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So I popped by Orbital Comics in London yesterday, hoping to get a glimpse of this vegan dessert late-night cafe we mentioned last week Orbital Comics has been through major changes this last year, dropping Diamond Comic Distributors, bringing in online operation Comics Toolbox to operate from within its walls and promising a big change[...]

As regular readers will know, my kids' school is closed for a week or two over fears of the coronavirus, after staff and students came back from Italian

Bleeding Cool has been covering the transformation of Orbital Comics, one of the three central London comic book shops, away from a store that relies on a weekly comics delivery from Diamond into… something new They still have a Wednesday 'New Comics' day courtesy of online store Comic Toolbox who have set up in Orbital on[...]

Things to do in London in March 2020… if you like comics, of course And live in, or can get to, that there London Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: The Cartoon Museum: Drawing Life A new display showcasing the very best of the Cartoon Museums collection of cartoon art, curated[...]

Directed by Sean Foley, it premiered last night in the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End A show that regularly entertained millions on TV, entertained just hundreds, even at a full house So how does the transfer of a TV show based on the life of a stage playwright transfer back to the stage? Working with[...]

Things to do in London in February 2020… if you like comics, of course And live in, or can get to, that there London Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any And we get an extra day as well. Exhibitions: Comic Creators – The Famous and the Forgotten exhibition, Ending on Sunday 9th[...]

Sorry folks, there I was working at Blacks on Dean Street in London's Soho when the police came a' knocking It had nothing to do with DC Comics calling the authorities over a number of DC Timeline and 5G-related scoops I was working on today, but that workers at the neighbouring Soho Hotel had discovered[...]

This morning, The Pokémon Company announced that the Pokémon World Championships 2020 will be taking place in August in London, England The event will take place from August 14th-16th at ExCeL London, bringing together the best of the best in both the trading card game as well as the video games[...]

On Friday 24th of January Art Model Collective return to London's Cartoon Museum on Well's Street, just up the road from Gosh Comics, with a themed life drawing session aimed at cartoonists and illustrators Jason Atomic tells me, We wanted to create a session relevant to current affairs but the divisive nature of current politics has[...]

Cartoonist Carol Isaacs launched her first graphic novel The Wolf of Baghdad at the Cartoon Museum in London last night Attended by the likes of Martin Rowson, Steven Appleby, Mark Stafford, Jess Sage and more They even let me in There was music, punch, and turkish delights Here's a look at the presentation (in silhouette) by[...]

Things to do in London in January 2020… if you like comics, of course And live in, or can get to, that there London Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: Comic Creators: The Famous and the Forgotten Special exhibition explores and celebrates the world of comics – from Aly Sloper and[...]

We mentioned it in Things To Do in London If You Like Comics – December 2019 An Evening Of Creepy Comics being held at London's Cartoon Museum on the night of the 11th. Morbid Mark Stafford ( the Bad Bad Place), Chthonic Cathy Brett (Who Killed Jojo?), Necropolitan Douglas Noble (Jazz Creepers) and Diabolical Dan White[...]

Things to do in London in December 2019… if you like comics, of course Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: Middlesex University's new Children's Book Illustration and Graphic novels MA is delighted to invite you to an exhibition of work by our latest graduating students Alex Moore – Christos Kyriacou –[...]

Cycling into London, It really is my thing now And even when the police close off roads for protests, they let the bicycles through So, on a cold Black Friday, it was protests regarding climate change, pension rights, gender parity and global over-commercialisation that greeted me, in three separate groups, on the way through central[...]

Well, it looks like they will be all attending the Lakes International Comics Festival in Kendle as well. But in between the two, they will all be appearing tomorrow night at London's Cartoon Museum for a Comics Laureate Round table tomorrow. In a talk hosted by Orbital Comics' Jason Atomic, they will answer questions such as what[...]

Just before the Thought Bubble opening party kicks off two hundred miles north of London, Bleeding Cool gets the word that a new comic book store will be opening out of an existing one. Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Orbital Comics of London had announced it would no longer sell new comic[...]

Orbital Comics has, over the last twenty years, become my comic store of choice in central London Smack bang next to Leicester Square tube station, and the Arts Theatre, they transformed the old photography studio into a store and gallery space It gets great footfall, not least from being right next to the real-life position[...]

Things to do in London in November 2019… if you like comics, of course Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: Philip Bond Retrospective Exhibition, 26th October until 27th November Orbital Comics. Comic Creators: The Famous and the Forgotten Special exhibition explores and celebrates the world of comics – from Aly Sloper and Dennis[...]

At the MCM London Comic Con Retailer Presentation yesterday, the Reed POP organisers of the show had some statistics to share In fancy infographic form, for their London show back in May. 75,000 fans in cosplayers, fans and families, 165 coverage pieces – probably a good third of them from Bleeding Cool – and 247 creators[...]

The City University of London is launching a new module for their English Master Of Arts degree, which will allow students to make more choices by looking at refugee comics as well as traditional texts and novels. The Image and Text module which is led by Dr Dominic Davies, Lecturer in English, will focus on stories[...]

Leading chat show host, broadcaster and comedy presenter Jonathan Ross will be introducing screenings of anime shows In/Spectre and Somali and the Forest Spirit at MCM Comic-Con London in just over a week's time. The screening will consist of the first two episodes of In/Spectre, a supernatural mystery thriller based on the Japanese novel written by[...]

As mentioned yesterday, Jamie Hewlett's icons and designs for the Extinction Rebellion protest, happening in London this week as well as many other locations around the world, went up on the side of the Houses of Parliament last night. This morning it was a little light for that, but I cycled through the closed-off streets past[...]

Tomorrow, Bleeding Cool hopes to report live from the Extinction Rebellion protests happening in London again I did my bit by not flying to New York Comic Con Also I cycle everywhere now, eat less meat, shop local and I reused a TARDIS, rather than let it be sent to the landfill. But Jamie Hewlett will[...]

Things to do in London in October 2019… if you like comics, of course Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: In Focus: Arts Foundation Futures Award, October 18th to December 1st Esther McManus, Danny Noble, Zara Slattery and Jess Taylor have been selected from a longlist of nominated comics artists as[...]

If you can think of a good story to tell then you can tell it through a series of images. "Let's crack on with creating animations!" Gosh! Comics X Thought Bubble Presents: Jillian Tamaki and Michael DeForge Time: 18:00-19:00 Location: Gosh! Comics, Berwick Street, Soho, London, W1F 0DR Event Type: Signing Age Range: All Ages Cost: Free Thought Bubble and Gosh! are proud[...]

It's four-thirty am and I have just seen a fox crossing London's late-night streets This omen feels right I told myself if I woke up early enough I would do this, and I did so I am I have just got on the 85 bus as I type this. Fleabag, the BBC TV series that took[...]

Things to do in London in September 2019… if you like comics, of course Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: In Focus – Jessica Martin Life Drawing: Life Under Lights, Jessica has recently published her graphic memoir Life Drawing: Life Under Lights that takes you on a journey from her early[...]

Uberfans know that Fleabag began life as a one-woman play Waller-Bridge wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Festival back in 2013. Now Waller-Bridge is going back to perform the original play one last time in London's West End Some fans are paying hundreds of pounds to scalpers just to see the original Rosetta Stone version of[...]

Things to do in London in August 2019… if you like comics, of course Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: Comic Creators, the Famous and the Forgotten, London Cartoon Museum, Wells St – A new exhibition celebrating the world of comics, curated by Comics Curator Steve Marchant. Grateful thanks to the National[...]

Arrow Video is starting to roll out the details on this year's FrightFest in London, which will be based at the Cineworld and Prince Charles Cinemas on Leicester Square You can find that in London's West End, or just fire off a Bleeding Cool Geek Emergency Flair and our own Rich Johnston will come and[...]