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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[...]

No word of the possibility of a fourth series, or a spin-off, but at MCM London Comic Con today, the cast did suggest the possibility of being in a Ted Lasso musical stage spin-off for London's West End Did they reveal more than they intended? MCM photo by Rich Johnston The Ted Lasso panel included cast members[...]

DC Comics' Dustin Kitchen's presentation to MCM London Comic Con topped Bleeding Cool traffic closely followed by Jeph Loeb and Klaus Janson's own presentation of Batman: The Last Halloween from the same event It is Day Three at MCM London Comic Con, so I am again writing this on the District Line, currently at Fulham Broadway,[...]

Are you at MCM London Comic Con? Do you want a free comic by and about Joe Stapleton, poker commentator and professional player? Then head to Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics, currently exhibiting at MCM at booths 2R2 and 2R2 along from the N5 entrance, and pick up a free copy of their sizeable preview for[...]

Dustin Kitchens, Sales Manager at DC Comics, showed off the DC Finest line of collections at MCM London Comic Con today at the Diamond Retailer event, as a lot of bang for their buck, with 500+ page volumes priced between $34.99 – $44.99 But most importantly he showed off the spines. Emphasising consistency for collectors, which,[...]

Jeph Loeb Announces Batman: The Last Halloween, as a Tribute to Tim Sale, with Klaus Janson, Eduardo Risso, Mark Chiarello and more

Yesterday at MCM London Comic Con, Jeph Loeb took to the stage to talk through his career in comic books, film and television And during the question and answer, I gave him the opportunity to announce any comic book projects he may have in the work, after being away from the medium for a considerable[...]

Marvel's August 2024 solicits and solicitations topped the traffic again at Bleeding Cool, but today it's time to head back to MCM London Comic Con Day Two, so I am again writing this on the District Line, heading past Putney Bridge, before whizzing to the ExCel Centre Where you can still read all about comics,[...]

Today's MCM London Comic Con is not just about the show floor Up above the booths and cosplayers in the Platinum Suites are a series of industry talks, panels and lectures, from publishers, agents, marketers, and new companies trying to make an impact Tomorrow, Bleeding Cool will be covering in depth the Diamond UK Retailer[...]

Tomorrow at MCM London Comic Con, the Diamond UK Retailer Day will be returning, and Bleeding Cool will be there And that will include a CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defence Fund) auction of variants, signed and slabbed comics And here are some of the lots described ahead of the event. Skybound Energon Universe (lot 1) –[...]

It's time! MCM London Comic Con 2024 has landed, the Docklands are full of cosplayers, and the Elizabeth line to London ExCel is running at full capacity And I've just bumped into comic book creators Klaus Janson, Werther Dell'Edera, Frazer Irving and Jeph Loeb, so I am definitely in the right place Expect some comic[...]

Marvel's August 2024 solicits and solicitations topped the traffic at Bleeding Cool, but today it's time to head to MCM London Comic Con, so I am writing this on the District Line, about to change at Paddington for the Elizabeth line, before whizzing to the ExCel Centre Where you can still read all about comics,[...]

Envision Entertainment are heading to MCM London Comic Con this weekend for the soft-launch of their new digital comics platform, Fable Previously highlighted by Bleeding Cool at previous MCM events, Fable is a digital comics reader for vertical-scrolling on mobile phones, developed from the ground up, both for readers and creators, available on Apple and[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for May 2024 is a little bit late, but we have everything from Free Comic Book Day to MCM to Comica to comic marts. Wednesday, 1st of May My Hair is as Long as a River Launch Party With Charlie Castle and Emma Farrarons,[...]

Reed Exhibitions/ReedPOP owns both the London Book Fair and the MCM Comic Con brand, but until this week the two had never met That changed, as MCM Comic Con set up shop at Book Fair with a big message Launch your book at MCM Their NYCC shows had a big Book Contingent, and it is[...]

MCM in May will be a big break for me as it will be all the way over in the ExCel However, MCM couldn't wait and was actually exhibiting at the London Book Fair Well, they are both owned by Reed Pop, but they were trying to get publishers to consider launching their book at[...]

Hello Neil Gibson of Twisted Tales! Thank you for introducing the From One Side Of MegaCon Live London 2024 To The Other video above! This morning I set off from Kingston Vale to the London ExCel Centre, but for the first time in two decades, not for MCM London Comic Con Instead, it is home[...]

Yesterday was the final day of the MCM London Comic Con October 2023 show The sun stayed away this weekend in London, and we were showered with… showers Which is not conducive to cosplay, especially with the drawing-in nights exacerbated by putting the clocks forward on Saturday night, so most of the cosplay at MCM[...]

And why MCM Comic Con didn't run an Our Flag Means Death panel, but rather a Rhys Darby, Vico Ortiz & Samson Kayo In Conversation panel instead But Ghosts is a fully BBC UK production, filmed under the Equity Union, which already has much of what SAG-AFTRA is fighting for, so it's not a striking[...]

At my last MCM London Comic Con, back in May, I was walking around Artists Alley at MCM London Comic Con, taking photos of the many booths from comic book creators, publishers and illustrators, I was asked by those at one booth if I was the guy who did this last year I confessed I[...]

New digital comic book publisher and distributor Fable had a soft launch at MCM London Comic Con for October 2023 It isn't here today, as it seems they gave every sample away on Friday and Saturday, and so skipped out early yesterday But they certainly made an impression With salesmen on the floor carrying signs[...]

Jessica Martin is a Renaissance Woman, here at MCM London Comic Con October 2023 It's been ten years since she published her first graphic novel – but also thirty-five years since she appeared in Doctor Who, as Mags in the Sylvester McCoy story The Greatest Show In The Galaxy She also returned to Doctor Who[...]

Though, writing this on the way to MCM London Comic Con, it doesn't feel like it No matter what the world throws at you, at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and[...]

Which is not conducive to cosplay, especially with the drawing-in nights, so most of the cosplay at MCM London Comic Con October 2023 was inside the London ExCel Centre Permission was sought from all cosplayers in the foreground of shots, including those who appear not to be posing Man, twenty years ago, I used to[...]

I attended the MCM London Comic Con panel for Bodies called From Page To Screen Around the new Netflix crime/sci-fi drama based on the graphic novel by Si Spencer, Dean Ormston, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick, Tula Lotay and Lee Loughridge, which, like the show, is set in four different time zones, with each artist telling their[...]

MCM London Comic Con starts an hour earlier on the Saturday Which is why I woke up when much of America was still on the Friday No matter what the world throws at you, at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In[...]