Walking Dead’s Tillie Walden, Image Comics’ Zoe Thorogood and more showcase the vision and labor of comic creation in new UK exhibit

Popverse readers who’ve been with us for awhile might bear in mind my go to to UK comic present Thought Bubble Comic Artwork Competition in 2023. One of the issues that bowled me over about the present was the way it targeted on comics as a medium as a lot as — if not more than — as an business, with an outreach program designed to encourage new readers and new creators as a lot as any pre-existing plan. In 2025, that program continues, with indie writer Avery Hill Publishing opening a six month exhibition of UK comic creators to coincide with the competition.

Working by way of April 26 2026, the Vision & Labour: Making Comics — The Artwork of Avery Hill Publishing exhibit at the Mercer Artwork Gallery, Harrogate will showcase unique art work from sixteen comic creators together with Rachael Smith, Zoe Thorogood, and Tillie Walden, alongside their completed comic books in an try to illustrate the work that goes into the creation of a comic. The exhibit may even embrace life-size recreations of ebook covers, an interactive sport from George Wylesol, and infographics and design from Kristyna Baczynski detailing the completely different levels of comic ebook creation.

Avery Hill Publishing co-founder Ricky Hill mentioned in a press release about the exhibit, “This exhibition is an thrilling means for us to increase our remit of serving to new creators into comics and an important probability for us to look again on what we’ve created over the years.” It must be famous that Avery Hill Publishing is accountable for the early work of each Image Comics’ Thorogood and Tallie Walden, who got here to approval for her YA graphic novel Spinning, in addition to her Clementine sequence of Walking Lifeless graphic novels; it’s honest to say that, as a writer, it’s pushing out new work from creators that the mainstream will embrace in the years to return.

Check out some pictures from the exhibition in the gallery, together with images taken throughout the hanging of the present, beneath.