British and Irish Comic Conventions and Signings

By John Freeman on September 30, 2025

We have made some changes to the way we present our regularly updated guides to major British and Irish comic conventions.

Because of the size of these items, we have now split these into Year by Year Pages, alongside our Exhibitions Page.

Information is very welcome! Drop us a line via this email address: editorATdownthetubes.net (Replace the AT with @ when composing your mail)

• British and Irish Comic Conventions and Signings 2025

• British and Irish Comic Conventions and Signings 2026

• British and Irish Comic Exhibitions

• British and Irish Comic Shop Map

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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John Freeman

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.