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Thought Bubble 2012 – guest list announced already….

Monday, March 26, 2012

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Planning. Planning is great. Planning this far in advance is a sure sign of people who really seem to know what they’re doing. Leeds Thought Bubble gets bigger every year, yet still hasn’t lost that sense of being a great convention. Although sadly, since I just don’t get out much, it was my only con [...]

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Comics and Philosophy – coming to Leeds…

Sunday, March 25, 2012

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Poster says it all really. Part of the partnership between Leeds’ Thought Bubble Festival and Comics Forum.

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Minterviews return

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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Our chums at Thought Bubble have started their mini interview – minterviews – series once more, kicking off with the excellent Duncan Fegredo: “TB: What’s your proudest moment, in comics or otherwise, to date? DF: It’d be easy to say the first time I saw my work in print, but that’s always a double edged [...]

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Best of the Year – Clark Burscough

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Sneaking in at the very end of the annual FPI Best Of Year lists comes Clark Burscough, one of the people behind Leeds’ excellent Thought Bubble comics festival, an event that goes from strength to strength each year. Mark it in your diaries now – 12th-18th November 2012. Thanks to Clark for getting involved…. FPI: [...]

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Thought Bubble – a report by Molly Bruton….

Saturday, December 3, 2011

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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 [...]

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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 2011 Thoughts…. Part 2 – Sunday, mostly Armouries Hall ….. and links

Sunday, November 27, 2011

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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 [...]

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Thought Bubble 2011 Thoughts…. Part 1 – General Thoughts, Saturday, mostly Savilles Hall…..

Saturday, November 26, 2011

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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 [...]

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Just one more thing to do this weekend at Thought Bubble…..

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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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. [...]

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Thought Bubble – This week….

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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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 [...]

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New For Thought Bubble …. Howard Hardiman has been busy, busy, busy….

Monday, November 14, 2011

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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 [...]

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New For Thought Bubble

Saturday, November 12, 2011

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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 [...]

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The Noonan returns……

Sunday, November 6, 2011

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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) [...]

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Gallery up for Northern Sequential Art Competition entrants

Friday, November 4, 2011

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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 [...]

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Northern Sequential Art Competition 2011 – last few days to enter

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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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 [...]

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