Tag Archive | "Leeds"

Thought Bubble – James’ take

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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It’s a misty chilly morning in Leeds, but Scarlet Witch strikes quite an image as she walks towards Tesco’s, neon yellow and bright green, vividly startling at half past nine on this achingly early Saturday morning of Thought Bubble. She is flanked by three other costumed, crusading comic fans and so my pilgrimage north to [...]

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Thought Bubble 2010 – one day of wonderful comic-ness….

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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Thought Bubble 2010 – the annual Leeds Sequential Art Festival that’s turned into one of the essential comic shows to go to. I’d been there once before in 2008 and found it to be a spectacularly relaxed and enjoyable event, full of a wide range of creators and customers. And 2010 was just the same, [...]

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Comics Forum report

Monday, November 22, 2010

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Ernesto Priego has a fine report up already from the Comics Forum, the academic conference which was attached to this year’s Thought Bubble festival which just took place in Leeds at the weekend: “The Comics Forum was comprised of two parts, day 1 was the second edition of the Women in Comics conference, chaired by [...]

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Thought Bubble happening right now, and the convention’s tomorrow….

Friday, November 19, 2010

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Yep, seems that my Twitter feed is full of comics people tweeting about being on trains right now, and generally the consensus is that the train to Leeds isn’t very nice and it smells of wee. However, once they get over that particular horror, it’s off to the Though Bubble Festival/Convention. They, and us, have [...]

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Comics Forum at the Leeds City Art Gallery

Thursday, November 11, 2010

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Ernesto Priego tells us that the full programme is now online for the upcoming Comics Forum at the Leeds City Art Gallery. The event will include Nicola Streeten, Mervi Miettinen and Efrat Daskal discussing superheroines, Ernesto with Esther Claudio Moreno on International Perspectives, Malin Bergström and Margereta Wallin Wictorin on Scandinavian strips, Roger Sabin, Maggie [...]

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The dead shall walk… Leeds

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Sabrina Peyton alerts us to the fact that the walking dead shall be shambling their way through Leeds for charity on the 21st of November as part of Zombie Aid, the day after the upcoming Thought Bubble comics bash in Leeds, so it’s going to be a happening weekend there (please remember some zombies may [...]

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Upcoming – Leeds Alt Comics Fayre – Saturday 18th September

Sunday, September 12, 2010

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Another weekend, another comics event. Great, isn’t it? I’m just back from this weekends Zine Festival in Birmingham (very, very good, but more on that later) and realise I haven’t reminded you all about next weekend’s Comic event; The 1st (annual?) Leeds Alternative Comics Fayre. It takes place Saturday 18th September at A Nation Of [...]

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One week it’s Birmingham, the next Leeds – the first annual Leeds Alternative Comic Fair….

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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I wrote about the forthcoming Birmingham Zine Festival yesterday, and now it’s time to head up north to the first (hopefully annual) Leeds Alternative Comics Fair, happening just one weekend later – Saturday 18th September. It’s being organised by Steve Tillotson (Banal Pig Comics) and Hugh “Shug” Raine (REET! Comics) and they’ve done a couple of [...]

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Squidge magazine digs Thought Bubble

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Ed at Squidge magazine posts up a report (and plenty of photos) on the recent Thought Bubble comics gig in Leeds; I know we’ve posted up links to plenty of folks reporting on TB, but this one is a bit different as it is  from the point of view of a visitor who doesn’t know [...]

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Thought Bubble on Twitter

Saturday, November 21, 2009

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A reminder for those of us who can’t be in Leeds this weekend, folks who are Twittering from the events are being encouraged to mark them with a hashtag, so if you are on Twitter search for TB09 to follow the relevant Thought Bubble tweets for updates and pics right from the gig itself and [...]

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Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Over the last few months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and bad about [...]

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Thought Bubble on YouTube

Monday, November 16, 2009

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The upcoming delight that is Leeds’ Thought Bubble comics fest is coming up very soon (next weekend, do let us know if you’re exhibiting your wares) and there’s now an official Thought Bubble YouTube channel (link via the Hi-Ex Twitter):

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Comics, comics, comics….. This weekend: Comica. Next weekend: Thought Bubble

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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This year’s Comica festival has, from all accounts, been it’s usual huge success, with exhibitions, events, screenings and the one day Comiket festival convention being particularly well praised – see the Guardian piece about it here. But Comica isn’t over yet – the events go all the way to the 26th November. Full details at [...]

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Small Press and so much more at Thought Bubble

Saturday, September 19, 2009

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Hugh (Shug) Raine gets in touch to show us his poster showcasing the host of classy small press folks who will be appearing at the Leeds Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival. Thought Bubble is taking place 19th to 23rd November in Leeds. Last years one day comic festival was a wonderful experience and with a [...]

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