The downthetubes.net British and Irish Comic Shop Map also includes venues that often have comics exhibitions or comics events.

The map and page was last updated on Thursday 29th April 2023 – we’re aiming to “Spotlight” comic shops, as time permits! This time out – Jam Bookshop, Hackney

Additional information and updates are always welcome – please use the update form at the bottom of this page

We’ve also included the known locations of sites of comics interest, like statues.

Comic Retailer Spotlight: Jam Bookshop, Hackney

61A Hackney Road, London E2 7NX | Web: jambookshop.co.uk | Instagram | Twitter

The Jam Bookshop opened in 2022, after a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign. It’s owned and run by acclaimed illustrator and journalist David Ziggy Greene. Along with new books, stock includes graphic novels and independent comics.

David’s work has been printed regularly in some of the most read publications in the world, including Private Eye. He’s also successfully published a number of sold-out books and had books released by small to huge publishers, in the UK and France.

David also created the UK and Ireland-wide event Small Press Day, launched in 2016, which takes place on one day a year, in dozens of shops to promote the next wave of small press publishing creators.

• Follow David Ziggy Greene on Twitter

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 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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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

• Galactic Comics
Web: galacticcomics.co.uk

Online retailer specialising in pre-orders and weekly releases

• GetMy Comics

Get all your previous comic releases at GetMyComics, a UK-based online comics subscription service – also distributors of SHIFT and To the Death

• 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!

• 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

Our Past Comic Retailer Spotlights

• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Atomic Comica Comics, Barrow

• Comic Retailer Spotlight: Red Robot, Barnsley

• Comic Retailer Spotlight: That Comic Shop, Preston

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, Martyn Chivers, Daniel Clifford, 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, 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, Alex Sutton, Mike Teague, John Webster, Andrew Wildman, Alan Woollcombe, WOW Comics – and everyone who has supplied information