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Thought Bubble isn't best known for the kind of cosplay you'll find at MCM, full of expensive bought costumes jazzed up for the show It has a more classic cosplay vibe, of UKCACs of old, with more handmaid costumes And at Thought Bubble in Harrogate today that was very much on display at the Cosplay[...]

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[...]

And this is going up from the press room at Thgought  Bubble in Harrogate – see you around, with plenty of coverage to come! LITG: John Reppion, Will, Potter Leah Moore and Martin Simmonds, Photo by Rich Johnston LITG: The ten most-read stories, yesterday Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair Features Reversed, Numbered Card Young Justice: Greg Weisman Shares Some[...]

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[...]

Even if a few scabs need pulling off first. Frank Miller No Longer Attending Thought Bubble After Creator Boycott Jeopardy! Host LeVar Burton Part of Not-So-Great Game Show First What Will Dean Cain Say When He Hears About New Superman? (Spoiler) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Charlie Day's Looking to Get Paid Kirbons And More Hellfire Gala Fallout In Today's[...]

Earlier this year, Thought Bubble, the Yorkshire comic book festival that has become the premiere comic convention in Britain for comic creators to attend, announced that Frank Miller would be a guest this November The biggest comics name the festival has had since at least Gerard Way or Run DMC, there were already rumblings of[...]

The Thought Bubble Festival is returning to in-person comic conventions this November, a week before San Diego Comic-Con does the same Located in Harrogate in the North-East of England, with Frank Miller as their big draw (I really want to see a Sin City version of Betty's now), they have just issues their social distancing[...]

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[...]

Which is why comic book festival and conventions are kicking off in the UK from October onwards, with MCM, Thought Bubble and The Lakes amongst the first. The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has revealed its artwork by Dave McKean to promote this year's weekend-long event, planned to take place in Kendal on the 15th to[...]

From film and TV to prose novels and comics, as part of Thought Bubble's weekend events They also talked about their joint project, Madi, the third chapter in Duncan Jones's Moon trilogy, as one of the most successful comic book Kickstarter campaigns of 2020. Duncan Jones Is Working On Something Very Big He Can't Talk About Duncan[...]

Thought Bubble has just run an online panel over the Pretty Deadly comic book from Image Comics with comics creators Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios, talking about their work, their Eisner-winning working relationship and their plans going forward You can watch the whole panel below with comics journalist and podcaster august (in the wake[...]

He has also just had a Thought Bubble panel run, in which he discusses how he started out in the comic book industry and the creation of his award-winning comic book, and interviewed by Thought Bubble's Assistant Director Martha Julian. During which, he stated that the upcoming third volume of Bitter Root, in which he intended[...]

Thought Bubble is happening right now, online There's a schedule of panels here, there are all the exclusives and debut comics here, but what there isn't, and cannot be, is a From One Side  To Another video as in previous years From 2014 to 2019, strangely missing in 2016, but at least there is some[...]

Thought Bubble UK may be digital-only for 2020, and you can see all the panels kicking off today, as well as all the vendors But Thought Bubble UK is also a venue for creators and publishers to debut work, or offer exclusive items or deals. All The Debuts And Exclusives For Thought Bubble UK, Right Now Here's[...]

He writes; Wait, isn't that the same comic that Bleeding Cool's Rich Johnston favourably reviewed last year ahead of its release at Thought Bubble? Well, yes, it is; thanks for remembering! Marc Jackson's Spookids, Now A Monthly Comic on Ko-Fi The plan was simple, create a four-issue mini-series called Spookids Launch it at the aforementioned comic festival in[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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 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[...]