The country’s biggest comics and graphic novels festival, which attracts major artists and writers from across the world, is expanding into Bradford for its fifth annual event this year.

The Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival has been running in Leeds since 2007. This year’s convention runs from November 14 to 20 and includes several events in Bradford.

The director of the festival, Lisa Wood, is from Ilkley and said: “Thought Bubble has grown enormously over the past five years thanks to the help of the Arts Council England and private sponsors.

“Because of this we are able to attract high-profile guests from all around the world.”

The main event is a comic convention centred on the Royal Armouries on the weekend of November 18 to 20, with other events in Leeds and Bradford in the run up to that.

Among the many guests will be Keighley-based cartoonist, Darryl Cunningham, who went to Leeds College of Art. His long stint working on an acute psychiatric ward was the inspiration for his graphic novel Psychiatric Tales, which tries to explain and demistify mental illness.

For more details, visit thoughtbubblefestival.com.

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