LD Comics IRL October (Halloween) meet-up @ The Cartoon Museum with guest speakers Katriona Chapman and Shane Melisse.

We are super excited to be welcoming Aardman Animation to The Cartoon Museum once again - this time, it's your chance to make everyone's favourite villain Feathers McGraw!

Laura Suarez makes a rare visit to London! Join her and make a creature in time for Halloween!

Join us for a ‘Super’ Late night at The Cartoon Museum for tours, a panel discussion and bar. Dress up very much encouraged!

Create a wall-sized comic! FREE with entry 1pm-3pm

Join Gemma Correll for a very special ‘Pop and Press’ pet-themed event!

A very special opportunity to hear from the eminent Sir Ian Livingstone and get his new book signed.

Join us for a one night only special event! FREE with Museum Entry ticket.

Come and browse a selection of stunning original comics pages and artwork from the collection of Alastair Hunter and see the work of your artistic heroes and their drawn superheroes up close.

Celebrate with global bestselling author and comics creator Jim Smith as he launches his new full-colour graphic novel series, My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary.

Tuesday, 13 February 2024

14:00 15:30

With so many Marvel and DC characters on TV and at the cinema, it’s a great time for superhero fans. If you like drawing superheroes and villains, we’ll show you how to draw your own in dynamic and dramatic poses that will get your artwork noticed!

A special fun workshop for children aged 5-7. They must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian (at no extra cost). In this session we’ll draw some famous superhero faces using simple lines and shapes. Then we’ll create a silly superhero and draw it onto a blank Marvel-style cover.

We’ll be looking at the basics of drawing manga, creating our own character, and then featuring them in a page of manga artwork.

Lots of comic creators got started by making mini-comics. Learn how to create your own characters and draw them into a special booklet that you’ll easily be able to make copies of to give to your friends.

What kind of manga character might you be? Stylish Shojo? Powerful Shonen? Cute Chibi? Perhaps you’d be a Pokemon-style creature. Let’s find out in a fun session featuring your manga self in a page of artwork.

Manga and anime are filled with dragons, humans that turn into dragons, and other strange and wonderful creatures. In this workshop you’ll learn how to draw different types and feature them in a page of story artwork.

Learn how to design your own cartoon characters and then draw them in a one-page comic strip story. Study best ways and bad ways to draw pictures for comics, and how to do proper speech bubbles. Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.

Using simple lines and shapes, draw some famous comic characters and real-life people as cartoons. Take part in a fun competition where you could win a special prize! Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.

Join some of our favourite small press creators, buy directly from them and have a chat about their work. FREE with Museum entry ticket.

Lots of comic creators got started by making mini-comics. Learn how to create your own characters and draw them into a special booklet that you’ll easily be able to make copies of to give to your friends.

Superheroes are going from strength to super-strength. Learn how to draw some favourite superheroes and create a brand new one of your own. Then we’ll showcase your character on a Marvel-style front cover.

Using simple lines and shapes, draw some famous comic characters and real-life people as cartoons. Take part in a fun competition where you could win a special prize! Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.

Learn how to design your own cartoon characters and then draw them in a one-page comic strip story. Study best ways and bad ways to draw pictures for comics, and how to do proper speech bubbles. Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.

If you love manga and anime characters and would like to create your own, here's where you'll learn to draw faces, expressions, bodies and clothing, and then feature your character in a story page of artwork.

Whether you’re new to the world of Japanese comics, or if you love manga and anime characters and would like to create your own, we’ll be looking at the basics of drawing manga, creating our own character, and then featuring them in a page of manga artwork.

A special fun workshop for children aged 5-7. They must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian (at no extra cost).

uperheroes are going from strength to super-strength. Learn how to draw some favourite superheroes and create a brand new one of your own. Then we’ll showcase your character on a Marvel-style front cover.

Join us for an immersive evening learning all about Colleen Douglas' new book 'SILK COTTON' and the wider context that inspired it. Colleen will be joined by experts for an evening like no other!

What kind of manga character might you be? Stylish Shojo? Powerful Shonen? Cute Chibi? Perhaps you’d be a Pokemon-style creature. Let’s find out in a fun session featuring your manga self in a page of artwork.

Using simple lines and shapes, draw some famous comic characters and real-life people as cartoons. Learn special techniques for drawing cartoon faces, and take part in a fun competition where you could win a special prize!