The regularly updated downthetubes “rolling list” of major British and Irish comic conventions and other gatherings and signings in 2025, intended as a quick guide to “What’s On”. We sometimes include illustrators events where we know comic creators will be present. Follow the links to event web sites for fuller details.
The growing size of this British and Irish comic events page has meant we have had to split our Exhibitions guide onto a new page on downthetubes and now present events by year – our 2026 Events List is here. Information on events and venues is always welcome.
Last Updated: Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Information is very welcome! Drop us a line via this email address: editorATdownthetubes.net (Replace the AT with @ when composing your mail)
Thank you to everyone who has supplied information and apologies if I haven’t added your event yet. Please do also check out our Events News and Exhibition News news streams
As ever, information about events is welcome: here’s how to contact us. If you don’t see your date added to this list, please re-send the information as it’s entirely possible, given the huge amount of email received, that we’ve missed it first time around – sorry!
Please do not assume we will see a convention announcement on Facebook, Twitter or other social media.
A listing of an event on this page is not necessarily an endorsement of any event listed. We author this list for information purposes only.
Please note: The inclusion of an event as “Not Yet Announced” is generally because of a similar event the previous year. It does not mean that event will be repeated
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Cartoon County – Brighton
6.30pm, The Walrus, 10 Ship St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1AD /
Doors open at 6.30pm, with the Q&A kicking off at 7.30pm
Web: cartooncounty.com
Cartoon County is a Brightion-based community for everyone who makes or enjoys
comics, cartoons and graphic story-telling. Every month, they invite a comic-maker to join them and talk about their work with host Alex Fitch. These interviews are recorded and subsequently broadcast on Resonance FM’s Panel Borders, of which Alex is also the presenter.
Cartoon County meetings are held on the last Monday of the month (exceptions occasionally apply, so check their Facebook page before setting out). See here for details about Cartoon County’s next guest. There is usually no need to register, except on rare occasions when their guest is so popular that they risk exceeding the capacity of the room – they will always announce this on Facebook, Twitter and Eventbrite beforehand.
• Not local to Brighton, or just prefer to stay at home? Cartoon County also provide a rough and ready livestream online, via Zoom. Please register on Eventbrite if you would like to join us for the Zoom session. You can follow us on Facebook or Eventbrite if you’d like a notification every time we post a new event.
The Cartoon Musuem, London
63 Wells St, London, W1A 3AE
• Check out their events program at cartoonmuseum.org
Golden Orbit Comic Fairs
• Upcoming events listed here – various locations across the UK
BGCP Events
• Organising events across Scotland – schedule here
OCCULTZ: The Oxford Comic, Cult and Zine Fair Social
7.00pm – Last Tuesday of every month
The Star, 21 Rectory Road, Oxford | Instagram
Hosted by Owen Michael Johnson and Jason Atomic. If you’re a local creative, a comic artist, writer, zine creator, underground cartoonist, crafter or just plain curious please feel free to join the team. They’re open for networking, brainstorming, collaboration and conversation. Feel free to show bring examples of your work we’re excited to share and explore talents and opportunities.
Striking Events
• Organising “Comic Cons and Toy Fairs” across the UK – strikingevents.com
UKCGF Events
• Details of upcoming events here on Eventbrite – do note details of guests, including comic guests, seem scant in the event descriptions. The company is online at ukcgf.com
Unleashed Events
• Follow these events organisers here on Facebook
The Phoenix Comic
• More details and how to book here for digital and physical events on The Phoenix website
Did you know The Phoenix comic runs online and in person events for aspiring young artists who want to learn to draw comics? Join creators such as Jess Bradley, Sam Davies, Robert Deas, Emily Kimbell, Jamie Smart, James Turner, and others?
Most workshops are suitable for artists aged 7 – 14. Don’t worry if you can’t join live, all ticket holders will be sent a recording of the workshop after! Every ticket also includes a digital ACTIVITY PACK full of creative drawing tips that will get you drawing long after the workshop is over. This will be emailed to you after the workshop.
Room For Comics – Macclesfield “Let’s Draw” and “Treacle Toons” Comic Art Clubs
Web: roomforcomics.co.uk | Facebook
King Edward Street, Macclesfield SK10 1EB
• Follow them on EventBrite here to book tickets on release
Macclesfield-based Room for Comics offer with regular monthly ‘Treacle-Toons!’ comic-art club events on the last Sunday of each month and ‘Let’s Draw!’ ticketed comic-art club events on the first Saturday of the month.
Join cartoonist and all round funny guy Marc Jackson (BEANO, The Phoenix, Hey Kids Comics) for awesome, felt-pen cartoon art sessions. Embrace the fun of comics, cartoon-art, and the chance to draw with NO rules and ZERO restrictions!
All abilities welcome | All materials provided | Suitable for ages six and above
The Story Museum, Oxford
• You can find out more about The Story Museum, which runs regular comic workshop events and more, here
COMIC EVENTS BY DATE
October 2025
Shortbox Comics Fair 2025
1st – 31st October 2025 – Online | Web: shortboxcomicsfair.com
ShortBox Comics Fair is a unique and innovative digital comics fair, where every exhibiting artist debuts a brand-new comic. The aim of the fair is to serve as both a creative impetus for artists to make something new, and to deliver an exciting array of fresh, independent comics, all gathered in one place.
ShortBox Comics Fair is an accessible, comics-focused event: artists and comics readers can participate from anywhere in the world (no travel, no con-crud, no lugging suitcases full of comics back and forth!).
Each creator has a digital comic available through the SBCF website all month long. So no need to worry about the edition selling out, as long as you pick it up in time.
The fair takes place annually throughout October. Exhibiting artists retain full ownership/rights of their comics and receive 100% of sales (minus payment processing fees).
ROMO The Wolfboy Launch Party
6.30pm – 8.30pm, Thursday 23rd October 2025
The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1A 3AE. Nearest tube: Goodge Street
Web: cartoonmuseum.org
Launch Party for the crowdfunded first edition of ROMO the WolfBoy, by ILYA.
Romo the Wolfboy is the story of the titular youngster who suffered a disturbed young life, raised by wolves before joining a travelling circus. The graphic novel includes not only the story but plenty of “Making Of” background, too, complementing this extraordinary project.
• Read Luke Williams advance review of Romo the Wolfboy on downthetubes
• Ed H ILYA’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication
Internationally published British writer, artist and editor, Ed Hillyer, aka ILYA’s solo books include End of the Century Club (AmazonUK Affiliate Link), Skidmarks (find copies on eBay or the back issues section of your Local Comic Shop), Room for Love (AmazonUK Affiliate Link), Time Traveller, and Manga Shakespeare’s King Lear (AmazonUK Affiliate Link), plus the prose novel, The Clay Dreaming (AmazonUK Affiliate Link).
Sheffield Comic Con 2025
Saturday 25th October 2025
Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheaf Street Sheffield City Centre S1 2BP
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented.
TAGS (Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling) 2025
Saturday 26th – Sunday 27th October 2025 | Free
The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh | Web: tagsfest.co.uk
TAGS (Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling) Festival is a free-to-attend market event dedicated to spotlighting Scotland’s small press talent. Celebrating collaborative and visual storytelling in its many forms, from comics and roleplaying games to board games, zines and beyond.
Southampton Comic Con and Gaming Festival 2025
Sunday 26th October 2025
Places Leisure Eastleigh, Passfield Avenue Eastleigh SO50 9NL
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented.
Teeside Comic-Con 2025
26th October 2025
Teesside University Students’ Union, MiddlesbroughTickets: www.unleashedtickets.co.uk | Buy Tickets | Events Updates on Facebook
Hosted by Unleashed Events
Comica Social Club
6.00pm Wednesday 29th October 2025
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London
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Monthly meet-ups at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank on the last Wednesday of the month, from 6.00pm. Upcoming dates for 2025 are: November 26th
Bone Broth Launch Party With Alex Taylor
Gosh, 7.00 – 9.00pm Thursday 30th October 2025
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR | Keep up to date with all news over on the Facebook event page
Alex Taylor was the winner of the First Graphic Novel Award in 2023, and we’re so excited to see this book in all it’s glory.
In Bone Broth, a coming-of-age queer thriller, the young transmasculine Ash begins his transition into adult life by landing his first job at a ramen-noodle shop in London, prepping the bone broth. But as the financial landscape shifts under Ash’s feet, and after months of bonding with a series of challenging co-workers, everything suddenly stops dead.
Literally.
At a drunken staff party, Ash’s bullying boss turns up dead, and everyone’s been taking selfies with the corpse. Good thing Ash has already spent a year on the job…
You can pre-order a signed copy from the Gosh website by clicking the link here
Reading Comic Con
Sunday 30th October 2025
Loddon Valley Leisure Centre Rushey Way, Lower Earley, Earley, Reading, Berkshire
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented.
World Fantasy Convention 2025
30th October – 2nd November 2025
Metropole Hotel, Brighton
Web: worldfantasy2025.co.uk
The World Fantasy Convention (WFC) is an annual gathering to celebrate Fantasy & Horror. It brings together professionals working within the genres, particularly within the fields of literature and art. 2025’s event also includes Fantasycon, the UK’s annual fantasy and horror convention run by the British Fantasy Society.
Both welcome authors, editors, artists, poets, publishers, agents, critics, reviewers and bloggers, academics, script and games writers, podcasters and readers. Anyone who is involved in the industry and all those who love fantasy and horror are welcome.
This event will include the award ceremonies for both the British Fantasy Awards and the World Fantasy Awards.
Drink and Draw with Zen K, Shane Melisse and Mark StaffordGosh, 1.00 – 6.30pm Friday 31st October 2025
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR | Keep up to date with all news over on the Facebook event page
Scribbles and Scares! Pencils and Peril! Doodles and Demons! Gosh are thrilled to present a very spooky edition of our monthly Drink and Draw event this October! Every month, along with our friends at Broken Frontier, Gosh invite three guest artists for evening of drawing at our local pub. This month, it falls on the sacred day of Halloween, the most important holiday of the year! So get along and join them on Friday 31st October 2025, from 6.30pm for a Halloween themed edition of Drink and Draw!
For this session, Gosh invited the terrifying Mark Stafford, the horrifying Shane Melisse and the fear-inducing Zen K! So excited for this one. Costumes are highly encouraged! And there may even be extra prizes for the team’s favourite.
So, what is a Drink and Draw? Well, it’s in the name! We’ll host an evening of drawing with our guest comic artists, all while having a few drinks together, alcholic and non alcholic. Mark Stafford, our resident cartoonist, will be a regular face at the monthly event, being joined by two guest artists every time.
Meet at Gosh! for 6.30pm, where they’ll be a chance to mingle with the artists and check out their comics, before heading over to The Royal George for 7pm. Once everyone has grabbed a seat and a drink, three short rounds of drawing, begin with each guest artist setting their own drawing theme.
Gosh! will have the artists work on sale and even have some prizes for their favourite drawings! The event will likely wrap up by 9.30pm, but staying afterwards to continue the fun is more than welcome.
Broken Frontier and ourselves have been running the Drink & Draws since 2015 and have been lucky enough to have had over 200 guest artists attend! It will be hosted by Broken Frontier’s wonderful Andy Oliver and Gosh’s Will Humberstone.
“We’re so excited to see some familiar faces again at our Drink and Draws, and hopefully some fresh ones too!,” say Gosh. “The event is free and everyone is welcome.
There will be limited seating available at the Royal George and seating will be prioritised to those who were at the shop first
November 2025
BGCP Hamilton Comic Con 2025
Saturday 1st – Sunday 2nd November 2025
Regent Way, Regent Shopping Centre, Hamilton ML3 7DZ
Organised by BGCP
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Leeds Comic Fair
Saturday 1st November 2025
Park Plaza Leeds, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 5NS
Web: goldenorbit.co.uk
Plymouth Comic Con and Gaming Festival 2025
Saturday 1st November 2025
Plymouth Active, Plymouth Active/ Life Centre Mayflower Drive, Plymouth PL2 3DG
Hosted by UK Comic Con and Gaming Festivals
Sale Comic Con 2025
Saturday 1st November 2025
Stanley Square, Sale, Greater Manchester, Sale M32 9BD
• Facebook Page
Sale Comic Con is a free to enter family fun day featuring guests from TV, Films and the comic industry. There will be entertainment and events to take part in and lots of surprises.
Liverpool Comic Fair
Sunday 2nd November 2025
The Liner Hotel, Lord Nelson Street, Liverpool, L3 5QB
Web: goldenorbit.co.uk
Sutton Comic Con 2025
Saturday 2nd November 2025
Westcroft Leisure Centre Westcroft Road, Carshalton
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented.
Malta Comic Con 2025
8th – 9th November in 2024
Malta Conventions and Fairs Center, Ta’ Qali
Organised by Wicked Comics, this event regularly features a number of British comic creators, which is why it is included here.
Visit www.maltacomiccon.com for the latest news about this event | Facebook | Twitter
The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor Signing With Bryan Talbot
Gosh, 1.00 – 2.00pm Saturday 8th November 2025
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR | Facebook event page
The Badger is back… wait, no… the hawk debuts? Cartooning legend Bryan Talbot (Tale of One Bad Rat, Batman, 2000AD) adds to his Grandville universe with this prequel – The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor.
With top-hat and cane in hand, Scotland Yard’s DI Stamford Hawksmoor shadows the murky backstreets of London on the hunt for a sadistic serial killer.
In the dying days of the French occupation of Britain, through gaslit, cobbled streets and squalid alleyways, stalks the great eagle Detective Stamford Hawksmoor in search of the homicidal manic whose killing spree claims dozens of seemingly unconnected victims, from random murders to targeted political assassinations.
The deeper he delves, the more he puts himself in mortal danger, pitting himself against unknown antagonists whilst under the scrutiny of the feared anti-terrorist squad, and the more he is forced to resort to working outside the law.
A prequel to Talbot’s pioneering Grandville series, The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor is also an intriguing, labyrinthine stand-alone mystery graphic novel set in a world of hansom cabs and pea-souper fogs, where explosive violence can erupt at any second – and does!
Southampton Comic Con 2025
Saturday 8th November 2025
Places Leisure Eastleigh Passfield Ave, Eastleigh, Hampshire
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented.
Scarborough Comic-Con 2025
9th November 2025
Scarborough Spa
Tickets: www.unleashedtickets.co.uk | Events Updates on Facebook
Hosted by Unleashed Events
Watford Comic Con 2025
Sunday 9th November 2025
Watford Woodside Horseshoe Lane, Watford
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented.
Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival – The Yorkshire Comic Festival 2025 and Thought Bubble – Comic Convention
Events across Yorkshire in November; Comic Convention from 10th – 16th November 2025 across Leeds and the whole of Yorkshire, an unmatched celebration of comics across Yorkshire.
Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate | Open 10.00 am – 6.00pm Saturday and 10.00am – 5.00pm Sunday | 15th – 16th November 2025
Web www.thoughtbubblefestival.com
Their huge Comic Convention – the culmination of the week long celebration of comics – will be on at Harrogate Convention Centre, and Exhibitor applications are now open for comic creators to apply.
Thought Bubble is the Yorkshire Comic Art Festival, a week long celebration of comics, illustration and more spread across the whole of Yorkshire, finishing in a huge two day comic convention.
The organisation use their festival week to promote the power of comics, aiming to inspire, educate and bring people together like no other medium, so whether you’re a longtime fan of comic art or have never picked up a graphic novel before, you’ll find something for you. In addition to its guest line-up, the event also features hundreds of stands of comic creators work.
Thought Bubble is a non-profit organisation with their chosen charity being Barnardo’s.
Guests will appear on both days, unless otherwise stated, and will have a table for the whole weekend, signing slots, or both!
Announced guests as of June 2025 (this doesn’t include the incredible number of creators and publishers attending as exhibitors): Dapo Adeola, Becky Barnicoat, Caroline Cash, Garth Ennis, Duncan Fegredo, Megan Huang, Michael D Kennedy, Stephanie Phillips, Posy Simmonds (Saturday only) and Christian Ward
Thought Bubble Guests are a mix of invited, paid for, and creators who apply via the event’s curated route. Appearances are based on professional availability and are subject to change. Guest tables, guest signing times and other appearances will be released closer to the convention dates.
Peow2 Party – A Garden of Spheres Launch Party with Linnea Sterte
Gosh, 7.00pm Thursday 13th November 2025
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR | Keep up to date with all news on the Facebook event page
A very special party with Swedish publisher Peow2, who are releasing a new fantasy book by Linnea Sterte, A Garden of Spheres, also at the event. Gosh will have plenty of copies of the new comic, along with heaps of more Peow2 books, plus some exclusives, too
Accompanying our copies of A Garden of Spheres, will be an A6 bookplate signed by Linnea. This is exclusive to Gosh and limited to 200 copies. You can pre-order a signed bookplate edition of A Garden of Spheres by clicking the link here.
A Garden of Spheres is a new story from the multi Eisner-nominee, Angouleme Prix Revelation winner, and famous frog artist Linnea Sterte. The world of A Garden of Spheres is a unique vision unlike anything else, a massive unabashed fantasy spanning generations following an immortal demi-god of destruction wandering through a land of deities and dragons.
A Garden of Spheres (book1) is 336 pages long, with duotone portions, and the other parts are probably the most stunning full color comics we’ve ever printed. This book is a once-in-a-generation kind of fantasy epic from a single creature that we rarely get in comics.
Comics Forum 2025
Thursday 13th – Friday 14th November 2025
Leeds Art Gallery and Central Library
Web: comicsforum.org
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2025 | Notification of Acceptance: 12 September 2025 | The theme is “Industry” – read the Call for Contributions here
Kelly’s Comic Fair
Saturday 15th November 2025
10.30am – 5.00pm The Mecure Hotel Newport, Chartist Tower, Upper Dock Street, Newport, NP20 1DW | Admission free | Facebook Event Page
Step into a world of nostalgia at a classic comic fair, featuring tens of thousands of comics to browse, collect, and enjoy! Whether you’re a seasoned collector or a curious newcomer, this is a must-visit event for comic lovers of all ages!
This is a real ‘old school’ comic fair event with an emphasis on the sale of predominantly vintage comics. “Come one and all and enjoy a great day out where you can purchase fantastic comics and comic collectibles at great prices!” says organiser Paul Kelly.
London Comic Con 2025
15th – 16th November 2025
Olympia London
Web: londoncomicconwinter.com
Bringing you the Stars of Film and TV for you to meet, get their autographs and have your photo taken with them. Includes a Comic Creators Alley
Liverpool Comic Con 2025
Saturday 15th – Sunday 16th November 2025
Exhibition Centre Liverpool
Web: www.comicconventionliverpool.co.uk | Facebook
Despite the large number of comic creators who live in the Liverpool area, Monopoly Events don’t seem to be interested in inviting comics people to a comic event…
Newcastle Comic Fair
11.00am – 4.00pm Saturday 15th November 2025
Copthorne Hotel, The Close, Quayside Newcastle NE1 3RT
Web: goldenorbit.co.uk
A return to Newcastle. A central hotel, near to the swing bridge crossing the River Tyne and 10 minutes walk from the train station. The hotel has its own car park and refreshments for sale from the main bar overlooking the river.
Baby Blue Signing With Bim Eriksson
Gosh, 6.00 – 7.00pm Monday 17th November 2025
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR | Keep up to date with all news over on the Facebook event page
Artist Bim Eriksson is author of Baby Blue, a dystopian thriller about celebrating individuality and rebelling against societal pressures to conform. Set in a not-so-distant future where the State polices people’s emotions, this dystopian graphic novel explores themes of mental health, queer identity, and the dangers of unchecked fascism.
In the not-so-distant future, twenty-something Betty lives in a fascistic society that polices feelings. When her depression causes her to have an emotional episode in public, she is taken to an Orwellian health facility to “fix” her mental illness. There, she meets Berina, a fiery woman who opens her eyes to an alternative reality: The Resistance. If she can navigate a deviant underworld and band together with a queer, ragtag crew of resistance fighters, she just might have a chance to oppose the regime.
The English debut of Swedish comics artist Bim Eriksson, Baby Blue is a haunting dystopian thriller. Drawn in a delightfully twisted, sad girl style, and suffused with pop music and other cultural touchstones, this graphic novel feels fresh and contemporary. Ultimately, a bold and vital tale of queerness, love, rebellion, and the value of being different.
You can pre-order a signed copy from our website by clicking the link here
Bulgilhan Press x Glacier Bay Books – Double Launch Party – Testament and Baku Chan
Gosh, 7.00pm Tuesday 18th November 2025
1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR | Keep up to date with all news over on the Facebook event page
Gosh! is proud to host a launch party for two North American independent publishing giants, Bulgilhan Press and Glacier Bay! Both of these legendary outfits are on a rare foray into the UK for Thought Bubble Festival and have decided to launch new titles at Gosh! on Tuesday 18th November 2025 from 7-9pm.
Alongside their previous titles Bulgilhan Press will be launching Testament with J. Marshall Smith in attendance!
“Meet Testament: the premier caretaker android for the future. Not only were they designed to care for the well-being of dozens of interstellar passengers; explorers, scientists, poets, and artists – they have also downloaded millennia of religious texts and liturgies to best serve the members of a religious commune that make up the bulk of their human charges. These members of the Order of the Abundant Grace of the Cosmic Christ, having already chosen a monastic and scholarly life, are ideal for their mission: a one-way voyage to discover all they can about a miraculous far-flung planet capable of life and, by choice, not repopulate.”
Glacier Bay will be launching Baku Chan. Please note the author will not be in attendance.
“A devastatingly beautiful short comic about an immigrant tapir on Earth by the author of CHILDREN OF MU-TOWN (published by Glacier Bay Books, 2021). Baku Chan is a young tapir emigrated to Tokyo, Earth all the way from their home planet, the distant Star of the Tapirs. Once they arrive, they find Earth a strange and alien, yet somehow familiar, world full of surprises. With the help of their newfound friend Hana they navigate the various challenges, uncertainties, as well as the humorous and beautiful moments of their new life as an immigrant. Set in a world that’s a looking glass reflection of our own, and drawn in the wake of the escalating global politics of the 2010s, Masumura Jushichi’s timeless tale was awarded the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival’s New Face Award in 2018.”
Carlisle Zine Fest
Saturday 22nd November 2025
StArt Studio, Unit 3, West Tower Street, Carlisle
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Organised by Jess Autumn Bell, check out a collection of very talented local and non local ‘zine makers (self-published magazines). Jess has previously run similar events in Kendal.
Newmarket Comic Con & Toy Fair
Saturday 22nd November 2025
Newmarket Racecourse, Cambridge Road, Newmarket CB8 0TF
Organised by Striking Events
Manchester Comic Fair
Sunday 22nd November 2025
Sachas, Tib Street, Back Piccadilly, Manchester, M4 1SH
Web: goldenorbit.co.uk
Salisbury Comic-Con 2025
10.00am – 4.00pm Saturday 22nd November 2025, Cityhall Malthouse Lane Salisbury SP2 7TU
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions
Film & TV Guests, Stage Talks, Movie Prop’s and features, Cosplay Competition, Comic Artists and Traders and more
Hatfield Comic Con & Toy Fair
Sunday 23rd November 2025
Hertfordshire Sports Village, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield AL10 9EU
Web: strikingevents.com/hatfield
Organised by Striking Events
Comica Social Club
6.00pm Wednesday 26th November 2025
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London
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Monthly meet-ups at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank on the last Wednesday of the month, from 6.00pm
The London Illustration Fair
Old Truman Brewery, Dray Walk
29th December – 1st December 2025
• More Information here
London’s biggest artist-led illustration event returns to London’s iconic Truman Brewery, in the heart of Shoreditch, with another jam-packed festival of illustration.
The London Illustration Fair is an annual artist-led illustration, print and graphic design fair, bringing artists and buyers together in a unique environment. Featuring over four floors of prints, products, workshops and festivities, the fair offers the chance for illustration lovers to come face to face with their favourite artists and discover amazing new artwork from emerging illustrators. There is something for every pocket from the budding art collector, to the alternative Christmas shopper.
MCM Expo Birmingham 2025
28th – 30th November 2025
NEC Birmingham
Web: mcmcomiccon.com/birmingham
TV and film stars, independent creators, the best in UK cosplay and all the little moments you just don’t get anywhere else.
Gloucester Comic Con 2025
Saturday 29th November 2025
GL1 Sports Centre Bruton Way, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented
Sheffield Comic Fair
Saturday 29th November 2025
Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield, S1 2BX
Web: goldenorbit.co.uk
London Comic Mart
Sunday 30th November 2025
Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0DG
Early Entry Price: £5 from 11.00 am – 12 noon – Free entry from 12 noon
Web: londoncomicmart.co.uk
Dublin Comic Arts Festival 2025
11.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 30th November 2025
The Complex 21-25 Arran St E, Dublin 7, D07 YY97 | Admission Free
Web: dublincomicarts.ie | Support DCAF on Patreon
The first Dublin Comic Arts Festival (DCAF) event of 2025 has been announced, a free one day event taking place at a new venue, The Complex. DCAF 2025 events will take place on 6th July, 5th October and 30th November.
• Read our news story about 2025 DCAF events
Reading Comic Con 2025
Sunday 30th November 2025
Loddon Valley Leisure Centre Rushey Way, Lower Earley, Earley, Reading, Berkshire
Web: creedconventions.com/events
Organised by Creed Conventions, mainly film and TV but comics are represented
December 2025
Birmingham Comic Fair
Saturday 6th December 2025
Walker Memorial Hall, Ampton Road, Birmingham, B15 2UJ | Admission £2 (on the day)
(Near Five Ways roundabout – follow Calthorpe Rd to Carpenter Road)
Web: goldenorbit.co.uk
American and British Comics, Books, Graphic Novels for sale and a selection of TV/Film memorabilia, annuals, artwork and much more. Free Parking.
Illustrators Winter Fair
11.00am – 5.00pm, Sunday 7th December 2025
The Crossing, Central St Martins, 1 Granary Square, London
N1C 4AA
Admission: Free
Web: illustratorsfair.co.uk
The Illustrators Winter Fair is showcasing work from over 100 established and emerging contemporary illustrators.
DATES NOT YET ANNOUNCED – PREVIOUSLY IN DECEMBER
OCCULTZ: Weird Christmas Night Market
Mid December in 2024
37-38 Little Clarendon St. Oxford OX1 2HF
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A curated night market of Comics, Zines, Books, Hand-made Oddities, Folk Horror, Weird Fiction, Merchandise and Prints. Looking for something different to do as the nights draw in? This is sure to be an unmissable event in the Oxford events calendar – a spooky and inspiring alternative to the classic Victorian Christmas Market, in the heart of Oxford.
Sources
• downthetubes Event Guide | Events News | Exhibition News
• UK Comic Con and Sci-Fi Convention Listings
• The Convention Collective: http://theconventioncollective.com
• Comic Conventions UK – www.comicconventions.co.uk
• Facebook – Real Comic Conventions We Love
• Comic and Film Fairs hosted by Golden Orbit – Facebook Listing
• MSE Comic Conventions Listing on Facebook
• Comics and other events hosted by Savage Beast – Facebook Listing
• NWCC Events Group on Facebook – North West-based comics events
• Small Publishers Fair: Book Fair Calendar
A list of anarchist, artist, illustration, indie, letterpress, LGBTQ, photography, small press, wayzgoose and zine UK book fairs
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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.