Mark Stafford

Mark Stafford is a London-based cartoonist and illustrator.

After years of toiling in the small press salt mines, he co-created the Dark Horse graphic novel Cherubs! with Bryan Talbot, and since then he has made beer labels, theatre posters, graphics, record covers, and gallery show pieces, as well as a steady stream of self penned strips for various anthologies.

His partnership with the writer David Hine has so far produced a version of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space (for The Lovecraft Anthology Volume One,) the BCA short-listed Victor Hugo adaptation The Man Who Laughs, and the 'tale of rural unease' Lip Hook, all for publisher Self Made Hero, and their creepy serial 'The Bad Bad Place' running in Meanwhile magazine has been collected into a hardcover by Soaring Penguin.

A project in collaboration with the British Council/Arts council Korea in Busan has resulted in the short work Kangkangee Blues, a love story, of sorts, printed by the LICAF fund for the 2019 Lakes Festival,(available through his Etsy shop.)

Salmonella Smorgasbord, a hefty collection of his short pieces, illustration and graphics, was released by Soaring Penguin in 2023.

He has happily been the free-floating and loosely defined Cartoonist in Residence for the Cartoon Museum in London for bloody ages.

He paints a bit now and then.

When there's time.