london Archives

Rescued from a East End London junk yard, it felt rather an opportune acquisition  It also made for a great Hallowe'en feature and Christmas lights over the blue box in December were a must My neighbours told me they delight in watching people take double takes walking past, and the attraction of the nearby Richmond[...]

A lot of people presumed that the Doctor Who: Time Fracture, a new immersive theatrical event planned for this autumn, and tying into the multi-platform

The play, which charts Hare's experience contracting COVID-19 and his recovery from it, is slated to premiere at the Bridge Theatre in London on August 27th and run till October 31st Nicholas Hytner is the director That's if the UK government's guidelines allow for theatres to open for indoor performances with strict socially-distanced audiences If[...]

Bleeding Cool has been reporting on the changes that Orbital Comics of London, one of the three central comic book stores in London, has been going through since the end of last year, dropping Diamond Comic Distributors long before it was fashionable and changing the kind of shop it is They have introduced a pop-up[...]

Piranha Comics is my local comic book store, in Kingston-Upon Thames, the south-westiest part of London It is a small store, just off the main shopping street, mall and market They have a larger store in Bromley, over in the south-east of London And now, it seems, Piranha Comics is looking to set up a[...]

Rebellion, publishers of Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000AD, is helping out London's Cartoon Museum and its fundraising activities They are  creating a special T-shirt, profits from which will go towards keeping this museum going through these rough times. The new T-shirt, available exclusively from the 2000 AD and Treasury of British Comics webshops, features the cover[...]

Piranha Comics is a small chain of comic book stores – two of them – on the outskirts of London, one in Bromley town centre and another in Kingston-Upon-Thames The latter, smaller store, is my local comic book shop, and I popped in to pick up some comic books yesterday and – with mask on[...]

But no one knew what was actually happening or going to happen in London So I took a socially distanced trip with my youngest into town We saw a performance of A Comedy About A Bank Robbery in the West End for £11 each in a half-empty theatre and then went to an eerily empty[...]

NOTCOMICS: Today, July the 4th, is England's Independence Day. The day in which the government in its infinite wisdom has stated that pubs can open again.

The world of Judge Dredd comes to a new live-action attraction planned for London in the spring of 2021 from Little Lion Entertainment , the creators of The Crystal Maze LIVE, for teams of five. Judge Dredd: Uprising LIVE will see players have to outwit the Iso-Cube and use their combined skill to make it out[...]

And it's one of those that has come to mind, right now. You'll have also read about the Cartoon Museum in London a lot on Bleeding Cool too, and Mark is its artist-in-residence Closed temporarily to the public on 18th March, due to the coronavirus, this has resulted in no income from visitor admissions, the museum[...]

I took a socially distanced bicycle ride into London this morning Today is the day that the UK government has decreed that non-essential shops are allowed to open across England, and that includes comic shops Boris Johnson has read all his Tintin books three times over and was clearly in need of something new So[...]

So when he launches a Kickstarter for a new comic book – well why not a new version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a follow-up to his version of Macbeth, and created entirely in lockdown? 120 pages worth and retelling the story in punk era 1970s London And reprising Denmark as Denmark Street, a road known[...]

They state "despite all efforts to bring fans the most epic pop culture events in the UK, 4 MCM events scheduled to take place in 2020 have been cancelled following the escalation of COVID-19 in the UK, Europe and globally." These are: MCM Comic Con Birmingham, scheduled to take place at the NEC, Birmingham, from 27 to[...]

The clip where I'm crossing the Thames is probably the best bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQ5rfIdtm8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Cycling into London in Lockdown 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQ5rfIdtm8) This bike ride was brought to you courtesy of the Santander-sponsored Transport For London cycle scheme known by everyone as Boris Bikes, and my two legs[...]

While everyone else is cancelling shows, or going on-line only, Jerry Sadowitz has announced a new in-person live show starting in August, in London's Leicester Square Theatre At a time when we may still be on lockdown, people will still be social distancing, and not wanting to risk their health That's okay, it's something Sadowitz[...]

The Hampstead Theatre is a cozy little venue up in North London, well away from the West End It sits in a cozy residential neighbourhood that's practically a little town in itself The theatre stages small and intimate plays by many of the biggest playwrights in the U.K The free play this week is Wild,[...]

It was planned as a weekend away in East London, with professional advice for creators on their current projects However, rather than the physical event, as pictured from last year, it was transformed into an online event instead One that also included the much-anticipated awards night, from the announced shortlist. Photo from LDC YouTube 2019 The winner[...]

Army Corps of Engineers was constructing another facility to add a further 1,000 beds. While in London, the Excel Centre, home to the MCM London Expo also owned by Reed POP, will become an emergency hospital treating coronavirus patients with 500 beds made available at what will be the first of several crisis facilities dotted around[...]

On Saturday, Gosh Comics of London announced it was reducing hours and putting staff onto furlough, with the UK government paying 80% of their wages But a weekend is a long time in comic books The store, situated smack back in the middle of London's usually-fashionable Soho district has closed its doors They report, A new[...]

And Gosh Comics of London is one of the hundreds of thousands of businesses taking them up on this. Gosh Comics has told customers that 1) Effective from this Sunday the 22nd March until further notice most of our staff will be placed on furlough, and no longer required to come into work This will save people's[...]

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[...]