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Thought Bubble – huge programme of events announced…

Sunday, October 9, 2011

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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 [...]

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Krill Tro Thargo

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 [...]

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Thought Bubble – The Comic…. well this is new…

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 [...]

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Comic Cons – in pictures!

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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Leeds Thought Bubble – now a two day, two hall event….

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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Leeds Thought Bubble is a really enjoyable and very accessible convention and comic festival (or I certainly thought so – see here). But from 2011 the convention will be growing in size – from 1 to 2 days (Sat 19th, Sun 20th November) and across two halls – the existing Savilles Hall and the Royal Armouries Hall [...]

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Comic map of Thought Bubble

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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How utterly fab is this comics map of the recent Thought Bubble convention fun by Beet Takeshi? Cast your eyes of the fabled Lake of Cake, Hen Party Island, the Blank Slate boat sailing the Sea of Stories… Love this! Go to Beet’s Flickr page and check out the large-sized version. (thanks to D’Israeli for [...]

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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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New at Thought Bubble (Sat 20th November)

Sunday, November 14, 2010

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This weekend it’s the rather brilliant Thought Bubble convention in Leeds (Saturday 20th November). There will be many, many things for you to spend your hard earned cash on but here’s a few we think you might like to consider…… (Rob Jackson’s Gin Palace Volume 2 anthology – see here for a review of the [...]

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Leeds Graphic Novel Awards

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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The sparkly Thought Bubble crew alert us to the upcoming new Leeds Graphic Novel Awards, which is aimed at comics for younger readers. Nominations include evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson for Beasts of Burden, Dave Shelton for Good Dog, Bad Dog, Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank for Mezolith, Charlie Higson and Kev Walker for Silverfin, [...]

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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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Northern Sequential Art Competition

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Thought Bubble reminds us that the deadline for the Northern Sequential Art Competition is fast approaching (entries to be in by 9th October). From the site: “The theme of this year’s competition is ‘November in the North of England’. Your story can be told with text and illustrations or by imagery alone. It must be [...]

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Thought Bubble 2010 – a definite diary date for November

Friday, August 27, 2010

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Another day, another heads up for a great comic event. This time it’s November 18th-21st and we’re in Leeds again, a couple of months after the Leeds Alt Comics Fair we have the annual Thought Bubble/Leeds Sequential Art Festival. I missed last years Thought Bubble completely due to illness but was there for Thought Bubble [...]

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Nigel Dobbyn’s digital art presentation

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Nigel Dobbyn‘s presentation on digital art in comics from the 2009 Thought Bubble in Leeds is online; since most of it is in a dark room with images being projected on a screen it isn’t perfect viewing, but it is still clear enough and certainly of interest, especially to any up and coming artists out [...]

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