The London Book Fair took place this week and a number of comic creators were at the event, signing, engaged in events or taking part in panels, including Pat Mills, Leah Moore, Paul Gravett and Jessica Martin.

A number of the creators were caught on video by the LBF team, such as Sarah McIntyre, Chris Riddell, Richard Collingridge, Gary Northfield and Neill Cameron at Sketchbook Social, while Paul Gravett offered his insights into digital comics and graphic novels.

I’ve created a YouTube pastiche of items uploaded so far and included Philip Ardagh‘s comments on the event, issues facing libraries and children’s literature, which praises the event and the energy as deals were done and hands shaken!

Hopefully the various comic-related panels will be added to the LBF YouTube channel soon, including the panels.

London Book fair: www.londonbookfair.co.uk

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek Magazine) and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War and “Dan Dare”. He’s the writer of "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.