@marxtafford.bsky.social
Cartoonist, co-creator/creator of Salmonella Smorgasbord/the Bad Bad Place/Lip Hook and such.
It's out!
And it is a thing of disconcerting beauty.
Should be available from all proper book emporiums today. Read and enjoy and spread the word.
Looking forward to tabling at the Goblin Market this Sunday.
Hope to see you there.
Well, the Thought Bubble table maps have been revealed and i've graduated from Bubbleboy to Redshirts, happily between Sean Azzopardi and Sam Hart.
13.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Work in progress. Page from 'Magical', a bit of a fairytale. Which will, gawd willing, be ready in time for Thought Bubble, possibly Winchester...
10.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
My poster for the Halloween Drink and Draw at Gosh/the Royal George on the 31st.
With guests zombie Zen K and spooky Shane Melisse.
I guess that makes me macabre Mark Stafford.
Be there!
And, uh.... Boo!
Random cool photos i found going through my cameras memory card..
05.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!
On the 18th I'll be signing Black Forests at Gosh alongside Peter Hogan and Glenn Fabry.
Because it's spooky season.
Random Lakes photo selection.
29.09.2025 21:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Through the door today.
My copy of 'Bog People.'
Looking rather handsome...
Good times at Markfield Road Festival.
Much art was arted.
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.
11.09.2025 17:32 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This 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!
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.
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
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.
04.09.2025 08:29 — 👍 34 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0Coverage of the show we haven't put up yet!
04.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So glad I share a birthday with this lovely lady it saves so much effort on my part. Cheers everybody!
02.09.2025 00:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Post Goshfest cat appreciation with Sean and Alex and Fred and George.
31.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One 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.
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-...
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)
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
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
23.08.2025 10:59 — 👍 37 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 2
#cartoonistsforg4za
23.08.2025 10:47 — 👍 96 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
May have had a little whoopsy with the ink there but I'm sure no-one will notice...
18.08.2025 21:35 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Well, I want to be an athlete, but I'm not interested in any of that 'exercise.'"
17.08.2025 19:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
17.08.2025 12:19 — 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
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.
12.08.2025 22:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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!
