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Because at MCM London Comic Con Spring 2025 this past weekend, Forbidden Planet had these Superman shelves behind their stall They started off with Superman Free Comic Book Day and Superman Day giveaways, but by the end of the show, they were stocked with pretty much one comic book… /Rich Johnston Planet Death #0 Planet Death #0[...]

It was a sunny weekend for MCM London Comic Con Spring 2025, so the cosplay was out in force, both inside the ExCel Centre and outside of it Here's just the briefest sliver of the displays on show, with our regular Trump cosplayer making Pope, V for Vendetta in the kitchen, and much more… Pictures[...]

On Friday, the MCM London Comic Con hosted a ComicsPRO event, the first such in the UK ComicsPRO is a retailer activist organisation that took over running the annual retailer summits in the US from Diamond Comic Distribution And two of its members, ComicsPro Board Member & Director of Education Shannon Live and her husband[...]

Well, this weekend's bar gossip at MCM London Comic Con gave me the scoop I understand that Vertigo is going to relaunch with three new creator-owned/participant books, each with a better creator deal than the imprint closed with, and a longer guaranteed number of issues Apparently, DC is responding to retailers who want longer runs[...]

On my way back for the last day of MCM London Comic Con, Spring 2025… currently on the 85 bus heading to Putney Bridge… The Ark Season 3 was again the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as[...]

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I'm at MCM London Comic Con all weekend long, at the ExCel Centre, and just about to go have a chat about comic books with Dan Fogler Look, he may want to talk about film or TV but I'll want to hear more about his plans to follow up Moon Lake, Fishkill and Brooklyn Gladiator[...]

Announced at ComicsPRO at MCM London Comic Con today by Dave Elliott And filmed exclusively for Bleeding Cool above The return of his legendary comics anthology A1, as well as the comics/music magazine that birthed Tank Girl, Deadline, in one title The A1 DEADLINE Summer Special will be coming to Kickstarter in July for a[...]

Announced at ComicsPRO at MCM London Comic Con today by Dave Elliott and filmed exclusively for Bleeding Cool above, The Double Feature Mechanical Cake anthology, from Mechanical Cake, the comic book publisher working with Ridley Scott and his studio, Scott Free Featuring stories from their Modville and Nick titles Double Feature Mechanical Cake is coming to[...]

Today is the first day of MCM London Comic Con Spring 2025, being held as ever at the London ExCel Centre in the Docklands I made it in, just about, though my voice is shot Last night I made the possible mistake of hosting a comic book creator drinks meet up in a West End[...]

On my way to MCM London Comic Con, Spring 2025… last night's Soho shindig with a variety of comics guests from the show went down rather well, but now it is time for the show, proper And I am on my way, passing through Farringdon on the Elizabeth line… South Park Permanent Resident was the[...]

Okay, I've just signed up to access to the MCM Comic Publishing Summit at MCM Comic Con in two weeks at the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands as a part of MCM Comic Con in just two weeks The summit will be open to all industry ticket holders and will "consist of five panels, covering[...]

FairSquare Graphics will be debuting Shakespeare's Vampires by Afro-Caribbean supernatural writer, graphic novelist and Glyph nominee Colleen Douglas at the upcoming MCM London Comic Con, taking place from the 23rd to the 25th of May at ExCeL London, with Romeo & Juliet reimagined as immortal rivals as a new graphic novel It has currently exceeded its[...]

But in May, it looks like ReedExpo may be putting a little bit more money behind the comics guests for MCM London Comic Con in May, and bringing them in from the states and beyond Hope there won't be any tariffs on them by then. Which means adding Stanley "Artgerm" Lau, Tom King, Mark Brooks and[...]

Jon Lock and Nich Angell, familiar MCM and Thought Bubble names for comic books Afterlife Inc and Cat & Meringue for over ten years have sold the rights to four new graphic novels to Macmillan Children's Books And it all happened when the publisher's editors found their stall at MCM London Comic Con in October[...]

Babs Tarr and Joe Quinones attended the MCM London Comic Con this weekend and took to the Artists Alley Creator Stage to talk about DC Comics without a moderator, though Popverse's Chris Arrant was happy to play the role of the Emergency Moderator Hologram ReedPOP wasn't filming the panel for their website offering, so I thought, hey, waste[...]

MCM London Comic Con October 2024 is over, and as ever, the cosplay was the biggest in the UK It's always a fun way to see where the trends are What impacted this year, and what people are most excited to see And while there was plenty of Deadpool – including a Dogpool – we[...]

Pretty much every Artists Alley booth at MCM London Comic Con October 2024 that I could find And asking all of them if it was okay to take their photo at the booth And a 99% agreement rate! I'm a little bit tired now But I was buoyed by those who were happy to see[...]

Jim Zub posts to X from his appearance this week at MCM London Comic Con, "*Spider-Man cosplayer runs over to my table Asks for a selfie We take one.* As he walks away- "Your Spider-Man sucks!" I yell back- "I'm Zub, not Zeb!" "So~orry!" Also, Zeb is the nicest guy at cons If you do[...]

If any. It was the announcement that Alison Sampson was not only drawing but writing a new project at the Women Of Marvel panel at New York Comic Con, She-Devils, that got a few grey cells ticking at MCM London Comic Con this weekend, where Alison is exhibiting her work on Hit Girl, Sleeping Beauties, Department[...]

It's the third day of MCM London Comic Con, and I am on my way on the cosplay tube one more The clocks have changed and we all had an extra hour in bed Give me a shout if you see me running around! And welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for[...]

It's the second day of MCM London Comic Con and I am on my way on the cosplay tube Give me a shout if you see me running around! And welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years[...]

Welcome to From One Side Of The Show To The Other for MCM London Comic Con October 2024… I am sitting in the press room, hiding from the throng, with a young chap from BBC Newsbeat And what a throng This is the Friday, usually, traditionally, the quiet day But there are no such traditions[...]

MCM London Comic Con has just opened and I am there Give me a shout if you see me running around! And welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a[...]

Earlier this year, the Pop Culture Marketing Trends Summit held at MCM London Comic Con in May saw Chris Whittle, CEO of the London-based pop culture marketing agency Experience12, share data that they had been gathering from attendees at many MCM London Comic Cons over the years This included the observation that attendees were bigger[...]

At the Pop Culture Summit being held at MCM London Comic Con, Chris Whittle of the London-based pop culture marketing agency Experience12, who have worked with Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, Amazon Prime, Paramount, Lego, Sky, 2K and many more, shared data that they had been gathering from attendees at many MCM London Comic Cons[...]

Andrew Sumner, Chief Operating Officer of Titan Comics, bounced up at the MCM London Comic Con Diamond Retailer Day last weekend with plenty to talk about to the assembled comic book store owners and workers. He talked through the new Titan Manga list, including El by the father of manga Osama Tzuka of Astro Boy for[...]

Steve Morris of Rebellion Publishing, of 2000AD and Judge Dredd fame, took to the stage this weekend at the Diamond Retailer Day event at MCM London Comic Con 2024 to talk through the publisher's upcoming plans Including a still-secret crossover between 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine in September. With the Rogue Trooper movie starring Aneurin Barnard[...]

Such as the Secret Wars hardcover, on sale this weekend at MCM London Comic Con, which includes an original introduction from Jim Shooter, and the Secret Artist original stories from the original Marvel UK reprint of the series in the eighties They had not been reprinted since the original UK publication, the original artwork had[...]

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[...]