Tag Archive | "Bryan Talbot"

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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Where do you get your ideas from?

Friday, July 9, 2010

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Yes, it is true – this is a question writers and artists get asked frequently; I’ve lost count of how many author events I’ve been involved with over the years and it rarely fails to make an appearance in the Q&A part of the proceedings, much to the pleasure and delight of the authors, of [...]

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Mork calling Orson…

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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Okay, nothing to do with Mork and Mindy other than the name Orson, but here’s a nice one for the cinephiles among us, a pair of pretty cool portraits of the great Orson Welles by Bryan Talbot (on the left) and Herb Trimpe (on the right). Chrissie Harper has the full versions up on her [...]

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Graphic Novel Classics: The Complete Nemesis The Warlock

Monday, March 29, 2010

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The Complete Nemesis The Warlock by Pat Mills, Kevin O’Neill, Jesus Redondo, Bryan Talbot, John Hicklenton and more… 2000AD / Rebellion (EDIT: This review was written before the terrible news last week of the all too early death of John Hicklenton – we offer it as more appreciation of a wonderfully talented and unique artist. [...]

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Thought Bubble serves up comics video feast!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Following on from yesterday’s post on the first part of a panel discussing horror comics at last year’s Thought Bubble festival in sunny Leeds the TB folks have been busy posting up more segments so now the whole panel discussion with Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Antony Johnston and Ben Templesmith -- with Martin Grund chairing [...]

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Graphic Novel Classic Library: Luther Arkwright

Monday, February 22, 2010

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The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot Dark Horse Bryan Talbot’s visionary tale is the very definition of epic steampunk sci-fi. That it still, some 31 years after initial publication, stands up as both a masterpiece of sci-fi AND of experimentation in the narrative art of comics is testament to the vision and skill [...]

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Bryant Talbot on TV and at the Lit and Phil in February

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Bryan Talbot tells us that he’s going to be appearing on the television in February, taking part in A Brush With Britain, which is about artist Charles Evans travelling the country and meeting artists in each area; Bryan will feature in the episode on Sunderland, which goes out on Discovery Real Time on Saturday February [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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