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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 3d

Random cool photos i found going through my cameras memory card..

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 6d

Now extended due to popular demand!
(Possibly.)
Our gallery show at the All Good Bookshop on Turnpike lane now runs until 10th October.
Go see!

Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 7d

On the 18th I'll be signing Black Forests at Gosh alongside Peter Hogan and Glenn Fabry.
Because it's spooky season.

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 9d

Random Lakes photo selection.

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 15d

Through the door today.
My copy of 'Bog People.'
Looking rather handsome...

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 25d

Good times at Markfield Road Festival.
Much art was arted.

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 27d

Late addition to the Uneasy art show at the All Good bookshop on Turnpike Lane, a pricey giclee print of my 'Doomstrolling' strip, in which I take the much missed Yoshi dog for a somewhat fanciful walk around the streets of Seven Sisters.

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · 29d

This weekend, starting Friday eve is The Markfield Road Festival, a fantastic creative wingding just around the corner from my place. there's live music and art and a bit of carnival and discussions, and best of all is Gaunson Studios throwing open their doors to let us wander around and gawk.
Come!

Markfield Road Festival – A celebration of emerging & established creatives through art, music & discussion

www.markfieldroadfestival.co.uk

Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just out- All Is Not Well, an anthology of comics about caregiving, homelessness and disability edited by Jonathan Clode and Ryan Prout of Cardiff University.
My bit, 'Loss of Habitat' is in there, alongside work by Ilya and Bern Campbell and Brick and others giving inky voice to real experience.

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Destination Venus sells comics in Harrogate! @destinationvenus.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are you over 16, based in the UK and make comics - or intend to make comics - for public consumption. If so, the UK Comics Creator Survey has some questions for you. All responses to the survey are completely anonymous and will help advocate for better support and more funding in comics.

An image of the UK comics survey poster which uses a blue and purple palette. There is a QR code which will take you to the survey and the logos of various UK arts funding bodies. The text reads DO YOU MAKE COMICS? Are you over 16, based in the UK, and make comics - or intend to make comics - for public consumption? WE NEED YOU! All responses to this online survey are completely anonymous and will help us to advocate for better support and more funding in comics. UKComicsCreators.org.uk

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Sep 4

Coverage of the show we haven't put up yet!

downthetubes.net

Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Sep 2

So glad I share a birthday with this lovely lady it saves so much effort on my part. Cheers everybody!

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 31

Post Goshfest cat appreciation with Sean and Alex and Fred and George.

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 27

One of those films you suspect has been got at by executives or something. I don't know if it lost 20 minutes somewhere, but it sure feels like it.
Also feels like a kind of remake of the great 1981 NZ film Dead Kids, aka Strange Behaviour.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our second gallery of #CartoonistsforG4za art is online.

Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne Pearlman.

www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-...

Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 - Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne Pearlman – Broken Frontie...

In our second gallery of art from the Cartoonists for Gaza initiative we have illustrations and comics from

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Gareth A Hopkins @grthink.bsky.social · Aug 26

DON'T FORGET

THIS SATURDAY AT @goshcomics.bsky.social

FROM 5-6pm

HOUR OF THE HUNKS (me and @douglasnoble.bsky.social and @frasergeesin.bsky.social and @seanazz.bsky.social and @marxtafford.bsky.social and @danwhite.bsky.social and @patrickwray.bsky.social)

John Riordan @johnnyriordan.bsky.social · Aug 17

Looking forward to being part of Gosh!Fest 2025, along with a plethora of talented indie comics folk. Come along to London’s (the world’s?) best comic shop @goshcomics.bsky.social on Saturday 30 August

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Aug 23

Cartoonists for Gaza – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham.

Check out this amazing gallery of work here:
www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-...

#cartoonistsforg4za

Cartoonists for Gaza - Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham – Broken Fron...

Cartoonists for Gaza bring us powerful cartoons and comics detailing the humanitarian crisis as the genocide in Gaza continues.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · Aug 23

UK cartoonists launch “Cartoonists For Gaza” to respond to the humanitarian crisis, including Martin Rowson, Rachael House, Kate Evans, The Rickard Sisters, Roger Langridge, Bryan Talbot, James Sturm, Nick Abadzis, Lauren Weinstein, Hannah Berry, and Darryl Cunningham #cartoonistsforg4za

UK cartoonists launch “Cartoonists For Gaza” to respond to the humanitarian crisis, including Martin Rowson, Roger Langridge and Bryan Talbot

dlvr.it

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 23

#cartoonistsforg4za

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 18

May have had a little whoopsy with the ink there but I'm sure no-one will notice...

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Well, I want to be an athlete, but I'm not interested in any of that 'exercise.'"

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Douglas Noble @douglasnoble.bsky.social · Aug 17

How many hunks can one table hold? From 5-6, find @seanazz.bsky.social, @grthink.bsky.social, @marxtafford.bsky.social, @danwhite.bsky.social, @frasergeesin.bsky.social, @patrickwray.bsky.social, @johnnyriordan.bsky.social and this guy. Get to @goshcomics.bsky.social on the 30th of August!

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 12

What kind of world is it that produces a Warren Oates movie poster calendar, back in 2022, and doesn't tell me about it? A rotten, low down miserable world, that's what kind of world.

Wall Calendar 2022 [12 pages 20x30cm] Warren Oates Vintage Movie Posters

Wall Calendar for 2022. 13 pages 20x30cm (size like magazine). Printed on white heavy semi-gloss paper. This calendar is REPRINT of vintage posters and magazine illustrations. Please search PIXILUV for a great collection of unique calendars, postcards and stickers.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 11

Observer article about the collapse of Unbound and the fallout from it.
Uses decidedly more reasonable language than the couple of affected authors I know would use.
What a mess.

Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b...

The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…

observer.co.uk

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Mark Stafford @marxtafford.bsky.social · Aug 8

See you at the end of the month for another round!
With special guests Kiera Won and Leo Fox.
29th August, meet at Gosh 6.30pm, then to the Royal George for 7pm.
Cheers!

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