Comic creators at London Film and Comic Con this June have started to be announced, alongside film and TV announcements.
Taking place on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2026, London Film & Comic Con promises to bring you some of your favourite stars from TV, Film and Comics as well as a whole host of fun activities including photoshoots, panels, autograph sessions and hundreds of stalls full of TV and Film memorabilia to browse.
Comic guests announced so far include Doctor Who comic artist Mike Collins; Amigo Comics Editor-in-Chief Colleen Douglas; 2000AD artist Glenn Fabry; Transformers legend Simon Furman; actor and comic creator Jessica Martin; and The Muppets artist Roger Langridge. Expect more to be revealed soon.
London Film & Comic Con is run by Showmasters, who have been running large scale signing events across the country for over 20 years.
London Film & Comic Con 2026 Saturday 13th– Sunday 14th June 2026, Olympia, London | Book your tickets to here (EventBrite Link)
First Comics Guests
Celebrating over forty years working in comics, Cardiff-based Mike Collins has drawn pretty much every major character at the big companies: X-Men, Batman, JLA, Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Judge Dredd, Slaine and Rogue Trooper amongst them.
In animation he’s worked on shows as diverse as Warhammer 40k and Horrid Henry, Sali Mali and many other Welsh language pre-school shows.
He’s drawn two well regarded and successful original Graphic Novels- an adaptation of Dickens’; A Christmas Carol and the docudrama about the first moon landing, Apollo.
In recent years he’s worked on several How To Draw books: a 100-issue run on How To Draw Marvel magazine; three volumes of How To Draw Fortnite; and most recently How To Draw Five Nights at Freddies. In TV he works as a storyboard artist on many genre shows: Doctor Who, His Dark Materials, Good Omens, The Witcher, Midwich Cuckoos most recently, the new Famous Five.
Colleen Douglas is a 2023 Ringo! Award nominee and a comic book creator, editor, and writer. She served as Editor-in-Chief for Amigo Comics and edited for Sally Books in Malaga from 2017 to 2020. Colleen is the Curation Editor for SHOOK! Vol. 2: Songs of the Dark Sirens, the sequel to the groundbreaking SHOOK! A Black Horror Anthology from Second Sight Publishing and Dark Horse Comics. She was the first Black woman to be published by Caliber Comics.
Her editing credits include titles for Amigo Comics (Call of the Suicide Forest, Nancy in Hell, Tales of Rogues, The Apocalypse Girl Vol. 1, Ghost Wolf, and Phantasmagoria), Scout Comics (Commander Rao, The Greylock, Oswald and the Star Chaser, Cross Country, andUnicorn Vampire Hunter), and the Afrofutures magazine. As a writer, her published works include Titan, Gargantuan (which reached the Top 500 Comics list), The Apocalypse Girl Vol. 2, Carmine, and various shorts for anthologies like Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood, Cthulhu Invades Wonderland, and Holiday Spirits.
Her project Silk Cotton, exploring Caribbean supernatural mythology, sold out at LUCCA 2022 and has since been released in English and Spanish editions. Colleen also contributed to Harvest of Horrors Vol. 3 for Caliber Comics and has written for Leviathan Labs, Ahoy Comics, Interpop Comics, and Advent Comics.
A passionate advocate for diversity and representation in comics, Colleen has spoken at events such as The Cartoon Museum in London and COMICA at the Century Club, and participated in panels including LibraryCon Live 2024. She continues her creative work as Collection Editor for SHOOK! Songs of the Dark Sirens and is developing Shakespeare’s Vampires for FairSquare Graphics.
Originally from Guyana and now based in West London, Colleen holds a PhD in Ancient Monetary Systems. Her eclectic interests include rock, metal, opera, cosmic jazz, funk, and all things supernatural, cosmic, esoteric, and strange.
London Film & Comic Con 2026 Saturday 13th– Sunday 14th June 2026, Olympia, London | Book your tickets to here (EventBrite Link)
Glenn Fabry is a British comic book artist best known for his richly detailed, hyper-realistic painted covers. He broke into the industry in the mid-1980s, illustrating Sláine for the legendary British anthology 2000AD alongside writer Pat Mills. The pair later collaborated on the newspaper strip Scatha, while Fabry branched into painted work on titles like Crisis, Revolver, and Deadline.
In 1991, Fabry began what would become a defining partnership with writer Garth Ennis, painting covers for Hellblazer. His distinctive work earned him the Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist in 1995. He continued the collaboration on the acclaimed series Preacher, cementing his reputation as one of comics’ leading cover artists.
Over the years, Fabry has lent his talents to titles and characters including The Authority, Judge Dredd, Batman, Thor, Daredevil, Transmetropolitan, and The Sandman. He also illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, and has produced art for Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and a wide range of other pop culture properties.
Glenn Fabry’s unmistakable style and influence have made him a fan favourite and a mainstay of the comics world for over three decades.
Simon Furman is a writer for comic books, games and TV animation, his name indelibly linked to Transformers, the 1980s toy phenomenon (in 2012, he was inducted into Hasbro’s official Transformers Hall of Fame).
His past Transformers credits includes numerous stories for Marvel UK (among them Target: 2006, Dinobot Hunt and The Legacy of Unicron), Marvel US (from #56-80), Transformers: Generation 2 (#1-12), Dreamwave’s The War Within and IDW’s Infiltration, Escalation & Devastation, and, more recently, Transformers: Regeneration One and Transformers ’84.
The early Marvel UK stories are now being re-released by Image Comics, with The Transformers UK Compendium Book One released earlier this year (AmazonUK Affiliate Link), with Book Two scheduled for release in November (AmazonUK Affiliate Link)
Screen credits include the final episode of the Beast Wars animated TV series, “Nemesis Part 2”. For games, Furman continues to contribute storylines for mobile build and battle game Transformers: Earth Wars, with two further game projects currently in development.
He is the author of Transformers: The Ultimate Guide and oversaw the Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection from Hachette.
Furman’s credits also include “The Leopard From Lime Street” for Rebellion, which ran in Monster Fun, and Astrobots, an all-new mecha series from Whatnot Publishing, drawn by Heavy Metal artist Hector Trunnec and based on toy designs by Aaron Thomas.
With artist Geoff Senior, Furman is the co-creator of To The Death, a 10-issue maxi-series combining hard-hitting sci-fi action and sharp-edged satire, and TTD spin-off Killatoa (both currently serialised in Shift Comic). His new creator-owned crime noir graphic novel, Five Points (with artist Martin Stiff), was released in 2023.
Past comic credits include Action Force, Alpha Flight, Annihilation: Ronan, Death’s Head, Doctor Who, Dragon’s Claws, How to Train Your Dragon, Robocop, Robotech, She-Hulk, StarCraft, Terminator, Torchwood, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, What If? and The Vigilant.
In TV animation, Furman served as head writer/script supervisor on the hit Nicktoons & CITV show, Matt Hatter Chronicles, and has written for shows such as Dan Dare, X-Men: Evolution and A.T.O.M.
New Zealand-born cartoonist Roger Langridge has been a comic book professional since moving to the UK in the early 1990s. He has worked on properties such as Thor: The Mighty Avenger, The Muppets, Fin Fang Four, Doctor Who, Popeye, Mandrake The Magician, John Carter Of Mars, Darkwing Duck, Rocky And Bullwinkle, The Rocketeer, Gross Point, The Goon, and Bill And Ted Are Doomed, among others – as well as producing a steady output of his own work, notably ZOOT!, Art D’ecco, The Fez, Fred The Clown, Criminy, Abigail And The Snowman, The Baker Street Peculiars, and his Eisner Award-winning series Snarked!.
Right now, Roger is dividing his work days between a new Fred the Clown graphic novel, Dumb Luck, currently being serialised online on his Patreon, and a happy return to the Muppets with Muppets Noir for Dynamite Comics.
Jessica Martin is a celebrated actress, comic artist and graphic novelist. She is best known to fans of cult television for her role as ‘Mags’ the intergalactic werewolf in the Seventh Doctor era of Doctor Who and as an impressionist in the classic series of Spitting Image. She is a sought after voice actor and has recorded many productions for Big Finish, Spiteful Puppet and recently featured in Dirk Maggs’ bestselling audio adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Act I and II.
But it is specifically as a comics creator that she returns as a guest exhibitor to LFCC. She has been creating her own style of comics, influenced by her love of classical Hollywood and her experiences in entertainment since 2013. From her first comic, It Girl, based on the life of Clara Bow, to her latest graphic memoir Life Drawing. A Life Under Lights, Jessica’s work has consistently won critical acclaim including nominations for the Myriad Editions First Graphic Novel Prize, the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020 and Theatre Book Prize 2020. She has also worked for DC ( collaborating with her mentor, Mark Buckingham), Soaring Penguin and Titan Comics.
She was the first actor to illustrate her own character when she created art for Richard Dinnick’s Seventh Doctor story “Hill of Beans” for Titan. In 2021 she illustrated a one shot horror graphic novella, The Virgin’s Embrace by Dacre Stoker and Chris McAuley for AUK Studios and was one of several guest artists on the brand new comic anthology Perfect created by Barnaby Eaton-Jones for AUK Studios.
She is also author of the graphic novel, Conrad, Invoking Conrad Veidt which explores the story of the actor whose face inspired the original image of Batman’s ‘Joker’, published by Cast Iron Books; and is working on her new book series, Martha’s Invitation, a prequel to her Martha Weston tales.
London Film & Comic Con 2026 Saturday 13th– Sunday 14th June 2026, Olympia, London | Book your tickets to here (EventBrite Link)
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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