Emma Ríos

Emma is a cartoonist based in Spain. She shifted her focus to a mix of both architecture and work with small press publishers until working on comics full-time in 2007. Having collaborated with publishers like Marvel and DC, she was able to commit to working on her own creator-owned comics again since 2013, thanks to Image Comics, where she co-edited ISLAND and created I.D., MIRROR in two parts: THE MOUNTAIN and THE NEST with Malay cartoonist Hwei Lim, and where she currently co-creates the critically acclaimed PRETTY DEADLY with Kelly Sue DeConnick. The latter earned Ríos several Eisner Award nominations and a win for Best Cover Artist in 2020.

Her new graphic novel, ANZUELO, is set to be released in November, just in time for the festival.

As an illustrator she’s worked for clients such as SIE, Ardbeg, PRADA and Wizards of the Coast.

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Jock

Jock is the three times New York Times best-selling British artist best known for his comics work with writer Andy Diggle on DC/Vertigo's The Losers, the award-winning Batman: The Black Mirror, and Wytches with writer Scott Snyder, and his self-penned Batman: One Dark Knight. Jock has also produced key art and concept design for every major Hollywood Studio, on films including Dredd, Annihilation, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the Oscar-winning Ex Machina. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he now lives and works in Devon, England.

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sean phillips

Drawing comics professionally since the age of fifteen, multiple Eisner Award-winning Sean Phillips has worked for all the major publishers. Since drawing Sleeper, Hellblazer, Batman, X-Men, Marvel Zombies, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, Sean has concentrated on creator-owned books with Ed Brubaker including CRIMINAL, soon to be a television series on Amazon Prime, KILL OR BE KILLED, INCOGNITO, FATALE, THE FADE OUT, PULP, NIGHT FEVER, WHERE THE BODY WAS and the RECKLESS series.

He lives in the Lake District in the UK where he is currently drawing the next Brubaker/Phillips book.

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Ram V

Ram V is a multi-award-winning author and creator of comics such as RARE FLAVOURS, DAWNRUNNER, THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR and the Eisner-winning THE ONE HAND AND THE SIX FINGERS & BLUE IN GREEN. Since debuting in 2016, Ram’s work has gone on to garner critical and popular success with multiple best-sellers, nominations and wins in The Eisner, Harvey, and Ringo awards and The L.A. Times Book Prize.

Apart from creating original work, Ram has also written iconic characters and titles for DC Comics and Marvel, including runs on New Gods, Swamp Thing, Detective Comics. Ram lives in London with his family, loves dogs, doodling and digressions.

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Abigail jill Harding

Abigail Jill Harding is a Comicbook artist and Illustrator based in York, UK. Co-Creator of the Comixology Originals time-traveling, sci-fi-adventure series ASK FOR MERCY with Writer and Letterer, Richard Starkings. She is also the creator of the Eisner nominated gothic horror series PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS.

Abz has done covers for Titan, IDW, Image and Boom! In recent years she has also contributed artwork to Magic: The Gathering.

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Nick Brokenshire

Nick Brokenshire is a Celtic/Latino comic book creator from Aberdeen,Scotland. He was a writer/artist for IDWs STAR WARS ADVENTURES and is an artist on Dark Horse Comic’s STAR WARS titles. As well as DEAD SEAS (IDW) with Cavan Scott, Nick is co-creator of COLD IRON (Dark Horse) with Andy Diggle and THE ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN (Dark Horse) with Adam P Knave and DJ Kirkbride. His work has also appeared in 2000AD, ROBOTECH, HEAVY METAL and TRANSFORMERS.

In his spare time, you can find Nick camping with his family, creating music or performing in intergalactic party band BLUES HARVEST!

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Roger Langridge

New Zealand-born cartoonist Roger Langridge has been a comic book professional since moving to the UK 35 years ago. He has worked on properties such as THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER, THE MUPPETS, FIN FANG FOUR, DOCTOR WHO, POPEYE, MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN, JOHN CARTER OF MARS, ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE, THE ROCKETEER, GROSS POINT, THE GOON, and BILL AND TED ARE DOOMED, among others – as well as producing a steady output of his own work, notably ZOOT!, ART d’ECCO, THE FEZ, FRED THE CLOWN, CRIMINY, ABIGAIL AND THE SNOWMAN, THE BAKER STREET PECULIARS, and his Eisner Award-winning series SNARKED!.

Recent work includes numerous illustrations for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE, writing the Darkwing Duck spinoff series JUSTICE DUCKS, writing and drawing “Sally Astro” for MONSTER FUN, writing “Pandora Perfect” for 2000AD and the JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE, and drawing THE PROHIBITION ERA, part of First:Second Books’ “History Comics” line.

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Sarah Graley

Sarah Graley is the award-winning cartoonist behind long-running webcomic OUR SUPER ADVENTURE, and the creator of comics like PIZZA WITCH, BITE + SUBSCRIBE!, DONUT THE DESTROYER, GLITCH and KIM REAPER!

Sarah and their comic partner-in-crime and husband, Stef Purenins, have been working on a brand new PIZZA WITCH graphic novel for Skybound, and the duo have recently just run a successful Kickstarter for TREATS!, the newest comic collection in the OUR SUPER ADVENTURE series! Both books will be available at this year’s Thought Bubble!

Sarah has also worked on official comic books for MINECRAFT, GARFIELD, MARVEL ACTION SPIDER-MAN and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!

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Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen is a writer, designer and recovering critic. As a comic writer, he's best known for co-creating books like the Wicked + the Divine, DIE, the Power Fantasy, Once & Future, Phonogram and more. When not doing his own works, he has written extensively for Marvel comics, on all the characters you've heard of and quite a few you probably haven't. He's based in Bath. The city, not the water immersion device, alas.

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John Allison

Based near Leeds, John Allison is the creator of, among others, the comic series Giant Days, Bad Machinery and Steeple. In addition, he created the webcomics Bobbins and Scary Go Round, with his work appearing online since 1998. He was one of the first comic artists to build a daily following exclusively on the internet.

John's comics have been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards (winning twice in 2019), and in 2018 he won the Best Long-Form Online Comic award from the US National Cartoonists’ Society. His work has been translated around the world, with Giant Days currently being published in eight foreign language editions.

His latest series is The Great British Bump-Off: Kill Or Be Quilt, a collaboration with Giant Days artist Max Sarin, for Dark Horse.

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LEAH MOORE

LEAH MOORE is a comics writer based in Liverpool, UK.

Her work for Z2 comics includes The Doors - Morrison Hotel, and most recently The Funeral Portrait - Welcome to Suffocate City.

She has written for the likes of DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD, Heavy Metal Magazine and many more.

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JOHN REPPION

JOHN REPPPION is a comics writer based in Liverpool, UK.

His work includes Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with M. D. Penman, and most recently a contribution to Z2's Dream Theater - Parasomnia anthology book.

He has written for the likes of DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD, Heavy Metal Magazine and many more.

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Richard Starkings

Richard Starkings is the creator/writer of Elephantmen and co-creator of The Beef and Ask for Mercy for Comixology Originals. Since lettering Batman: The Killing Joke in the 1980s he has worked as a lettering artist on a whole bunch of comics from Astro City to Parliament of Rooks with his studio, Comicraft. He loves Doctor Who, Betty's Tea Rooms, and Lori Perkins, but not necessarily in that order.

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Jacob Phillips

Jacob Phillips is a comic artist and colourist residing in tropical Manchester. He has been drawing his whole life, self publishing first comic ‘Roboy’ at the age of 11 and selling it at Brighton Comic Con. Skip forward 20 or so years and today he is the artist on Everything Dead & Dying, That Texas Blood and The Enfield Gang Massacre and Newburn Image Comics as well as being an two times Eisner-Nominated colourist on books such as Reckless, Criminal and Night Fever. 

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Marc Laming

Marc Laming is comic book artist & illustrator living in the United Kingdom best known for his work on Marvel Comics’ Star Wars comics and work for Ubisolft’s Rainbow 6 & Splinter Cell games. He is currently working for DSTLRY on with Stephanie Phillips on thriller Endeavour. Marc is also working on several creator owned books with a murder's row of high profile writers and drawing covers for Marvel and Dynamite

His work has been published by Les Humanoïdes Associés, Marvel, DC/Vertigo, Fleetway, Valiant, Ubisoft, IDW, Dark Horse, Image Comics, Dynamite & Boom!

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Chrissy Williams

Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and comic book writer based in the UK. She co-edited 'Over the Line: An Introduction to Poetry Comics' with Tom Humberstone in 2015, and their poetry comic 'Introduction to Charts' won the inaugural Selkie Award for Best Narrative in 2024. 'Golden Rage', co-created with Lauren Knight, came out from Image Comics in 2023 and is described as "Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls". Their new miniseries 'Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best' is out now!

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Tula Lotay

Tula Lotay is the pen name of illustrator Lisa Wood. Born and raised in Yorkshire, England, Tula specializes in comics, film and editorial illustration.

Tula is best known for her interior work on Bodies, All-Star Batman, Supreme Blue Rose and Scarlet Witch. She is also a prolific and accomplished cover artist, working regularly for Marvel, DC, Image and Boom! Studios along with being a regular contributor on the fronts of such series as Catwoman, The Walking Dead, Faithless and Bloodshot Reborn. Outside of comics, Lotay is a mainstay in the alternative film poster scene, contributing art to officially licensed projects such as Marvel Studio’s Black Widow, The Handmaiden, Personal Shopper, The Last of Us and many others.

In 2015 she was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for The Wicked and The Divine #13. This was followed up with more accolades when Tula was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award by the San Diego Comic Con Eisner committee for her charitable and fundraising work in 2019. Her biggest accomplishment yet came once again at SDCC, when in 2023 she won an Eisner award for Best Digital Comic for Barnstormers with Scott Snyder and Comixology. In 2024 she followed it up with back to back wins, this time taking home the Eisner for best new series for Somna. She three peated in 2025 by winning Best Cover Artist.

Somna was her first book as a DSTLRY founding member and was both written and drawn with frequent collaborator Becky Cloonan. Currently, she is drawing Groupies with Helene Mullane at Comixology.

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Lee Garbett

Lee Garbett is an Eisner nominated artist and co-creator of SKYWARD and SHADECRAFT (IMAGE COMICS) and Founding Creator at DSTLRY.

Lee is currently the artist for Marvel’s new DAREDEVIL series and his other work includes DETECTIVE COMICS, UNCANNY SPIDER-MAN,
THE DEATH OF DOCTOR STRANGE, BATGIRL and LOKI: AGENT OF ASGARD.

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Alison Sampson

Alison is an award winning, Yorkshire-born artist and writer, drawing comics and illustrations including in the fields of horror (WOLVERINE & BLOODLINE, HELLBOY, EC COMICS, WINNEBAGO GRAVEYARD, the 2023 Eisner nominated DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT), fantasy (adapting Stephen and Owen King's bestselling novel SLEEPING BEAUTIES), science fiction (REDACTED AND REDACTED) and adventure (HIT-GIRL: INDIA).

Clients include Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, Tiny Onion, Oni, Dark Horse, AWA, IDW, Boom! Studios, Titan, Vault, Z2, TKO, DSTLRY, Rebellion, broadcasters, print newspapers, major art galleries, various crowdfunded projects, and more. Alison also makes a lot of comic and book covers.

She is currently working on the comic series Redacted for Redacted and a cover for Redacted by the eminent writer Redacted. When she is not doing this she grows baby trees in sub-tropical South London.

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15 & 16 November 2025.

Anna Morozova

Anna is a freelance comics artist and illustrator mainly known for her work on Rebellion’s titles such as 2000 AD, Judge Dredd Megazine and the Treasury of British Comics.

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Zoe Thorogood

Zoe Thorogood is the creator of IT’S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, THE IMPENDING BLINDNESS OF BILLIE SCOTT, LIFE IS STRANGE and HACK/SLASH. She also illustrated Joe Hill’s RAIN. Currently she’s working on [REDACTED] and [REDACTED].

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Lucy Sullivan

Lucy Sullivan is a Writer & Artist from London who creates comics around social concerns combined with folklore and expressive mark-making. She is the creator of BARKING (Avery Hill) and SHELTER an ongoing Folk-Horror series: EARLY DOORS (self-published) is available now, the next story MOTHERS RUIN is currently in production. She has created commissions for a variety of titles including Hey Amateur!, Razorblades, Department Of Truth, Black Hammer and the on-screen artwork for Benedict Cumberbatch’s character DAD in The Thing With Feathers [2025] adapted from the acclaimed novel by Max Porter.

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The etherington Brothers

Creators of the world's most successful art books of all time on Kickstarter, the Etherington Brothers' How to THINK When You DRAW and WRITE tutorials series are an internet phenomenon. Championing free Art education for everyone, and with a client list including Disney, Dreamworks and Aardman, the Etherington Brothers will be bringing their record breaking tutorials books EXCLUSIVELY to Thought Bubble - the only place on the PLANET where you can grab these sought-after volumes outside of their rare Kickstarters!

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Shazleen Khan

Shazleen Khan is a queer Bangladeshi Muslim illustrator and author based in London.

Their notable works include Ignatz award winning webcomic BUUZA!!, Eisner and Harvey nominated middle grade graphic novel Saving Sunshine (First Second, 2023) and "Sinister Sisters & Other stories" (Abrams 2025). Their upcoming works include "What was built to be the ship of dreams? The Titanic" (PRH 2025) and "My First Monster" (LBYR).

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Mick McMahon

McMahon has spent the last forty-eight years drawing pictures of one sort or another, some better than others.

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Kristyna Baczynski

Kristyna Baczynski is a British-Ukrainian illustrator and cartoonist who lives and works in the north of England. She is the creator of the graphic novel Retrograde Orbit and the illustrated seasonal plant guide The Wild Year. She has worked with publishers such as Penguin Random House, Hachette, 2000 AD, Carlton and Canongate.

Alongside freelance work, Kristyna self-publishes comics and illustrated zines and experiments with risograph printing. Kristyna takes inspiration from nature and our historic and folkloric relationship with it, along with a heavy dose of 1990's pop nostalgia and sci-fi vibes. Her work is full of colour, character and feelings.

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Becky Cloonan

Becky Cloonan is an American comic book artist and writer with a lengthy resume of industry accomplishments and accolades. Highlights include a 2013 Eisner Award win for her self-published, written and drawn "Best Single Issue/One-Shot" The Mire. In 2023, she received the prestigious Inkpot award from San Diego Comic Con which celebrates an individual's contribution to the worlds of comics, scifi, fantasy, film, tv and fandom.

Becky is currently up for more acknowledgements as she was honored with a pair of Eisner nominations in 2024 for Somna (Best New Series) and "The Kelpie" from Four Gathered on Christmas Eve (Best Short Story.)

Throughout her career, Becky has worked with a majority of the industry's publishers and on many major titles. She is well known to fans for her contributions at DC Comics, writing Gotham Academy with co-writer Brenden Fletcher and popular runs on Wonder Woman and Batgirls with partner Michael Conrad. Cloonan has also had notable DC art duties including American Virgin, Northlanders and Swamp Thing. She was also the first female creator to ever draw a full issue of Batman.

Other major works include DEMO, which was nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2004, and East Coast Rising, which earned her a third Eisner nomination for her first ever solo graphic novel. At Dark Horse Comics, Cloonan also contributed art to a fan favorite run of Conan and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. Written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, Killjoys was an indie hit that served as a sequel to MCR's popular concept album, Danger Days.

At Marvel, Cloonan is best known for her Punisher run with the late great Steve Dillon. Becky has also collaborated with Image Comics, writing Southern Cross and collecting her celebrated self published work into the anthology, By Chance or Providence. Currently, Becky is a founding member of DSTLRY media and has just completed her first series Somna: A Bedtime Story with Tula Lotay.

Upcoming releases include HELLO DARKNESS at Boom! Studios and a TBA second title at DSTLRY.

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Ahmed Raafat

Ahmed Raafat is a UK based Egyptian comic book artist.

Ahmed began his career in comics in 2015 with "El-Osba" (Arabic for The League), an Egyptian superhero comic book series. In 2016 Ahmed moved to the UK, and has since then been an active member of British comics indie scene, collaborating with various small press publishers and creators over the years.

Ahmed is best known for his work on QUICK STOPS VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2 with director/writer Kevin Smith, published by Dark Horse comics. He has also previously worked with Netflix and Oni Press. His most recent work is WHO ARE THE POWER PALS, a superhero comedy mini series with Duane Murray and Rob Jones, published by Dark Horse comics and beginning in March 2025. His work is also currently exhibited at the Young V&A museum in London this February as part of an annual exhibition about stories and story tellers from Egypt.

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David Brothers

David Brothers was born in Georgia, found a new home in Oakland, edits Japanese manga for a living and American comics for a change of pace, and writes fiction for fun when he's not sitting by the dock of the bay.

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16 & 17 November 2024

Al Davison

Al Davison is an English comic book writer and artist from Newcastle, England. He now resides in Coventry, where he runs TAG!artworks, his studio and comic shop in Fargo Village with his wife Maggie. He is most famous for his autobiographical graphic novel The Spiral Cage from Active Images, (2003) which describes his lifelong struggle with Spina Bifida and his life as a comics creator, martial artist, and multimedia artist. He is also known for his work on IDW’s Doctor Who comic, and numerous titles for DC/Vertigo. The Spiral Cage featured in Tony Isabella’s 1000 Comic Books You Must Read.

Muscle Memory is an online sequel to The Spiral Cage. Al was commissioned by Unlimited and The Space to create a multimedia version (Muscle Memory in Motion) starting with Chapter 6, designed to make the work more accessible. He hopes to get funding to develop this approach across the whole book. Al is also keen to find a publisher for a physical edition of the book.

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Simon Spurrier

Simon “Si” Spurrier writes comics, prose and TV.

His comics projects run the gamut from mainstream-bothering fare like X-MEN, FLASH and HELLBLAZER through to Eisner- and Grand Prix D’Angouleme-nominated indie titles like CODA, DAMN THEM ALL and THE SPIRE. In 2020 he received a GLAAD award for his work on STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA.

Recent works include swamp-crime thriller THE VOICE SAID KILL and technohorror MINOTAUR.

He lives by the seaside and is surprisingly good with a bow and arrow.

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michael Conrad

Michael W. Conrad has often been described as “a gin soaked monster”, which is a lie, that was how Hemingway’s son described his father. Based on this, we can ascertain that Conrad is a liar, which is a fine way to describe a writer.

While Conrad laments the fact that his art is indeed a commodity, he revels in the high strangeness that has afforded him the opportunity to contribute to the legacies of many characters y’all know including: Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Godzilla, Nightwing, Doom Patrol, and countless others.

Michael’s own work has been markedly more subversive, including Tremor Dose and Double Walker. These books explore an absurd and often surreal anxiety, with a focus on an inability to reconcile one's own perceptions. With a number of creator owned projects currently in development, one can only imagine that these explorations will continue in future work. Conrad remains critical of himself, and often feels like an imposter, but as his contributions to comics grow, one can only imagine that such ideations are rapidly being replaced with dread.

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Rob Deas

Rob Deas is an award-winning UK comic artist with over 18 years’ experience in the UK comic industry and is the creator of Fawn for The Phoenix comic. Rob is also the primary artist and series editor for the weekly drawing tutorial series The Skills Hub and the artist for The Valhalla Protocol.

Rob will appear at our comic convention on Saturday 16 November 2024 only.

Fiona Stephenson

Fiona trained as an illustrator and has worked for TV and magazines, in her earlier career she worked as a colourist and letterer for DC comics, 2000AD and Warhammer 40,000.

She now paints traditionally in oil on canvas in a 1950's Pin-Up style and has produced covers for DC comic's 'Bodies' series, written by the late Si Spencer, it recently became a Netflix mini-series in 2023 featuring Stephen Graham. She also created a cover for Dark Horse Comics 'Black Hammer' universe by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston.

Her work has appeared on commercial packaging such as Along Came Betty toiletries for Tesco, Bunny Girls for a Playboy Marketing make-up range, t-shirts and shoes, a Sci-fi range of bedding for Asda, amongst various beer and wine labels. 

She is currently collaborating with Carousel Calendars for their 2025 and 2026 calendar range.

Fiona's art can be found in her co-owned comics and pin-up art shop Red Robot, The Arcade, Barnsley, UK. 

Website - www.fionastephenson.com

Facebook - Pin Up Art by Fiona Stephenson

Insta - pinupart.by.fiona.stephenson

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John Patrick Green

John Patrick Green lives and works in New York City where he makes books and comics about animals with human jobs, notably the smash-hit graphic novel series InvestiGators. He's worked as a comics consultant for Disney, Nickelodeon and Dreamworks. With over a million copies of InvestiGators - starring Mango and Brash the sewer-dwelling crime busters - in the wild, he also creates artwork for video games. He lives in a flat in Brooklyn that doesn't allow any pets, or animals, so he has to make do with the ones living in his imagination.

InvestiGators: High Rise Hi-Jinks was one of 2024’s most in demand World Book Day £1 books. As part of the World Book Day activities John took part in one of Waterstones’ largest ever virtual multi school events on World Book Day itself, reaching over 41,000 children in the UK and Ireland as well as schools in the United States, Uganda, Switzerland, Poland, Oman, Norway, Mauritius and Italy.

The InvestiGators series, which is a favourite amongst teachers and librarians as well as young readers, is also gaining recognition from judging panels. The seventh book in the series, All Tide Up, won its category in the inaugural Scholastic Graphic Novel Award. All Tide Up was also shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Award and Heist and Seek won the Spark! Book Award.

2025 sees the publication of Class Action, a third title in the off-shoot Agents of S.U.I.T. series Wild Ghost Chase and, in September, a special super-interactive solve-along puzzle book InvestiGators: Case Files packed with clues so that readers can solve the cases alongside Mango and Brash.

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Dean Ormston

Dean entered the world of comics working on Judge Dredd the Megazine way back in the 1990's. He soon moved on to DC Vertigo working on titles such as Lucifer, The Unwritten, House of Secrets, Books of Magick and Bodies, which was a Netflix mini series last year featuring Stephen Graham.

He is currently working with Jeff Lemire at Dark Horse Comics on the Black Hammer universe, Dean and Jeff won an Eisner Award for this creator owned series. Madam Dragonfly, a Black Hammer spin off, will be out next year.

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Michael D. Kennedy

Michael Daniel Kennedy is a British cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his comics collection Milk White Steed published by Drawn and Quarterly and illustrations for the New Yorker.

His work ranges from surreal auto-fiction to historical genre fiction that explores themes of social tension, racial identity and introspection.

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Garth Ennis

Garth Ennis has been writing comics since 1989. Credits include Preacher, The Boys (both adapted for TV), Hitman, Crossed and successful runs on The Punisher and Fury for Marvel Comics. He is particularly known for his war stories, including Battlefields, Sara, Partisan, The Stringbags and a revival of the classic British title Battle Action, for which he has written Johnny Red.

Originally from Holywood, Northern Ireland, Ennis splits his time between London and New York City with his wife, Ruth.

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Caroline Cash

Caroline Cash is a cartoonist who used to live in Chicago. Her work has appeared in various institutions and publications, including The New Yorker, MoMA, The Chicago Reader, VICE, and The Nib.

She is currently working on her Eisner and Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo, as well as a Marceline & Princess Bubblegum fanfiction.

She is a Capricorn.

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Becky Barnicoat

Becky Barnicoat is a cartoonist and writer. She has drawn for the New Yorker, the Guardian, Buzzfeed and Grazia, and has a weekly cartoon strip in the New Statesman.

Along with her debut book, Cry When the Baby Cries (published in 2025 by Jonathan Cape), she has also illustrated Holding the Baby by Nell Frizzell and 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World by Ailbhe Malone.

She lives with her family by the sea.

Find out more at BeckyBarnicoat.com, and see her work on Instagram: @beckybarnicomics.

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Duncan Fegredo

After all these years Duncan Fegredo finds it a bit weird talking about himself in the third person so let’s keep this brief.

Fegredo is known for a number of collaborations with Peter Milligan for VERTIGO, most notably ENIGMA. In more recently years he has worked with Mike Mignola on his signature creation, HELLBOY, including The Wild Hunt and GIANT ROBOT HELLBOY. Even as he dictates the words you are reading now he is all too aware he should be inking pages for GIANT HELLBOY RETURNS.

He’s done other stuff as well including a bit of storyboarding but you can Google that if you like.

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Posy Simmonds

Posy Simmonds is best known for the strip cartoons and serials that were published in The Guardian, and the books that derive from them. These include True Love, Literary Life and the graphic novels Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe and Cassandra Darke. 

She is the winner of several awards, including Le Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême in 2024.

Posy will be appearing on Saturday 15 November only.

Warwick Johnson-Cadwell

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Christian Ward

Christian Ward is a multi-Eisner winning comic book creator. Currently writing EVENT HORIZON for IDW, as well as having recently written the critically acclaimed TWO FACE series for DC comics.

As an artist he is perhaps best known for BATMAN: CITY OF MADNESS (which he also wrote), Spectregraph (written by James Tynion ) and the cosmic space opera INVISIBLE KINGDOM ( co-created with G Willow Wilson). He is also a prolific cover artist for DC Comics, BOOM, Image Comic and others.

Ward lives in Shrewsbury with his two daughters, his wife Catherine and pug named Thor.

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Monty Nero

Monty writes and draws the popular indie cyberpunk series Chrome Roses, which raised $75,000 on Kickstarter, and created the award-winning 'Death Sentence' series with artist Mike Dowling, recently collected as a 470 page hardback by Titan in English and published by Delcourt in French. He's written The Hulk and X-men for Marvel, stories for 2000ad and Vertigo Comics, and collaborated with artists as diverse as Martin Simmonds, Salvador Larroca, and Al Davison.

He lives in Dundee, Scotland, and his agent is James Wills at Watson Little Ltd. You can find him at www.montynero.com or online @montynero

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Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley is best known for redefining characters such as Lobo with DC Comics and for the celebrated Batman/Judge Dredd Judgement on Gotham, which earned him an Eisner for best artist.

He has produced countless painted covers and interior works for Heavy Metal, DC’s Lobo, Hellblazer, Doom Patrol, Judge Dredd and others - becoming a major influence on modern comic art globally.

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nathan Stockman

I'm an Irish artist, best known for various Spider-related series for Marvel.

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babs Tarr

Babs Tarr is a professional comic artist and illustrator best known for her run on Batgirl of Burnside, creator-owned comic Motor Crush, Overwatch OGN London Calling, and co-host of Critical Role's Pub Draw!

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Lauren Knight

Lauren Knight is a queer comic artist and writer based in Scotland who has worked with publishers like Image, BOOM! Studios, IDW and Dark Horse and contributed to various anthologies.

Her debut series ‘Golden Rage,’ with co-creator Chrissy Williams was published by Image comics in 2023. Their new miniseries ‘Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best,’ is out now!

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Mark Buckingham

MARK BUCKINGHAM is a multiple Eisner award winning artist who has been working in comics for thirty-eight years, building a reputation for design, storytelling, and a chameleon like diversity of art styles.

Mark is best known as the regular artist on Fables for DC Comics. He was also writer of ‘The Clamour for Glamour’; the final story arc of Fairest, a companion title to Fables.

He is known for his work on numerous comics including Hellblazer, Sandman, Death, Merv Pumpkinhead, Shade the Changing Man, Generation-X, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider 2099, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Doctor Who, The Titans, Peter Parker: Spider-Man, Miracleman, and the Dead Boy Detectives.

He is also an animator, musician, album cover artist, and book illustrator, the later primarily working with Sir Lenny Henry.

Mark is currently working for Marvel, contributing this year to Amazing Spider-Man, Giant Size Spider-Man #1, Fantastic Four Fanfare, and Fantastic Four: First Steps. In addition, his Poison Ivy Annual 2025, for DC Comics, will be released just prior to Thought Bubble.

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Megan Huang

Canadian comic artist with credits for, DC, IDW, Z2, 2000 AD, Oni, Titan, Magma Comix, Dark Horse, and more!

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Dima nassar

Dima Nassar is a Palestinian product designer, visual artist and comic artist based in Ramallah, Palestine. She recently participated in a comics summer camp run by the Power Group, Bethlehem and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival working with Mollie Ray. The resulting anthology ‘Qusasat’ showcases Dima’s innovative use of the comic art medium. 

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Kevin Maguire

Kevin Maguire is a comic book artist most known for his 80s run on Justice League International. His other credits include Man Of Steel, Supergirl, X-Men Forever, The Adventures Of Captain America, Batman Confidential, World’s Finest, Defenders, Metal Men, Godzilla, and countless other books. His creator owned projects have included Strikeback, Trinity Angels, and Tanga. Currently, he’s still doing a variety of comics stuff.

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Gary Erskine

Gary Erskine is a comic book artist with 35 years experience working for MARVEL and DC Comics, 2000AD, Image Comics, and other publishers including indies as well as working in the commercial sector delivering graphic design on many projects. He is also an educator teaching Sequential Art classes to animation students and Storyboarding for film at college level, and hosts creative workshops at schools and libraries.

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Gom Pilote

Gom Pilote is a multi-facetted and style-shifting 2D artist, illustrator and musician from France. Primarily working within the framework of award-winning video game studios (CD Projekt Red, Ubisoft), they're also involved in many projects on the side a lot as a freelancer: illustration, comics, Twitch livestreams, and music production. Gom also performs as a solo singer-songwriter; their debut EP "Light Bringer" was released in October 2024.

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joe Quinones

Joe Quinones burst onto the comics scene in 2009 with his work on the Eisner-award winning anthology, Wednesday Comics. He has since continued on to a prolific career in the industry as an illustrator, comic book artist and designer. Known for his unique style and expressive character work, Joe has been involved in several acclaimed series, including Howard the Duck, Dial H for Hero, and most recently Batman ‘89.

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Mark Sable

Mark Sable is a professional writer for print, stage and screen best known for his creator-owned comic books, and a writing professor.

Mark is best known for his comics work. He’s written such characters as SPIDER-MAN and the FANTASTIC for Marvel Comics and BATMAN for DC. His passion however is his creator-owned work, including GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES and GROUNDED (with Paul Azaceta) for Image Comics and UNTHINKABLE (with Julian Totino Tedesco) for Boom! Studios.

Some of his more recent work includes BOXED (with Jeremy Haun) for ComiXology Originals, CIRCUS MAXIMUS for Mad Cave and MISKATONIC for Aftershock Comics (both with Giorgio Pontrelli).  He also successfully Kickstarted and self-published CHAOTIC NEUTRAL, the first combination comic and Dungeons & Dragons adventure.

Mark also teaches writing for SVA’s MFA in Visual Narrative program, which he helped found since the Fall of 2013.

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Mike Lowery

Mike Lowery is a New York Times Best-Selling Illustrator who has worked on more than eighty books for kids, including “They Call Me No Sam!” by Drew Daywalt, "The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School" by Laura Murray, "Mac B, Kid Spy" by Mac Barnett, “I Do Not Want to Read This Book” by actor Max Greenfield and a series with Jeopardy Champion, Ken Jennings.

Mike is also the author of more than a dozen books, including “Pizza Shark,” the "Bug Scouts" series of graphic novels for kids, and the “Everything Awesome” series from Scholastic Books. His newest book, “Scary Shark,” will be released on July 1, 2025.

Mike collects weird facts and illustrates them every day in his sketchbook. He lives with his wife Katrin and their two kids in Atlanta, GA. Visit Mike online at https://www.mikelowery.com or on Instagram at @mikelowerystudio.

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Evan Cagle

A former animator and art director of video games, animation, film and tv, Evan Cagle has amassed accolades from peers and fans for his unique, highly-detailed blend of classical illustration and cross-cultural visual storytelling.

Evan first delved into comics with award winning covers for Dune: House Atreides, Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Chosen Ones (for which he won the ASFA Chesley), The Witcher, and Stranger Things.

His first sequential work was in DC's Catwoman, followed by pages in Superman and The Authority. While working on his first creator-owned comic, the critically acclaimed Dawnrunner, he also created iconic covers for Detective Comics, garnering an Eisner nomination and introducing his work to a wider world of readers.

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Bex Ollerton

Bex Ollerton is an Eisner award-nominated comic creator from Manchester, UK. She makes work about mental health, neurodivergence and the general struggles of being a human being in an overwhelming world.

Ollerton strives to use the medium to convey a strong emotional truth and discuss things that can be hard to talk about.

She posts her work online under the handle @schnumn.

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Steve Yeowell

Steve Yeowell’s first professional work was with Grant Morrison on licensed toy series “Zoids” in the pages of Marvel UK’s “Spider Man And Zoids”, before moving on to draw 2000AD’s superhero character “Zenith”. At 2000AD and The Judge Dredd Megazine he has also drawn “Judge Dredd”, “DeMarco PI”, “The Red Seas”, “Black Shuck”, “Sinister Dexter” and “Harrower Squad”.

For DC Comics he pencilled “Sebastian O”, “The Invisibles”, “Starman”, “Legends Of The Dark Knight” and “The Atom” and for Marvel Comics he pencilled “Skrull Kill Krew”. He has drawn covers and stories for Ahoy Comics and Legendary Comics in the US and “Commando” published by DC Thomson in the UK.

He is currently working with writer Rob Williams and artist Patrick Goddard on a project for 2000AD.

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Olaf Falafel

Olaf Falafel is  an author, illustrator and a stand-up comedian (which is pretty similar to a stand-up chameleon except he doesn't change colour to blend in with the background). He's the winner of The Funniest Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe and has created and performed several stupidly named comedy shows including Olaf Falafel and the Cheese Of Truth.  

As well as trying to make people laugh on stage, Olaf draws a lot and tries to come up with funny ideas for kids books. He also has an Art Club on Youtube full of real drawing tips and facts about famous artists. In 2019 Olaf visited 100 schools in 100 days - and then put his feet up and had a cup of tea.

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DAPO ADEOLA

Dapo Adeola is an illustrator, author and character designer who was awarded Illustrator of the Year at The British Book Awards in 2022. Dapo rocketed into the picture book world with his greatly acclaimed illustrator debut, Look Up!, written by Nathan Bryon and published by Puffin in 2019, which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2020. Dapo illustrated My Dad is a Grizzly Bear and My Mum Is a Lioness written by award-winning author Swapna Haddow (both published by Macmillan Children’s Books), and collaborated with Malorie Blackman on their picture book We’re Going to Find the Monster!

Dapo made his author debut in 2021 with the Puffin published picture book Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black, featuring 18 talented Black British illustrators, which also went on to win Illustrated book of the year at The British Book Awards in 2022.

Born in Britain and of Nigerian heritage, Dapo is an avid believer in the importance of equal representation in the creative arts. He currently lives in Manchester.

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Mark Bradley

Mark Bradley is a Leeds-based comic artist and writer, and is the creator of the Bumble & Snug graphic novel series. He grew up reading stories about ghosts and monsters and promptly decided that he preferred them to humans (a decision which he has yet to regret).

To date the Bumble & Snug books have been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Prize, The Week Junior Book Awards, as well as winning the inaugural Scholastic Graphic Novel Prize. He is passionate about the role that comics can play in education and children’s literacy.

He loves pop music and cherry bakewells, and is currently at work building a small army of Lego crabs for reasons which must remain secret.

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Jim Zub

Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past twenty years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco. He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and a professor teaching drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca Polytechnic’s award-winning Animation program.

His current comic projects include acting as the flagship writer for Conan the Barbarian, the monthly adventures of the legendary sword & sorcery hero.

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