The British Comic Awards Committee for 2013 has been announced over at the BCA website. This year we have a committee of 10 plus award founder Adam Cadwell as chairman. We think we’ve got a great range of skills and interests on the committee, meaning we should be able to cover every aspect of British [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 3, 2013
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In 2012, the entire Thought Bubble exhibitor space, 300 tables took 6 weeks to sell out around this time. This last week, the entire Thought Bubble exhibitor space, all 300 tables, sold out in 2 hours. 2 hours. That’s some change eh? Bloody hell. It’s indicative of the strength and passion of the emerging UK comics scene [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 28, 2013
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News, Views and Oddities, where we link to various bits and bobs which have grabbed our attention, encompassing comics, books, illustration, design and film. Clicking fingers at the ready. To start with something rather lovely: take a look at these 98 glorious concept watercolours from Hayao Miyazaki. You may remember me highlighting this anthology back in November [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 23, 2013
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Nominations are now open for the 2nd annual British Comic Awards, celebrating the very best in this wonderful world of British Comics that we have the pleasure of writing about every day. You can find all the details you need at the BCA website, but just a quick reminder about the awards and how they [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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Announced earlier today, Thought Bubble 2013 will take place this year from 17th to 24th November, including the non-traditional, big, big, but just as friendly and happy as it ever was, 2-day comic convention on the 23rd and 24th November. Initial news is small obviously, and there will be many, many more guests announced over [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 15, 2012
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Today’s entry in our annual festive tradition of daily guest Best of the Year posts (see here for the previous entries) comes via one of the powers behind the brilliant Thought Bubble festival, Clark Burscough: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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An Excerpt from Liz’ comic ‘House’ from lizzlizz.com Today’s Thoughts from Thought Bubble stars Lizz Lunney: mighty comics creator, illustrator and one of the organisers behind Birmingham Zine Festival. We managed to nab a few minutes with Lizz inside the glamourous lobby of the Holiday Inn (while it was being hoovered) for her thoughts on Thought [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 4, 2012
In another video from Matt Sheret recorded as part of Thought Bubble, film-maker Anne Holiday discusses some crossover between making films and writing comics: Don’t Over Manage the Scene by Anne Hollowday from Matthew Sheret on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Monday, December 3, 2012
The very fine Emma Vieceli discusses books, film, TV and, of course, comics, in relation to niche and mainstream appeal in a talk that was part of Thought Bubble, in this video uploaded by Matt Sheret: 50 Shades of Niche by Emma Vieceli from Matthew Sheret on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Sunday, December 2, 2012
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Guest post here from Matthew Craig, comic artist, injured and recuperating right now. He headed to Thought Bubble as well as Richard, Zainab, James, Matt Badham et al. We missed each other. But Matthew had an interesting time this year at Thought Bubble, spending his time on…… THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TABLE: MY FAVOURITE [...]
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Monday, March 18, 2013
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