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The word has gone out to members of Blacks Club, on Dean Street, Soho, London, that after 260 years, Blacks has had its own last night in Soho, and has closed its doors… for now. A decade ago, I joined the private members club as a place to write Bleeding Cool Long before working from home[...]

Which is what makes it so perfect for two big comic book signings in Central London, with Damn Them All #1 getting a signing with Si Spurrier, Charlie Adlard, Sofie Dodgson, Jim Campbell and Tom Muller at Gosh Comics in Soho from 1 pm to 2 pm And then The Devil's Cut #1 signing with[...]

London's Soho holds a special place in the hearts of the UK's Science Fiction, Fantasy, and comics community In Good Omens, people come to Aziraphale's (Michael Sheen) Soho bookshop a lot And he often tells them they've got the wrong bookshop and directs them to the one they think they're looking for. "Good Omens 2", Image:[...]

From One Side Of Free Comic Book Day London 2023 To The Other - With A Coronation Inbetween (Video)

I've never been to the DC Comics-themed Park Row restaurant at the Piccadilly side of Soho, though I reported on its planned existence four years ago, how it survived in lockdown, and I've cycled past it often enough But now it seems that they are trying to appeal to my patriotic side By launching a[...]

Comics Festival in London time! London's Century Club was a favourite venue in my Soho advertising days, on Shaftesbury Avenue between the theatres Launched in 2001, the largest private members' club in Soho is named after the hundred steps from the entrance to the terrace garden five stories up, with views across St Anne's Church[...]

Founded in the 18th century by Dr Samuel Johnson, the cartoonist and printmaker Hogarth was one of the club's earliest patrons, and so the modern-day version keeps that connection alive. Blacks, 67 Dean Street, Soho, London /Google Maps I put a little money into the club two years ago during lockdown before theowners sold up to a[...]

Last night, Gosh Comics of Soho London hosted a signing/launch event for polymath comic creator/graphic designer/typographer Rian Hughes and his two first novels, XX and The Black Locomotive  both posted over the pandemic by Picador Shelly Bond asked for photos, so here they are, but I also bring video as well, from the publisher and Rian himself. And[...]

Tonight, Gosh Comics of Soho London is hosting a signing/launch event for polymath comic creator/graphic designer/calligrapher Rian Hughes and his two novels, XX and The Black Locomotive. Jessica Kemp, currently working on the Get The Freebies/Phoo Action project for Z2 Comics, tweeted "Her me we go, here we go, here we go go go …[...]

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 telling co-writer and director Edgar Wright that my wife hadn't taken my recommendation to watch it, as she has a thing about ghost stories, instead she[...]

Soho itself had pavements thronged with restaurants and vars spilling into the streets to abide by current regulations, and media broadcasters were setting up around Old Compton Street almost willing the inevitable crowds of drinkers and revellers who will no doubt be thronging the pavements in a few hours Oh and I clumsily chopped together[...]

It's Justice League time.  Two years ago, Bleeding Cool reported on a DC Comics-themed restaurant planned to open in London's Soho, called DC World, and then Park Row Obviously, with the current situation, plans have been put on hold But with the release of the Zack Snyder Cut of Justice League, they have another solution. Ahead of[...]

At midnight, London goes onto Tier 2 lockdown, which isn't as bad as the Tier 3 that Manchester and Liverpool are about to go under, even as Batman is meant to be filming there, but give us Londoners time and I'll sure we'll catch up. Tonight, there are already reports of a last hurrah-style bacchanalian debauchery[...]

So I took a walk-with-cycle down Soho's Old Compton Street and a few surrounding offshoots – a Dean Street here, a Frith Street there, even a little bit of Wardour Street Tonight is probably going to be bedlam but, as they have pedestrianised the area, at least one can walk down it Here's a video[...]

Yesterday, I rocked up at the Good Omens Pop Up on Greek Street, Soho, London, recreating Aziraphale's bookshop from Good Omens – the book and the TV show – and giving folk an immersive experience This includes an escape room, a gallery of artwork created for the show and props from the show I rocked[...]

Earlier today I popped to Dean Street in Soho to enter the recreated Aziraphale's bookshop escape room with a couple of friends from local comic shop Orbital Comics ahead of the release of Good Omens on Amazon Prime tomorrow I'll have a video report for then, as well as a quick chat with artist Lorna[...]

Print by Michael Allred from Gosh Comics, Soho, London, It was just the other day that I was meeting Bob Fingerman in a pub on Wardour Street in London where I used to regularly drink,that I discovered it used to be one of David Bowie's old haunts But then I get the feeling that's true of[...]

Here is the introduction to Image Comics' upcoming Soho Dives, Soho Divas, for November. I'm sure that, like me, you're wary of unsolicited emails offering strange and seductive promises But, sometimes, curiosity can get the better of you That's how adventures usually begin. This is how I find myself using a large Rowney sketchbook to carve my[...]

And there's even a little gallery space. There is the matter of the location, opposite porn alley and on the corner of Soho's red light district, but even that seems to be changing in the near future and it is also in the heart of London's media industries, and on the same street as some of[...]

On Saturday, the new Gosh Comics in Berwick Street, Soho, London opens, with a Dave McKean signing And so the old Gosh Comics, opposite the British Museum, closes. And old friend of mine, Andy Konky Kru has commemorated the change with this picture of the old store in its final days; Andy's considerable comics work can be[...]

After twenty-five years, one of the most famous comic book shops in the world, Gosh! Comics of London is moving from opposite the British Museum on Great Russell Street, to the other side of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, to Berwick Street, in Soho, on August 6th. But before they leave, Gosh! will host a[...]