Which I can recommend as an excellent start to a con weekend. We ended the night in their airbnb playing charades and consuming a highly-reduced cake in the shape of a shark. With the hellish journey and the work for the evening over, it was time to meet our friends for dinner and then coerce them via guilt to help us fold zines. Our table was next to the artist of Forged, Ryan Jenkyns and two down from the colourist, David Cooper, so we were excited for a weekend amongst friends. Michael and I had a half a table split between Forged, the series he is writer on, zines to promote the podcast we do with two other friends, Comic Book Classroom as well as selling Our Hero t-shirts, a collaboration with our friends Adam Sherif and Rosie Knight.

We managed to make it still within the set up time so we got everything unpacked and on the table. My husband, Michael, and our friend Adlai were passengers and they attempted to keep me sane as a four hour journey turned into six and a half hours. The last items needed for the table had arrived/been finished only on the Thursday before and so on Friday, I drove up to Harrogate–the new location for Thought Bubble being Harrogate Convention Centre since the con has outgrown Leeds city centre. The lead up to this year was an interesting (read stressful) mixture of nerves, to-do lists, and giddiness since I was tabling at the con for the first time, so I knew it was going to be a very different kind of experience. As much as I was tempted to bring my wedding dress and get a second wear of that puppy at the mid-con party, I opted for gorging myself on pasta in Italy, instead. This year was to be only my second time attending Thought Bubble, the first two years ago and, having missed 2018 as it was the weekend after my wedding.

Minority Monsters! by Tab Kimpton