Thought Bubble, the UK’s largest comic art festival, has shared a first look at programme for this year’s digital convention taking place, on-line, on 14th-15th November Making the decision to postpone the event earlier this year due to public health considerations, the festival began preparing to bring one of the most important dates in the[...]
British comic book convention much beloved of Bleeding Cool, Thought Bubble, is teaming up with San Diego Comic-Con to deliver online content to each other's respective online offerings this year I am a big fan of both, so this is all digital gravy for someone like me.The first will be Thought Bubble & Comic-Con@Home: Tula[...]
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[...]
Last weekend saw the first Thought Bubble comic convention in Harrogate, moving half an hour on the train from Leeds, but it seemed a world away From all accounts however, it was a success Some vendors I spoke to reported double their sales at the previous Thought Bubble, others triple even if there was a[...]
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[...]
But they hadn't met until today, in a last-minute panel that concluded the final day of Thought Bubble in Harrogate.The last-minute nature of the panel, made for a smaller crowd in attendance Which is why I'm happy to share their first meeting got a wider audience They talked about Mariko being introduced to Steve's work[...]
Last year, Chip Mosher of ComiXology, discovered the mini-comic by Greg Lockard, Tim Fish and Hector Boros, Liebestrasse at Thought Bubble when it was in Leeds This week, edited by Will Dennis, it was published as an original graphic novel on ComiXology Originals and had a panel to itself at the show.Thought Bubble is a[...]
Last night saw the Harrogate Convention Centre in Harrogate host the Thought Bubble Mid-Con Party with comic creators as DJs on the dance floor, as is traditional Bleeding Cool took an early tour before most folk arrived to get a flavour of the event, before all the cool people turned up.It was sponsored, as is[...]
She shares her home with her writer husband Brian Schirmer (creator of Fairlady) and two cats.This weekend, Dani is exhibiting at Thought Bubble in Harrogate alongside Brian And she had something to share that she started using herself and now also gives to creators she works with.The Get Sh-t Done Die You could also put[...]
Former Bleeding Cool contributor Joe Glass is exhibiting his Pride superhero comic book at Thought Bubble this weekend But some people are not entirely sure where to find him And not just because the show is now in Harrogate.Because Glass is exhibiting in the ComiXology Originals Main Hall of Thought Bubble And not, as one[...]
Donny Cates has been interviewed on stage at Thought Bubble in Harrogate, by his wife-of-a-week Megan Hutchison And he had a lot to talk about, including his secret origin in comic books (and, yes, his work for Bleeding Cool), the origin of Interceptor (and how he gamed Bleeding Cool), what is up with Dylan Brock[...]
I’m currently sitting at the front of the main panel room waiting for the Donny Cates panel to begin at Thought Bubble 2019, in Harrogate I managed to miss this palatial panel room on the video that runs below.. your regular, familiar, from one side of the show to the other, in our patent-pending shaky,[...]
So I find myself stretched out on a long sofa bench with Tim Pilcher, former editor at DC Vertigo, Humanoids and now publisher of Soaring Penguin Press, and author of comics gossip narrative Comic Book Babylon, as we watch Andy Diggle taking what we consider a more than adequate time to relieve himself.Andy Diggle considers[...]
The official guest hotel of Thought Bubble’s first year in Harrogate and, yes, it was a little bit of an upgrade to Leeds’ Radisson Blu For a start you could move - and I don’t just mean Henry Barajas or Roger Langridge on the dance floor And the facilities deserve an article all to themselves.But[...]
UK Comics Collective is a new group of comic creators and comic fans debuting - and running a series of events - at this year’s Thought Bubble Comic Con in Harrogate I am currently at Wakefield Westgate train station on my way there too.Funded by Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England and Biochemical Society, the ambition[...]
just in time for appearing at Thought Bubble this weekend.Go take a look First the video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejU3jtAXXhA
...then the books and creators.Victory Point by Owen D Pomery @odpomery July 2020.
On a summer’s day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in, the picturesque, yet architecturally strange, Victory Point[...]
Antony Johnston confirmes his attendance at Thought Bubble in Harrogate this weekend But this is the last time he'll be doing such a thing.. on his newsletter, he dropped the news.
Yes, I’ll have a table at this year’s Thought Bubble, in the new venue of the Harrogate Convention Centre.THIS WILL PROBABLY BE THE LAST TIME[...]
Have I mentioned I'm going to Thought Bubble in Harrogate this weekend? No? Damn, I was sure I had, Oh well.Some other folk, who are going are US-based comic book publisher Vault Comics in their official capacity By which I mean their head of Marketing and Sales for the UK and Europe, Tara Ferguson, who[...]
You'll be able to find Declan Shalvey at Thought Bubble in Harrogate this weekend, at Table 5 in the Comixology Originals Hall or what Shalvey has called in his newsletter 'what is looking like the 'Irish Quarter', or 'Irish and Irish-friendly Quarter' at least.'And that's where he will also be debuting a special preview ashcan[...]
I once met at Glenn Møane at a party at Thought Bubble when it was in Leeds And he returns this year, this weekend, even though the show has moved down the road to the slightly snootier Harrogate.And he tells Bleeding Cool that this weekend he will be debuting his latest one-shot The Break-Up, drawn[...]
