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.
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
Comics and cartoons, Conventions and events