Gareth A Hopkins
@grthink.bsky.social
Abstract Comics. Absolute Collider Press.
1-page comic using assets from 'This Is Happening Pal' made for Thought Bubble. I'll be in Bubbleboy Hall, D13
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
1-page comic using assets from 'This Is Happening Pal' made for Thought Bubble. I'll be in Bubbleboy Hall, D13
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I'll be at Thought Bubble next weekend, like so many others!
Find me at Bubbleboy hall table F14, armed with my many comics and enjoying the Bubbleboy experience of being part of a little island of tables rather than a big row.
Find me at Bubbleboy hall table F14, armed with my many comics and enjoying the Bubbleboy experience of being part of a little island of tables rather than a big row.
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'll be at Thought Bubble next weekend, like so many others!
Find me at Bubbleboy hall table F14, armed with my many comics and enjoying the Bubbleboy experience of being part of a little island of tables rather than a big row.
Find me at Bubbleboy hall table F14, armed with my many comics and enjoying the Bubbleboy experience of being part of a little island of tables rather than a big row.
Have made new in-page comics out of artwork from other projects to give out at Thought Bubble. Here's one using Hollow Work: Archeon which is having text developed by the poet/rapper Andrew Mbaruk.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Have made new in-page comics out of artwork from other projects to give out at Thought Bubble. Here's one using Hollow Work: Archeon which is having text developed by the poet/rapper Andrew Mbaruk.
Next book brewing. Roping in some favours to help write it, too.
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Next book brewing. Roping in some favours to help write it, too.
I'm too much of a contrarian to make best use of this - if someone tells me 'use more blue' I'm the sort of person who'd cut blue out entirely - but getting feedback is an excellent thing in general and hope loads of people take this amazing opportunity
www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/programme/tb...
This year there's going to be accessible and inclusive portfolio reviews at the Thought Bubble comic convention, with the artist guests. These are for absolutely anyone who makes comics from kids to professionals. You should take advantage... Thread. 1/?
This year there's going to be accessible and inclusive portfolio reviews at the Thought Bubble comic convention, with the artist guests. These are for absolutely anyone who makes comics from kids to professionals. You should take advantage... Thread. 1/?
Artist Portfolio Reviews With Thought Bubble Guests — Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival
Drop-in comic artist portfolio review sessions with a selection of excellent Thought Bubble guests.
www.thoughtbubblefestival.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I'm too much of a contrarian to make best use of this - if someone tells me 'use more blue' I'm the sort of person who'd cut blue out entirely - but getting feedback is an excellent thing in general and hope loads of people take this amazing opportunity
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Enter the 2K Terrors short story horror competition!
Registration is $15 and includes:
1. 2 fiendish prompts for every participant
2. Guaranteed feedback from the judges
3. A chance to the win $150 top prize
4. A chance to shed your mortal skin and live as pure horrifying energy
Registration is $15 and includes:
1. 2 fiendish prompts for every participant
2. Guaranteed feedback from the judges
3. A chance to the win $150 top prize
4. A chance to shed your mortal skin and live as pure horrifying energy
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Enter the 2K Terrors short story horror competition!
Registration is $15 and includes:
1. 2 fiendish prompts for every participant
2. Guaranteed feedback from the judges
3. A chance to the win $150 top prize
4. A chance to shed your mortal skin and live as pure horrifying energy
Registration is $15 and includes:
1. 2 fiendish prompts for every participant
2. Guaranteed feedback from the judges
3. A chance to the win $150 top prize
4. A chance to shed your mortal skin and live as pure horrifying energy
Two weeks-ish from Thought Bubble!
Am I ready? No, obviously not.
Am I crazily busy between now and then? Oh yes.
Am I ready? No, obviously not.
Am I crazily busy between now and then? Oh yes.
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Two weeks-ish from Thought Bubble!
Am I ready? No, obviously not.
Am I crazily busy between now and then? Oh yes.
Am I ready? No, obviously not.
Am I crazily busy between now and then? Oh yes.
Went to see the Chainsaw Man movie last night, it was much better than I expected it to be.
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Went to see the Chainsaw Man movie last night, it was much better than I expected it to be.
Just finished The Deadly Percheron, absolutely hossed my way through it. Read it about 20yrs ago after one of my best friends lent it to me, but it's so twisty that even though I knew how it ended it managed to convince me that it didn't end the way I remembered.
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Just finished The Deadly Percheron, absolutely hossed my way through it. Read it about 20yrs ago after one of my best friends lent it to me, but it's so twisty that even though I knew how it ended it managed to convince me that it didn't end the way I remembered.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Have folded and stapled loads of comics. 10 Silksoft Mass, 15 Telephone, 15 Telephone, 10 Rainlight Cope Aesthetic, 10 Oh No Ghosts In Things, 5 This Is Happening Pal. 10 each of Homelight and Mountain Battles to go and then I'm ready for Winchester.
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Have folded and stapled loads of comics. 10 Silksoft Mass, 15 Telephone, 15 Telephone, 10 Rainlight Cope Aesthetic, 10 Oh No Ghosts In Things, 5 This Is Happening Pal. 10 each of Homelight and Mountain Battles to go and then I'm ready for Winchester.
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We'll be at #WinchesterComicsFair on Saturday - so it's time to dig out this old chestnut...
#WCF25 #comics #zines
#WCF25 #comics #zines
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We'll be at #WinchesterComicsFair on Saturday - so it's time to dig out this old chestnut...
#WCF25 #comics #zines
#WCF25 #comics #zines
One thing I never see mentioned/warned by home zine-printers is:
Flip On The Short Edge If You're Folding In The Middle.
Five copies of Oh No Ghosts In Things are totally useless because I forgot to check.
Flip On The Short Edge If You're Folding In The Middle.
Five copies of Oh No Ghosts In Things are totally useless because I forgot to check.
October 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
One thing I never see mentioned/warned by home zine-printers is:
Flip On The Short Edge If You're Folding In The Middle.
Five copies of Oh No Ghosts In Things are totally useless because I forgot to check.
Flip On The Short Edge If You're Folding In The Middle.
Five copies of Oh No Ghosts In Things are totally useless because I forgot to check.
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✨Announcing our Thought Bubble 2025 debut titles!✨ darkandgolden.bigcartel.com
Coming in November: Three brand new, unpublished stories by Carol Swain, a delightfully creepy debut for Dave Gibbons, and another daytrip to the wilder side of weird with Kevin Woodcock.
Coming in November: Three brand new, unpublished stories by Carol Swain, a delightfully creepy debut for Dave Gibbons, and another daytrip to the wilder side of weird with Kevin Woodcock.
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
✨Announcing our Thought Bubble 2025 debut titles!✨ darkandgolden.bigcartel.com
Coming in November: Three brand new, unpublished stories by Carol Swain, a delightfully creepy debut for Dave Gibbons, and another daytrip to the wilder side of weird with Kevin Woodcock.
Coming in November: Three brand new, unpublished stories by Carol Swain, a delightfully creepy debut for Dave Gibbons, and another daytrip to the wilder side of weird with Kevin Woodcock.
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"But don't you see that if you make us responsible for our products, that will hurt growth? How could you forfeit all of that wonderful GROWTH?!"
"Oh yes, good point, we'll just leave it"
"Oh yes, good point, we'll just leave it"
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.
Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud
Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.
www.politico.eu
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"But don't you see that if you make us responsible for our products, that will hurt growth? How could you forfeit all of that wonderful GROWTH?!"
"Oh yes, good point, we'll just leave it"
"Oh yes, good point, we'll just leave it"
Whilst printing out copious numbers of pages to eventually fold and staple, I've been working a new set of iterations of the Jetwash Trampoline stuff that me and @seanazz.bsky.social have been doing. These are second-gen iterations of Skulls As Eggs, eventually maybe to be called Eggs As Skulls.
October 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Whilst printing out copious numbers of pages to eventually fold and staple, I've been working a new set of iterations of the Jetwash Trampoline stuff that me and @seanazz.bsky.social have been doing. These are second-gen iterations of Skulls As Eggs, eventually maybe to be called Eggs As Skulls.
Manouvered myself into not knowing what will be new for ThoughtBubble becasue I don't know what'll be new for Winchester, clouded by the fact that maybe I don't need something new for every single even that I do, especially since I made two new things for Gosh!Fest that I still need to reprint.
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Manouvered myself into not knowing what will be new for ThoughtBubble becasue I don't know what'll be new for Winchester, clouded by the fact that maybe I don't need something new for every single even that I do, especially since I made two new things for Gosh!Fest that I still need to reprint.
First Sad Lamp Day of the year lets goooooo
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
First Sad Lamp Day of the year lets goooooo
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saw this and thought "I wonder if @grthink.bsky.social knows about this", then realised it was his repost I was looking at
🇨🇦 It’s publication day! Use the link below to order your copy of TRUE NORTH and join me in revisiting the glorious first volume of #AlphaFlight! 🇨🇦
I’m incredibly proud of this book and can’t wait for you to read it!
#HappyCanadaDay
tinyurl.com/328werdr
I’m incredibly proud of this book and can’t wait for you to read it!
#HappyCanadaDay
tinyurl.com/328werdr
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
saw this and thought "I wonder if @grthink.bsky.social knows about this", then realised it was his repost I was looking at
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🇨🇦 It’s publication day! Use the link below to order your copy of TRUE NORTH and join me in revisiting the glorious first volume of #AlphaFlight! 🇨🇦
I’m incredibly proud of this book and can’t wait for you to read it!
#HappyCanadaDay
tinyurl.com/328werdr
I’m incredibly proud of this book and can’t wait for you to read it!
#HappyCanadaDay
tinyurl.com/328werdr
July 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🇨🇦 It’s publication day! Use the link below to order your copy of TRUE NORTH and join me in revisiting the glorious first volume of #AlphaFlight! 🇨🇦
I’m incredibly proud of this book and can’t wait for you to read it!
#HappyCanadaDay
tinyurl.com/328werdr
I’m incredibly proud of this book and can’t wait for you to read it!
#HappyCanadaDay
tinyurl.com/328werdr
Waiting for Bill to have his eyes tested. He's either doing very badly or every time the optician asks him a question he's equipping back "Is that a pAper chAse reference?"
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Waiting for Bill to have his eyes tested. He's either doing very badly or every time the optician asks him a question he's equipping back "Is that a pAper chAse reference?"
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All we're trying to do is make the best thing on the internet every week, you know?
Issue #27 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Mobb Deep, The Straight Story, Armies of Darkness, a third haunting, Meltdown, a hive of Gammon Worms, Tony Harrison's V, and more!
Well hello Mister Fancy-Pants
Hive of the Gammon Worms. The Straight Story. The Vile Dead 3: Army of Darkness. A Brief History of British Comics 4: MELTDOWN. Haunted: Thing Three. Why can’t I finish painting my kitchen?!?!! v.
mindless-ones.ghost.io
October 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
All we're trying to do is make the best thing on the internet every week, you know?
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Tbubz maps are out and this is where I'll be: Bubbleboy Hall, D13 (D13a)
You'll be able to find me at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social by looking for D13 in Bubbleboy Hall, or by saying something mean about Bill Mantlo's Alpha Flight run (none of my comics have anything to do with Alpha Flight)
You'll be able to find me at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social by looking for D13 in Bubbleboy Hall, or by saying something mean about Bill Mantlo's Alpha Flight run (none of my comics have anything to do with Alpha Flight)
October 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tbubz maps are out and this is where I'll be: Bubbleboy Hall, D13 (D13a)
You'll be able to find me at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social by looking for D13 in Bubbleboy Hall, or by saying something mean about Bill Mantlo's Alpha Flight run (none of my comics have anything to do with Alpha Flight)
You'll be able to find me at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social by looking for D13 in Bubbleboy Hall, or by saying something mean about Bill Mantlo's Alpha Flight run (none of my comics have anything to do with Alpha Flight)