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Last Night In Soho was one of my favourite films last year. And won all sorts of plaudits from the unlikeliest of places. Which is how I found myself

Today was the opening Press Day at Toy Fair London 2022, one of the only big Toy Fairs still running right now> I managed to turn up after the big crowds and wandered around Olympia hall taking photos where I was allowed to (and through the windows of places where I was not) Lots of[...]

I haven't been by Gosh Comics of Berwick Street, Soho, London, for some time Thankfully today, on the way to finally catch The King's Man, I did The comic book store regularly updates its windows by getting cartoonists to paint them from the inside, to show off their work and their wares Individual one-off adverts,[...]

Later this month sees the Cartoon Museum of London open a Judge Dredd exhibition, for the 45th anniversary of the character and of 2000AD, running until April 2022 Bleeding Cool is always a big fan of the London Cartoon Museum as well as Judge Dredd, with Dredd@45. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1[...]

But put them together and what do you get? Why the London borough of Wandsworth's new Speed Awareness signs Showing a stylised image of what appears to be a policeman holding a camera But also instilling fear into any small children passing by Not even Alan Moore and David Lloyd could have envisioned this one[...]

Featuring The Liar King, the recently revived puppet-based satirical TV series will be taking to London's West End next year, apparently. Spitting Image screencaps Spitting Image co-creator Roger Law, behind the current TV show, stated "The last month has shown Spitting Image has been far too kind to Boris and his pals on TV recently[...]

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 Mask up though… Exhibitions BLACK is a special exhibition to celebrate Black History Month, exploring the story and world of the graphic novel of the same name[...]

And tonight it all kicked off in Central London. YouTube screencap A Boris Johnson effigy was set on fire in Trafalgar Square as a heady mix of anarchists and anti-vaxxers set fireworks off in conflicts with police, as protestors gathered on Parliament Square, where yesterday Insulate Britain protestors had glued themselves to the tarmac There have been[...]

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

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[...]