is on such a large screen, emphasising the kind of things that people are arguing about online, there's a fair bit of discussion about the use of sound, but not about its absence. It was something[...]
I ran a bunch of cosplay shots on Saturday that were heavy on the Gotham batpeople and rogues gallery, well the Sunday of MCM London Comic Con seemed to bring out the Marvel cosplayers more – though there was a distinct lack of X-Men on display – and tonnes of Loki Indeed, you may have[...]
MCM London Comic Con may have felt a little smaller this year But the cosplay felt bigger than ever Loki was out in force in all their variants, as were Gotham's rogue galleries, and the new MCU and DCU were prominently represented There was even the return of a little Homestuck for nostalgia's sake Favourites[...]
It's Saturday, the 23rd of October at the London ExCel Centre, half-way through MCM London Comic Con Yesterday was a little quiet on the footfall for Bleeding cool's Friday report, but because it's a Saturday the world and their Poison Ivy came out to play Now, facts upfront, there is less "stuff" to do this[...]
It's MCM London Comic Con time! I haven't done one of these for two years Not since Thought Bubble in 2019 The jittery, juddery, blurred take on a Comic-Con, travelling at speed around the show floor nooks and crannies, pausing for waves, for cosplay and sticker shock Welcome to another long-awaited From One Side Of[...]
And today it is the return of Britain's biggest comic book convention, MCM London Comic Con, as run by ReedPOP and Reed Expo Will I see you there? There will be photos… maybe I can jump on Tom Hiddlestone again.
LITG Screencap: MCM London Comic Con guests
LITG: The ten most-read stories, yesterday
Full Marvel Comics January 2022[...]
Square Enix announced that they have opened a brand new mobile development studio as they've taken up a location in London Simply being called Square Enix London Mobile, the studio is currently working on two mobile titles for their first projects, as they currently have games for Tomb Raider and Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender in development[...]
A special preview event happening last night for the London Cartoon Museum's new exhibition for Black, a new graphic novel by Tobias Taitt and Anthony Smith f a new graphic memoir by Tobias Taitt and Anthony Smith The graphic novel adaptation from Soaring Penguin Press tells Tobais' story through from the care homes of 1970s Britain,[...]
A special preview event happening tomorrow night of the London Cartoon Museum's new exhibition BLACK: The Story of Tobias Taitt – a special exhibition exploring the story and world of Black – an unflinching but uplifting graphic memoir by Tobias Taitt and Anthony Smith The graphic novel adaptation from Soaring Penguin Press tells Tobais' story[...]
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,[...]
Today is the birthday of Damian Keeng, owner and operator of Orbital Space Comics, the comic shop in London that's right next to Leicester Square Once upon a time, its location was the old Photographer's Gallery and over the decades they have used the length of the store for art galleries But with the newly[...]