Thought Bubble (Leeds Sequential Art Festival)

EEP! Utter utter Eep!

Okay so, today Me and the lovely Sarah journeyed to the far off land of Leeds in order to go to the Leeds Though Bubble, which I like to think of as a Northern Comic-con type ordeal. It was LOVELY!

I will begin from when I woke up, LATE and with very little time to sort all my stuff out this morning (insomnia) so, when I caught the train, just on time, I discovered I'd forgotten my camera at home (balls!) and my iPod (double balls!) so I decided I'd just have to get photos on my phone and as soon as this thought entered my brain, my phone ran out of battery! (Super-Balls!)

ANyway, I got to Leeds okay and met up with Sarah and off we flew, to The Royal Armories/ Savile Hall when the whole shebang was going down. Now I will admit, I'd never heard of Though Bubble until one of my stalkees John Allison posted somewhere that he was going to be a resident. SO, I sought him out first and my reaction was a little like...

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Now here are three things I learnt about him
1. He looks younger than he is, he's not like ancient but he looks like he's in his 20's, witchcraft.

2. He's really nice, he signed and drew in both of the Bad Machinery books I bought.

3. He sells his stuff for a bargain, 2 books, a sticker and a magnet for £15, though I'm sure they should have cost £18 (by my amazing maths thats a  16& discount (wrong))

So yes, I bought the 3rd and fourth Bad Machinery books, and they're lovely, he drew in them: 

You can buy some of his stuff here! It will prevent him from starving.

After leaving John Allison's (always the hole name) table, and venturing into another building, I was shocked when I saw familiar bunny/lobster crossbreeds and it turned out that anothe victim of my online stalking Emma Evans, a.k.a T-EE was there! And I nearly died! She was under her table when I got there for some reason, but she quickly emerged and I bought a hard copy of her short comic Terry, I'm proud to say that I was the first to buy it. EEEEP!

And then I ran out of money... I was ill-prepared for so many lovely things, in particular this, which I will just have to order online. T-EE makes some really amazing pieces, and she's quite a crafty artist and makes lots of plush animals (I've personally bought an Owl which was a gift for a friend and my own Lobby!) 

There were other amazing people there, whom I did not buy from, namely Gail Simone, who is one of my favorite comic writers and responsible for me getting into mainstream comics but I had NO clue she'd be there and I would have taken one of my Batgirl or Birds of Prey books had I known, Argh! 

Anyway, I'm gonna go take some pills to calm down from all the excitement. Eeeeep!

WAIT! I FORGOT! I also bought this! 

AMY POND! Amy Pond painted onto an old vinyl disc, awesome.