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thing To Do In London If You Like Comics In April 2025 … signings at Gosh , launching at FP Camden and shop for women in Wimbledon
No April fooling , this is Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for April 2025 . include the grand porta of Forbidden Planet Camden , formerly Mega - City Comics , with signings fromRam V , Dave GibbonsandAl Ewing , more signing from Hylobates lar and friends at Gosh Comics , Easter shop for kids at the Cartoon Museum and the launch of the Women take your tale graphic novel workshop in Wimbledon .
Thursday, 3rd of April
Troopers , Noho , from 6 post-mortem examination . Those who know , go . novel location for 2025 .
Norman Pett ’s Jane , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 6:30pm for a 7 pm start . £ 12.Norman Pett ’s Jane has been called the most popular comic strip of the Second World War and " the earthly concern ’s first topnotch - model , page three daughter and pin - up " . Yet she was also much more than this . In uninterrupted publishing between 1932 and 1959 , Jane was the most popular comic flight strip to appear in the British tabloid the Daily Mirror . Combining sureness , irreverence and bravery with high glamour and sex charm , Jane was a innovational lineament that get hold of an hearing of one thousand thousand and held a fussy appeal for the largely distaff interview to which the Mirror was targeted . JoinAdam Twycross , author ofBritish Newspaper Strips : A Contextual History , for an even celebrating this legendary serial . With a chance to get word more about Jane ’s mysterious history , original artwork on display , and a superfluity of uncommon and unusual detail , the eventide will culminate with the first world airing in 80 years of an excerpt from a previously unknown Jane receiving set show , make alone for the British armed forces in 1945 and never heard in public since!Friday , 4th of April
Comic and Manga Creators Group London , 7.30 - 9pm , Meltdown London , 342 Caledonian Road"If you are you concerned in creating your own comedian , but need help to put your imagination together or do not know where to start then we may have the solvent for you . Come lecture shop with fellow creators , share experiences , ideas , techniques and steer to facilitate each other grow and have a chance in the manufacture . "
Saturday, 5th of April
Al Ewing and Ram V Signing At Forbidden Planet Camden , 2 - 3 pm , for high-flown chess opening of shop , Inverness St , Camden . Signing Absolute Green Lantern , New Gods , All - New Venom , Resurrection Man , whatever !
Dave Gibbons Signing At Forbidden Planet Camden,4 - 5 post-mortem , for marvelous opening of depot , Inverness St , Camden . Signing Watchmen , Kingsman , Give Me Liberty , The original , whatever !
OverBoard London – game , films , comics & geek culture , The Thirsty Bear , Stamford Street , Southwark , 2 - 8pm"If you ’re looking for a set - back Saturday play some board games and talk nerd hooey in a taphouse with some awe-inspiring people , this is the meetup for you ! Whether you ’re Modern to London or just want to get some long - lost in - person socialisation , we ’re a well-disposed community and receive you all . "
Tuesday, 8th of April
Kids Workshop : Create a Comic Strip , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 11am-12.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15Learn how to contrive your own cartoon character and then draw them in a one - page mirthful airstrip story . Study best way and bad ways to draw pictures for comics , and how to do proper speech bubble . groovy for beginners , and sport for those with a little more experience .
Kids Workshop : Caricatures – Fun with Faces , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 2pm-3.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15Using dewy-eyed lines and Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe , draw some famous risible characters and real - life people as cartoons . Learn special techniques for draw animated cartoon face , and take part in a fun rivalry where you could win a special swag !
Wednesday, 9th of April
Reads April , monthly comedian interpret group at Gosh Comics , Berwick St , Soho , 7 - 9pm . Tokyo These DaysbyTaiyo Matsumotoand use codification READSAPR25on the Gosh website for a discount .
Kids Workshop : Make a Mini - Comic , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 11am-12.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15Lots of comic Almighty got set off by making mini - comics . Learn how to create your own characters and draw them into a special booklet that you ’ll easily be able-bodied to make copies of to give to your friend .
Thursday, 10th of April
Kids Workshop : Manga , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 11am-12.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15Whether you ’re Modern to the mankind of Japanese comics , or if you love manga and anime fibre and would care to create your own , we ’ll be looking at the basics of drawing manga , create our own character , and then featuring them in a pageboy of manga front natural covering art .
Kids Workshop : Advanced Manga , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 2pm-3.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15If you make love creating your own manga and anime characters , here ’s where you ’ll get tips on drawing techniques , shading , colouring , and impression composition . Then you ’ll boast your lineament in a tarradiddle page of artwork .
Friday, 11th of April
Kids Workshop : Mythical Manga , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 11am-12.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15Manga and anime are meet with flying lizard , humans that turn into dragons , and other strange and wonderful creatures . In this shop you ’ll memorise how to draw dissimilar types and feature them in a page of tale art .
Kids Workshop : Spider Potato , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 2pm-3.30pm Ages 5 - 7 , £ 15A special sport workshop for children aged 5 - 7 . They must be accompanied by a parent or grownup guardian ( at no additional cost ) . In this school term we ’ll tie some famous superhero case using simple lines and shapes . Then we ’ll produce a silly superhero and thread it onto a clean Marvel - style cover .
Saturday, 12th of April
Rogue Trooper Complete Edition Book 1 Signing With Gerry Finley - Day and Dave Gibbons at Gosh Comics , Berwick St , Soho , 1 - 2pm . Rebellion keep on their programme of create the definitive collect edition of their finest characters . This 368 page paperback is the first volume in the terminal word on our puritanic skin GI , just in time for the unexampled animated motion-picture show in 2025 .
Tuesday 15th April
Kids Workshop : Manga , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 2pm-3.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15Whether you ’re new to the world of Japanese comics , or if you love manga and Zanzibar copal characters and would like to make your own , we ’ll be await at the basic of drawing manga , creating our own role , and then featuring them in a page of manga front back art .
Wednesday, 16th of April
Kids Workshop : 16th April ( 2pm-3.30pm ) Create a comical masterclass with The Beano ’s Hugh Raine , creator of ' Betty and the Yeti ' . 2pm-3.30pm Ages 7 and up , £ 15Join us at The Cartoon Museum on the 16th of April for this very particular Easter Holidays shop . We will be join by Hugh Raine for a ' make a Comic masterclass ' to lionise the release of his upcoming graphic novel series , ' Betty and the Yeti ' . Hugh is a legend at The Beano and the Almighty of Beano ’s farsighted running ' Betty & the Yeti ' comic slip . This workshop is for fry age 7 and up and will lie in of an intro from Hugh about Betty and Yeti , his physical process and the secret of comic creation at The Beano . As well as this there will be a Yeti draw along where youngster will learn how Hugh use dewy-eyed shapes to create his case . The workshop will conclude with children instruct how to make their own risible strips , with steering from Hugh player will be able to amount out of the session with the showtime of their very own comedian ! This really is the perfect activity for this yr ’s easter vacation . If your children love The Beano , comic or draw off they will love this shop !
Thursday 17th of April
Friday, 18th of April
Kids Workshop – Multiverse Madness , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 11am-12.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15What if there ’s another you living in another proportion ? Perhaps in this other world you are a pirate , or an astronaut , a superhero , or something else . Learn how to reap yourself and have fun drawing an adventure star the ' new you ' in a funny strip !
Kids Workshop – Superheroes , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , 2pm-3.30pm Ages 8 - 14 , £ 15Superheroes are going from forte to super - strength . find out how to string some preferred superheroes and create a brand name new one of your own . Then we ’ll showcase your character on a Marvel - style front cover .
Saturday, 19th of April
Brown Shuga Books Festival , The Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre , Watford , 10 - 6pmGet quick for an exciting literary extravaganza at the Brown Shuga Books festival . This event will be a celebration of African lit . Join us for a day fill with generator interviews , book of account readings , literary discussions , and much more ! Whether you ’re a fan of fiction , non - fiction , poetry , or pictorial novels , there ’s something here for everyone .
Sunday 20th of April
Wednesday, 23rd of April
GO INSPIRE WORKSHOPS | WOMAN CLAIM YOUR STORY | Art , Power & Graphic Novels , Wimbledon Library , Wimbledon , 5 - 8pmJoin us for an exciting 4 - week shop that teach woman to claim their write up through art , using your THEIR own voices . Introduction to the workshop and the radical by Josephine von Bülow . hebdomad 1 ( 1 hr 25 minutes ) Introduction to the workshop and the group . ascertain about graphical novels and story composition . Share your story in a dependable space and sketch down your theme for the account .
Friday, 25th of April
Saturday, 26th of April
Wednesday, 30th of April
Comica Social Club , The Clore Ballroom , Royal Festival Hall , South Bank . 6 pm onwards"Our monthly meetup is all about informality and fun . you may chat , recognize , gossip , and internet with like - minded folks . deal your latest creations , elevated plans , or impressive want lists ( but we might run away ! ) or search what ’s unexampled in the reading nook . If you know no one , look for the Man in the Orange Fez , and he will introduce you to fresh admirer . "
GO INSPIRE WORKSHOPS | charwoman arrogate YOUR STORY | Art , Power & Graphic Novels , Wimbledon Library , Wimbledon , 5 - 8pmJoin us for an exciting 4 - hebdomad workshop that teaches women to claim their tarradiddle through art , using your THEIR own spokesperson . Storyboarding with Josephine von Bülow . workweek 2 ( 1 time of day 25 minute ) Learn about storyboarding and drafting short stories . Share your progress with the group so we can sing about the importance of take your vox .
Ongoing Exhibitions
Manga Jiman : The Winners ' expo , Embassy of Japan , Piccadilly until April 25th
The Embassy of Japan continues its hunting for the best comic - create gift in the UK and 18 years on , the annual competitionManga Jimanstill has the power to amaze and pleasure . The competition has two categories;Yonkoma Manga , a comic striptease of 4 panel on one page with a ready structure andManga Jiman , a short narration told across 6 to 8 page . entrant are asked to create an original story featuring a subject , with the theme for this former edition being ' feeling ' . In Japan,‘manga’is all encompass terminal figure meaning comics and Manga Jiman advertize talented artists who tell their stories in a broad variety of styles . Visit the exposition to see their winning stories from Alex Stefanis , Anait Melkonyan , Andy Sparrow , Claire Mead , Emmanuel Nnanna , Gemma Myerscough , Hayley Jennings , Keith Jenkins , Lucia Fioretti , Neal Rimmer , Nyah Angol - Barcelos and Riyad Meddour .
African tea In Cartoons , Cartoon Museum , Wells St , Noho , fifth April till 7th SeptemberFrom Garfield to Simon ’s Cat , Krazy Kat to Bagpuss and everything in between , there is a farsighted line of iconic cartoon cats . For the first sentence , The Cartoon Museum is amass many of the not bad African tea to grace of God or comics , newspapers and magazines to explore why multitude love cat so much and what guy say us about life . Featuring workplace by creative person such as Louis Wain , Ronald Searle , Heath Robinson , Wendy Eastwood , Simon Tofield , Anthony Smith , Gemma Correll , Natty Peterkin and Hunt Emerson – and more !
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