Free Comic Book Day 2016: where to go in the UK

The annual bonanza of graphic giveaways is on Saturday 7 May. Here are some of the best stores to visit to get freebies and meet some artists

Gosh! Comics London
(1 Berwick Street, Soho W1F 0DR)
Big day planned at Gosh! on Saturday: there will be a kids workshop between 11am-2pm, where kids can sit with artists or do some window painting. That’s followed at 3-4pm by a signing session with cartoonists from the world’s best newspaper (ahem): the Guardian’s very own Tom Gauld, Simone Lia, Kent Able and Stephen Collins. There will also be a signing session with artists and writers from Image Comics (5-6pm) and a launch party for new titles from Avery Hill Publishers (until 9pm). Yikes, what a day!

The Rochester Free Comic Book Day festival
(Hosted by Jetpack Comics, various locations around Rochester city centre)
To make collecting your FCBD comics more fun, Jetpack has put them in several locations around the city for people to ferret out. Jetpack is so organised. Seriously, it even made a map.

Related: The comics and graphic novels to look forward to in 2016 – part one

Related: The comics and graphic novels to look forward to in 2016 – part two

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