Free Comic Book Day 2026

Free Comic Book Day is back!!! The yearly tradition in the comics community continues, where first and foremost, we will be giving away exclusive comics throughout the day, much like how Record Store Day operates. It's a fantastic opportunity to introduce comics to new audiences and get comics fans excited about some new giveaways! We like to celebrate this wonderful day a little further and will be hosting special events throughout the day. Join us on Saturday 2nd May 2026, from 10am to join in with all the fun!

We'll be trying to reduce in-store congestion by distributing the comics in blind bags of 5, available free with a purchase. We'll have free comic titles from both Free Comic Book Day and Comics Giveaway Day, along with some extra special goodies from some of our publishing pals!

We'll open a little earlier than usual at 10am on Saturday morning so we can squeeze as much free comic book activities into the day as possible. As is tradition at Gosh, we start the day with our kids activity tables. Our kids workshops will give the chance for children aged 6-12 to sit down and draw with a bunch of very talented artists from the industry! Please note that we expect the shop to be extremely busy during the day. Taking this into consideration, we cannot allow prams, pushchairs or strollers in the shop for concerns of health and safety. We really apologise for any inconvenience this causes.

At 10am, we will have the legendary Beano comics (who are celebrating 75 years of Dennis the Menace in 2026) hosting a workshop with their artists Emily McGorman-Bruce & Nigel Auchterlounie.

Up next at 11am will be another icon of British comics, 2000AD hosting a workshop with their artists behind Rex Power, Claude TC and Ramzee.

To round out our kids workshops at 12pm, we welcome the amazing Josh Hicks, artist of the fantastic Hotelitor and his recent 'Choose Your Own Adventure', YOU VS The Poison Plot.

We then have a very exciting signing starting at 1pm with the outstanding writer Kieron Gillen (The Power Fantasy, Die, The Wicked + The Divine, Young Avengers) and acclaimed movie director (and 2000AD writer) Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Meg 2, Free Fire, In the Earth).

We can't wait to celebrate Free Comic Book Day with you all! Join us from 10am on Saturday 2nd May.

Keep up to date with all news over on our Facebook event page.