Much bribery and coercion needed to get this quick report from Molly – she’s far, far too busy these days! But here you go…. short and sweet: This year Thought Bubble started on the 19th November and was on for two days, in two different halls. My dad and I were planning on going just [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 27, 2011
Okay, back to Thought Bubble. The first part of the report, covering mostly Day 1 and The Savilles Hall is here. The second day at Thought Bubble started early, and we got to Leeds and the venue with the early morning fog shrouding the place, with me wondering where all the people were. It took [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 26, 2011
Last weekend was the now annual Thought Bubble Comic Convention, taking place at the end of a week of comic activities and events in the Comic Art Festival. Molly and I headed across to Leeds for the Saturday, thinking we might only do one day, but, as you’ll find out, Molly decided very early on [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 17, 2011
I’m busy planning how on Earth I’m going to get round the 180+ stands at this weekend’s Thought Bubble convention when I may only be there for 6/7 hours on the Saturday. I’d love to go on Sunday as well, but life… life…. life…. It just bloody gets in the way of fun and comics. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Happening in Leeds…. a huge number of comic artists, exhibitors, companies, talks, events and fun going on all week, culminating in a big convention across two days and two halls…. And a little later than usual this year, here’s Hugh Shug Raine’s traditional Thought Bubble poster celebrating the multitude of small press, independent, and franky [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 14, 2011
As a fan of both Howard Hardiman’s Badger series and The Lengths, it’s a pleasure to be able to show you the covers and share a little info on the three new comics he has out at this years Thought Bubble festival (yes, three – Howard’s having a productive time since completing his MA course at Camberwell [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 12, 2011
Nelson By (deep breath)…… Paul Grist, Rob Davis, Woodrow Phoenix, Ellen Lindner, Jamie Smart, Gary Northfield, Sarah McIntyre, Suzy Varty, Sean Longcroft, Warwick Johnson–Cadwell, Luke Pearson, Paul Harrison–Davies, Katie Green, Paul Peart–Smith, Glyn Dillon, I.N.J.Culbard, John Allison, Philip Bond, D’Israeli, Simone Lia, Darryl Cunningham, Jonathan Edwards, Ade Salmon, Kate Charlesworth, Warren Pleece, Kristyna Baczynski, HarveyJames, Rian Hughes, Sean Phillips & Pete Doree, Kate Brown, Simon Gane, Jon McNaught, Adam Cadwell, Faz [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 6, 2011
Marc Ellerby’s Chloe Noonan is a firm favourite here. A funny, quirky adventure series that has been great fun across the three issues and various bits and bobs so far…. I’ve gone on (at length) about Ellerby before – whether it’s his autobiog strip Ellerbisms (see here), previous issues of Chloe Noonan (Issue 1, Issue 2) [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 4, 2011
The Thought Bubble folks have posted up a gallery of the entrants for this year’s Northern Sequential Art Competition. I rather like that we can all have a glimpse of some of the entries – usually most of us don’t see the works entered into comics competitions until after the winners are announced, and not [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The deadline for this year’s Northern Sequential Art Competition (part of the wonderful Thought Bubble comics bash in Leeds) has been extended to Friday 4th of November, so if you haven’t tried your luck yet then you still have a couple of days to get that work in there. And the organisers also add that [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 9, 2011
Less than two months to go before this years Thought Bubble Festival, but things are certainly falling into place. The anthology Thought Bubble comic is due out at the start of November in all good comic shops, the guest list is growing ever longer with highlights including Posy Simmonds, Tim Sale, Adam Hughes, Jeff Lemire, Cameron [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 6, 2011
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British comics institution 2000 AD has announced a new award for loyal readers – - regular readers are already known as Squaxx dek Thargo, or ‘friends of Tharg, the alien editor of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. The next level up is the coveted Krill Tro Thargo, which will be awarded to those fans who have [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 18, 2011
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The Thought Bubble convention & festival is bigger than ever this year, taking place across a week in November with a bigger 2-day, 2-venue convention on 19th & 20th November. They’ve already completely sold out all of their exhibitor slots (300 of them) and have a very, very impressive guest list. No word on the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
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