Two-day comic convention with over 600 comic-creating exhibitors and special guests, including Charlie Adlard and Tula Lotay, at the Harrogate Convention Centre.
Thought Bubble returns to the Harrogate Convention Centre on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November, the two-day convention that brings the Yorkshire Comic Art Festival to its peak. It's one of the UK's longest-running comic conventions, and this year the Exhibition Halls will play host to over 600 comic-creating exhibitors, so there's a huge amount of work to look through across the weekend.
Among the special guests are Charlie Adlard, who drew The Walking Dead, Jeffrey Brown, Caspar Wijngaard, Al Ewing, and co-founder Tula Lotay. The convention is just the finale of a wider festival week running from 9 to 15 November, with free events scattered across the county before everything converges here in Harrogate. That includes the Comics Forum, the social drawing evening Pints and Pencils, and Free Comic Day, which gives away thousands of all-ages comics.
There's a bit of history behind it, too. Thought Bubble was co-founded in 2007 by Lisa Wood, better known as Tula Lotay, while she was working at the Leeds comic book shop Travelling Man. The first one was a single day in the basement of Leeds Town Hall; it's grown from there into a cornerstone of the international comics community, with Popverse calling it 'the most important comic convention around'. It's run as a not-for-profit by a small team, with Barnardo's as its chosen charity.
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On the day, the convention runs from 10am to 6pm on Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday, both at the Exhibition Halls in the Harrogate Convention Centre (HG1 5LA). With over 600 exhibitors, it's a proper day out for anyone into comics, whether you're there for the big names or to find something new.
