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The doors of Thought Bubble at Harrogate have just closed for the final day of the show Saturday was packed; I am told that for the first time, the show actually sold all their tickets for Saturday before the show opened Sunday was a little more relaxed and not quite as full, which enabled me[...]

Thought Bubble, the Yorkshire Comic Con held in Harrogate that massively punches above its weight, is back Last night saw comics exhibitions open across the city, before everyone hit the bars Here's a little look at what went down… as the signs went up. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px[...]

Thought Bubble has announced the full programme of panels, guest signings, workshops and exhibitions for this year's comic convention taking place in Harrogate next month, across the 16th and 17th of November Highlights from the two-day programme include DSTLRY Presents: The Art of The Cover, in which Emma Rios, Jock, Sweeney Boo, Becky Cloonan, Tula[...]

The festival takes place between the 11th and the 17th of November, with the comic convention opening its doors at Harrogate Convention Centre on the 16th. Julie Tait, Lakes International Comic Arts Festival Director, said of the Enter The Mulberry Tree exhibition: "The clamour of the past decades has tended to obscure the everyday lives and[...]

Recipients should be available to travel to Harrogate Convention Centre on the weekend of 16th and 17th of November 2024 and exhibit on both days Recipients do not need to be full-time or professional comic creators, but you do need to have made or be working towards making comics to be a recipient (webcomics or[...]

Bettys Café Tea Rooms is an institution of Harrogate Taylors of Harrogate was originally a family tea and coffee merchant company that served Yorkshire Tea and Taylors of Harrogate Coffee from Tea Kiosks in the Yorkshire towns of Harrogate and Ilkley And Bettys in Harrogate is their natural successor, opened by Frederick Belmont, a Swiss[...]

The kick-off of Thought Bubble. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ The day came, and suddenly, there it was! A print version of Tales From The Quarantine, at table C35 in the Redshirt Hall at Thought Bubble 2023 in Harrogate. Although the price[...]

Thought Bubble Comic Con in Harrogate isn't as cosp[lay focused as some shows; it's more about the comic books But you can't keep a good cosplayer army down, and at Thought Bubble this weekend, fine designs were on display – and on the catwalk, courtesy of the cosplay parade sponsored by Dead Northern at the[...]

Today saw the first day of Thought Bubble 2023 in Harrogate, and the line outside became a major event in and of itself as the show managed to get a humungous amount of people through the door.  Here's a YouTube video (uploaded thanks to the superfast Northern Wifi) of the line outside, half an hour[...]

Yesterday, I arrived in Harrogate for Thought Bubble, which has just kicked off an hour ago Last night, we all hung out in the bar of the Majestic Hotel Originally a Freemason club, it is famed at Thought Bubble for having the most majestic and sizeable men's toilets downstairs And a tiny cubicle for the[...]

I awake in Harrogate Thought Bubble begins in half an hour Last night at Major Tom's and then the Majestic was stellar Now, the weekend begins No matter what the world throws at you, at Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In[...]

It's a week until the Thought Bubble comic convention in Harrogate next weekend, but that's also the time for Thought Bubble to launch their week-long festival across the rest of Yorkshire between the 6th and 12th of November (but mostly Leeds and Harrogate). The Leeds Thought Bubble city-wide Art Trail installation opens today A large-format exhibition[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running previews, debuts and details of all manner of bits a pieces being sold, displayed or teased at Thought Bubble in Harrogate tomorrow Here are a few others that didn;t make it into a full piece but are clearly worthy of note and attention. 1 Si Spurrier He tells me he'll be "Mostly[...]

The convention originally ran throughout Leeds but, in 2019, due to issues with Leeds City Council and the need for more space, the convention moved to nearby Harrogate And earlier this year, Lisa Wood stepped down from the role of director to be taken by Travelling Man's Nabil Homsi This week's events are already underway and[...]

The convention originally ran throughout Leeds but, in 2019, due to issues with Leeds City Council and the need for more space, the convention moved to nearby Harrogate And earlier this year, Lisa Wood stepped down from the role of director to be taken by Travelling Man's Nabil Homsi This week's events are already underway and[...]

The convention originally ran throughout Leeds but, in 2019, due to issues with Leeds City Council and the need for more space, the convention moved to nearby Harrogate And earlier this year, Lisa Wood stepped down from the role of director to be taken by Travelling Man's Nabil Homsi This week's events are already underway[...]

The convention originally ran throughout Leeds but in 2019, due to issues with Leeds City Council and the need for more space, the convention moved to nearby Harrogate And earlier this year, Lisa Wood stepped down from the role of director to be taken by Travelling Man's Nabil Homsi This week's events are already underway[...]

From that seed Thought Bubble has grown into an incredible festival that celebrates and cherishes comics. It now feels like Thought Bubble has finally found its home at Harrogate Convention Centre We've always struggled with venue space in the past and we've had to be very creative with the spaces we had to enable more artists[...]

I may have gone a bit mad here but here is (almost) every booth and table at Thought Bubble in Harrogate, the Redshirt Room, ComiXology Originals Hall, and Bubbleboy Hall, minus a couple of asked not to be included But over four hundred did! From the most famous comic book professionals, to the smallest of[...]

Alice Oseman, Charlie Adlard, and Hamish Steele were part of a panel at Thought Bubble, hosted by Bucky Ringsell, talking about the process of taking a

Something Is Killing The Children time! At Thought Bubble Comic Con in Harrogate today, James Tynion IV attended a Thought Bubble panel with Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad dubbed Calling All Creeps – A Horror Masterclass, talking about the art of telling horror stories in comic books, sharing their motivations, their work processes and their own tastes[...]

And at Thought Bubble in Harrogate today that was very much on display at the Cosplay Parade held halfway through the day Here's a look at the competitors as their exhibited their talents in front of some glittery gold foil, and an appreciative crowd who hadn't had this opportunity for a couple of years now. #gallery-1[...]

Filmed a few seconds after the doors had opened, here is From One Side Of The Show To The Other, the Harrogate Thought Bubble 2021 edition A whizz around the three halls of Thought Bubble, from Red Shirts to ComiXology Originals to the Bubbleboy Hall, as the first lines began to form for Red 71,[...]

You may have noticed that I'm at Thought Bubble Comic Con in Harrogate this weekend, and am already finding stories amongst the lines of tables, vendors, and creators, including Paul Goodenough, founder of Rewriting Extinction who has put together The Most Important Comic Book On Earth: Stories To Save The World But how can it[...]

Thought Bubble, the Yorkshire Comic Con now in Harrogate opened about an hour ago But it really began last night, as comic book creators set up their tables and then hit the town And Bleeding Cool hit the streets to capture what we could, as the drizzle stopped drizzling and local taverns were filled with[...]

It's a grey drizzly day in Harrogate as I have arrived for the Thought Bubble Convention tomorrow With a few hours to spare before the show kicks off, I pottered around the place to check  out the local bars, restaurants and people, as well as see the convention centre as it is being set up[...]

We knew that Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV were lining up to come to Thought Bubble in Harrogate this November Now we get the confirmation that they will be joined by Frank Miller and many more Quite a Bat-heavy show it seems… Photo by Daniel Benavides CC:2.0 The Thought Bubble Festival will take place in and[...]

Thought Bubble, the UK's largest comic art festival, has announced that this years festival and convention in Harrogate planned for November 2020 have been postponed to 13th-14th November 2021 and that a digital comic con will take place this November on the 14th and 15th in its stead.  All exhibitors and ticket holders have been[...]

Coming home from Thought Bubble at Harrogate, I happened to pop by the town's only comic shop – and it was a revelation Destination Venus as a comic store has been around for years, but in recent years was bought out by Regie Rigby, who uses to write the Fool Britannia column that ran alongside[...]