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Mark Bradley

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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*.

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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...

Book cover the Bumble & Snug & The Worried Dragons, depicting Bumble (a little blue round character, with a very tall top hat), and Snug (a little pink character with a round head and triangle body, who is wearing a tall green bowler hat and a green bow tie). Bumble looks worried, whilst Snug looks happy - they are surrounded by 3 nervous looking baby dragons, who are flying around them.

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1h

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 4h

I turned 45 years old last week, and I’m currently sat drawing animals being silly, with a video on in the background rating 90’s toy playsets, whilst surrounded by a Lego collection which has grown so large that I don’t have room for it.

I am very, very glad that I am married.

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James Turner @patchworkofregrets.bsky.social · 5h

Toby and the Pixies: Worst King Ever has been included in this year's Great Books Guide from BookTrust that will be going out to schools all over the country! So many brilliant books in this, I'm very pleased to be included - see the full list here: www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 5h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 21h

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 6h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims.”

Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 7h

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 7h

I see the industry had a serious bout of backsliding last year, always disappointing
www.thebookseller.com/news/report-...

Report reveals 'stark inequalities' and 'precipitous decline' in representation in children's publishing

Literacy charity Inclusive Books for Children has published its annual Excluded Voices report, revealing 'stark inequalities' in UK children’s publishing.

www.thebookseller.com

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 7h

I absolutely adore Harrow County - if you haven’t read it, go treat yourself!

Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 5d

Day two of Harrow County month™. This was originally planned to be the cover for Harrow County #1 but when I finished the cover for issue 2, we decided to swap them. The Complete Harrow County Compendium comes out Oct. 28th. You can get the whole story in one book! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Emmy from Harold County running through a misfield graveyard behind her we shadowy villagers and flaming skeletons. The face of the skinless boy is is glowing from the silhouette of a large oak tree

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly, bookshop.org was a blessing & helped pay shop bills every month

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 19h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 8h

It’s really good that we’ve taken the business model of a comic convention, and made it the US economy.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 8h

He’s said before (despite being biologically incredibly unlikely) that he doesn’t dream.

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 8h

For any prosecution of racism - so given his previous role - he simply doesn’t have the language to talk about it.

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry - wasn’t focusing on the moral (it’s obviously morally massively racist), but saying he doesn’t have the language to talk about issues in general, despite being an adequate, if uninspiring, public speaker. The comments he was talking about, legally, wouldn’t meet any criteria for

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 8h

It’s really weird - it’s not a new observation, but I think that he’s one of those people who has no imagination. I don’t mean that pejoratively, I mean it literally. Interestingly all his choices of favourite movies, books, etc. are ones from childhood. Strongly suspect he doesn’t read fiction.

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 19h

House stuff is eating up all my time, and - looking at my schedule - I’m slowly waving goodbye to my first Christmas off in 5 years :(

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 21h

Ok so somehow the survey is still open. Maybe the Audience Agency - like a ghost with unfinished business - are waiting for one specific creator to fill it in, and when that is done finally they can rest??

Who is this person? Is it you? Are you the special final one? Please, let them have peace!

Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 6d

🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

I think that I’ve just cracked something I’ve been working on for 2 years?

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Jess Bradley @jessbradley.bsky.social · 1d

Some extremely exciting news to share today!

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

We have a new term in our household for when The Phoenix & The Beano arrive on the same day so you get to read them back-to-back, which is ‘doing a Beanix’.

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll obviously settle for a mess of a left coalition over actual fascists who will resemble a dumpster full of raccoons fighting over a chicken leg. But still.

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

I realise that it’s far, far, far from the worst thing about this, but staring down the barrel of a third decade of my life spent with (at best) an absolute mess of a government is not doing wonders for my state of mind.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New YouGov Westminster poll:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

Catching up with Peacemaker, and there’s a joke about a giant mural which is the hardest I’ve laughed at a TV programme in ages.

Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

Happy bah-that! Hope your have lots of cake :)

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s worth reading this thread to see some further info, but this is brilliant. I can’t even begin to think of the impact it would have for comic creators*.

*Other forms of expression are available, they’re just, ‘y’know, not as good.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social · 1d

Relaxation and making comics on a schedule for a job are two mutually exclusive things.

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