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...
Name three comics you've owned in at least three editions.
- Parker books (original HC’s, Martini editions, collected paperback)
- Calvin & Hobbes (books of cut out strips from my Grandma’s newspaper, paperbacks, HC box set, portable compendiums)
- Moomin (hardcovers, colour editions, deluxe HC’s)
- Parker books (original HC’s, Martini editions, collected paperback)
- Calvin & Hobbes (books of cut out strips from my Grandma’s newspaper, paperbacks, HC box set, portable compendiums)
- Moomin (hardcovers, colour editions, deluxe HC’s)
Name three comics you've owned in at least three editions.
-The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Gemstone, Fantagraphics books, & deluxe edition)
-Lone Wolf & Cub (First, Dark Horse, & new Deluxe Edition.)
-Harvey Kurtzman's EC War comics (Cochran annuals, slipcases, Fantagraphics)
-The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Gemstone, Fantagraphics books, & deluxe edition)
-Lone Wolf & Cub (First, Dark Horse, & new Deluxe Edition.)
-Harvey Kurtzman's EC War comics (Cochran annuals, slipcases, Fantagraphics)
Name three comics you've owned in at least three editions.
- LOVE AND ROCKETS (comics, first Fantagraphics hc/pbks, Titan UK pbks, current Fantagraphics pbks, deluxe hc collections)
- TOMIE (Comics One pbks, Viz pbks, Viz Complete deluxe hc)
- BATMAN YEAR ONE (comics, '88 hc, 2005 hc
- LOVE AND ROCKETS (comics, first Fantagraphics hc/pbks, Titan UK pbks, current Fantagraphics pbks, deluxe hc collections)
- TOMIE (Comics One pbks, Viz pbks, Viz Complete deluxe hc)
- BATMAN YEAR ONE (comics, '88 hc, 2005 hc
December 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Name three comics you've owned in at least three editions.
- Parker books (original HC’s, Martini editions, collected paperback)
- Calvin & Hobbes (books of cut out strips from my Grandma’s newspaper, paperbacks, HC box set, portable compendiums)
- Moomin (hardcovers, colour editions, deluxe HC’s)
- Parker books (original HC’s, Martini editions, collected paperback)
- Calvin & Hobbes (books of cut out strips from my Grandma’s newspaper, paperbacks, HC box set, portable compendiums)
- Moomin (hardcovers, colour editions, deluxe HC’s)
My son got a PS5 for Christmas - it’s the first non-Nintendo console I’ve had in a house since the original PlayStation, and I must currently sound like an octogenarian to him.
December 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My son got a PS5 for Christmas - it’s the first non-Nintendo console I’ve had in a house since the original PlayStation, and I must currently sound like an octogenarian to him.
I had to ID Patrick Stewart because his signature had worn off his credit card.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I had to ID Patrick Stewart because his signature had worn off his credit card.
Pretty certain he’d have a lot in common with some of the people the US opened its borders to that allowed it to land on the moon.
What if we kept pointing out that this weird and frightened guy doesn't know what he's talking about
December 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Pretty certain he’d have a lot in common with some of the people the US opened its borders to that allowed it to land on the moon.
It’s slowly driving me up the wall that critics who should absolutely understand what poptimism was/is/means (some of whom were present for the surge in the idea) don’t seem to understand what it actually is. It was never about ‘this is popular = it’s above criticism’.
December 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It’s slowly driving me up the wall that critics who should absolutely understand what poptimism was/is/means (some of whom were present for the surge in the idea) don’t seem to understand what it actually is. It was never about ‘this is popular = it’s above criticism’.
I was watching an interview with a high up at BBC recently and she was talking about wanting to commission horror, but wasn’t sure if it was doable, and I cannot emphasise enough: Commission a 5 part horror series to air between Christmas & New Year.
OK, I know moaning about the Christmas TV schedule is a popular British pastime. But I've just been flipping through the Christmas Radio Times and noticed something alarming: neither BBC One nor ITV1 have done a big *new* drama for Christmas week. At all.
That's not a good sign.
That's not a good sign.
December 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I was watching an interview with a high up at BBC recently and she was talking about wanting to commission horror, but wasn’t sure if it was doable, and I cannot emphasise enough: Commission a 5 part horror series to air between Christmas & New Year.
People who have written opinion pieces about how we should emulate manga sales needs to look at the Shonen Jump/One Piece/Dragonball comic sales on here vs all of the brands that started out as an English language comic titles, & give me a precise breakdown as to how exactly they plan to achieve it.
December 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
People who have written opinion pieces about how we should emulate manga sales needs to look at the Shonen Jump/One Piece/Dragonball comic sales on here vs all of the brands that started out as an English language comic titles, & give me a precise breakdown as to how exactly they plan to achieve it.
This deserves to win an Oscar.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This deserves to win an Oscar.
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
Said it before, but: The absolute best screen version of LotR would have been made in the mid-to-late 1970’s by ITV, and would’ve been about 4 series long, with a cast mostly made up m of aging British character actors, and have had a synth soundtrack.
what I love about LotR is that it is at its heart about moving through a melancholy landscape largely filled with ruins, faded histories and legends - I would have filmed it that way and cut the fights to a bare minimum, plus add Merry's interest in comparative philology as a major plot element
December 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Said it before, but: The absolute best screen version of LotR would have been made in the mid-to-late 1970’s by ITV, and would’ve been about 4 series long, with a cast mostly made up m of aging British character actors, and have had a synth soundtrack.
I increasingly dislike the idea of comic adaptations of prose books (Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series aside), however I am interested to see when traditional publishing is going to start doing prose adaptations of comics.
December 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I increasingly dislike the idea of comic adaptations of prose books (Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series aside), however I am interested to see when traditional publishing is going to start doing prose adaptations of comics.
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Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
April 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
Trying to set up a parent and child account on the PlayStation has made me want to end humanity.
December 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Trying to set up a parent and child account on the PlayStation has made me want to end humanity.
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
I genuinely don’t understand how I’ve fit so much food inside my body.
December 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I genuinely don’t understand how I’ve fit so much food inside my body.
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And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but was relaunched in Ultimate Tiny Tim #1, which takes place after Amazing Tiny Tim #332 and All-New Tiny Tim #200, and don’t forget to read the Scrooge / David Copperfield / Great Expectations crossover event minis otherwise the Miss Havisham bit won’t make sense
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday
December 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but was relaunched in Ultimate Tiny Tim #1, which takes place after Amazing Tiny Tim #332 and All-New Tiny Tim #200, and don’t forget to read the Scrooge / David Copperfield / Great Expectations crossover event minis otherwise the Miss Havisham bit won’t make sense
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
Merry Pringles, everyone.
December 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Merry Pringles, everyone.
Happy ‘Oh my god, why does this happen every year? We need to be better organised next year’ up-until-3am-wrapping-session to all the fellow ADHD parents out there.
December 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Happy ‘Oh my god, why does this happen every year? We need to be better organised next year’ up-until-3am-wrapping-session to all the fellow ADHD parents out there.
At this point they really should just make the posters read ‘LOOK!! WE GOT RDJ AND CHRIS EVANS! PLEASE COME BACK!’.
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
At this point they really should just make the posters read ‘LOOK!! WE GOT RDJ AND CHRIS EVANS! PLEASE COME BACK!’.
Shout out to the plasterer in our house who is doing a genuinely spectacular sing along to Roxette’s It Must Have Been Love.
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Shout out to the plasterer in our house who is doing a genuinely spectacular sing along to Roxette’s It Must Have Been Love.
Pro tip: Don’t have *massive* house renovations going on when you’re in final art season for a graphic novel project.
We’re 4 months into a supposed 3 week renovation and I’m losing the will to liiiiiiiiiiiiive.
We’re 4 months into a supposed 3 week renovation and I’m losing the will to liiiiiiiiiiiiive.
December 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Pro tip: Don’t have *massive* house renovations going on when you’re in final art season for a graphic novel project.
We’re 4 months into a supposed 3 week renovation and I’m losing the will to liiiiiiiiiiiiive.
We’re 4 months into a supposed 3 week renovation and I’m losing the will to liiiiiiiiiiiiive.
As someone who hates the sun, this is both the happiest & saddest day of the year.
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
As someone who hates the sun, this is both the happiest & saddest day of the year.
I mean, don’t get me wrong - I’m not arguing about the fact that France recognises comics, and we’re terrible at it (see: Everything I ever post ever), but she very much was awarded an MBE for her work.
This is great, but it’s also incredible (as in, “I am incredulous,”) that France has honoured Posy Simmonds for her cultural achievements and the British (cultural gatekeepers) haven’t. Of course, in France, #comics are the 9th Art, while in GB, they’re… what? We’ve come a long way, but still…
AWARDS ROUNDUP: Posy Simmonds and Milo Manara honoured, and more
In this edition - Posy Simmonds receives a French honour, Milo Manara gets an honorary degree, Red Harvest gets shortlisted for the 2026 Kobzar Book Award, and - despite no Angoulême on the horizon - award season is still in effect…
In this edition - Posy Simmonds receives a French honour, Milo Manara gets an honorary degree, Red Harvest gets shortlisted for the 2026 Kobzar Book Award, and - despite no Angoulême on the horizon - award season is still in effect…
December 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I mean, don’t get me wrong - I’m not arguing about the fact that France recognises comics, and we’re terrible at it (see: Everything I ever post ever), but she very much was awarded an MBE for her work.