Thought Bubble, The Leeds Sequential Art Festival has been going on for a couple of days now, featuring some wonderful events across the city of Leeds. And tomorrow sees the centrepiece of the festival; the Thought Bubble comic convention. It features a host of comic creators with the complete list here and a lot of small press creators – as featured on Hugh “Shug” Raine’s poster:
The things that most marked out Thought Bubble 2008 were the huge number of non-traditional customers and visitors that seemed to be wandering the halls, clearly enjoying the vast variety of material available – material that had a far greater breadth and variety than usually seen at comic conventions. In fact the overwhelming experience of Thought Bubble seems to be that it’s a very different sort of show, with a feel somewhere between a comic convention and a handmade crafts show. It also seemed to be a much younger crowd from the usual conventions – and that has to be a great thing for comics.
Last year’s convention was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, (read my report here) and I’m looking forward to repeating the experience tomorrow. (Edit 21 Nov: Or maybe not. Illness got the better of me. But we’ll do a a report roundup later in the week.)
Matthew Badham’s interview with one of Thought Bubble’s organisers, Lisa Wood went up on the blog earlier this week.
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