THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! An exciting trio of comics coming from those specialists in forgotten indie gems at Dark & Golden. These cracking comics debut at Thought Bubble and include work from Dave Gibbons, Kevin Woodcock and Carol Swain. They’re available as well from their website this very evening. Full details in the press release below.
Dark & Golden Books are pleased to announce three new titles to be released at Thought Bubble 2024 on the 15th and 16th of November, with copies available from our site for preorder from 9pm tonight. We’re very excited to be continuing our relationship with all of the below artists, and making more of their unseen and obscure work out into the world.
Another Way Out by Carol Swain
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Dark & Golden are pleased to once more welcome you into the evocative world of Carol Swain’s comics in this new collection of three previously unpublished pieces. 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 the truth you have known all along. Another Way Out collects three never before seen comics by Carol Swain: Vast New Market, Coming of Age, and a sequence from Mwnci Siwt, her forthcoming graphic novel.
I’ll Be Glad When Today is Over by Kevin Woodcock
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I’ll Be Glad When Today is Over is a new selection of the work of Kevin Woodcock, featuring rare and favourite cartoons from the pages of Private Eye, Punch and the Spectator. The cartoons of Kevin Woodcock are a trip to a place that is just not quite right. In this new collection, spend a day in his world as a series of calamities unfold about you. From sudden octopi and horrifying zoos, to bleak tropical islands and unwelcoming living rooms, this is a collection of comics that you won’t be able to get out of your head.
The Dead Are Awake and Walking by Dave Gibbons
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Dark & Golden Books are once more excited to present one of the foundational comic works by Dave Gibbons as we re-present The Dead Are Awake and Walking from the cult classic digest series, Pocket Chiller Library. Dark and Golden books are pleased to return this lost milestone to print. Originally published in 1971, The Dead Are Awake and Walking is the very first professional comics work by Dave Gibbons. A story of creeping dread, of the uncanny and of betrayal, it heralded the debut of a major comics talent.
Dark & Golden Books are dedicated to charting a less travelled course through the history of British comics, finding and celebrating mislaid and forgotten classics for the audience of today in new high-quality editions.
Dark & Golden/Douglas Noble will be at Table B33 in the 2000 AD Hall at Thought Bubble.
Thought Bubble 2025 runs from November 1oth-16th with the convention weekend taking place on the 15th-16th. More details on the Thought Bubble site here.
Read all our Thought Bubble 2025 coverage so far in one place here.
Poster by Ng Yin Shian
