Events
Please get in touch with our Andy Oliver here if you have a UK and Ireland community-based comics event or initiative you’d like to have listed on this page.
(Please make sure to double check events via the links provided in case of changes, mistakes or cancellations)
Comics socials
Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw (online) – Join us on Bluesky every two weeks for three rounds of themed drawing fun. Next event: May 21st.
Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw (in-person) – Join us every month in Soho for an evening in the pub drinking and drawing. Next event: May 29th.
Fairs and festivals
Macc-Pow Friday June 26th-Sunday June 28th, Macclesfield Details here
ARC: A Festival of Contemporary Comics July 9th-12th, Peckham, London Details here
South London Comic and Zine Fair Sunday, July 19th, Stanley Arts, London Details here
Small Press Day Saturday, July 25th, events around the UK and Ireland (and beyond!) Details here
Pirate Caption Small Press Festival Saturday, August 8th, Seacourt Hall, Oxford Details here
Sequential Scotland Saturday, August 8th, DoubleTree by Hilton, Cambridge Street Glasgow Details here
Zinezilla Saturday September 12th, Trinity Centre, Bristol Details here
PrideCAF Saturday, September 19th, Sparks Bristol, Bristol Details here
inQ!: London’s Queer Comics Fair Saturday September 26th-Sunday September 27th, London LGBTQ+ Community Centre Details here
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Friday October 2nd-Sunday October 4th, Kendal Details here
TAGS Festival Saturday, October 17th, Edinburgh Details here
Sheffield Comic ARts Fair (SCARF) Saturday, October 10th, Sheffield Details here
Thought Bubble Convention Weekend Saturday November 14th-Sunday November 15th, Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate Details here
Launches and signings
Fred the (Very Demanding) Deer Launch Party With Pépé Smit Tuesday May 19th, 7pm start, Gosh! Comics, London Details here
The Book of Murmurs Signing with Candice Purwin Saturday, May 30th, 1pm-2pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here
Discussions, panels, workshops and conferences
‘This Mess Won’t Fix Itself: COMICS CREATORS’ (CCIC roundtable event online) Tuesday May 26th, 7pm Book here
LDComics Global Online Monthly Meeting Monday June 8th, 7:15-8:45pm Details TBC
Exhibitions
The Future Was Then Ends May 16th, The Cartoon Museum, London Details here
Ava Reid’s Female Force in Comics May 20th-July 11th, Redwillow, Macclesfield Details here
James Kolchaka’s Gentle Observations June 3rd-June 27th, The Silk Museum, Macclesfield Details here
Make Mine Manga! June 23rd-July 30th, Macclesfield Library, Macclesfield Details here
Queer as Comics June 5th-October 4th, Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, London, EC1R 1AG Details here
Applications, submissions and competitions
More details to be added when next announced
