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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Pretty certain that hundreds of years from now the broad takeaway from this era will be that the sudden invention of a vast and unregulated information and communication network was so overwhelming that it caused everyone to completely lose their minds.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 04/09/2025

I've heard him go to bat for actors, but at the same time I know he's had issues with crews before. There's stuff about that all over the Aliens DVD extras. Then again, that was all a very long time ago.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 04/09/2025

He's probably buying into his own auteur myth. I kind of see how that might happen in a world where directors are given so much credit. Maybe he's come to believe that all of all those collaborators who helped him make his blockbuster James Cameron movies were all just 'tools'.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 04/09/2025

Yeah, I think a lot of boomers have that 'I got mine' attitude and the 'AI is just a tool' mantra is just another manifestation of that. Gaiman was saying the same shit right before... y'know. I think those saying it tend to be accutely aware that it won't hurt their livelihoods at all.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 04/09/2025

For context, I'm white and I look shifty as fuck, but I've never been bothered by black security, whereas what I described above happens all the time, particularly to the black women in my friend group. It's one consistent example I've seen of members of an oppressed group upholding white supremacy.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 04/09/2025

I frequently attend events where I've been allowed to come and go without displaying the necessary badge by the same black security guards who have immediately gone on to harrass my black friends who are prominently displaying their badges. It happens all the time at various conventions.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 02/05/2025

I've been trying to get rid of it for at least five years, because I don't like paying a monthly fee for a program that gets worse with every update, but I still need it for the 10% of what I do where its virtually irreplaceable and for clients who insist on receiving the work in Adobe file formats.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 30/04/2025

When I left that job, I gifted everyone who worked there a copy of that document and they were all very appreciative.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 30/04/2025

Nah, like most mall cops, he was a power-tripping thug. He threatened me more than once starting the day I met him. I eventually got my back by following him around writing a detailed account of his ridiculous behaviour and then pinning it to the wall next to where he ate lunch every day.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 29/04/2025

Truth. I used to work with this one Mall Cop who was given the title of 'Store Detective' and immediately let that go to his head. I once saw him sneaking around Borders in stealth mode while the store sound system played the James Bond theme tune. God I wish my phone had a video camera back then...

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 17/04/2025

British food being bad is an outdated concept. Hipsters fixed it. Its not like Denver, they've learned to season and everything. London is legitimately one of the best food cities I've been to, both for variety and baseline quality.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 17/04/2025

How many Cybertruck recalls are there going to be before I stop seeing these twats everywhere?

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 15/04/2025

Hey! My wife @alicemeichi.li painted a beautiful cover for the new Nemesis series from Titan comics (it's the gorgeous blue one). Nearly 20 years together and she still manages to dazzle me with her talents.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 27/03/2025

Are we finally getting 'Columbo is a Mass Murderer'?

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 22/03/2025

Me neither, but it seemed smart, right?

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 22/03/2025

Did you buy in a tax advantaged account like a Roth IRA? You can invest up to 7k a year and you can withdraw that initial investment without a penalty. Or so I hear, from my actually smart wife (who actually understands money).

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 21/03/2025

Ah... well... Same question for the other gameshow then!

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 21/03/2025

I always wondered about this, I know you won, but am I right in thinking they edited it so that someone else won the game? Am I misremembering? If so, did you both get paid, or is someone else out there telling people that they didn't go home with the money that the TV told people they got?

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 21/03/2025

I was a guest on this week's Nerd podcast, where we talked about the 90s Marvel Vs. DC comic for nearly three hours!

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 17/03/2025

This week's Nerd! podcast (out Thursday) will be on 1996's "DC vs. Marvel" with the amazing @mvbramley.art! If you're a @heytherejeffro.bsky.social Patron, you can actually vote like it's 1996 on who would win a fight (card) between me and Jeff! www.patreon.com/posts/nerd-u...

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 14/03/2025

Surprise! I'm on today's Hypecast talking about Nicolas Cage's undead cowboy, laser rot and the future of Quibi.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 08/03/2025

Glad you noticed. I stuck as close to the photo reference as possible.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 11/02/2025

Taking a little social media break to work on some personal things. On the off chance anyone comes here looking for me, you can contact me via my email if you have it, or via the contact form on my website, mvbramley.art. My commissions are still open, so shout if you need some art.

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M.V.B. Art and Illustration

Michael Vincent Bramley is a New York-based English artist whose work is inspired heavily by pop-culture, punk and surrealism.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 11/02/2025

Even the best teacher I ever had in school was terrible about comics. The older I get, the more ignorant that seems to me. Even in their simplest forms, comics encourage literacy.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 09/02/2025

Like a tasteful wallpaper design with repeating little tanks? Yes. I think that's doable.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 09/02/2025

Is there a search engine besides Google or Bing that's worth checking out?

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 09/02/2025

I'll throw in $20 if you let me spray paint it.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 08/02/2025

That's called Quantum Machine Gun Theory. I'm not sure if anyone really believes in it. It reminds me of that 'what if everyone else is secretly robots' idea that everyone has as a kid, in that you can't prove or disprove it.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 06/02/2025

Nicola Tesla revealing his death was faked and he's been surviving on science-fueled immortality magic for the last 80 years would be one of the least absurd news stories this month.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 06/02/2025

(I know about The Prestige, it's the long-living Tesla I'm confused by.)

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 04/02/2025

Huh. I had wondered why literally nobody from home bothered to check in with me.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 02/02/2025

Remember how at the end of that show, after all of that nihilistic rumination, Rust looks up at the stars and says that line about how light was actually winning over darkness? Probably a load of bollocks, right?

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 02/02/2025

Smooth Yoda is a great actor and still mad sexy and all that, but when I see him in a period piece it just takes me out of it. That's a face that only really fits in a post-botox world.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 01/02/2025

Our approach to drawing a crushed goomba is very similar, as evidenced by this 2012 doodle.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 01/02/2025

I think it's the deliberate goal of most news outlets and social media algorithms, to keep us scared, keep us engaged, keep us refreshing the page and perpetuating the miserable cycle. I don't think we're evolved for this.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 01/02/2025

There are numerous places in the world that couldn't solve issues of poverty because of a lack of wealth. America actually is very rich and so creates these issues artificially to gain more wealth. Poverty here isn't a result of the country being poor, it's a result of the country being rich.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 01/02/2025

By calling America a poor country, I'd only be obscuring the fact that it has enough money to solve all of these problems several times over. The fact that America is a very rich country is what makes this all so cruel.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 31/01/2025

Those aren't mutually exclusive concepts. Just because many people live in poverty here and have to pay more in healthcare taxes than people in countries with free healthcare (before getting further bled dry by insurance companies), doesn't mean the US government doesn't hold a lot of wealth.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 31/01/2025

This reminds me of the comics creator who died because he was $50 short on the price of his insulin. This country is one of the only places this rich where this still happens.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 31/01/2025

Old school answering machines being used in anything that's been made in a year that starts with the number 2.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 30/01/2025

Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 30/01/2025

Vita is one of the first friends I made in NYC, so I'd consider it a personal favour if any of you could help them out right now.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 29/01/2025

Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 29/01/2025

If I did, it would arrive a hell of a lot sooner with a hell of a lot more indeliberately paradoxical stuff in it.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 29/01/2025

I have a weird fear that if I ever complete and release this project, if the work is in any way impressive to people or strikes them as beyond my capabilites, then it may just look like I resorted to using AI to make it. I didn't, wouldn't and won't.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 29/01/2025

Right now I'm sitting on a small stack of mostly un-shared comics I've been developing, none of which particularly look like 'my work'. The main purpose of this project has been to push myself, learn to work in different styles and figure out what I really want my future work to look like.

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Michael Vincent Bramley @mvbramley.art · 29/01/2025

Sometimes you learn a new thing, sometimes you experiment with a new medium, sometimes you get a new piece of software or you get really inspired by something new. Experimentation is why many of my favourite artists have reinvented themselves over and over again.

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