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Rabbit holes, badger detectives and cherubs – part two of Bryan Talbot’s interview with Pádraig

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Following yesterday’s terrific chat between Bryan Talbot and  Pádraig Ó Méalóid (which can be read here) today we bring you the second half, where we mostly move on to more recent work from Bryan, such as the magnificent, years-in-the-making Alice in Sunderland, cross-gender anonymity with the ‘Veronique Tanaka’ silent comic experiment (which took me in, [...]

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The road from Wigan Pier: Bryan Talbot talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, part one

Thursday, October 1, 2009

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Today we have a wonderful treat for you – that notorious masked interviewer Pádraig Ó Méalóid has a cracking new interview for us, this time with the brilliant Bryan Talbot (or I should say Doctor Bryan Talbot now!) and, like his previous Alan Moore interviews here, its a long and in-depth piece, so we’re going [...]

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Bryan Talbot’s Steampunk menagerie – welcome to Grandville

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Grandville by Bryan Talbot Jonathan Cape “An anthropomorphic steampunk detective thriller” – Bryan Talbot. Which pretty much sets the scene for Grandville quite nicely. Talbot’s no stranger to steampunk, having given us the trailblazing, way ahead of it’s time Luther Arkwright, but Grandville takes it a step further and mixes his beautifully rendered steampunk visions with the anthropomorphic illustrations [...]

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Bryan Talbot brings Grandville to Gosh!

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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London’s Gosh! Comics has the brilliant Bryan Talbot in store on October 10th from 2 to 4pm to sign copies of his new graphic novel Grandville, a wonderful steampunk, anthropomorphic, alt-history, science fiction, crime-conspiracy tale about to be published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse in North America. And as Richard already mentioned [...]

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Bryant Talbot on the Radio Café

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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The excellent Dr Bryan Talbot will be interviewed this coming Monday on BBC Radio Scotland’s Radio Café to discuss his new graphic novel Grandville, which I am just re-reading right now and have to say is fabulous: alternate history science fiction, anthropomorphic characters, some wonderful Steampunk elements, references to other books, comics and contemporary events [...]

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What’s Your Opinion Of The Term “Graphic Novel”?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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+ (Borrowed from David S Carter’s Flickr.) Our very own interview king Pádraig Ó Méalóid set this question last week on his live journal blog (and we linked to it then) but we thought it was well worth posting here on the FPI blog as well to let more folks see it. So with Pádraig’s permission we’re [...]

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What’s your opinion of the term ‘Graphic Novel’?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been asking questions once more, this time instead of one of his in-depth interviews he is asking one simple question to sixteen comics professionals (including Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein, David Lloyd, Bryan Talbot, Chris Staros, Dave McKean, Garen Ewing and others) “What’s your opinion of the term ‘Graphic Novel’?” [...]

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Three Interviews for your Sunday entertainment: Bissette, Talbot & Seth.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Bissette, Talbot & Seth – possibly the strangest legal firm in the world? It’s Sunday morning and you have nothing to do all day. Well, how about spending a while with three fantastic interviews: Steve Bissette: The artist and publisher talks about the lifetime of work, the bad days at DC, Swamp Thing, publishing Taboo, [...]

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Eddie Campbell, Bryan Talbot at Comica 2010

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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The sixth Comica Festival, curated by Paul Gravett, takes place in London this November. Comica is a festival of many disparate events on comics and the artform, but always manages to get some particularly good guests and some very special events. For example…… From Paul Gravett’s Comica site: “Eddie Campbell is the first confirmed international guest [...]

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Meet Doctor Bryan Talbot

Sunday, July 19, 2009

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Ladies, gentlemen and other refined peoples of letters, we present, in all his finery, Doctor Bryan Talbot. As Pádraig told us a couple of weeks ago Bryan was to be given an honorary doctorate for “outstanding contribution to the Arts as writer and graphic artist” by Sunderland University (see here), the first time a comics [...]

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The Doctor is in

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Pádraig drops us a quick note to let us know that Bryan Talbot is to receive an honorary doctorate from Sunderland University for his “outstanding contribution to the Arts as writer and graphic artist.” “I’ve been saying that working on Alice in Sunderland was being like doing a Phd – not something I said lightly as [...]

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