Will 100% be heading along to this. Looks brilliant. Well done @chrismole.bsky.social for pulling it all together.

After decades of visiting my family in Brighton, I finally caught the Starling murmuration off the pier.

Eisner submissions are now open. My fellow comic creators, no matter at what point in your career you are, if you're making comics in any form, these awards are "For You" and you absolutely can be nominated. Let's get small press/self pub comics on that list! ENTER: www.comic-con.org/uploads/2025...

THE BEST. No hyperbole here.

I'm currently curating @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social, and there are so many incredible applications from people who are brand new to me, it is thrilling! Beyond excited for a bumper year already. Don't forget to apply! You have til 8th Feb.

Thought Bubble is looking for Patrons to offer financial support to help us maintain and develop our work; Don’t worry, we’re not going anywhere but Patrons’ support will ensure that we can continue to create a festival that spotlights comics and uplifts so much of our amazing community.

The applications are already looking very delicious. More please!

Tell your mates! And while you're at it, tell yourself.

20th! I've been working for 16 of them. And it somehow gets better every time? Mind-boggling really.

We are still reeling from the beauty of this one!

Thought Bubble: The Yorkshire Comic Art Festival 2026! Dates coming soon! Join our mailing list to be the first to know: thoughtbubblefestival.com/mailinglist

Hay(hey)! I heard you like comics?

Oh look, we're doing another one.

My daughter was singing one of these 'stream of consciousness' songs she does. This one went (sung dramatically into my face) 'Your eyebrows are lumpy and your nose is babyish' 🎶

From an interior design page on Facebook. Zoom in on the prints for an AI surprise. Also, the cursed lamp.

Hello! I'm finally back down to earth after the best Thought Bubble EVER (again). Working on Thought Bubble is the weirdest thing - spending an entire year planning an event that passes in the blink of an eye - but I firmly believe I have the best job in the world.

Hello! I'm finally back down to earth after the best Thought Bubble EVER (again). Working on Thought Bubble is the weirdest thing - spending an entire year planning an event that passes in the blink of an eye - but I firmly believe I have the best job in the world.

THOUGHT BUBBLE THOTS Now that I have a fully functional brain, I can't press enough how much Thought Bubble is... extremely the comics show for me and people like me. Folks who are not only stoked to see the things that people create, but to get inspired for making art for arts sake.

Our trad final THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH piece... @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Continues to Be an Intoxicating Comics Brew of Styles, Approaches, Subject Matter and Presentation” – BF’s @andywpoliver.bsky.social Looks Back on Another Memorable Weekend in Harrogate www.brokenfrontier.com/thought-bubb...

Settling in after Thought Bubble, which remains a tonic, and pure comics. I was chatting to newbubber Chloe Maveal about it and she summed it up simply: "I haven't seen a Funko in three days." For a con to be as big as it is, and still be as comics as it is makes it a treasure

I firmly believe that @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social wouldn't be what it is if we didn't all love each other quite so much.

It's a wild thing to spend an entire year planning an event that passes in the blink of an eye. But what a blink!

Run don't walk to the @averyhill.bsky.social exhibition at The Mercer this Thought Bubble weekend. It's so incredibly well put together and the comments book shows that it's blowing the minds of people who previously weren't fans of the world's best medium.

Leeeeeet's go!!!

What is a good collective noun for comic creators? Anyway, here's a whole whack of them, who'll be joining us next weekend. Alongside a zillion exhibitors and a packed fun programme. See you in a week!

What no...?

Thought Bubble is excited to welcome Joe Sacco to this year's Comic Convention. Alex Fitch leads a career spotlight interview which will explore and celebrate Joe's incredible work. Find more info here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/programme/jo...

Thought Bubble is honoured to be welcoming Posy Simmonds to this year's Comic Convention. Join Posy in conversation with her biographer, Paul Gravett, as they discuss her experiences, processes and latest projects. Find more info here: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/programme/po...

Browse this year’s debuting comics, books and zines fresh from Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025’s exhibitors: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/debutingbooks

Our Diversity Spotlight Maps highlight Disabled Creators, Creators of Colour and LGBT + Queer creators exhibiting at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025! Check out all three maps here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/diversityspotlight

Here is a the HUGE pile of the comics @travellingmanuk.bsky.social has donated to @leedslibraries.bsky.social this year 😍 All these, alongside many, many more LGBTQ+ comics that Travelling Man have donated over the years, will soon be available to check out at Leeds Central Library!

Excellent, excellent tees. And our vols will be wearing red ones!

Someone hasn't watched Succession.

Ahhhhhhhhh!! indeed.

So this is happening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starts this Saturday at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate and continues until 26th April 2026. (If you're going to Thought Bubble, it's basically next door)

This is why, for most of Autumn, you can find me muttering the names of panel rooms in my sleep. A frankly ridiculous number of things going on.

People often ask me when the deadline for Thought Bubble is. And I tell them *aggressive hissing*. But if you would actually like to know it is 11am on November 6th for anything perfect bound (with a spine) and 11am on November 7th for anything stapled.

I've spent the last two days uploading the NEARLY SIXTY @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social comic convention events to the website and, while I may not have eyeballs or brain cells any more, I am somehow excited!

COMICS

There'll be more guests than visitors if we're not careful! Please buy tickets.

Tiny update, but Frog in the Fall and World Heist by @decassette.bsky.social are both back in stock in our US shop again. the US shop is at peow.studio .

Some useful advice about exhibiting at TB, or anywhere else!

Announcing the GO-MAN @travellingmanuk.bsky.social TOUR! Come get your books signed! SATURDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER Manchester Travelling Man at 11am-1pm Leeds Travelling Man at 3.30-5.30pm SUNDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER Newcastle Travelling Man 11am-12.30pm York Travelling Man at 3.30-5pm

Some more exceedingly talented regular-sized people.

Not actual giants, sadly.

Want to join the best group of volunteers around? Our volunteer sign-up is now open! Find out more information and how to sign up, here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/volunteer

Leeds Book Award Teen Graphic Novel creator call out! Leeds Book Awards are looking for comic creators based in the UK and Ireland who have published work aimed at teenagers and middle-grade between Nov 2024 and Nov 2025! If this is you, please get in touch via [email protected].

Thank you, Regie!

Those who've been to our @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social exhibitions before will know that we usually use just one room of The Mercer. This exhibition takes over the whole gallery! We can't wait.

@tulalotay.bsky.social turned 50, so I bestowed upon her something chilling, yet beguiling?