About Me
I'm a writer and illustrator. This website gives a taste of the sort of
thing
I'm up to at the moment. Wherever possible I'll try not to talk about
myself in the third person. That's always a sure sign of impending madness.
No, Tim Bradford won't be going down that route.
Latest News
•
For the duration of Euro 2004 I'll be doing a daily comic strip - Gol!
- on my sportscartoons website. You can see it here.
• Might be doing some kind of river/pubs walk in Clerkenwell on 26th
June. More info to follow.
Books
My
latest project is a book about London called The
Groundwater Diaries. Over the course of a year I walked the
routes of many of the buried tributaries of the Thames, drew some sketches
and read history books. The Bookseller called it "bizarre
but quite brilliant". It was published in June 2003.
The paperback version came out in March this year with a beautiful new
cover
by
the illustrator Steven Appleby. Meanwhile, The Herald claims
it is "The oddest of books, it is an endearing eccentric's humane
outlook on life delivered with a rapier wit that can unravel an entire
culture as much through its tackiness as its deep-rooted histories."
Blimey.
My
first illustrated travel book, Is
Shane MacGowan Still Alive?, involved driving around
Ireland Kerouac style, trying to sell a crappy little car 
with
the help of a felt musical leprechaun. It veers off at various tangents
of Irishness and I end up at the Miss Galway competition looking for some
serious action.
Cartoons
I've drawn cartoons for a variety of magazines, newspapers and publishers,
but mostly it's been sports stuff for When
Saturday Comes and caricatures
for The Guardian.
Illustrations
I also do illustrations in a variety
of media 
-
collages, watercolours, acrylics and Adobe Illustrator. Recently I've
done the book jackets for the Always Next Year anthology series.
I've also did the cover art for the most recent edition of Mike Marqusee's
Anyone But England and illustrated the Philosophy Football
books, by Mark Perryman.
Animations
My first web animations were for the WSC Half Decent Football Website
.
I then did a variety of animated
football scenes for The Guardian's World Cup 98 website and
continue to produce them for onetouchfootball. For dot
two I created a large number of small animated graphics for One2One/T-Mobile
for their new generation of mobile phones.
Web
I first started dabbling with web stuff for When Saturday Comes in
the 
summer
of 1995, from info gleaned from a little pocket manual and source code
I nicked from the Daily Telegraph's website. Or it could have been New
Scientist. Anyway, The Half Decent Web Site had crap interactive
features like Pele's Poetry, Neil Webb's World and rants pages. A year
later I built the very low-tech Euro 96 site. I then formed dot two
with colleague Doug
Cheeseman, and we built a site for WSC
called onetouchfootball.com.
Dot Two has also built sites for Channel 4.
As well as doing websites that didn't make any money for other people
I've also done a couple of extremely non-commercial personal projects
- The Smoke (mundane
London news) and Dr
Clever (answering the ultimate questions about life etc etc).
My real ambition is to run a thriving t-shirt business (my definition
of 
"thriving"
is earning enough for two good beer sessions a week). I used to run a
hand painted t-shirt stall on Portobello Market and I still fantasise
about throwing away my computer and buying a new screen-printing kit.
.