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 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: August 14th.

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: August 29th.

Fairs and festivals

Caption: Rebirth Saturday August 16th-Sunday August 17th, Oxford Details here

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Friday September 26th-Sunday September 28th, Bowness-on-Windermere Details here

ShortBox Online Comics Fair October 1st-31st Details here

Inkblot Indie Comic Festival October 18th, Details here

Thought Bubble Convention Weekend Saturday November 15th-Sunday December 16th, Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate Details here

Launches and signings

 

Ant Story: Wit’s End launch party with King Louie’s Lab Friday August 8th 7pm-9pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here

Cindy and Biscuit Volume 2 launch party with Dan White Friday, August 22nd, 7pm-9pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here

Go-Man Champion of Earth signing with Hamish Steele Thursday August 26th, 7pm-9pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here

Gosh!Fest Saturday, August 30th, 11am-6pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here

Discussions, panels, workshops and conferences

LDComics Online Monthly Meeting Next event September 8th, details TBC

Exhibitions

Cats in Cartoons April 8th-September 30th, The Cartoon Museum, London Details here

Samuel Ojo’s Ìrìn Àjò July 24th-November 29th, The Cartoon Museum, London Details here

Applications, submissions and competitions

The 2000 AD Talent Search at Thought Bubble Details here