Only a week till you can thrill to our company at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Find us at Table B33 in the 2000AD Hall, along with our own @douglasnoble.bsky.social .

I'll Be Glad When Today Is Over is a new selection of the work of Kevin Woodcock - spend a day in his world as a series of calamities unfold about you. Sudden octopi and horrifying zoos, bleak tropical islands and unwelcoming living rooms; all indelible and hilarious. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Another Way Out collects 3 new comics by Carol Swain. The landscapes are wreathed with ghosts, and the spaces between words spill over with unsaid secrets. Elusive and intriguing, these stories are never quite what you expect, but always a truth you have known all along. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

The Dead Are Awake and Walking is the very first professional comics work by @davegibbons90.bsky.social, originally published in 1971 in Pocket Chiller Library. A story of creeping dread, of the uncanny and of betrayal, it heralded the debut of a major comics talent. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

✨Announcing our Thought Bubble 2025 debut titles!✨ darkandgolden.bigcartel.com Coming in November: Three brand new, unpublished stories by Carol Swain, a delightfully creepy debut for Dave Gibbons, and another daytrip to the wilder side of weird with Kevin Woodcock.

I'll Be Glad When Today Is Over is a new selection of the work of Kevin Woodcock - spend a day in his world as a series of calamities unfold about you. Sudden octopi and horrifying zoos, bleak tropical islands and unwelcoming living rooms; all indelible and hilarious. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

The Dead Are Awake and Walking is the very first professional comics work by @davegibbons90.bsky.social, originally published in 1971 in Pocket Chiller Library. A story of creeping dread, of the uncanny and of betrayal, it heralded the debut of a major comics talent. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Another Way Out collects 3 new comics by Carol Swain. The landscapes are wreathed with ghosts, and the spaces between words spill over with unsaid secrets. Elusive and intriguing, these stories are never quite what you expect, but always a truth you have known all along. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

✨Announcing our Thought Bubble 2025 debut titles!✨ darkandgolden.bigcartel.com Coming in November: Three brand new, unpublished stories by Carol Swain, a delightfully creepy debut for Dave Gibbons, and another daytrip to the wilder side of weird with Kevin Woodcock.

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH news! UK Publisher Dark & Golden Books @darkandgolden.bsky.social to Debut Three Titles Featuring Forgotten Comics by Carol Swain, Kevin Woodcock and Dave Gibbons at Thought Bubble 2025. www.brokenfrontier.com/dark-golden-... #ThoughtBubbleatBF25 @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

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Very cool, extremely rare piece of comics history added to our eBay! An original printing of Mek Memoirs in high grade from Kevin O’Neill’s personal collection. Check it out here: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28688812...

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Our first zine of UK comic ephemera collects together some of the most historic and attractive of the price stickers that UK comic shops have used over the last 50 years. Both a valuable record of how comics have been sold, and a potent nostalgia bomb. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

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Early Gigs collects the underground comics work of @davegibbons90.bsky.social for the very first time! Out of print since their first publication, get your hands on this vital, vibrant work now! darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

The cartoons of Kevin Woodcock are an unnerving trip to a place that is just not quite right. In these glimpses of unease the funny bone is always exposed and the widest grin belongs to a skull. Discover one of the most distinctive voices in British cartooning. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2x Brett Ewins and Peter Milligan collects two stories by one of the great UK comics duos for the first time. Rooney's Lay shows the space age and sleaze colliding in newly wild ways, while in the disquieting In The Penal Colony, they unforgettably adapt Kafka's story. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

40 years since this UKCAC took place. I wasn’t there, but 6 years ago I did get this booklet for it is full of marvellous artwork. Here’s a brief selection -Alan Davis/Paul Neary -Kevin O’Neill -John Higgins -Glenn Fabry 1/2

Regular reminder of the Best Cartoon Ever, by Kevin Woodcock

Dave Gibbons contribution to the 1988 anthology AARGH!

Simon Harrison's Shuk & Doode chronicles the wild misadventures of two demons who have escaped from hell, plus urban satanism, cat burglary and many other moments from the night life of a big city. They grin! They leer! They stole my popcorn! Originally published in C&VG. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2 x Carol Swain is a perfect intro to the elusive, intriguing work of Carol Swain. A road trip reveals troubling truths, and the spectre of war hangs uneasily over a small town. With new introductions and an interview with the artist. Now available to order here: darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Signs of the Times is a collection of three satirical series from the wild world of Kevin Woodcock! A timeless collection of jet-black comics that you won't be able to stop thinking about. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2 x Chris Reynolds is a collection of Space Food, from 1990, where sci-fi and kitchen sink collide in an uneasy fashion, and 2005's The Animals' War, where time travel proves to be less of a blessing than first thought, and the landscapes are littered with dark warnings. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Our first zine of UK comic ephemera collects together some of the most historic and attractive of the price stickers that UK comic shops have used over the last 50 years. Both a valuable record of how comics have been sold, and a potent nostalgia bomb. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

The Cheese Heads through the lens of Carol Swain (Way Out Strips). One of the many guest artists in the pin-up section of the Complete Collection, available for preorder at go.blackeye.ca/nick

This just in from @douglasnoble.bsky.social and @seanazz.bsky.social! Sightings of Wallace Sendek is an excellent, Lynchian take on the mysterious allure and disappearance of a rock star. By two of the best creators in the British indie scene. Order your copy today: okcomics.co.uk/products/sig...

Early Gigs collects the underground comics work of @davegibbons90.bsky.social for the very first time! Out of print since their first publication, get your hands on this vital, vibrant work now! darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Two stories by one of my favourite cartoonists, the late Chris Reynolds. Chris once told a mutual friend that he thought his own stories were hilarious. Never quite seen that, until this I read this @darkandgolden.bsky.social collection. Space burgers, animal's war. It all makes sense now. #comics

The cartoons of Kevin Woodcock are an unnerving trip to a place that is just not quite right. In these glimpses of unease the funny bone is always exposed and the widest grin belongs to a skull. Discover one of the most distinctive voices in British cartooning. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2x Brett Ewins and Peter Milligan collects two stories by one of the great UK comics duos for the first time. Rooney's Lay shows the space age and sleaze colliding in newly wild ways, while in the disquieting In The Penal Colony, they unforgettably adapt Kafka's story. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Me interviewing the legendary Carol Swain at Comica Festival in 2014.

Simon Harrison's Shuk & Doode chronicles the wild misadventures of two demons who have escaped from hell, plus urban satanism, cat burglary and many other moments from the night life of a big city. They grin! They leer! They stole my popcorn! Originally published in C&VG. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

I picked this up from @goshcomics.bsky.social earlier this week. Two prime Carol Swain stories, full of gentle humanity, slightly absurd and beautifully rendered comic pages.

Our very own Douglas has something coming out soon that you might want to take a look at.

2 x Carol Swain is a perfect intro to the elusive, intriguing work of Carol Swain. A road trip reveals troubling truths, and the spectre of war hangs uneasily over a small town. With new introductions and an interview with the artist. Now available to order here: darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Signs of the Times is a collection of three satirical series from the wild world of Kevin Woodcock! A timeless collection of jet-black comics that you won't be able to stop thinking about. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2 x Chris Reynolds is a collection of Space Food, from 1990, where sci-fi and kitchen sink collide in an uneasy fashion, and 2005's The Animals' War, where time travel proves to be less of a blessing than first thought, and the landscapes are littered with dark warnings. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Our first zine of UK comic ephemera collects together some of the most historic and attractive of the price stickers that UK comic shops have used over the last 50 years. Both a valuable record of how comics have been sold, and a potent nostalgia bomb. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Early Gigs collects the underground comics work of @davegibbons90.bsky.social for the very first time! Out of print since their first publication, get your hands on this vital, vibrant work now! darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

The cartoons of Kevin Woodcock are an unnerving trip to a place that is just not quite right. In these glimpses of unease the funny bone is always exposed and the widest grin belongs to a skull. Discover one of the most distinctive voices in British cartooning. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2x Brett Ewins and Peter Milligan collects two stories by one of the great UK comics duos for the first time. Rooney's Lay shows the space age and sleaze colliding in newly wild ways, while in the disquieting In The Penal Colony, they unforgettably adapt Kafka's story. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Simon Harrison's Shuk & Doode chronicles the wild misadventures of two demons who have escaped from hell, plus urban satanism, cat burglary and many other moments from the night life of a big city. They grin! They leer! They stole my popcorn! Originally published in C&VG. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2 x Carol Swain is a perfect intro to the elusive, intriguing work of Carol Swain. A road trip reveals troubling truths, and the spectre of war hangs uneasily over a small town. With new introductions and an interview with the artist. Now available to order here: darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Signs of the Times is a collection of three satirical series from the wild world of Kevin Woodcock! A timeless collection of jet-black comics that you won't be able to stop thinking about. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

2 x Chris Reynolds is a collection of Space Food, from 1990, where sci-fi and kitchen sink collide in an uneasy fashion, and 2005's The Animals' War, where time travel proves to be less of a blessing than first thought, and the landscapes are littered with dark warnings. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Our first zine of UK comic ephemera collects together some of the most historic and attractive of the price stickers that UK comic shops have used over the last 50 years. Both a valuable record of how comics have been sold, and a potent nostalgia bomb. darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

Early Gigs collects the underground comics work of @davegibbons90.bsky.social for the very first time! Out of print since their first publication, get your hands on this vital, vibrant work now! darkandgolden.bigcartel.com