London Book Fair 2025, returning to Olympia London from 11th – 13th March, will include The London Book Fair Comic Space, curated by VIP Brands’ Ivanka Hahnenberger, who was instrumental in establishing the Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation… Read More ›
Jamie Smart will be the first ever Creative of the London Book Fair in 2025 – and a London Book Fair Comic Space launches too
A new development at the London Book Fair
Outrage in Britain and France after publisher’s representative arrested en route to London Book Fair
Virtual gatherings continue for this major trade event
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… Read More ›
This month, Europe Comics will be travelling to London with various events scheduled all across the capital featuring a host of comic creators, including Pat Mills, Chris Riddell, Sarah McIntyre, Mike Medaglia and Posy Simmonds. Working in association with Comica London, they’ll be participating in… Read More ›
Celebrating its 45 year anniversary in April 2016, The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Staged annually, LBF sees more than 25,000 publishing professionals arrive… Read More ›
Some time in 1854, at 313 Oxford Street, the “London Stereoscope Company” was born, and under the leadership of Managing Partner George Swan Nottage, by 1856 the company had changed its name, to “The London Stereoscopic Company”, and finally in… Read More ›
In the UK, the impact of digital migration on the graphic novel market has been less pronounced than in other areas of the book industry. This is often attributed to graphic novel readers’ attachment to print: nothing, you’ll hear… Read More ›
Graphic novels are one of the fastest growing areas of book publishing and the London Book Fair, the world’s second largest publishing show with over 25,000 visitors, held April 14~16, 2015, is celebrating the fact with a specially-designed pavilion to… Read More ›
With the Bologna Children’s Book Fair taking place next week (30th March – 2nd April) and the London Book Fair hot on its heels (14th – 16th April) it’s inevitable that there will be plenty of new book projects… Read More ›
Reed Exhibitions has announced that The London Book Fair 2014 – which will again include a comics pavilion this year – will be the last to take place in its current location, Earls Court. From 2015, The London Book Fair… Read More ›
Here’s Neil Gaiman‘s keynote speech at this year’s London Book Fair, in which he talks about the need to experiment with new media and pretty much sums up what we’re all thinking -no-one knows what is really going to work… Read More ›
Image via London Book Fair The London Book Fair has announced that comic writer and author Neil Gaiman will give the opening keynote speech at the fifth Digital Minds Conference in London on Sunday 14th April. Neil is internationally recognised… Read More ›
The London Book Fair will again be promoting graphic novels tomorrow (13th April) with a seminar entield The Graphic Novel Renaissance, chaired by Paul Gravett. Has a “tipping point” been reached for graphic novels? Leading editors and publishers from the… Read More ›
Last month the London Book Fair cranked up its coverage of comics and graphic novel publishing this year and David Baillie went along for downthetubes to see what was happening… LBF photos by Joel Meadows The London Book Fair is… Read More ›
The London Book Fair has almost finalised its list of comics events for this year’s three day event at Earl’s Court in April, with a line up of guests that so far includes Paul Gravett, Helen McCarthy, Emma Hayley, Ian… Read More ›