Thought Bubble Festival 2023 - Roundup!

Our 2023 Festival Week was CRAMMED with excellent comic focused events. First, we decorated independent businesses in Leeds with an art trail of 16 of our past festival images! We had ND Stevenson and Molly Knox Ostertag in conversation as part of Creative Networks at a packed out Leeds Arts University. Vice Press screened the iconic Batman ‘89 in Leeds AND Harrogate, with a beautiful exclusive art print to go with it. Leeds Central Library hosted our annual Rainbow Age Book Club this year with a ‘Queer Comix Forever’ talk, hosted by the excellent Jack Fallows. The incredible Tula Lotay and Becky Cloonan wowed us with live painting at the DSTLRY Launch Party. Our friends Travelling Man donated heaps of LGBTQ+ comics to Leeds Libraries. We brought Dapo Adeola to Yorkshire to run fun children’s workshops in Headingley Library! We had an excellent time sketching with pals at Pints and Pencils. And FINALLY, we put our beautiful past festival images into the windows of 15 independent businesses around Leeds, to create a comic art trail. Phew.

Thought Bubble Festival 2023 was proudly sponsored by LeedsBID. Photo credits to Andrew Benge, Sarah Oglesby and Wisdom Makubile.