Email woes befall Northern Sequential Art Competition

If you have entered the Northern Sequential Art Competition the organisers have been in touch to say  that they've  had some email issues and may not of received your entry.

They're urging entrants to check their website on Wednesday 2nd November to make sure your entry is there. If not, then you should re-send it to tbartcompetition@gmail.com

"We will extend the deadline to Friday 4th November in case anyone's page has gone astray," they say. "Sorry for any inconvenience caused and good luck with your entry!"

For all who have not entered our art competition, did you know you can send in existing pages as long as they have not been published anywhere else? The organisers are extending the deadline to Friday 4th November.

Check the website for guidelines on sending your comic page. You never know -- your work could end up being featured worldwide in an Images Comics publication!

• The THOUGHT BUBBLE COMIC CON will take place from the 19th to 20th November 2011


• Competition Gallery: http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/events/northern-sequential-art-competition/gallery-of-entries/

Thought Bubble convention to publish charity anthology

(Spotted on Broken Frontier): This year sees the Leeds Thought Bubble Festival (14th-20th November) celebrate its 5th birthday, and to mark this momentous occasion they'll be publishing  the first ever Thought Bubble Comic Anthology.

On sale in October, the comic will feature a variety of original tales by incredible industry talent from around the world, including Duncan Fegredo, Charlie Adlard, Andy Diggle, D’Israeli, Antony Johnston, Robin Furth, Becky Cloonan and film director Stuart Gordon.

"This first anthology has been curated with the ultimate aim of showcasing the very best that sequential art has to offer," say the editors.

Issue #1 will also feature all the winning entries from 2010′s Northern Sequential Art Competition with stories from Gavin Ross, Sally Jane Thompson, Will Morris, Alice Summerscales, Sophie Kamlish, and Raymond Mak.

All profits from the sale of the anthology will go to the charity Barnardos.

Distribution is being handled by Image Comics and the comic will retail at $2.99 (which should be around £2.20 in most UK comic and book stores).

• More info about the anthology here on the official Thought Bubble web site

Last few days for 2010 Northern Sequential Art Competition

You have a few more days to send in an entry if you want to take part in the new Northern Sequential Art Competition hosted by the Travelling Man comic retailer and the Thought Bubble Convention. The deadline of 8th October 2010 is approaching fast,  so don't miss out.

The theme of this year's competition is 'November in the North of England'. Your story can be told with text and illustrations or by imagery alone. It must be a new, complete story with six panels or more and the page must contain the story's title.

Your page can be as wacky and creative as you wish - you can make the theme very prominent or just have a slogan on a t-shirt.

Finished work should be uploaded to the competition's Flickr page (Flickr is free to join, but you'll need to sign up to add work) or can be submitted as hard copy and sent to Thought Bubble (address on application form).

Your story should be A3 and 300dpi in origin (if you win the competition organisers will need your story to be good enough quality to print). However to make it easier to upload your image on Flickr it can be much smaller. One entry per person.

All entries will be showcased in a digital exhibition at venues in Leeds and the surrounding area for a period of two weeks prior to Thought Bubble taking place 18th - 21st November in Leeds.

The panel of judges (including 2000AD Editor Matt Smith, Imagine FX Editor Claire Howlett and Marvel Spider-Man Editor Steve Wacker) will select two runners up and a winning entry from each age group, the overall winner in each category will receive £200 of graphic novels and a private tutorial with a leading writer or artist based in the North of England.

All six winning entrants will see their work published in a special Thought Bubble Free Comic Book Issue alongside incredible talent such as Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Sean Phillips (Marvel Zombies), Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy), Andy Diggle (The Losers), Antony Johnston (Daredevil), Kieron Gillen (Thor), Mike Carey (Lucifer) and Marc Ellerby plus many more.

The winning story will also be published in Imagine FX.

The Free Comic Book Day comic book will be distributed around the world in May 2011 as part of Free Comic Book Day, a worldwide initiative to promote sequential art.

• Entries need to be loaded on to flickr for the 18th October 2010. Age groups for the competition are: 12 to 17 and 18+. If you have any questions just email Lisa at thoughtbubblefestivalATgooglemail.com