Thought Bubble 2025: Joe Sacco And More Guests Announced

Thought Bubble is the last big comic convention of the year here in the UK. And its always the one I look forward to the most. Even moreso on hearing the following guests are to attend this year’s show. Here’s an update on those guests:

Kieron Gillen, (The Wicked + The Divine, DIE, Once & Future, The Power Fantasy); Swedish artist and author Linnea Sterte, (A Frog in the Fall); three times-Eisner Award winning British illustrator and DSTLRY founding member Tula Lotay (Bodies, Scarlet Witch and Barnstormers); Athens-born comic artist Dani (2000 AD, Batman);  L.A.-based cartoonist and filmmaker Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees); French illustrator and comics artist Stephanie Hans (DIE); award-winning author/illustrator Dave Roman (Teen Boat!, Agnes Quill); illustrator, artist and colourist Bex Glendining, Italian artist and animator Francesca Fantini, Eisner-nominated and GLAAD Award winning comics artist Caspar Wijngaard, comic writer Peter Hogan, multi award-winning Irish artist/writer Declan Shalvey, British artist Laurence Campbell, Eisner-Award winning Leeds-based illustrator John J. Pearson, Scottish conceptual artist Ian McQue, acclaimed US comic artist Dave Wachter, comic creator and animation director Hamish Steele, Rick and Morty comics artist Marc Ellerby, manga artist Sonia Leong, IGNATZ award winning writer and illustrator Shazleen Khan, cartoonist Lucie Ebrey, Eisner-nominated cartoonist and author Kristyna Baczynski, and award-winning comic creator Rachael Smith.

Plus, very special guest renowned cartoonist and investigative journalist, Joe Sacco, whose groundbreaking comics documenting Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories in the early ‘90s pioneered the comics journalism form of reportage, winning the prestigious American Book Award in 1996 before being compiled into the graphic novel Palestine in 2001.