MCM Comic Con: Artists and authors

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MCM Comic Con: Artists and authors

Welcome to the strange and wonderful. MCM Comic Con London gets even bigger. The October 2025 event sees the show extending to the ICC Capital Suite for Writer’s Block. Which means striding from one end to the other to catch the authors and creators in action. Was it worth it? Hell, yes.

Salina Christmas

October 25, 2025

2–3 minutes

MCM Comic Con

From Batgirl to Batgranny: Unpacking ageism in comics

Where are they? Why are they erased as the characters get older? Why is Spider-Man’s Aunty May getting hotter and hotter in the movies? What happens to Supergirl and Batgirl once they become Supermom and Batgranny? Authors and illustrators Sarah Miles, Lucy Sullivan and Chrissy Williams got into the heart of the matter at the panel Hags, Grandmas & Witches: [Older] Women in Comics on 24 October 2025 at the Artist Alley Stage.

Sarah Miles, Lucy Sullivan and Chrissy Williams unpack ageism in comics.

Magic and mind games: beyond binary love

Imagine a world where love isn’t confined to the gendered binary of male and female, where pleasure and pain are all in the mind, literally. Authors Nadia El-Fassi, LK Stevens, Kate Dylan, Sangu Mandanna, Lucy Jane Wood and Emma Hinds talked magic, witchcraft, worldbuilding at the panel Cloaks, Wands, Pleasure and Pain. Concepts entered into the conversation: competency porn, “why choose” genre, monster romance and “fast-paced romantasy with intense yearning”.

Nadia El-Fassi, LK Stevens, Kate Dylan, Sangu Mandanna, Lucy Jane Wood and Emma Hinds talk magic.

Gold and grimoires: crows myth of the British Isles

Author and illustrator Katie Whittle delighted fans with a new book, Crawe! The Corvids of the Anglo-Celtic Isles and their Folklore. We find the gold lettering on the cover, the gilded edge and beautiful illustrations simply irresistible. Also not to be missed is Knight Terrors, an anthology of comic horror stories edited by her other half of Frisson Comics, Tom Smith.

Katie Whittle debuts her latest book, Crawe! The Corvids of the Anglo-Celtic Isles and their Folklore.

Lest we forget

Glad to see Tony Moy on Day 1, promoting new works as wells as his amazing work graphic novel project, 4Forty2nd – The Lost Batallion, about the Japanese-American 442nd Regiment that served in Europe with the Allies during WW2.

Great to see Tony Moy and his stunning watercolour illustrations again.

The rise of cultural gaming

Manolis Varouchas, Director, Video Games Museum in Crete, Greece, explained the curation and objectives being the museum at the talk “From Greek Ruins to Greek Pixels: The Rise of Cultural Gaming” on 25 October 2015. More on this later on Story Of Books.

Manolis Varouchas, Director, Video Games Museum tells us how heritage can be told through stories using video games.

The master of horror

Delighted to find Joe Oliveira of Afterlight Comics again. The horror comics publisher has gone from strength to strength over the years. We look forward to taking The Passenger of the U-977 and Falling Awake graphic novels back to Kuala Lumpur.