Welcome to Sunday Social – a infrequent (or possibly frequent) Sunday look at all the best bits from comic scene social media! This week lets take a look at those looking forward to Thought Bubble 2023 next week.
Thought Bubble is the UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival. It is a celebration of comics taking place across Yorkshire PLUS huge Comic Convention in Harrogate on 11-12 Nov 2023!
Matt Adcock will be tabling for the first time with his Complete Darkness Comics. Dave Cook from Killtopia is saying it will be his last for a while but he will be there!
You can find Lucy Sullivan comics in DSTLRY HALL on Table A15 all weekend except during the SILENCE TO ASTONISH panel on Saturday at 3:15pm
Neil Watson-Slorance has got his Print Daddy comic back from ComicPrintingUK in time for Thought Bubble and if you supported his kickstarter (or not) you can pick it up in Harrogate.
Anna Readman has won the Observer graphic short story prize for Dancing Queen and you can read her interview here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/05/anna-readman-winner-observer-faber-graphic-short-story-prize-2023-dancing-queen and the short story here https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2023/nov/05/graphic-short-story-dancing-queen-by-anna-readman
Chris Mole will be at Thought Bubble and he has a new kickstarter on the go at the moment. Check out Secrets of the Majestic here.
Nick Bryan will be in Redshirts Hall table D-10 and you can see his comics, and also his face. Featuring StoneCop making his T-Bubz debut.
2000AD have a panel at Thought Bubble with some of your favourite art droids. Toria has a new comic debuting at Thought Bubble too – spooky!
Talking of panels ‘Fantastical Realms: Images, Influences and Inspiration’ is on the 11th November. Join authors Kieron Gillen and Isabel Greenberg for this panel, with Tanya Kirk and Matthew Sangster, curators of the new British Library exhibition, Fantasy: Realms of Imagination.
Shared by OK Comics and across Leeds an art trail has been shared across the city. Work by Natalie Andrewson.
Co Co Comics are gonna be at Thought Bubble selling their comics and Debuting two new books James Patricks Mongrel and Tom Philipson’s Complicated Young Man.
Other exhibitors – here’s the full list but they include Aly Fell who is interviewed in the latest issue of ComicScene Magazine, Avery Hill, Cartoon Museum (who also feature in the magazine), Chris Baldie with his Space Captain box sets, Dan White, Cinebook whose great books you can also pick up via Newsagent, Claudia Matosa who features in CS+ digital comics, Dan Whitehead, Comics Youth, Ellie Wright, E.M Press comics, Glasscity Comics, Gustaffo Vargas, Joe Glass, Gnash Comics, Julie Campbell, London Horror Comic, Lyndon White, Madius, Martin Simpson, Norm Konyu, Quindrie Press, Samuel George London, Scratch Comics, ShortBox, Sloth Comics, Steven Austin, Steve White, Tanya Roberts, The 77, Time Bomb Comics, Tom Foster, Tripwire, Dundee Uni, Warwick Fraser Coombes and Woodland Creatures to name but a few (but folk who not only a great creators but managed to get ComicScene attention for media coverage too!)
The Guest list can be found here
The programme can be found here
Debuting comic books can be found here
The question is will Thought Bubble be your comic event of the year? If it is nominate them in the ComicScene Awards 2024 until the end of November here
ComicScene magazine 
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