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By Olly MacNamee There has certainly been a change in the air and the coming of Spring to Birmingham can just as easily be marked by the return of MCM's Birmingham weekender at the NEC next weekend (March 19th – 20th). Back in November, they brought with them none other than The Bionic Man, Lee Majors, and[...]

By Olly MacNamee One of the smaller MCM shows, but always a good one for cosplay, MCM Midlands was a chance to look around without the throngs that can descend on the larger shows, giving time to take it all in Bringing a bit of much needed colour to an otherwise drab part of the country,[...]

But it seems the traffic is travelling in the opposite direction. MCM, Britain's largest and most popular comic book convention organisers by far, are spreading their wings to mainland Europe with MCM-branded shows in Germany and Belgium this summer, with MCM Hannover Comic Con coming to Hannover Messe on 4-5th June and MCM Belgium Comic Con[...]

By Olly MacNamee The Birmingham MCM Comic Con once again impressed on the cosplay front, with a number of cosplayers bringing with them multiple outfits for the two days There was even a social-network organized DC versus Marvel shoot put together by cosplayer and Marvel fan, Marcus Jones, coming dressed as the Ultimate universe's Nick Fury. Feast[...]

By Olly MacNamee Closing down an increasingly busy con season here in the Midlands is the two day end-of-year blowout that is MCM Comic Con Birmingham serving up a big, bold slice of TV and film memorabilia, stars and celebrities, as well as the indie-centric Comics Village where I will be once more bumping into some[...]

Jess Bradley is a regular exhibitor at MCM London Comic Con And my kids have become regular customers of here and I always know that passing her at a show with my girls in tow will leave me financially worse off. To be honest, if probably would even if they weren't there. But with Hallowe'en Week upon[...]

The MCM London Comic Con promotes the principle that cosplay is not consent It was being enforced as well, by staff and cosplayers alike. I heard a number of people ask photographers if they had permission to shoot the shots they were taking But people were looking after each other, inside and out of the show, and I[...]

Joe Glass, who was exhibiting at MCM Comic Con, took photo of cosplayers who came to his table in Comic Village More cosplay pics from the past weekend's MCM London Comic Con Seems that Dragon Age is a very popular choice this time around, with Steven Universe also seeing an increasing presence at the show, which[...]

This weekend, Diamond held a retailer day at MCM London Comic Con Press were excluded, but Marvel and Mark Millar sent out PR summaries of what they wanted the world to know they announced Bleeding Cool was the only media outlet to have people at the actual retailer day reporting what was actually announced, that[...]

DC Comics Senior VP Derek Maddalena addressed comic book retailers at MCM London Comic Con yesterday It can't have been that easy with the guy who always used to do that, Bob Wayne, at the back of the room representing CBLDF. DC's biggest message to retailers was that of trade paperback persuasion Getting them to stock[...]

Mark Millar announced a lot of things at the Diamond Retail Summit at MCM London Comic Con yesterday But not everything made the PR burst that was sent to ComicBook. Such as how he sees Huck with Rafael Albuquerque as an 18 issue mini-epic, told over three years, with six issues a year. How the high concept of Empress is "what if[...]

From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of games sch as Uncharted, Executive Assault and Dark Souls III… From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of games sch as Uncharted, Executive Assault and Dark Souls III… From MCM London[...]

From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of television show panels like Sherlock, Flash, Arrow, Eve, Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Battlestar Galactica Films like The Journey, YouTube stars like Tomska And Andrew Lee Potts and Augusta Woods from Wireless x From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides[...]

Cometh the hour, cometh the cosplay – on the tubes, in the bars, on he show floor, in the open air of London MCM London Comic Con October 2015 It's official, Homestuck has all but gone, but there was more Deadpool, Harley Qunn and female Loki here than at New York a couple of weeks[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Marvel were to publish a Doctor Strange Omnibus, a full colour reprint of the Doctor Strange comic books of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Another big book will be a Star Wars Droids/Ewoks Omnibus reprinting the 8 Droids comics, 14[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Star Wars: Vader Down, the new Star Wars crossover between the two lead titles Star Wars and Darth Vader, already had over 450,000 units ordered He described it as  "so hot it burns your skin off and leaves you[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that April would see the the first ever printing of the long lost unpublished Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham Miracleman #25 comic, twenty years after it was completed. Then, as expected, Gaiman and Buckingham will finish of the Silver Age story with[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Uncanny Avengers #2 will see an apparently dead character come back to life, jokingly "possibly for the first time in comic-book history" –  and will appear on the cover of #3. This is currently the solicitation details for #2-  and[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, IDW's VP Marketing Dirk Wood announced a very special project to UK retailers. That IDW would be publishing a comic based on the Action Man property. For our colonial brethren, Action Man was the UK version of GI Joe that never shrunk down[...]

Jittery, blurred, rushed, it's from one side of the show to the other, at London MCM Comic Con October 2016… the cosplay, the comics, the commentary…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAvwQP5MA7IVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: From One Side Of MCM London Comic Con October 2016 To The Other (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAvwQP5MA7I) [...]

It's MCM London Comic Con today! The UK's largest comic book event by far… at the London ExCel Centre. You know what to expect Comics Village, lots of cosplay, an announcement or three and plenty of media stars Diamond are holding a very private meeting in which Mark Millar, David Gabriel and more will be holding[...]

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you about the Comic Village anthology project, announced at MCM London Comic Con earlier this year. Project Autumn, a grahic novel with one character, written by one writer with a myriad of artists, all prominent at MCM, and funded on Kickstarter. The project in that form has now been cancelled[...]

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Situated at the east of the east of the east end of London, the MCM London Comic Con 2015 takes place at the Excel Centre, this time sharing space with a Christian convention No joke. Still, the two could be easily told apart In that the MCM Comic Con had slightly more men wearing dresses[...]

From one side of MCM London Comic Con 2015 to the other on Friday… the quiet day Otherwise this would have taken a lot longer. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5o-PGoxJqQ[/youtube] From one side of MCM London Comic Con 2015 to the other on Friday… the quiet day Otherwise this would have taken a lot longer. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5o-PGoxJqQ[/youtube] [...]

Announced at MCM London Expo, in the Comics Village panel, is a new comic book project, Project Autumn A 128 page graphic novel created by regulars at the MCM Comics Village One story, ten artists, following the lead character Orion as he moves from world to world, accompanied by a card set that will feature many[...]

By Olly MacNamee As part of a larger rebranding that will take place over the coming year's MCM Expo schedule, and is already noticeable on it's main website, MCM have launched their new look London logo 30 Kilometres into Earth's orbit with a little help from Derbyshire based company Sent Into Space and a GoPro camera[...]

MCM Comic Con is coming for you, wherever you live, it seems. The British Comic Con organiser, responsible for the MCM London Comic Con, and then spinning off around the country, went abroad this year, with shows in Ireland and Sweden And that's just the start. This year saw two MCM London Comic Cons, as well as MCM[...]

The Island Of Doctor Geof is a favourite stop at the MCM London Comic Con for me, since they went all mahogany Steampunk isn't exactly new at such gatherings, but this is steampunk with a very silly flavour,  emphasis on tea making, cross dressing and insect husbandry. And this show's new offering concentrates on the lifespan[...]

I took the girls to MCM London Comic Con 2014 yesterday – the first show they've been to where they were prepared to perform themselves, with their Minecraft swords And the first place they got attention from others from carrying them It was quite a revelation! And the journey was also transformed, the McDonalds at London[...]