DEBUTING COMIC BOOKS

Browse this year’s debuting comics, books and zines fresh from Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2026’s exhibitors!

●    The Collected Letters of Courier Z volume 2, by Nick Bryan, Flo Woolley, Len Gogos, Elena Cerisciola, Elena Artese, Jordi Pérez, A.H.G., DC Hopkins and Claire Napier - A second darkly comic collection of stories about Zara Z, a scifi postwoman who has now turned to crime to make ends meet. All written by Nick Bryan, and drawn by a mailbag of great artists!

Find at: Redshirt Hall B14 - bindings.app/l/nickbryan

● The Patrolman by Nick Twyford and Will Chetwynd - Beginning a new vigilante crime series set in an alternative London cut off from the rest of the world.

Find at: Travelling Man Hall B36-B37 - kickstarter.com/projects/timebomb/the-patrolman-book-one

● DEATHMETAL, by NessieMooo and Mouette - A lesbian NEET magical girl from Leicester, UK fights ghosts, her mental health and sense of identity, … and maybe saves the world a little bit?

Find at: Redshirt Hall E25b - kickstarter.com/projects/nessiemooo/deathmetal-comic-about-a-magical-girl-from-leicester

● Sins of My Father, by Yomi Ayeni, Corey Brothers, and Shannon Kirkwood - Sins of My Father Four - This is the 12th book in the Steampunk series. The spectre of death and destruction begins to draw across the lives of our main characters - Janav, Amelia and Herakles as the consequences of their actions drag them to an inevitable and brutal tipping point.

Find at: Redshirt Hall B27 - clockworkwatch.org

● Space Banshee Exorcist by Katie Cunningham and Danielle Wiebe - The adventures of a banshee who's also an exorcist - in space! Interstellar hi-jinks from a queer creative team.

Find at: Travelling Man Hall B36 - B37 - kickstarter.com/projects/timebomb/space-banshee-exorcist

● 10 Lost Days, by Sam Hart - In the 16th Century, as the Julian Calendar changed to Gregorian, 10 days were skipped. This is the story of those lost days.

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall C50 - instagram.com/samrahart

● Grinding Against The Marrow- Snake and Mauro De Falco - It’s Halloween. All the ghouls are out! We’re stuck in the small-minded town of Marrow with Soma, an all action, homeless Muslim of minimal words. Shes hunted by packs of mask-wearing youths, and corrupt cops. But she’s also got one particular skill that makes her formidable: parkour free running! AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Redshirt Hall D17a - instagram.com/snake87smw

● My Beloved Other by Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson - An Antifascist Memoir of Love, Race and Optimism in a Time of Denial

Find at: Bubbleboy Hall C3 - instagram.com/mybelovedother

● Operation Noyade - Act Three, by Yomi Ayeni, Graham Leggett - Operation Noyade Noyade is a socio-economic tale about life in the late 80’s, when austerity, unemployment and homelessness were order of the day in the UK. Originally written as a film script in 1989, the story has been adapted to a graphic novel series that’s illustrated by Graham Leggett, and lettered by Mike Stock.

Find at: Redshirt Hall B27 - http://www.yomster.com

● ROMO the WolfBoy, by ILYA - Romo, a feral child rumoured raised by wolves, and Francis, a young roustabout, are the newest recruits of Blimey O’Riley’s Victorian Travelling Circus. From rivals, to partners – can they team up and identify the mysterious, giggling culprit behind baffling acts of sabotage while becoming a top act in the meantime? Comedy Drama with elements of Mild Spooky Horror, suitable for All Ages.

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall C3a - amazon.co.uk/Romo-WolfBoy-ILYA

● HORIORROR - A Greek Folk Horror Comics Anthology, by Ariadne Tzounakou, Nikki Spanou & Ilias Kyriazis, Philip Vlachos, Stella Stergiou, Len Gog, Smar, Steve Stivaktis, Max Rue, Auguste Kanakis - Be it legends, folk tales, or simply the isolation of standing out in a small, close-knit community, HORIORROR is about the horrors and anxieties of rural Greece. AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Travelling Man Hall C8a - instagram.com/lengogart

● Worms book the third, by Erika Price - Doom has come to Vatican City. The final volume in Erika Price’s gothic horror series. Lashings of catholic guilt and decay AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Redshirt Hall D46

● Killjoy #6, by Robert Brown - Killjoy #6 presents the second part of ‘The Great British Summer Holiday’, an autobiographical story that takes place in Bournemouth in 1997. It’s a slice-of-life memoir comic about the frolics and failures of a family holiday in coastal England in the ’90s.

Find at: Redshirt Hall C42b - robertbrowncomi.cz

● Plant Knight, by Rachel Cutts - A fantasy mystery adventure. Plant Knight explores friendship, connection, and what it means to be human.

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall B48a - instagram.com/_raychii

● Nina by Chie Hosaka - With magical realism and wry humour, Chie Hosaka’s debut graphic novel tells a bitter-sweet story of migrant life, pregnancy-loss and learning to let go. Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels /Literary. AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Bubbleboy Hall B16a - instagram.com/chiehosaka

● Legends & Lattes (the Graphic Novel), by Travis Baldree, illustrated by Shanti Rittgers, Sarah Webb, adapted by Samuel Sattin - Based on the 2020 cozy fantasy book, Legends and Lattes is a tale about an orc giving up her days of adventuring to open up the first coffee shop in the bustling town of Thune.

Find at: Redshirt Hall C12b - https://www.queerlit.co.uk/products/legends-lattes-the-graphic-novel

● The Cutting Garden by Erin Connally, Darcy Van Poelgeest, and Aditya Bidikar - A mysterious young girl seeks out a florist to deliver a painful truth that will forever change them both in this tender Southern Gothic drama about our need for love and the creatures we become in its absence.

Find at: Travelling Man Hall A6 - https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cutting-garden/darcy-van-poelgeest/erin-connally/9781534330801

● INDIANS FOR PALESTINE - COMICS OF SOLIDARITY - I contributed my art for the book, Indians for Palestine brings together a compelling collection of comics and cartoons, consolidating diverse Indian voices in creative solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall C21a - https://studioniyet.com/

● The Grand Bug Hotel - Ollie Silvester - Welcome to The Grand Bug Hotel: five-star luxury, world-famous service… and absolute mayhem. A middle grade, busy and detailed Graphic Novel about friendship and adventure.

Find at: Bubbleboy Hall B29a - waterstones.com/book/the-grand-bug-hotel/ollie-silvester/9781800660687

● A Heart of Lead, by goroweko - A Victorian one-shot manga about loneliness, the importance of being seen and the quiet courage of staying yourself when the word keep telling you not to.

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall B39 - patreon.com/goroweko/posts/heart-of-lead-165775220

● We Don't Go Through the Angelgrass, by Courtney Loberg - A coming-of-age folktale about queer outsiders surrounded by a carnivorous prairie.

Find at: Bubbleboy Hall C6a - instagram.com/bluecrystalranger

● STARDATE, by Eran Aviram and Aviv Or - Tracy, absolutely fed up with her local dating scene, is whisked away to STARDATE! A reality dating show...in space!

Find at: Redshirt Hall B5 - uptofourplayers.com/stardate

● Summer on the Swing, Amy and Keith Grachow - A coming of age graphic novel set in the summer of 1965 in a bungalow colony in Upstate New York. It's about a teen girl, who having just lost her mom, escapes into her books while struggling with friendship, community, anti-semitism and racism.

Find at: Bubbleboy Hall B28 - kgrachow.com

● After the Fall: Chapter 2, By Norton - On a ravaged earth recovering from a lethal viral outbreak, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi comedy follows a top-secret mission into a deadly wasteland to retrieve an Asset capable of triggering a second apocalypse... and we're still getting over the first one! AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Redshirt Hall 217a - Instagram.com/nortonomicon

● Ru McKay - A Sci-fi journey, A deep space Cassandra comes to terms with their future and their past through a voyage of life and death.

Find at: Redshirt Hall D35a - rsmckayillustration.co.uk/the-navigator

● Islands of Weirdhope by David Blandy and Daniel Locke - Windwaker meets Waterworld in this rules light science fantasy TTRPG for solo and group play. Explore a near-future hazardous but hopeful world, smashing Corpo Schemes while discovering Monsters and Mecha lurking beneath the waves.

Find at: Travelling Man Hall - B9 - copypastecoop.com

● A Universal Defender Story: UNITED Initiates, by Michael Kirby, Dany Rivera - Sci-fi adventure begins with Ross taking his first heroic step into The United, where he joins Olivia, Reks, Diva, and Tech 42 and discovers what it takes to become a true hero.

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall C42b - unitedcomic.com

● Godzilla: Revenge of the Deadzone #1, by Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Pablo Tunica, and Tom Williams - Continues the story from Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone within IDW's shared "Kai-Sei" comic universe. AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall C51a

● OKOSHÜ: The Spirits of Ahkurr, by Jordan Saria Oram and Khalif Koleoso - Half siblings Mpilo and Wakiri are captured and separated by the Kingdom of Estrya’s enforcing brigade. Alone for the first time, they find themselves on a journey for survival and self discovery as they search for a way back to one another. Genre: Supernatural/ Fantasy. Themes: Coming of Age, Family, Identity

Find at: Travelling Man Hall B11 - okoshu.com

● The Loser’s Party, by Dom Wright - It’s FutureCon'74, and Milton Ziemanskye and Harvey Cohen, the world’s most overlooked SF authors, wander the corridors of the Baltimore Regency, looking for the Loser's Party. AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Redshirt Hall B44b - dotdotdotcomics.com

● EroTech: The Collected Edition by Sean Haines and Geoffrey Krawczyk - Bad Bosses, Crazy Co-Workers and Sex Robots. What could go wrong? Collects all 5 issues of SHP's smash comedy hit! AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Redshirt Hall C11a - shpcomics.com/pages/erotech

● The Bloodied #3: Sapient Spawn-The Capo Demon; by Nathanael Underwood, Raco - Follow the fictionalized members of metal band Damim as they search for a mysterious artifact in an alternate hellish dimension in the third installment of The Bloodied, a delightful death metal comedy cross over from Nightside Publishing.

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall C6 - thebloodied.com

● The Threshold Tarot by Lucian Summerisle - The Threshold Tarot is a new interpretation of the tarot, hand drawn and in only 8 colours. Expect divine, queer chaos, real magic, beautiful monstrosity, and a jingly sense of jestery fun throughout. AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: Redshirt Hall E19 - margravelucian.bigcartel.com/product/threshold-tarot

● Root Mandrake: Mud Monster Mayhem by Mister Hope - Root Mandrake is a mischief machine. With his trusty pal Stanley Snail, they set out to cause maximum havoc...but will the Mud Monster thwart their plans?!

Find at: Bubbleboy Hall B13- misterhope.bigcartel.com/product/root-mandrake-1-mud-monster-mayhem

● Odysseus - In Defiance of the Gods. The Collection, by Laurence Alison, Vu Danh and Bhuna - The Odyssey brought to life as a graphic novel - The 156 page, collection of Odysseus - In Defiance of the Gods! Books One to Four. AGES 18+ ONLY

Find at: The 2000 AD Hall C57 - kickstarter.com/projects/bhuna/odysseus-in-defiance-of-the-gods-the-collection

● Seed, by Ellie Durkin - A simple spell. A mysterious bird. A coveted seed. All Figbert wants to do is practice his magic and revive his marrow plant in time for pickling season, but nothing’s quite that easy is it? When Figbert’s foraging awakens something unexpected, he ends up in quite the pickle himself; one which could also threaten the whole Squashed Forest he calls home.

Find at: Travelling Man Hall C15 - instagram.com/pickleddurkin