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Bryan Talbot Tutors In The Countryside

Bryan Talbot Tutors In The Countryside

Bryan Talbot co-tutors an annual creative writing for graphic novels course every year in the depths of the Shropshire countryside for the Arvon Foundation. This year's course runs from the 25th until the 30th June..

This time around, his co-tutor is Hannah Berry (Britten and Brulightly, Adamtine), with Mary Talbot (Dotter of Her Father's Eyes) as the guest speaker.

Fuly booked for the last two years, there are still spaces left for 2012.

Katie Green told Paul Gravett;

All in all, the experience is completely unique and the list of things I took away from the courses is vast: from technical knowledge of comics (far more than I learned in three years at art college) to confidence in my work, to lifelong friends.

While Paula Knight said;

Bryan Talbot took us through a pretty thorough history of the medium and a list of 'must reads'. Months later I'm pretty much only reading graphic novels and related books. One of the best pieces of advice (from both courses) was to read widely within the medium you want to write. The most useful thing I learnt was about practical ways to help with structuring a narrative and seeing our tutors' examples of how they did that in their own work. Hannah Berry's hypothesis of 'three realities' governing the universe you create in any particular story was fascinating and new to me. I assumed my story had 'no God' but on closer inspection realised it does indeed have a 'Casual God' … and we're not talking religion here!

 


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