Tag Archive | "Bryan Talbot"

Graphic memoirs

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Over on the Guardian Bryan and Mary Talbot select out ten of their favourite graphic biographies/memoirs (as well as briefly tackling the inadequacy of the catch-all term ‘graphic novel’, especially when dealing with non fiction works). Bryan says that the idea was only to pick from works which were full length works and while I’m [...]

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Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes at the Lit and Phil

Thursday, February 23, 2012

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Bryan and Mary Talbot will be guests at Newcastle’s respected  Literary and Philosophical Society (the Lit & Phil, as it is widely known) for a special event celebrating their new book Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, just published by Cape in the UK. Mary will be giving a Powerpoint presentation, followed by a Q&A session [...]

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Bryan and Mary Talbot speak

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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Digital Story Engine has uploaded a neat short video talking with Mary and Bryan Talbot about collaborating on the just-published (and much recommended – terrific stuff) Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which interleaves Mary’s childhood and upbringing with a sometimes distant Joycean scholar father and the daughter of Joyce himself, Lucia, and her troubled relationship [...]

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Comics summer school

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Bryan Talbot tells us that he will be once more tutoring at the annual Creative Writing for Graphic Novels residential course held at the well-known Arvon Foundation, along with Hannah Berry and also this year featuring Bryan’s wife and now collaborator on the new Dotter of Her Father’s Eye graphic novel, Mary Talbot, as a [...]

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Director’s Commentary – Mary Talbot

Friday, January 13, 2012

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I’m always fascinated to learn more about how works of art come into being, be it comics, books, films or any other medium; I find it often informs my reading of a text more, allowing me to appreciate more elements and aspects of it. One of the pleasures of editing the FP blog is that [...]

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Den of Geek speaks to Bryan Talbot

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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Den of Geek‘s Andrew Blair talks to Bryan Talbot, asking if perhaps in the comics medium the artist isn’t given as much respect as the writer, which is interesting – at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August Grant Morrison commented during his talk that he though perhaps more power had to be given back to [...]

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The horror… the horror of it all…

Monday, October 31, 2011

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As a ghoulish Halloween treat we thought the blog crew could have a rake through their repressed memories of terrifying moments from their comics reading. I’m a huge horror fan, from reprints of the old EC comics when I was a kid to Hammer films, then that first wave of Video Nasties during the home [...]

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Grandville – Bête Noire

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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Chrissie Harper has been working on some of Bryan Talbot‘s next Grandville album,  Bête Noire, the third in the series (both of the preceding volumes, Grandville and Grandville Mon Amour made my Best of the Year lists in their respective publication years, wonderful stuff). Chrissie has been involved in doing some of the colour flats [...]

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The Big Draw’s Big Splash

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Karrie Fransman drops us a line to alert us to the Big Draw’sBig Splash, a really fun-sounding event for kids and adults alike that is coming up in King’s Place, 90 York Way, London on Sunday September the 25th as part of the Big Draw, taking in the worlds of children’s illustration, comics and more [...]

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Dr Mary Talbot’s website…. and more on Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes

Friday, August 12, 2011

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Dr Mary Talbot, wife of Bryan, is an internationally acclaimed scholar with published works on language, gender and power. But more to the point for our readers, she’s the author of the forthcoming (Cape – Feb 2012) graphic novel “Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes”, which we’ve already mentioned a couple of times here on the [...]

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Grandville – Bête Noire – the cover, and page 1….

Saturday, August 6, 2011

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This was put up on the Bryan Talbot website back in July. But strangely, I just don’t think anyone’s put it anywhere else on the Internet yet…… the cover to the forthcoming Grandville Book 3: Bête Noire: … and here’s an interior page to enjoy as well….. Page 1, Grandville: Bête Noire by Bryan Talbot: [...]

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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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