In London tomorrow? You could do far worse than heading to the Comica Comiket.

Guests include Roger Langridge, Luke Pearson, Warren Pleece, James Jarvis, Savage Pencil, Eyeball, Frederik Peeters and Brecht Evens, and what are the odds that the great and the good of UK Comics (or at least London Comics) will be in attendance, along with several Brit companies: Accent, Blank Slate, DFC Library, Jonathan Cape, Knockabout, Myriad Editions, and Nobrow.

Full details at the Comica website.

London peeps, a must-have for your comics diary this month, a lovely part of the larger Comica festival – Comiket, in the Great Hall at the Bishopsgate Institute on Saturday 12th November. The guest list includes Roger Langridge, Luke Pearson, Warren Pleece, James Jarvis, Savage Pencil, Eyeball, Frederik Peeters and Brecht Evens, while the list of those who will be attending includes a veritable who’s who of British Indy comics such as Accent UK, Sean Azzopardi, Dan Berry, the Blank Slate Books posse will be there, the DFC Library crew too, Jonathan Cape, Howard Hardiman, Lizz Lunney, Knockabout Comics, Myriad Editions, Phillipa Rice, david O’Connell, Nobrow, Doug Noble, We Are Words + Pictures, Solipsistic Pop, Kevin Sutherland, Katie Greene and many more. Phew.

And on the subject of Comiket, the Comica site has posted up this video shot by Steve Poulacheris of last year’s Comiket Drawing Parade, featuring the likes of Charlie Adlard, Gary Nothfield, Paul Duffield and more drawing and being interviewed – we’re told a second part is in the works featuring Ellen Lindner, Hunt Emerson and more.

And I just have to post this lovely image up again – Isaac Lenkiewicz’s fabulous-looking poster for this year’s Comica, isn’t it brilliant?

This year’s Comica includes the now customary bevvy of wonderful comics events, including the one and only Warren Ellis in conversation, Laydeez Do Comics will be joining up with Comica to bring guests from the USA, Canada and Germany, Swiss comics creator Frederik Peeters (Sandcastle), launch parties for The Strumpet, Nobrow’s Klaus and Solipsistic Pop 4, talks, lectures, the Graphic Short Story Prize award and so much more – as we say in the trade, check the site for full details.

The 8th (nearly) annual Comica Festival, curated by Paul Gravett, returns to London in November. As usual, it promises to be an involving and informed mix of all the best in comics. Taking place between the 3rd and 25th of the month, the events list is shaping up nicely; a premiere of the Warren Ellis documentary Captured Ghosts, an exhibition from Berlin based Biograftiktion collective, Nobrow launch parties for Nobrow 6 and Richard Short’s Klaus, and more in their conversations series, this time round featuring Laydeez Do Comics, Paul Gravett on superheroes, and Nicole Rousmaniere discussing Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure. Full programme details, with promises of more announcements to come at the Comica site.

The annual Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story Prize will be announced during Comica, with the winner receiving £1000 and extensive coverage in the Observer. And this year sees the return, bigger (and hopefully better) than ever, of the Comica Comiket, the alternative comics fair taking place this year on the 12th November.

This coming Sunday in London has the return of the Comica Comiket independent comics fair. It’s happening as part of the annual Comica festival, curated by Paul Gravett.

Previous years events have been great successes and from the looks of it, this years should be no exception. Very little word on exhibitors yet, aside from appearances by Woodrow Pheonix, Paul Grist and Gary Northfield, but I imagine the fair will have a large number of very talented London artists there, either as exhibitors or visitors.

Full details available at the Comica/Comiket webpage.

Its Comiket time this weekend! Back and now relocated to the ICA’s ground floor theatre which allows for even more space for exhibitors, some fab talent from the British small press comics scene will be there, check out some of the folks on the list: Aben Maler & Steffen P. Maarup, Alternative Press,  Jimi Gherkin, Banal Pig Press, Atlantic Press & Steve Braund, Sean Azzopardi, David Baillie, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble, The Bedsit Journal & Richard Cowdry, Capes & Drapes & Van Nim, C2D4 & Martin Buxton, Cobalt Cafe & Zarina Liew, Cute But Sad Comics & Howard Hardiman, Decadence & David Lander, Donkeys Tails & Christopher Bateson, Marc Ellerby, James McElvie & Kieron Gillen, Fabtoons & Francesca Cassavetti, Famicon -  Leon Sadler, Stefan Sadler & Kitty Clark, Glyndwr University Graphic Novels Course (Dan Berry), David Greene, Ink Soup & Graphic Short Stories @ BIAD (Chiu), Aidan Koch, Last Hours & Excessive Force, Ellen Lindner & Jeremy Dennis, Philip Marsden, Kat McMorrine, Mild Tarantula – Josceline Fenton, Modern Monstrosity -  Oliver Lambden & Laurence Powell, Murky Depths & Terry Martin, My Eye is on Fire & Chiu, Ninja Bunny – Philip Spence, Nobrow, Luke Paton, Pittville Press – Kieren Phelps, Popcorn Peacock – Timothy Gavin, Paul Rainey & Martin Eden, Karen Rubins, Gwen Kortsen & Paul Fryer, Savage Messiah & Laura Oldfield Ford, Semiotic Cohesion & Terome McNally, Skinny Bill Comics & Hannah Glickstein, Solipsistic Pop & Tom Humberstone, Space Babe 113 & John Maybury, Tempo Lush & Richy K. Chandler, Tozo – David OConnell, TP Cat Melody Lee & Terome McNally, Ushio & Chris Bottoms, We Are Words + Pictures & Matthew Sheret, Ali Winstanley & Edwin Rostron.

Phew! How can you resist a line-up like that? There’s a goodly number of the blog crew’s faves on there, so if you’re in town please do go along and enjoy yourself and give some deserved support to the vibrant UK small press scene at the same time. Comiket is on Sunday 8th November from 1 to 6pm (entry is free) and there will be live drawing and DJing (we all know you can’t keep those Modern Monstrosity blokes away from the decks) afterwards; check the site for full details and links .