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Hannah Berry @Thought Bubble, B’boy Hall G4
@streakofpith.bsky.social
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Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker. UK Comics Laureate for a while. Peaked too soon. (She/her)
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At CCIC we feel it’s never too early to start gathering evidence. Come by our table and let us know what difference a scheme like this would make to your life! (We have a postbox so you can share your thoughts anonymously too if you prefer 😘)
A map of Bubbleboy hall showing the location of the CCIC table, G3, and the times we’ll be there: Saturday 10-4 and 5.30-6, and Sunday 10-5
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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LAST BUT FAR FROM LEAST, I’ll also be looking after the Comics Cultural Impact Collective table next door, where we want to ask you a very pertinent question:
What would happen if you received a Basic Income of £285 per week? What would it allow you to do? What would you spend it on? What might it change in your situation? What effect would it have on your working practice; on your time; on your wellbeing?
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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*Graphic novels (LIVESTOCK, ADAMTINE, and possibly your last chance ever to buy BRITTEN & BRÜLIGHTLY), various printed delights and of course my new comic 5 MORE MINUTES

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A page from 5 MORE MINUTES: a mother and daughter sit at the top of a slide in a park in the middle distance, facing away from us. The artwork is muted and grey, and the sky is cloudy. The text reads: Um, Sophie’s mummy is a bus driver. That’s cool. Did you want to be a bus driver when you grew up? No, when I grow up I want to go on Sophie’s mummy’s bus all day long.
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Around those I’ll be tabling with @zaraslattery.bsky.social over in Bubbleboy Hall, G4, selling my wares*
A map of Bubbleboy Hall, with table G4 circled
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Also on the topic of delivering big news, on Saturday @ 4.15pm I'm v proud to be chairing the @firstgraphicnovel.bsky.social panel (feat. Emma Hayley of @selfmadehero.bsky.social, @karriefransman.bsky.social & @zaraslattery.bsky.social) as we announce the shortlist!
Event info from the Thought Bubble programme: FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD 2025 SHORTLIST - QUICK STRIPS! SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2025 4:15 PM 5:15 PM PANEL ROOM 1, QUEEN'S SUITE (MAP) Who will be on the shortlist of the First Graphic Novel Award?! Join us as we reveal and celebrate the 2025 shortlist, whose works have been selected from the 30-strong longlist to go forward to the final
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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THOUGHT BUBBLE, IS IT?

Well Sunday @ 1.30pm I'll be presenting an early preview of the UK Comics Creator Survey results and…

Fuh. king. hell, do I have a bombshell to drop on you…!

I’ll be joined by expert panelists @dapsdraws.bsky.social @pondi.bsky.social & @markbradley.bsky.social
Event description from the Thought Bubble programme: COMICS CREATOR SURVEY 2025 RESULTS: SUPER SPECIAL ADVANCE PREVIEW SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2025 1:30 PM 2:30 PM DEAD NORTHERN STAGE, COMIXOLOGY HALL (MAP) The UK Comics Creator Survey of 2025 is done and dusted and the results have been analysed by professional researchers, so what are the headline findings?
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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These lads have been on our wall since Halloween 2023. In this house, we commit to the bit.
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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It's called 5 More Minutes, and - as the blurb says - is all about parenthood and existential terror. (Sorry in advance.)
The back of the comic features the mother and child sat together at the top of a slide in a leafy park on a grey-looking day, facing away from us. The blurb reads ‘a comic about parenthood and existential terror’
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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What’s this? A new comic? From Hannah Berry? Surely not…
A box of freshly printed comics: 5 More Minutes, by Hannah Berry. The covers feature a little girl crouching down to pick up a snail and her (presumably) mother crouching down next to her, distracted
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Do you like comics? Are you in Brighton? (Or can you get to Brighton?) The inaugural CARTOON COUNTY AUTUMN FAIR is next Saturday, 10am-5pm!

Just a bunch of your favourite local creators (and me!) selling comics/zines/graphic novels/prints 🥳
A poster for the Cartoon county autumn fair, Saturday 18th October at the Open Market, London Road, Brighton BN1 4JU
October 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Everyone who is behind this survey wants your voice to be counted. Everyone who is *boosting* this survey wants your voice to be counted.

Get this puppy filled in before midnight on Monday and be counted!!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk
A graphic for the Uk comics creator survey, saying: we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in? With the URL ukcomicscreators.org.uk over a series of illustrated raised hands
October 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I’ve just answered someone else with a similar Q!
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Damn, look how many of you have filled in the survey in its first week! (Yes I *have* made a respondent-meter like it’s a village hall fundraiser - let me have my little whimsies)

If you have ten mins to join in the fun, the link is here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk
A meter showing how many people have responded to the uk comics creator survey 2025. So far it’s at 289! The minimum target is 380 to be statistically representative, and 623 responded in 2020
September 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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I reverted the rights of my first GN (Britten & Brülightly) and it seems PRH have remaindered all the copies rather than flog them back to me? So here I am, trawling round 2nd hand bookshops like this sweet old coot
JR Hartley from the yellow pages advert back in 1990-something
September 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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You can choose your style, look. (Points will be awarded to anyone who can guess the artists who drew these hands)
September 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Oh wait! There’s more! When you fill in the survey (which you will, right?) there are some lovely assets you can use to show off/help boost.

Make your smugness visible to all!

www.dropbox.com/home/UKCCS25...
A graphic featuring the survey logo, large text reading “I’M IN!” Above the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk. At the bottom are a series of raised hands in different illustration styles
September 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk
A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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EXCITING CCIC NEWS AHOY

We are thrilled to announce that @jamiesmart.bsky.social, wildly talented creator and all-round good egg, has agreed to be Patron of the Comics Cultural Impact Collective CIC!
Jamie Smart drawing at his desk, smiling in a patronly way Quote from Jamie Smart: “I’m incredibly excited to be a patron for CCIC, having long admired the amazing work they do for comics and comic artists. Comics are the best thing in the world, we all know this already, we just need to get other people knowing it too, so I hope I can help CCIC in their ongoing mission to raise comic awareness. And also, crucially, I’d really like to learn more about how we can support comics and all the brilliant creators making them. It’s an absolute honour to be involved.”
August 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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It is vital we educate this country on comics so that terrible things like this stop happening.
A woman stands at a podium, her words quoted in a speech balloon. The balloon’s tail points towards the poor unsuspecting woman’s crotch.
June 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Meanwhile on WhatsApp, @myfanwytristram.bsky.social is helping me look on the bright side! 💫
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Oh, did you also want some nice social media assets to show off that you’ve co-signed the proposal? We’ve got you, lads: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.us21.list-manage.com/track/click?...
A cover of the UK comics Fund proposal, with a big pencil hovering over it and the caption ‘Ive signed!’
April 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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And! If you work in/with/for an organisation that also works in/with comics, you can also co-sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

…Like these guys! (We have been busy little bees)
Logos of the Society of Authors, The Royal Society of Literature, national literacy trust, ALCS, DACS, Wellcome Collection, Afroflux, The Beano, Thought Bubble, The Cartoon Museum, SelfMadeHero, Waterstrones, LDComics, The Bookseller, Graphic Novel Reading Room, First Graphic Novel Competition, PositiveNegatives, Scholastic, The Reading Agency, Gosh, Hachette, Children's Group, Viz, Third Bear Press, Faber, Dekko Comics, Bleeding Cool, CHIP Collective, Broken Frontier, Bloomsbury, the bks Agency, Avery Hill, Comics Scene, COMICS, Bog Eyed Books, Knockabout, Little, Brown Book Group, Hay Festival Global, Graphic Medicine International Collective, Yo Comics!, Quindrie Press, Markosia, The Convention Collective, inQ!, Soaring Penguin Press, Forbidden Planet, Breakdown Press, Comic Printing UK, The Phoenix, Professional Cartoonists Organisation, Comics Youth, Myriad Editions, The Association of Illustrators, David Fickling Books, Page 45, Cartoon County
April 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess…

WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...
A cover of the UK Comics Fund proposal with a cartoon pencil and the CCIC boat, next to the phrase ‘we’re asking DCMS for solid investment in comics’
April 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Meta has stolen an entire library to train its AI. The SoA are protesting the ransacking of writers work- petition below

Whatever your feelings on LibGen, most of us can agree that ‘scraping the lot for free to boost the profits of a $1.48tn company’ is a battering ram to the testicles of fair use.
A graphic saying STOP THIEF! Meta must #DoTheWriteThing
April 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Interested in graphic novels? Let me interrupt your pancakes one gosh darn moment to flag up this session I’m running with Corinne Pearlman on Saturday 15/03 for @forthwrite.bsky.social festival: part book group discussion, part workshop, all good times!

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March 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM