The full programme for the 2011 Thought Bubble Festival (Leeds Sequential Art Festival) is now online.

Featuring: workshops, competitions, film screenings, signings, panels, book launches, 2000AD artwork critique competition, and much more!

The festival takes place at venues around Clarence Dock, Leeds from 14 – 20 November 2011.  It also includes Comic Con on 19 and 20 November.

Guests include:
Posy Simmonds, Adam Hughes, Tim Sale, Jeff Lemire, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Dave Shelton, Ian Edginton, Cameron Stewart, Curtis Jobling, Al Ewing, Gary Erskine, Bary Kitson, Paul Gravett, Leah Moore and John Reppion, Ian Culbard, Marie O’Regan, Paul Kane, Dave Gibbons, Tony Lee, Mike Carey, Charlie Adlard, Simon Spurrier and many others.

US art and illustrated book publisher Abrams Books has acquired the UK-based graphic novel publisher, SelfMadeHero.  SelfMadeHero are the publishers of the British Fantasy Award winning graphic novel, At the Mountains of Madness: A Graphic Novel by Ian Culbard.

For full story see the Publishers Weekly article HERE

At a glittering ceremony in Brighton on 2 October 2011 the following were announced as winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2011:

KARL EDWARD WAGNER SPECIAL AWARD: Terry Pratchett

BEST NOVEL: Demon Dance, Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)

BEST NOVELLA: Humpty’s Bones, Simon Clark (Telos)

BEST SHORT STORY: “Fool’s Gold”, Sam Stone, from The Bitten Word, ed. Ian
Whates (NewCon Press)

BEST ANTHOLOGY: Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror
Stories, Johnny Mains (ed.) (Noose & Gibbet)

BEST COLLECTION: Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)

BEST NON-FICTION: Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong (Telos)

BEST ARTIST: Vincent Chong

BEST COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL: At the Mountains of Madness: a Graphic Novel, Ian Culbard (Selfmadehero)

BEST MAGAZINE/PERIODICAL: Black Static, Andy Cox (ed.) (TTA Press)

BEST SMALL PRESS: Telos Publishing

BEST FILM: Inception

BEST TELEVISION: Sherlock

SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER: Robert Jackson Bennet, for Mr Shivers (Orbit)