Thought Bubble 2012

A crisp day at the Royal Armouries, Leeds.

Last weekend was my second visit to the comic convention Thought Bubble at the New Dock Hall, Royal Armouries in Leeds and once again it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I travelled down the day before and so was fresh faced for the opening day with crowds lining up outside hours before the doors opened at 10am. The two day convention saw me pretty much behind my table for the whole event with very little time to take in all the other exhibitors in the hall and I never even had a chance to take in the second hall with 80 more tables.

Table ready to go!

I was extremely fortunate to be helped out once again by DownTheTubes.net's very own Jeremy Briggs (see his photo reviews here and here) who is probably as well known for being at my table at conventions as I am. Having an extra person to help out is close to a necessity in my view as not only does it help run the table for the two days but gives you that valuable breathing space to talk to friends and acquaintances as they drop by to say hello. And I was lucky enough to have a lot of people drop by for a chat, as usual I won't write a list of those who took the time to stop by as I'm sure to miss someone by mistake but I will say that if I caught up with you at the weekend then many thanks, it means a lot to me and I appreciate it.

The 10th Doctor, some guy with a Dalek picture and Donna.

The Two Doctors!

In a rare change for me I did remember to take some photographs over the weekend and along with some taken by Jeremy there is also one of model Lauren Integra Fairbrook dressed as Judge Anderson in the Planet Replicas outfit as she faces up to my painting of Judge Death. I don't know who to credit the photograph with so if anyone wishes to tell me I will update it. Also thanks to those Doctor Who cosplayers who where happy to be snapped with me, I managed to grab the 10th Doctor and companion Donna and the 7th and 11th at the same time.

Christmas time! Saturday night party at the Corn Exchange.

Many thanks to the whole team behind Thought Bubble, the show ran really smoothly for me and the host of helpers where always nearby, congratulations to them on a great show. Thanks to those who pre-ordered commissions for pick up and all those who stopped by the table and snapped up art, prints and sketchbooks.

The wonderful Niki & Leigh Gallagher!

FPI Blog meets Down The Tubes! Richard Bruton & Jeremy Briggs.

Take that Judge Death! Lauren Integra Fairbrook dishes out justice!

UPDATE: If you look at the comments you'll see that the photographer for the Judge Anderson shot has been in contact so we can thank Steve Green for this picture and many others of the Planet Replica Judges which you can see here.

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