So here’s some very welcome news in these grim times. Thought Bubble, in partnership with the Travelling Man chain of comics shops, will be providing three sets of micro-bursaries again…
Time for another batch of Thought Bubble 2023 guests to be announced! This time it includes such names as Juni Ba, Rachael Smith, Lucy Sullivan and Explodikid. Full details below….
When festival promotion includes images of one of our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ creators like Shane Melisse (below) it gets extra priority on the posting list. The first guests…
The final guests for this year’s Thought Bubble have been announced today featuring some long-time BF favourites, including our own ‘Six to Watch’ artist Sabba Khan. Full details in the…
As you all know, comics community is very important to us here at Broken Frontier so we are always keen to put a spotlight on projects and initiatives that bring…
Thought Bubble has announced its first guests for 2022 alongside the dates for this year’s, as ever, eagerly anticipated festival. Obviously with the news of the passing of British comics…
With just over a couple of weeks to go the Thought Bubble team have released details of this year’s full programme of events, panels, signings and workshops, including our own…
While not all the Broken Frontier team will be at Thought Bubble this year, we will be there in spirit. Long-term friend of the site Nora Goldberg has organised a…
We’ve always prided ourselves on our event coverage at BF, providing themed weeks/fortnights/months like our Hackney Comic + Zine Fair Month, ELCAF Fortnight and Safari Festival Fortnight. It’s been an…
We love to shine a spotlight on a good comics community project here at Broken Frontier and Thought Bubble’s Comic Book Drive certainly fits that category. Details on a really…
An actual year without comics festivals and cons may only be a matter of months in real terms but somehow it’s felt like decades for all of us whose world…
Thought Bubble – like so many festivals/conventions since March this year – has had to reinvent itself as an online experience for 2020. The UK’s largest comics festival event announced…
While we were all aware of the inevitability of today’s announcement the news that there will be no Thought Bubble in a physical sense in 2020 has already been greeted…
THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! Our final Thought Bubble post every year is the customary festival scrapbook round-up (from a very Broken Frontier perspective of course) and, with the festival’s double move…
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital storefront,…
Tired but so, so inspired. Five words that sum up our post-Thought Bubble feelings here at Broken Frontier Towers. B-Fronts hit T-Bubs (did I really just type that?) in Leeds…
While we’re all gearing up in the UK for the juggernaut of comics festivals that is the all-encompassing Thought Bubble at the weekend our chums at Gosh! Comics in London…
Our batteries recharged after a hectic weekend in Leeds, today the Broken Frontier Editorial team of EdieOP and Andy Oliver take a belated lookback on the new-look Thought Bubble Festival……
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