MCM Expo, is one of the largest events in the UK convention scene. It’s attendence is made up traditionally of cosplayers and manga heads, or a few people wanting tv and film stars autographs. This time, the comics village had a smallpress/webcomics prescence.

Here is my report of the two days of madness.

I woke up stupidly early on the Saturday with only a few hours sleep, a quick train into London and onto the underground. As soon as I got to London Bridge station I was suddenly surrounded with hundreds of teenagers dressed as Naruto characters or carrying Buster swords or Key swords.

By the time I got to the convention it had opened, with queues going round a massive part of the entrance, thankfully a quick wave of my pass I wandered straight in.

I was greeted by my stall buddy for the weekend Claude TC, who was more chirpy than our last table share at Thought Bubble, Leeds. The day went off to a great start, the hall was packed, people seemed interested in our wares, by about 1pm I’d made my table cost and travel back.

Just before lunch we started on the beers, myself having a couple across the day, which i think relaxed me from laughing at every fat middleaged cosplayer.

By the end of the day my sales was near enough my highest ever. With a big grin on my face we headed to the nearest pub, the Fox. A few cocktails and some food later we were all gathered round tables in the garden talking about the day. Marc and Anna, joined by McKelvie reappeared with the shows guest Mr Warren Ellis. Despite not reading a great selection of his work I did sit and have a chat with him, by about 11pm I’d missed my train but didn’t care! A quick move to the hotel bar and the senseless babbling continued till about 1am where the kind gentleman took his leave of us.

An hour of searching and I found myself a hotel room to sleep in.

Sunday came too soon, with a quick shower and freshen up I headed across to the show, which was far more quiet than the first day. It was a fair bit less busy all day but I enjoyed the less hectic day to go with my sore head

After the show we headed back to the Fox, I enjoyed some food with the likes of Marc, Mr Allison, James Turner, Jake and Oliver and that Ninja Spence.

We all parted ways and I went home with a big smile on my face.

Also I had the pleasure of meeting: Paul Duffield, Kate Brown, Gary Northfield and Sarah McIntyre. I just wish I’d had more time to see everything!

EDIT: Also huge thank you’s to Emma, Pud  and Anna for their organising the comics village with such awesome skills!