The following exhibitors will all attend our one day convention on Saturday 21st November at Saviles Hall, Leeds. For tickets click here
2 TONE COMICS Yorkshire-based comics retailer. 2 Tone stock over 100,000 back issues from the golden age right up to last weeks releases from every major publisher. They also specialise in hard to get variants
AARON MURPHY Incredible work from a cutting edge artist, he's even been nice enough to document Thought Bubble in his pretty strips. Be sure to check his work out!
ACCENT UK Owners Colin Mathieson and Dave West collect the talents of the UK Independent Comic publishing community, along with guests from overseas, producing annual themed anthologies such as PIRATES, ZOMBIES and ROBOTS. Their latest, WESTERN, is their best yet, and that‘s saying something!
ADAM CADWELL The very clever Adam Cadwell currently lives in Manchester and runs a commercial art company called DRAW His comics and illustations are amazing and have received interest from companies such as Image Comics and Oni Press.
AL MACEACHERN Amusing Paper brings together comics about life, music, and robots.
AM DRAWING Satirical & whimsical comic strips based around everyday life, music, robots and demons.
ANDI WATSON UK-based illustrator of quality tales, with indie greats under his belt such as Breakfast Afternoon and Slow News Day.
APOCALYPSE COMICS A UK Comic Book and Collectables Shop selling everything you ever need in the world of comics.
ARIEL PRESS Originally created in the early 1990s by Vince Danks - his own comics company, set up specifically to publish his espionage thriller Sapphire. Roger Gibson soon joined in the fun, with Vince publishing the Gravestown comic that he put together with Mark Wayne Barrett.
ASTHMATIC COMICS Superb small press ware served up by Kelly Walton and Isaac Lenkiewicz.
BANAL PIG Small press humour comics. You can also find their juicy goods on our blog!
BANG! BANG! COMICS Barnsley based comics retailer, with a very cool name!
BEYOND MONOPOLY York's friendliest boardgame club, is successfully showing people modern boardgames for a fifth year. With demos of Dominion, Settlers, Ticket To Ride and loads more from our 270+ club collection, including new games hot from Essen, you will discover that there really is life Beyond Monopoly! Plus, club members get 10% off games at all Travelling Man stores.
BLACK LIBRARY Games Workshop publisher of great titles such as Shaman Slayer and Blood Pact by Dan Abnett. Black Library will bring some very special guests for the day and Games Workshop will be demoing on their table.
CABOUNCES BOOKS A small independent bookshop based in Leeds, UK. Specialises in used and obscure science fiction, fantasy, and more up-to-date roleplaying games.
CHAMONKEE Stunningly rendered comics. Check out 'The Sea', you won't be disappointed!
CHARAYDIS COMICS Excellent small press comics publisher.
CHRIS DOHERTY Video Nasties is a B-Movie murder mystery homage, concerning the disappearance of 3 students at a high school 10 years ago.
CHRIS GARSIDE Independent Comic Book Artist and creator of a comic about a problem addled ape from the town of Happyfax. Chris says 'Mongo', is an amalgamation of Ren and Stimpy and the Simpsons with a seasoning of TMNT.
CINEBOOK The 9th Art publisher, bringing you a range of the greatest comic book titles available. They carefully select and translate into English some of the finest bestsellers from France and Belgium. Collects some of the best graphic novel stories around.
CLAUDE TROLLOPE Claude draws silly comics about horny swan gods, immortal cockney
greasers, librarians and london residents dealing with ridiculous problems.
COMIC CREATORS GUILD The organisation exists to promote the acceptance of strip narrative into mainstream society, and further its acceptance as an art form; to counsel practitioners new and experienced in all aspects of their creative and commercial endeavours; to offer guidance and leadership in the spirit of aesthetic fraternity; and to preserve the history and traditions of the comics medium while always seeking to extend its boundaries.
COSMIC APPLE Strange tales of hypnotic squirrels, mooples, killer donuts and more!
CUTE BUT SAD COMICS When Pigeons Weep are single post it cartoons about people, animals & the strange things they say. Badger is the story of a lonely badger trying to make it as a person in the big city, to find out more click here
DAVID O’CONNELL Creator of TOZO, an adventure webcomic drawn in a classic European style.
DAVID GOLDING The very talented comic artist on Dare, selling original art & sketches for customers. Want your very own zombie portrait? Then David's the man for you!
DEALER COMICS Jason Wilson began writing and drawing the tale of a young british couple who discover a ton of cannabis on a spanish beach and try to smuggle it home in 2006. Littered with a cast of smugglers, dealers and customs officers, Jas wanted it all to be totally believable, which meant applyng the appropiate research.
DEAN ORMSTON Ormston's dark, thick paints were seen in action on the Judge Dredd strip on numerous occasions, most notably in the Judgement Day and Raptaur storylines. For the Judge Dredd Megazine Ormston also created, with Si Spencer, the comedy strip Harke & Burr. His work can be seen in the Predator comics and most recently Vertigo's Northlanders, which is simply stunning!
DESTINATION VENUS Excellent Yorkshire-based comic shop, selling everything a comic fan would ever want, plus they have a very pretty website!
DOG HORN PUBLISHING Promoting the work of a young writer and journalist based in Leeds, UK, whose work has appeared in various glossy magazines as well as on the literary scene, and has a novel due out 31st October, 2009. They also operate a professional development service for writers, including peer mentoring, editorial services and workshops.
DON'T PANIC Regularly create a unique, free publication found in carefully selected independent shops, bars, universities and art spaces. It contains all sorts of arts and culture goodies and information for cities all around the world with the emphasis on design and the future of our planet. At the heart of the pack find the Don't Panic Poster where a rotation of established and unknown, up and coming artists design around an issue that affects culture across the world.
DR SIMPO Counter Culture Comix Drop-In Workshop. This year Dr Simpo will run an informal drop-in workshop which is open to everyone interested in publishing their own small press comic. Dr Simpo, underground superstar will give advice on drawing techniques, equipment, and printing. Bring your portfolios, ideas, and sketches.
DR SKETCHY'S Will be selling tickets for their Burlesque Drawing Hour which takes place at 21:00-22:00, Alea Top Floor Bar, Partition Area and are only £2. This event is for 18+ and you will need a vaild proof of ID to get in. Thought Bubble guests will attend this fun, sexy sketching session and you can too! Just bring some pens and paper, and buy a ticket from the Dr Sketchy stand in Saviles Hall during convention day.
DRASTIC COMICS Be sure to check out this Eagle Award Nominated talent, very cool!
DUMPY LITTLE ROBOT Excellent work by UK illustrators Abby Ryder and Dave Bulmer, both shinning talents in the small press and big press world.
E-MERL New experiments in fiction, comics, webcomics & hypercomics by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.
FETISH MAN It's not porn, it's a comic!
FIONA STEPHENSON Fiona specialises in beautiful retro paintings & Gil Elvgren tribute art. Check out her hand-painted oil on canvas reproductions of Pin-Ups and other 1950's life.
FLYING MONKEY COMICS Flying Monkey Comics is random, sporadically updated fun strips.
FORBIDDEN PLANET INTERNATIONAL The UK's biggest comics chain will be bringing all their best goodies to this years convention.
FRANCESCA CASSAVETTI Multi-lingual, multi-fingered cartoonist who writes indiscriminately about shoes, poo, and childbirth.
FROZEN REALITY STUDIO A webcomic about a family of small, marshmallow-like, creatures trying to make sense of their world and ours.
FUTUREQUAKE PRESS The home of Eagle Award nominated Futurequake, as well as Mangaquake, Something Wicked, and the galaxy’s greatest fanzines - Zarjaz and Dogbreath.
GAMES WORKSHOP Games workshop will be demoing games at their table so pop along for miniatures fun!
GENKI GEAR The UK's favourite Japanese inspired t-shirt designs. If you don't own a Genki Gear t-shirt you really should!
GLYNDWR UNIVERSITY Small press comics from students studying graphic novels at Glyndwr University.
GOTHY BEANS Family friendly goth comic strip.
GRIMM COMICS The Life & Death of Beatrice Shanks .............. Sin: A Not so Divine Comedy is the brainchild of Chris Tordoff and Mike Hodgkins. It's a comic book inspired and based around that medieval bestseller, Dante's Divine Comedy with a wee bit of Paradise Lost thrown in for good measure.
GUNNERKRIGG COURT Excellent webcomic created by Tom Siddell.
HAROLDINIUM COMICS Haroldinium Comics' Tards is a tale of 4 super heroes, branded "the tridents" by their leader Cap Spac. Our 4 heroes gallivant around their cityscape fighting crime in the usual fashion, but there’s a catch... they're only super folk in their imaginations, in the real world... they're special, very special.
HELLO AUNT ALICIA Comic creating sisters from Scotland. Amongst their favourite things are George Lazenby, film noirs, sea lions, collaging, and grammar. They also like cheese - their favourite’s Gouda.
HEXJIBBER Join Andy Sykes for a whole day of crazy colouring fun for everyone, adults, kids, families!
HERMAN PEAKS COMICS Indie small press comics from the Medway towns.
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Hope for the future is a serial webcomic about ghosts, demons, robots & people with no chance of repaying their student loans.
HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE Leeds' favourite art house cinema will be joining us to tell everyone about their fantastic programme which includes some very special comic based screenings this month.
INFINITY & BEYOND Supply the latest comic books, graphic novels, action figures, Busts, Statues, t-shirts, limited editions and much more, and offer the very best possible customer service from their online store.
INK SOUP Small press of short graphic stories.
INSOMNIA PUBLICATIONS Books are aimed at teen/mature readers and most have an 18+ age rating. With each of their products they look to publish something which is unusual, literate, challenging and thought provoking. In 2006 Insomnia Publications was founded by, Dundee University graduate, Crawford Coutts. In 2007 the first Insomnia products hit the shelves of independent UK comic shops, since then they have grown from strenght to strenght!
JEMMA WEBSTER Jemma is a proffessional artist and this is her first comic. Autopsia is a story about one mens journey through a grotesque and surreal world. This is the first book in a serise of nightmarish stories.
JOE DECIE Creator of What I Drew - pictures in boxes that are true and made up.
JOE LIST Superb small press comic creator, his work consists of a series of abrupt adventures, firmly aimed at moderate amusement.
KRISTYNA BACZYNSKI An illustrator/animator hailing from a land far, far away. She will be exhibiting a troupe of characters, comics and posters as well as offering a bunch of stickers, limited edition prints and other goodies for perusal and purchase.
LARGE COW when Hunt Emmerson first started drawing comix, he didn't know what the strip was about at that point so invented the silliest generic title he could, so as to have something to draw for that first half hour. Large Cow Comix. Since then the title has attached to other projects of his, and is now the name of his website.
LEEDS ANIME SOCIETY Want to find out more about manga and anime? Want to dress in cosplay with friends? Want to be part of a group who know it all? Yes? Then join the Leeds Anime Society!
LEEDS COMIC SOCIETY The Leed's Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Leeds’ premier comic book appreciation society, come on down and say hi!
LEEDS SCI-FI SOCIETY Visit the Leeds Sci-Fi Society stand to talk about Dr Who and all your other favourite Sci-Fi TV, books and films, if you enjoy it maybe you could even become a member!
LEONIE O’MOORE a freelance illustrator, designer and writer based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She started self publishing comics in the mid 90's,and has been an active member of the small press comics scene ever since.
LITTLE TERRORS Little Terrors is set in Fitsworth, England. A small commuter town just outside London, not exactly the first place you think of when you hear of epic battles again hordes of undead corpses, Trolls, zombie bears and evil monks.
LIZ GREENFIELD Liz Greenfield was born & raised in Amsterdam & is the writer of 'Stuff Sucks'.The super talented Miss Greenfield, will also take part in our Women on Comics panel at 12.15 in Saviles Hall.
LIZZ LUNNEY Lizz Lunney likes knitting, black tea & rollercoasters. Her comics include 'Waiting For Sushi' & 'I Love Dinosaurs & They Love Me'. She will have a great selection of new work at Thought Bubble.
LUCKY TARGET COMICS Dealer specialising in back-issues.
MAGIC BEANS COMICS Check out great titles such as Mike Neville-Return of The Mecha Mikezilla, Mothman About The House, and Mothman-The Philadelphia Experiment in the wonderful world of Magic Beans web comics!
MAGDA BOREYSZA creator of the excellent ToastyCats Comics.
MARC ELLERBY Marc Ellerby will have a new volume of his 'Chloe Noonan' series at the show. Check out the Oni Press series that Marc drew with help from his friend Adam Cadwell called 'Love The Way You Love'.
MATTHEW CRAIG Described as "a perfect example of the breadth & passion of today's British small press scene" by Forbidden Planet's comics blog. Matthew Craig's books range from adult drama to zombie romance.
MODERN MONSTROSITY is Laurence Powell and Oliver Lambden, creators of the Eagle Award nominated, UK indie comicbook, 'Tales From The Flat' an action/adventure sit-com charting the lives and escapades of four friends.
MORONOID COMICS Small press comic of darkly twisted content by several fresh creators.
MURKY DEPTHS Graphically dark speculative fiction quarterly anthology, containing some incredible art and writing. Mike Carey will also be signing at this table between 14:00 to 15:00.
NANIIEBIM Naniiebim's work takes influences from a wide variety of manga and images can range from quite light almost watercoloured effects, photoreal and mix media to heavy solid animation style.
NEPTUNE FACTORY Once upon a time there was a dream. Now we have only to draw it. Visit Neptune Factory's stand for fun colourful manga!
NICH ANGELL Comic book illustrator creating worlds too impossible to exist!
NINJA BUNNY Ninja Bunny was created by Philip Spence and became a webcomic on myspace.com in September 2005, since then it has grown & grown!
NORTH WALES SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN Featuring an upcoming generation of budding cartoonists studying for a degree in Illustration for Graphic Novels at the North Wales School of Art & Design at Glyndwr University.
NORTHERN DELIGHT An inspired team of designers and illustrators. We produce highly inventive apparel for the art-savvy with a new comic/ graphic novel inspired range of t-shirts. Please click here to check out our up and coming website.
OK COMICS Browse OK's fine selection of all things comic based including some incredible back issues and cutting edge independent titles
OMNIVISTASCOPE An incredible collection of small press to get your creative juices flowing.
ORANG UTAN COMICS is a UK based independent comic book publisher working with a studio of creative talent from across the globe. Their debut title, Eleventh Hour, was nominated for an Eagle Award in 2008, and they followed that up in 2009 with the release of Alpha Gods, our their new anthology title Faster Than Light.
PAPER JAM COMICS Newcastle-based comics group.
PAUL FRYER English illustrator, makes comics when he remembers to.
PAUL RAINEY Writer, artist and publisher of THERE’S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT.
POPCORN PEACOCK A new UK-based comic book publisher dedicated to showcasing exciting, engrossing, and enticing new talent within this limitless literary lore.
QUICKSILVER COMICS Silver-Age comics retailer. Excelsior!
RAGADABAH 'My work combines my interests in video games, animation, and technology, and blends it with life, where in some protracted way I end up making a bathos parody of the world around me' - Dan Barritt creator of Ragadabah
RICHARD SMITH Creator of RED FOX, look up his facebook group!
REET COMIC Home of Jenny's weird friend & more comics that you can waggle a twig at!
ROB JACKSON COMICS This is a fun mix of fiction and real life observations that surprises and entertains. Originality triumphant - Comics Bulletin.
SAM JOHNSON Creator/writer of Geek Girl
SELF MADE HERO cutting-edge adaptations and re-tellings that will intrigue and grip readers.
SCARYGOROUND John Allison's delightful webcomic, also check out this comic goodness on the Thought Bubble Blog!
SGT MIKE BATTLE SGT MIKE BATTLE #13 is out now and continues the adventures of the titular Sgt. Mike Battle and the romance between the gorgeous Shapely Charms and the suave British Secret Agent Roger Knightly.
SHEFFIELD SPACE CENTRE
Have been established for over 30 years. Dealing in comics, anime & manga, TV & Movie merchandise, etc and stocking a wide range of goods which also include role-playing games, t-shirts, action figures, reference books and more. Also mail order and subscription services - and you can visit not only their website but also the shop which is open six days a week complete with friendly and knowledgeable staff."
SOARING PENGUIN An eclectic small press publisher with big ambitions.
SOUR MEAT AND MOOSE Sour Meat and Moose are: Fiona Byrne, Jonny Lancaster, Jon Owen and Andrew Wheatley.
SPACEBABE A naughty sci-fi comedy available in print & on your phone.
SMALLZONE Smallzone is your one stop shop for indy and small press comics in the UK and beyond. Also incorporates Frontline Distribution and Scar Comics.
SPANDEX
Martin Eden will be selling his brand new full-colour gay superteam comic Spandex, plus copies of the award-nominated super-soap comic The O Men.
SPLIT INFINITY COMICS We have been trading for the past 15 years, specialising in Variants and US Convention Exclusives, Limited Edition Prints and modern comics. We also provide an exceptional Standing Order Service.
SUMMER RAIN A semi-manga comic about a girl who doesn't know she's a princess, her friend from the city, and the adventures they encounter.
TEMPO LUSH Ricky Chandler is the force behind Tempo Lush, and has written for the Wallace & Gromit comic. He’s recently completed a run of mini-comics collected in a bear shaped box.
THE JUZZARD Following the mishaps of a cardboard man called Colin and his best friend Paper Pauline.
THE FALLEN ANGEL Fallen Angel Media is a consortium of artists and writers based in the UK, creating thought provoking small press comics.
TIME BOMB COMICS Have a Facebook group, join them here
TOKYO 15 Stockists of hard to find Japanese anime and manga toys, figures and goods.
TOM COCKERAM A collaboration between two illustrators, ranging from comics to paper 3D design.
TOUCHE TEES Purveyors of fine garments and fripperies, visit them on eBay!
TRAVELLINGMAN The UK's friendliest independent comic shops, stocking everything from Japanese merchandise and amazing comic books to cutting edge games.
TURNING COG CREATIONS Turning Cog Creations is a new small press company. Writer Peter McLeod (famous for a bunch of stuff you’ve never seen!) and Artist Roy Huteson Stewart (of Vincent Price Presents, Mutilated Dead, and soon to be much more!) are launching their first collaboration at Thought Bubble – THE FIST!
TWILIGHT ZONE Excellent trader, will be selling some rare gems and some great comic based art books.
UK SF OUTREACH UK SF Outreach promotes fan run conventions such as Eastercon, Novacon and the world con at events where potential new members might be found.
VELICA A dark story of a young girl battling with underground corruption after the death of her father.
VIZ MEDIA Publishers of very fine manga such as, Bleach, Death Note and Naruto. Viz Media will also be sponsoring our cosplay and Book Crossing, so anyone one who takes part will have the chance to win some excellent manga prizes.
WE ARE WORDS & PICTURES We are words & pictures. We're a band, but we make comics instead of music. Enjoy!
WILDWAYS COMICS Daniel Wild’s excellent comics.
WYNN RYDER Wynn Ryder, formerly known as Daryl Walker, is a comic book artist/illustrator residing in England.
ZIP GUN COMICS A group of creators from Liverpool.
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