Events
Please get in touch with our Andy Oliver here if you have a UK and Ireland community-based comics event or initiative you’d like to have listed on this page.
(Please make sure to double check events via the links provided in case of changes or cancellations)
Comics socials
Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw (online) – Join us on Bluesky every two weeks for three rounds of themed drawing fun. Next event: March 27th for a Spring special.
Please keep checking here for announcements on the in-person future of the Drink and Draw.
Fairs and festivals
Dublin Comic Arts Festival (DCAF) Sunday, April 6th, The Complex, Dublin Details here
Macc Pow! Saturday June 22nd-Sunday June 23rd, Macclesfield, Details here
Sequential Scotland Saturday August 2nd, Doubletree Hilton, Glasgow Details here
Caption: Rebirth Saturday August 16th-Sunday August 17th, Oxford Details here
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Friday September 26th-Sunday September 28th, Bowness-on-Windermere Details here
Thought Bubble Convention Weekend Saturday November 15th-Sunday December 16th, Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate Details here
Launches and signings
Boss of the Underworld signing with Tor Freeman Thursday, March 27th, 7pm-9pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here
There’s No Time Like the Present signing with Paul B. Rainey Saturday March 29th, 1-2pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here
Rogue Trooper Complete Edition Book 1 signing with Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons Saturday, April 12th, 1pm-2pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here
Paranoid Gardens signing with Chris Weston Friday, April 25th, 6-7pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here
2000AD Presents Slaine and Spector signing With Dan Cornwall, Mick McMahon and John Wagner Saturday, April 26th, 1-2pm, Gosh! Comics, London Details here
Discussions, panels, workshops and conferences
Eve and Spire Greenwood Talk on Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage Saturday, March 8th, Belle Adventure European Graphic Novel Store, Edinburgh, $pm-6pm
Exhibitions
Nothing is Real: Steven Appleby exhibition October 5th, 2024 -2025, Space Station Sixty-Five, London Details here
Secrets of the Majestic: Comics anthology exhibition November 15th, 2024-March 31st, 2025, Mercer Gallery Harrogate Details here
Adrift on a Painted Sea: From the graphic memoir by Tim Bird and Sue Bird November 16th, 2024-March 30th, 2025, Mercer Gallery Harrogate Details here
The Windsor Tapestry (Steve Bell) November 16th, 2024-March 22nd, 2025, The Cartoon Museum, London Details here
Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage and Sacred Bodies exhibition February 26th-March 29th, Belle Adventure European Graphic Novel Store, Edinburgh
Cats in Cartoons April 8th-September 30th, The Cartoon Museum, London Details here
Applications, submissions and competitions
First Graphic Novel Competition (Organised by Corinne Pearlman/SelfMadeHero/the Cartoon Museum) Closing date April 22nd Details here
