Tag Archive | "Bryan Talbot"

Lass O’Gowrie – comic stuff in an award winning pub….

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Always good to see more and more comic events happening, big and small, and Gareth Kavanagh, boss at the award-winning Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester has a fair few great comic and comic related things going on in the next couple of months as part of the annual Lassfest running through July. Comic stuff happening in [...]

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History of British Comics

Friday, April 29, 2011

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We covered this quite a good while back, when the excellent Bryan Talbot created a potted history of British comics in three pages for the Guardian (in a similar style to his huge work Alice in Sunderland), but seeing as James at the Bryan Talbot site has just posted up some good-sized versions of the [...]

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Pat Mills and Bryan Talbot on Kooba

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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Kooba Radio has the whole of their recent chat with two giants of the British comics scene, Pat Mills and Bryan Talbot, up on their site, recorded by Jonny Yeah at the SFX Weekender, go, listen. (pic of Koba Radio’s Johnny with Bryan Talbot and Pat Mills, borrowed shamelessly from the Kooba site)

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Upcoming: Bryan Talbot – Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes

Sunday, April 3, 2011

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From Bryan Talbot’s site: “Bryan is currently drawing a graphic novel written by his wife, Mary Talbot, to be published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse in the US, hopefully later this year. ”Dotter of her Father’s Eyes” is partly autobiographical, charting the relationship between Mary and her father, the Joycean scholar James [...]

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Bryan in Edinburgh, some more pics

Monday, March 28, 2011

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(this is Bryan talking to a friend of mine from the Edinburgh SF Book Group, Neil, pics from my Flickr) The Edinburgh Forbidden Planet International was host to the excellent Bryan Talbot on Saturday afternoon, back up for a return visit to sign copies of his brilliant Grandville graphic novels and other works (yes, of [...]

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Bryan Talbot signing in Edinburgh

Saturday, March 26, 2011

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The excellent Bryan Talbot is signing copies of his Grandville books and other works right now in our Edinburgh store on Southbridge, do get yourselves down for a chance to meet one of the top talents in UK comics (yes, I have my Grandville books with me to be signed too, not missing that chance!)

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Bryan Talbot signing in Edinburgh tomorrow!

Friday, March 25, 2011

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Don’t forget, Edinburgh peeps, we have the excellent Bryan Talbot in our Edinburgh store on Southbridge at noon tomorrow, Saturday 26th, so come on down and meet one of the UK’s finest comics creators.

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Bryan Talbot signing in FP Edinburgh this weekend!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Saturday March 26th sees one of the UK’s finest comics creators, Bryan Talbot, paying a return visit to our Edinburgh store on Southbridge (just a moment’s walk from the historic Royal Mile in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town). Bryan will be here from 12 noon giving you a great chance to meet one of [...]

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Graphic novel course

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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Bryan Talbot alerts us to a course in graphic novels at the Arvon Foundation. Bryan is one of this year’s tutors, along with Rutu Modan and Katie Green is also going to be a guest tutor. It certainly isn’t cheap (several hundred pounds), although apparently there are a limited number of grants that can be [...]

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Bryan Talbot and Bob Shaw: Encounter with a Madman

Friday, January 28, 2011

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Over on Bryan Talbot’s website there’s a blast from the past in the shape of a 30 minute television programme unearthed from the unimaginably distant past of 1981 (when we would have been fiddling with out ZX81s and the multi core internet future was but a dream). It’s the old Celebration culture programme from Granada [...]

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Bryan Talbot at FP Edinburgh

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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As we languish in the snow winter here’s something to look forward to in the spring time: the excellent Bryan Talbot will be paying a return visit to the Edinburgh FPI on Southbridge (just a moment’s walk from the Royal Mile) to sign copies of his brilliant new Grandville Mon Amour graphic novel. Bryan will [...]

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New stuff to get excited about…

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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2011 is already shaping to be another year with some great looking books: New Seth is always going to make a great year. Palookaville has gone the route of annual hardback with issue 20 and hopefully we’ll see issue 21 late in 2011. But there’s definitely going to be a new Seth graphic novel in [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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Put down those snow shovels and kick off your ice encrusted boots, settle back with a hot cuppa and tune into some of the shows Alex Fitch has for us to enjoy; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Mature animal comics, tonight [...]

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Grandville teaser

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Jordan Smith has made a new, very cool trailer for Bryan Talbot’s upcoming Grandville, Mon Amour, which is one of the books this winter that I am most looking forward to reading.

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Selina Lock and Bryan Talbot at the British Fantasy Awards

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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As blogged earlier this week the annual British Fantasy Awards were announced at the weekend; now we have video to embarass the guilty parties, including this one of Selina Lock (whose Girly Comic was shorlisted for the comics award) and Bryan Talbot presenting the award for best artist; the sculpture of the award hadn’t turned [...]

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