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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[...]

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[...]

Avery Hill Publishing, South London graphic novel publisher, has announced a new lineup of titles for 2020 with a video presentation and a bunch of images, titles and creators… just in time for appearing at Thought Bubble this weekend. Go take a look First the video… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejU3jtAXXhAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Avery Hill Publishing[...]

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[...]