Mark Bradley
@markbradley.bsky.social
Children’s comic artist/writer.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
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Mark Bradley
@markbradley.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Bumble & Snug & The Worried Dragons is out on 3rd July, & is available for pre-order now!
It's jam-packed with all the excitement & adventure :)
You can pre-order a signed, doodled & dedicated copy from @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social through the link below:
wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/bumb...
It's jam-packed with all the excitement & adventure :)
You can pre-order a signed, doodled & dedicated copy from @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social through the link below:
wonderlandbookshop.co.uk/product/bumb...
I mean, obviously Lynch’s Ronnie Rocket. But otherwise: the Lord & Miller version of Solo. I don’t get why you hire two of the best screenwriters in modern big budget Hollywood to make a movie and then dump their work.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I mean, obviously Lynch’s Ronnie Rocket. But otherwise: the Lord & Miller version of Solo. I don’t get why you hire two of the best screenwriters in modern big budget Hollywood to make a movie and then dump their work.
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I post a new version of this every other year or so, and every year comic book page rates stay the same. Five years ago, people were getting paid $240 in '25 dollars; today they are getting the same $150 a page.
The one about comic book page rates – again. News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
The one about comic book page rates – again
News flash: Comic book page rates are STILL stagnant, after all these years, and for indie cartoonists it's even harder
www.comicsbeat.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I post a new version of this every other year or so, and every year comic book page rates stay the same. Five years ago, people were getting paid $240 in '25 dollars; today they are getting the same $150 a page.
Please, I’m begging for there to be left wing party with even a halfway rational stance on defence.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Please, I’m begging for there to be left wing party with even a halfway rational stance on defence.
Just realised that 4°C is my perfect temperature. I need to find somewhere to live where this is the average.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Just realised that 4°C is my perfect temperature. I need to find somewhere to live where this is the average.
Rik has told me what this is about, and I cannot emphasise enough: Swift is the absolute worst.
I’m very annoy Taylor Swift has forced to to change an ok joke in Pets 2: Rome.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
Luckily it isn’t this joke. Which is my favourite.
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Rik has told me what this is about, and I cannot emphasise enough: Swift is the absolute worst.
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Alex Ross - Batman in the Bronze Age
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Alex Ross - Batman in the Bronze Age
Going to be writing in about this, and I’ll give you two guesses what the subject will be.
The UK Parliament Education Committee is calling for evidence to explore the decline in Reading for Pleasure:
committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...
committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...
Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Reading for Pleasure
committees.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Going to be writing in about this, and I’ll give you two guesses what the subject will be.
Oh god, I’ve just realised that season 2 of Welcome to Derry will be set in 1935, and a twenties/thirties time period + horror (especially cosmic horror) is basically the direct centre of my happy places.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Oh god, I’ve just realised that season 2 of Welcome to Derry will be set in 1935, and a twenties/thirties time period + horror (especially cosmic horror) is basically the direct centre of my happy places.
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Jamie Hernandez is one of those people who kind of messes with my brain. It’s not like he’s simply great at a few of the disciplines in comics, he’s just outright great at *everything*.
Any random Jaime Hernandez page is a masterclass in composition and comics storytelling. I don't know that he's ever drawn a just-okay panel, ever.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Jamie Hernandez is one of those people who kind of messes with my brain. It’s not like he’s simply great at a few of the disciplines in comics, he’s just outright great at *everything*.
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Any random Jaime Hernandez page is a masterclass in composition and comics storytelling. I don't know that he's ever drawn a just-okay panel, ever.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Any random Jaime Hernandez page is a masterclass in composition and comics storytelling. I don't know that he's ever drawn a just-okay panel, ever.
Well, Heart Eyes is an awful lot of silly fun.
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Well, Heart Eyes is an awful lot of silly fun.
I’m in the midst of a massive reorganisation of everything I own, due to renovations, and purely out of necessity my collection of folklore books ended up next to the Batman graphic novels. I’ve never had a bigger penny drop moment regarding my entire taste in stories in my entire life.
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I’m in the midst of a massive reorganisation of everything I own, due to renovations, and purely out of necessity my collection of folklore books ended up next to the Batman graphic novels. I’ve never had a bigger penny drop moment regarding my entire taste in stories in my entire life.
Seriously, go buy it - it’s brilliant!
A reminder that "Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt" makes a great gift for the little history buffs in your life.
Over 200 pages of fun, educational comics, narrated by cartoon animals. Ask for it at your local bookshop and be the cool aunt/uncle etc. this Christmas! 🎁
Over 200 pages of fun, educational comics, narrated by cartoon animals. Ask for it at your local bookshop and be the cool aunt/uncle etc. this Christmas! 🎁
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Seriously, go buy it - it’s brilliant!
I am rewatching Misfits, and man, that series was pretty great. It gets a bunch of stuff wrong, but it’s all salvaged by incredible casting.
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I am rewatching Misfits, and man, that series was pretty great. It gets a bunch of stuff wrong, but it’s all salvaged by incredible casting.
Like, to tally sound like a broken drum: Comic readers aren’t ‘reluctant readers’, they’re more often than not the most voracious readers out there.
My wife dropped off Pets at my kid’s school yesterday and the Head said “this is great. We have loads of kids who don’t like reading”.
So if you felt a sudden disturbance in the force yesterday morning, it was that.
So if you felt a sudden disturbance in the force yesterday morning, it was that.
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Like, to tally sound like a broken drum: Comic readers aren’t ‘reluctant readers’, they’re more often than not the most voracious readers out there.
Whilst I love seeing all the comics succeeding in traditional publishing spaces nowadays, it is depressing to think that it could always have been this way, and how much great work we’ve missed out on because of that.
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Whilst I love seeing all the comics succeeding in traditional publishing spaces nowadays, it is depressing to think that it could always have been this way, and how much great work we’ve missed out on because of that.
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Go Canada - very cool!
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
Que bacana, mais selos canadenses homenageando quadrinistas do país 🇨🇦 Depois de Chester Brown, Michel Rabagliati, Seth e as primas Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki em 2024, agora foi a vez de Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley e Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. 📬
November 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Go Canada - very cool!
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
(Although-text a set of six Canadian stamps - all drawn by six different famous Canadian cartoonist who are also reading one of their most well known works)
Man, doing the school drop off when it’s just started snowing has to be one of the most joyous things in the world.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Man, doing the school drop off when it’s just started snowing has to be one of the most joyous things in the world.
- Weekly periodical compilation comics are the best form of comics
- Whilst partially responsible for it, Wertham did far less damage to the medium than the creation of the direct market ever did
- The slow death of newspapers is the worst thing ever happen to English language comics
- Whilst partially responsible for it, Wertham did far less damage to the medium than the creation of the direct market ever did
- The slow death of newspapers is the worst thing ever happen to English language comics
Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
- Weekly periodical compilation comics are the best form of comics
- Whilst partially responsible for it, Wertham did far less damage to the medium than the creation of the direct market ever did
- The slow death of newspapers is the worst thing ever happen to English language comics
- Whilst partially responsible for it, Wertham did far less damage to the medium than the creation of the direct market ever did
- The slow death of newspapers is the worst thing ever happen to English language comics
Pleeeeeeease, when you talk about Watterson/Calvin & Hobbes, just don’t talk about about the whole not making merch thing. There’s literally an entire decades worth of the funniest and finest comics ever made to talk about.
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Pleeeeeeease, when you talk about Watterson/Calvin & Hobbes, just don’t talk about about the whole not making merch thing. There’s literally an entire decades worth of the funniest and finest comics ever made to talk about.
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
Happy 40th birthday to one of the great works of 20th century fiction!
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Happy 40th birthday to one of the great works of 20th century fiction!
One of the big takeaways I’ve had from the last few weeks is that - for the first time in my lifetime at least - it feels like there’s groups of people *really* identifying why anglosphere comics have never been allowed to take their place in the wider cultural sphere in our countries.
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of the big takeaways I’ve had from the last few weeks is that - for the first time in my lifetime at least - it feels like there’s groups of people *really* identifying why anglosphere comics have never been allowed to take their place in the wider cultural sphere in our countries.
A massive yes to all of this - NLT is out there doing amazing work on this front.
ICYMI: The National Literacy Trust has highlighted the “urgent need to broaden our understanding of literacy in the digital age” in a new paper titled The Future of Literacy: Multimodal Reading 👇 #BookSky
‘Print is vital but not enough’: NLT calls for ‘urgent’ reassessment of what constitutes reading
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November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A massive yes to all of this - NLT is out there doing amazing work on this front.