Diversity Spotlight Maps 2025!

Comics are a place for exploring! Their pages can be full of love, friendship and silliness. They can also tell stories of hardship, personal struggle, and a fight to survive. For all these reasons, comics are powerful. A tool for finding community, for building solidarity, self-acceptance, joy and happiness.

Our Diversity Spotlight Maps highlight Disabled Creators, Creators of Colour and LGBT + Queer creators exhibiting at Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025!

This year, you can pick up all the maps in a booklet, available on the convention weekend! But why not browse the amazing creators right now?

Disabled Creators Map

Creators of Colour Map

Rainbow Road Map

Disabled Creator MAP 2025

Highlighted in pink are the disabled artists, writers, publishers and retailers exhibiting at Thought Bubble Comic Convention. All exhibitors were invited to opt in.

This map will be in print in our Diversity Spotlight Booklet at this year’s Comic Convention!

Comixology Hall

Al Davison - A6
Archie McKenzie & Shri Gunasekara - B22-23a
Cinnastray - C34a
Rumbidzai Savanhu - C21b

Bubbleboy Hall

Bex Glendining - A1
Cuterefaction - H7b
Deadly Knitshade - F13
Emma Reynolds - B3
Jemma Jamie - K14
Riotbones - G10a
Selina Dean - C10a
Zara Slattery - G4

The 2000 AD Hall

Aaron Thompson - A18b
Eliza Fricker - A7
Erika Price - B9
Freaktown Comics - B49
H.L. Roberts - C40
LEANHOUND (B. Mure and CDPN-K) - B35
Mindstain Comics - B50
Rebecca Burgess - B2
Stout Stoat Press - B11
Wine and Zine and Pink Zukinee - B16b-17

Redshirt Hall

Abbie B’s Art / B Grieveson - D17
Blue Hare Comix - E1a
Cabin Boy Studio - Salvatore Giommarresi - B46
CatLilithDraws - B45a
Hattersarts & Tiffany Baxter - D6
House Of Stars - B13
James Taylor - C11a
Kama Mielczarek (Weird is the Best) - C43
Nicholastronaut - B15a
RaptorJules & RemurMutt - D30
Richard Sux - B4
Sneesbee - D45
Spaghetti Publishing - A17
Steven Fraser - D21b
Unseen Spectre Comix - C4

Creators of Colour MAP 2025

Each year, Thought Bubble teams up with the awesome Nathan Blades, to bring their Creators of Colour Map to Thought Bubble! Each exhibitor at Thought Bubble has the opportunity to opt-in to the map. The aim is to highlight artists, writers, publishers and retailers of colour.

This map will be in print in our Diversity Spotlight Booklet at this year’s Comic Convention!

Comixology Hall

Archie McKenzie & Shri Gunasekara - B22-23a
Colleen Douglas - B5
Iglootree - C38
Iron Circus Comics - D9
Jenna Cha + Lonnie Nadle - B20
Matylda McCormack-Sharp and Bernard Mensah - C35
Megan Huang - A10
Michael D Kennedy - D6
RedBearUniverse - C21a
Rumbidzai Savanhu - C21b
TheCoalCinder - C33a
Zen K / nodplus50ps - D13a

Bubbleboy Hall

Bex Glendining - A1
Bo & Boon - B1
Chanté Timothy - K6
Dave Roman - K10
Deadly Knitshade - F13
Gustaffo Vargas - E6
Jemma Jamie - K14
Manon Wright - G6a
mayamada - F8
musicsgallery - H8
Riotbones - G10a
Sadiya - A3a
Saefern - B2
Shazleen Khan - A2
Sonia Leong - A11
Tanya J Scott - A12
Tony Chao - H3
Zinezilla - F1

The 2000 AD Hall

Ahmed Raafat - A16a
C.Bedford/Aruudlay - A6
Chad Bilyeu - C4
Dominique Duong - B16a
FantomLimb - C9b
Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous - B5
Oscar Osorio - C12
Snake - C38b
Zi Xu - C2
Zu Orzu - B53

Redshirt Hall

Ahseem Yousuf - B2
Bhavani Bala - C34b
bununuhphone + salamander apocalypse - D44
Chie Hosaka - B17a
Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine - D18b
Fox Fisher - A12b
Guru Comics - C6
Henry Barajas & Rachel Merrill - A9
Itsamood - C12a
J. Gonzo - C10
Jag Lall - E12
Jona Li - D14b
Joumana Ismail & Farah Nemeh - B6
Naniiebim - B9
Nick Merdasi - D41a
PPIPPI Press - C45
shanefaced - D4
The Neon Caster - D3a
Vivian Truong - C35
Wilson So - D33b
Zhenyi Zheng - B41b

RAINBOW ROAD MAP 2025

Each year, we team up with the wonderful Tab Kimpton, mastermind of the Rainbow Road Map, to highlight the amazing LGBTQ+ comic artists, writers and creators who attend the show.

Rainbow Road is an optional choice for all exhibitors which welcomes LGBTQ+ creators who represent gender, sexuality and romantic minorities, i.e. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Non-binary, Intersex, Asexual and all the other stuff which comes under the Queer rainbow.

This map will be in print in our Diversity Spotlight Booklet at this year’s Comic Convention!

Comixology Hall
Abi Moore and Nathan Moore - A5b
Abs Bailey - C4b
Archie McKenzie & Shri Gunasekara - B22-23a
Avery Hill Publishing - C8
Bobbi Rae - C27
Chrissy Williams - B3
Cinnastray - C34a
Dirty Diamonds (Kelly Phillips & Claire Folkman) - C20
Fredde Lanka - C14b
Grayson Bear - B25b
Hamish Steele - B29
Iglootree - C38
Iron Circus Comics - D9
Lara Aitken Illustration - C15b
Lauren Knight - B3
Luke Healy - B28b
Megan J Grey - B7-8a
Melsonia Arts Council - C37
Peregrine Coast Press - C2
Rachael Smith - D5
Rosi Kämpe - C22
Rumbidzai Savanhu - C21b
Wackydoodledevon - B21

Bubbleboy Hall
2B Or Not 2B - C3
aprilthefrogcomics - E12b
Bex Glendining - A1
Clare Fielder - C5a
Claudia Matosa Illustration - A8
Cuterefaction - H7b
Deadly Knitshade - F13
Emma Reynolds - B3
Flying Eye Books - K11
Georgie Mac - B7b
Harl Jones - F5b
I LIKE CATS & James Conan Baker - A9
jadedoran.arts - G12a
Killjoys Never Die - C10b
KitsuneArt - H7a
Lillhappycloud - D11a
Llum de Palau - D3a
Lois Dolores - H6
Lucie Ebrey - A3b
LUX:plorations - A Universe of Research - G9
musicsgallery - H8
Plant Boy - B7a
Psapraca - H4
Riotbones - G10a
Sarah Graley - A6-7
Selina Dean - C10a
Shazleen Khan - A2
Sonia Leong - A11
Sophie Heywood - H13
The Miliad - F5a
Zinezilla - F1

The 2000 AD Hall
Aaron Thompson - A18b
Ariel Vittori - A4b
Biscuit Zu - C10
Briar White - C39b
C.Bedford/Aruudlay - A6
Chad Bilyeu - C4
Dominique Duong - B16a
Ell J Walker - B39
Erika Price - B9
Faye Stacey - B40
H.L. Roberts - C40
hesitantdoodle - B37
KnightJJ & Cat0 - A3-4a
LEANHOUND (B. Mure and CDPN-K) - B35
Limit Break Comics - C49
Madzillus - C35b
Margaux Saltel and Gom Pilote - D19
Margrave Lucian - B8
Mindless Ones - B30-31
Mindstain Comics - B50
Nathan Hillustration - C8
Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous - B5
Omipalone Press/Jules Scheele - B34
Phoebe Hedges & Lizzie Styles - B23
Quindrie Press - B12
Rebecca Burgess - B2
Ricardo Bessa - A5
Ruby Tait - C43b
Sapphira Olson / PSYComics - B18
Stout Stoat Press - B11
Tab Kimpton - Discord Comics - B7
The Half-Digested Boy - C44a
Timothy Winchester - A11
Toadlett - B14
Trans and Non-Binary Spotlight - B6
Underground Kingdom Comix - C45
VER - B13
Wine and Zine and Pink Zukinee - B16b-17
Zi Xu - C2

Redshirt Hall
Abbie B’s Art / B Grieveson - D17
Above the Kelpie - B38b
Bags and Blep - B8
Bhavani Bala - C34b
Biolumen Press - B10
Blast! Comic - E3
Blue Hare Comix - E1a
bununuhphone + salamander apocalypse - D44
Cabin Boy Studio - Salvatore Giommarresi - B46
Cat Easeman - E6a
CatLilithDraws - B45a
Dave Stokes - A15
Dora Grents - B11b
Gooldfishh - D25
Fox Fisher - A12b
HAM - C23
Hattersarts & Tiffany Baxter - D6
Izzi Ward - D3b
James Taylor - C11a
Jen Vaughn - C3
Jona Li - D14b
Jua OK! - C5b
Jules Valera / sna1l - B21
KonnyArt - D26
Laurz Drawz - D12
Levang and Vinter - D11
Logan Hanning and LD Lapinski - B37
MACLEE - C30a
Mo Morrell - C14
MrJamesGifford - D10
Nick Merdasi - D41a
oskmund - C11b
RaptorJules & RemurMutt - D30
Rebelfrogg - D2
Richard Sux - B4
Slightly Ghosts - C12b
Sneesbee - D45
Spaghetti Publishing - A17
Stephanie Phillips - E23
Steven Fraser - D21b
tabbycolours - C44a
TC Robin & Lily Edwards - C41a
TenderRebellions / Louie Laeuger - D27
The Art of Emma Collins - B17b
The Neon Caster - D3a
Unseen Spectre Comix - C4
Vivian Truong - C35
Wilson So - D33b
Zhenyi Zheng - B41b