
The Wednesday Waffle (Friday Edition because we've been crazy busy) - Issue Five: It's a Con!
Thought Bubble has been and gone for another year, and we thought we'd take some time to review what we regard as the absolute BEST comic convention in the UK... This is the second year that the weekend convention - the grand finale of what is in fact a week long festival of comics/sequential art/graphic narrative/whatever you want to call them - took up station in the centre of Leeds and it was every bit as glorious as last year. Previously the convention had been housed on

In Memorium - Terry Wiley
Today is a sad day, as a true pillar of the UK comics scene goes to his final rest. Terry Wiley was a mainstay of the British "Small Press" comics community for decades. I first met him in 1993, at that year's UK Comics Art Convention, when he and his then partner-in-comics Dave Mckinnon sold me several copies of their excellent surreal adventure series Sleaze Castle. Over the years we would meet at many other conventions and he would continue to sell me his creations, Perter

The Wednesday Waffle - Issue Four: Costume Party (Part Two)
Superhero costumes are a constant source of amusement and bemusement. So let's continue our exploration of the oddest clothes in comics. It's always difficult to know where to start, but I think Nightwing is as good a place as any. I mean, it's not as though poor old Dick Grayson got off to a good start in the costume stakes, given that as Robin he ran around dressed like this? Truly Robin's original costume stands as one of the very, very few male costumes that can give the