Thought Bubble 2023: The Con Swag

by Olly MacNamee

It’s been a week since Thought Bubble and only now have I been able to collect up all my con swag and post it. In the past few years I have seemed to come back with less and less, enjoying the company and the con more, but this year I decided to go all out. As a result I came away with some amazing new indie comic books as well as some pretty neat original artwork, with an original page from James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds’ Universal Monsters: Dracula #1 being my prize buy. So, before I sent it off to the framers I got a quick pic alongside the other art I picked up from Roger Langridge, Johnathan Edwards and a kick-ass Judge Dredd page by Ian Richardson.

Martin Simmonds’ Universal Monsters: Dracula #1
Judge Dredd page by Ian Richardson
Original watercolour by Johnathan Edwards
‘A Christmas Carol’ by Roger Langridge
‘Snarked’ page 10 by Roger Langridge
‘Snarked’ page Roger Langridge

And now the comic haul, including a con exclusive edition from DSTLRY as well as a Somna ash-can, plus a few other odds and sods, including a UK Superman Annual from 1983 which i found in a local charity shop. A book I had as a child which meant a lot to me as it was one of the first books that drew me into comics, and in particular DC Comics.