The map and page was last updated on Thursday 19th March 2026 – scroll down the page for the Map, after our “Latest Updates”!
The downthetubes.net British and Irish Comic Shop Map also includes venues that often have comics exhibitions or comics events.
Additional information and updates are always welcome – please use the update form at the bottom of this page. We are often informed when shops open – but not always when they close! So reader feedback is very helpful keeping this map up to date, thank you in advance.
We’ve also included the known locations of sites of comics interest, like statues.
LATEST UPDATES…
Thursday 19th March 2026: Thanks to “Em” for the belated news that Calamity Comics in Harrow closed in 2023! Calamity Comics in Hatfield, is, however still open.
Thanks also to Dave Robbie for some additions and updates in and around Glasgow: Settlers Shawlands is new tabletop gaming and comic shop in Shawlands, Glasgow that moved from Hamilton. We had the correct address for The Last Outpost but the wrong map location. Now corrected.
Still open in the city are Geekaboo and Forbidden Planet, but now closed for some time now are Red Hot Comics, Comic Crazy in Paisley, A1 Comics and Geek Retreat in both Glasgow and Motherwell. Thanks, Dave!
Thursday 13th November 2025: Good luck to author Paul Magrs and partner, author and lecturer Jeremy Hoad, who have just opened Panda’s Books and Records in Levenshulme, Manchester. Paul, a novelist who also runs the Fiction Doctor critiquing service, is probably best known as the writer of several novels, short stories and audio dramas relating to Doctor Who, many of which also feature his character Iris Wildthyme. Jeremy wrote the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Blue Angel with Paul, and a contributor to the Fambles anthologies.
They also sell vintage comics, so adding this new enterprise met no resistance from us!
About This Map
The downthetubes British and Irish Comic Shop Map is generated using Google Maps; if we’ve missed a shop, or we’re listing one that has, sadly, gone out of business, please do email us or use the Feedback form at the bottom of this page – and let us know using the form below, and we’ll make a correction as soon as possible. Thank you!
We are aiming to identify comic shops happy to stock small press comics, an addition brought to you thanks to help from Lew Stringer, thanks to a list he began on his Blimey blog in 2016. Those shops known to stock small press titles have grey icons on the Map.
You may also be interested in this map of independent British children’s bookshops compiled by Reading for Pleasure.
Mail Order Companies are also included on the map. Where they do not offer a street address on their web site, we have listed them further down on this page, as a separate item.
Please note, despite the ever-improving accuracy of search engines, it’s worth checking a shop is still open, or its opening times, before you make a trip.
Many downthetubes readers have very kindly updated us about stores closures (all thanked below), but we do sometimes miss the sad news. (Rising rents, the exchange rate affecting comic prices, and customer buying habits moving online have all been regularly cited as reasons for closure or downsizing, with some shops ceasing to sell new comics entirely).
If you want to contact a particular comic shop, you’ll have to follow the links through on the Map. For the most part the locations provide information sourced from Google Maps.
Some shops don’t publish public email addresses but they do have a fill-in form on their site for enquiries – and of course, you can always phone them, too!
Legend
• Blue: Comic Shop
• Red: Shops also known to offer Mail Order Services
• Grey: Shops also known to sell small press comics – information welcome!
• Yellow: Comic-related sites of interest
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downthetubes Comic Retailer Spotlights…
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Archer’s Comics, Truro
• CLOSED: Atomic Comica Comics, Barrow
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Asylum Books and Games, Aberdeen
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: The Comic Store, Glastonbury
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Crunch Comics, Reading
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Dave’s Comics, Brighton
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Gnash Comics, Ashburton
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: OK Comics, Leeds
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Page 45, Nottingham
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Paradox Comics, Poole
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Red Robot, Barnsley
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: That Comic Shop, Preston
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Travelling Man (Various locations, including Leeds and Manchester)
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Vanguard Comics, Gosport
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Zine Freak, Lancaster
IRELAND
• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Big Bang Comics, Dublin
• Check out our British and Irish Comic Shop Map
Other Book and Comic Shop Maps
• The Reading for Pleasure site has a map of independent British children’s bookshops here
If you see a book you’d like on this useful catalogue site, featuring the stock of some 300-plus UK bookshops, contact the bookseller by email or phone, or order online through UKBookWorld so they can pass your order on to the bookseller concerned. In either case you’ll be buying the book direct from the bookseller listing the item for sale; UKBookWorld.com is not involved in any way in the supply process.
Online Comic Services
In addition to the online businesses listed below, it’s also worth checking the web sites of your local comic shops – or indeed the web sites of any of the comic shops mapped above – as most also provide mail order services.
• Comics and Toys
Web: www.comicsandtoys.co.uk
Online only store operating out of Chester selling comics, actions figures and more
• ComicBookXS, who were based in Portsmouth, are still operating online
• Galactic Comics
Web: galacticcomics.co.uk
Online retailer specialising in pre-orders and weekly releases
• GetMyComics
• Grumpy Wolf Comics
Also on Facebook
Grumpy Wolf Comics stocks high quality collectible comics, for the discerning comic book collector: first appearances, key issues, variant covers, Star Wars books, new series… and just pretty cover art!
Formerly based in a physical shop in Hackney, run by cartoonist David Ziggy Greene, now online
• Sad Lemon Comics
Web: www.sadlemoncomics.com | ebay Store | Facebook
One of the largest suppliers of exclusive variants in the UK, also selling a wide variety of weekly releases through the web site and ebay store, supplying customers worldwide.
• Splat Comics
Web: www.splatcomics.com | Facebook
• The Unreality Store
PO BOX 7922, Wellingborough NN8 9JZ | Facebook | Twitter | Instgram
A UK-based independent comic book store selling over 12,000 comics
Additions, corrections or suggestions about the downthetubes Local Comic Shop Map? Please drop us a line!
We will try and make corrections as soon as possible.
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Compiled by John Freeman, Jeremy Briggs and Colin Noble
With thanks to Mike Allwood, Phil Boyce, Mark Burrow, Martyn Chivers, Daniel Clifford, Andrew Darlington, Andy Davidson, Peter Duncan, Kerry Earl, Antony Esmond, Carl Flint, Jason Graham, Paul Griggs, Kev Hopgood, Alex Hunt, Stuart Jenkins, Greg Kitchin, Sim Leech, Andy Luke, Steve Marchant, Rob Marland, Maya Arts, Sam Morgan, Matthew Morley, Leigh Oakley, Joan Ormrod, Kenny Penman, Dan Powell, Martin Proctor, Brian Rawlinson, Mark Roberts, David Robertson, Neil Bhuna Roche, Sean Simmons at Scorch Comics, Robert JE Simpson, Spa Town Comics, Morgan Spiceman, Lew Stringer, Myles Sullivan, Alex Sutton, Mike Teague, John Webster, Dan Whitehead, Andrew Wildman, Alan Woollcombe, WOW Comics – and everyone who has supplied information