Tim Bradstreet Explained

Birth Name:	Tim Bradstreet
Birth Date:	February 16, 1967
Birth Place:	Cheverly, Maryland
Nationality:	American
Awards:	Inkpot Award (2012)^[1]
Website:	http://timbradstreet.typepad.com/

Tim Bradstreet (born February 16, 1967) is an American artist and illustrator.^[2]

Early life

Tim Bradstreet was born February 16, 1967, in Cheverly, Maryland. He graduated high school in 1985.^[2]

Career

Bradstreet entered the comic book industry in 1990, working with Tim Truman on Dragon Chiang.

Bradstreet's work on White Wolf Publishing’s garnered him much critical praise. This, in turn, led to the addition of many major comic book publishers to his clientele. He has since drawn for scores of comics-related projects including Dark Horse's Hard Looks and Another Chance to Get It Right (with author Andrew Vachss), Star Wars, Clive Barker’s Age of Desire, Marvel's The Punisher and Blade, and Vertigo's Gangland, Unknown Soldier, Human Target, and Hellblazer.^[3]

Bradstreet's work has also extended to games of many types. His work on role-playing games has included GDW’s Twilight 2000 and FASA’s Shadowrun. He was involved in art design for the Activision's video game. He illustrated cards in Last Unicorn Games' CCG .^[4]

Bradstreet was awarded the 1996 International Horror Guild Award for Best Artist.^[5] He was also nominated for a 2005 IHG Award for his Hellblazer covers.^[6] Bradstreet has also been nominated for the 2002 Best Cover Artist Eisner Award for his Hellblazer covers.^[7]

In 2000, he joined director Guillermo del Toro as a conceptual artist helping work on the visual design for the film Blade II. In 2003, Bradstreet worked on a number of movie posters for the Marvel/Lions Gate film, The Punisher as well as the cover for The Punisher: Countdown mini-comic that was packaged with the original DVD release. In 2006 Bradstreet provided artwork for a black and white stop motion animated scene set in Kuwait for the extended cut DVD. Bradstreet has also done posters for the films – , Dark Country, Give 'Em Hell, Malone, and I Melt with You. He has done a poster for the TV Series The Expanse.^[8]

Bradstreet was also the regular cover artist for two books, Marvel's The Punisher and Vertigo/DC's Hellblazer.^[9] He has created over 70 covers for both books in the past five years.

In 2006, Bradstreet created the album art for British heavy metal band Iron Maiden's album A Matter of Life and Death, which featured a mob of skeleton soldiers walking in front of a tank and features Eddie, the band's mascot at the top of the tank with a Thompson M1/M1A1 pointed up in the air. In 2016, he appeared on Brad Jones' Midnight Screenings to discuss the movie Why Him?^[10]

Reception

In the May 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue #205), Rick Swan specifically mentioned Bradstreet's work in , saying, "The illustrations are among the best I’ve ever seen in an RPG product, particularly those by Tim Bradstreet. His depiction of a vampire feasting on the wrist of a fellow burn-out [...] evokes both the horrors of addiction and the intimacy of a shared secret. White Wolf, Steve Jackson, or Bradstreet himself ought to market it as a poster."^[11]

Bibliography

Interiors

• Dragon Chiang (1991) one-shot (inker)
• Hawkworld (1993) #30–32 (inker)
• Aliens: Music of the Spears (1994) #1–4 (inker)
• Barb Wire: Ace of Spades (1996) #1–4 (inker)
• Rune: Hearts of Darkness (1996) #1–3 (inker)
• Evil Ernie: Destroyer (1997) #1–3 (inker)
• John Constantine, Hellblazer (1999) #141 (penciller, inker)
• Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire (2003) #1–3 (inker)
• Bad Planet (2005–2008) #1–6 (inker)
• Black Panther (2006) #16 (inker)
• Clive Barker's Age of Desire (2009) OGN (penciller, inker)
• Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword (2010) #1 (penciller, inker)

Covers

• Aliens: Music of the Spears (1994) #1–4
• Evil Ernie: Destroyer (1997) #1–3
• Unknown Soldier (1997) #1–4
• Transmetropolitan (1997) #37–39
• Gangland (1998) #1
• (1999) #2–3
• Human Target (1999) #1–4
• John Constantine, Hellblazer (1999–2006) #134–143, #146–215
• Star Trek: The Next Generation – Perchance to Dream (2000) #1–4
• The Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank (2000–2001) #1–12
• JLA: Black Baptism (2001) #1–4
• Action Comics (2001) #775
• The Punisher (2001–2004) #1–37
• Blade (2002) #1–6
• Dial M for Monster: A Collection of Cal McDonald Mystery Stories (2003) novel
• The Punisher (2004–2008) #1–60
• The Punisher: The Cell (2005) one-shot
• Bad Planet (2005–2008) #4
• Jonah Hex (2006) #5
• The Punisher: The Tyger (2006) one-shot
• Black Panther (2006) #16
• Criminal Macabre: Two Red Eyes (2006–2007) #1–4
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: Sleep of Reason (2007) #1–5
• (2007) TPB
• (2007) #1
• Criminal Macabre: My Demon Baby (2007–2008) #1–4
• Scalped (2008) #18–20
• Wolverine: Flies to a Spider (2008) one-shot
• Criminal Macabre: Cell Block 666 (2008–2009) #1–4
• The Spirit: The New Adventures (2009) #6
• 28 Days Later (2009) #1–8
• The Punisher: Naked Kill (2009) one-shot
• Clive Barker's Age of Desire (2009) OGN
• Luke Cage Noir (2009–2010) #1–4
• Punisher Noir (2009–2010) #1–4
• The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2010) #1
• Motel Hell (2010) #1–2
• Punisher MAX: Get Castle (2010) one-shot
• Punisher MAX: Hot Rods of Death (2010) one-shot
• Punisher MAX: Tiny Ugly World (2010) one-shot
• Internecine (2010) novel
• Iron Siege (2010–2011) #1–3
• Bullseye: Perfect Game (2011) #1–2
• Iron Man: The Rapture (2011) #1–4
• Jennifer Blood (2011–2012) #1–20
• Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword (2011) #2
• Star Trek (2011) #1-ongoing
• Hellraiser (2011–2012) #1–21
• True Blood (2012) #1–6
• Jericho: Season 4 (2012–2013) #1–2
• Hellraiser: The Road Below (2012) #1–4
• Hellraiser: The Dark Watch (2013) #1–ongoing
• The Shadow (2013) #13–ongoing

External links

• The Online World of Timothy Bradstreet
  • Tim Bradstreet at Marvel.com
• Web site: Tim Bradstreet at Pen & Paper RPG database . June 2, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080602211523/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=880 . – lists much of Bradstreet's work in the role-playing game industry

Notes and References

1. Web site: Inkpot Award. December 6, 2012. Comic-Con International: San Diego.
2. Web site: Biographhy: Tim Bradstreet Bio. Bradstreet, Tim. en-US. live. Typepad. February 7, 2023. February 7, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230207141947/https://timbradstreet.typepad.com/about.html.
3. Book: Irvine, Alex . Alexander C. Irvine . John Constantine Hellblazer . Dougall . Alastair . The Vertigo Encyclopedia . 102–111 . . New York . 2008 . 978-0-7566-4122-1 . 213309015 .
4. Web site: Heresy Cards by Artist. The Sendai Bubble. https://web.archive.org/web/20031210110205/http://sendai.best.vwh.net/rich/heresy/Artist.html. 2003-12-10. dead. 2011-08-17.
5. Web site: IHG Award Recipients: 1996 . 2007-08-04 . International Horror Guild .
6. Web site: IHG Award Recipients: 2005 . 2007-08-04 . International Horror Guild .
7. Web site: 2002 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards . 2007-08-04 . Comic Book Awards Almanac . https://web.archive.org/web/20070629202412/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner02.shtml . 2007-06-29.
8. Web site: Tim Bradstreet is a God.. October 9, 2015.
9. Web site: Tim Bradstreet - art auction records . 2023-02-07 . www.askart.com.
10. Web site: Stoned Gremlin Productions. Midnight Screenings – Why Him? w/ Tim Bradstreet!. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/IGthWoYdsnM . 2021-12-21 . live. YouTube. 25 December 2016.
11. Swan. Rick. Rick Swan. May 1994 . Roleplaying Reviews. Dragon. TSR, Inc.. 205. 99.