Bryan Talbot Archives

In 2008, Bryan Talbot, the graphic novelist behind Luther Arkwright, the Grandville series, The Tale of One Bad Rat, did his own impression of C.B Cebulski's Akira Yoshida by publishing a graphic novel by a non-existent French/Japanese female comic creator; Metronome by Véronique Tanaka. A silent, geometric, rhythmic, and erotic graphic novel, it had sixteen square panels[...]

It is meant to include the artists whose work was used to develop Midjourney's AI art offering. They include comic book creators such as Tim Bradstreet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Spiegelman, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Watterson, Bill Willingham, Ben Templesmith, Adi Granov, Al Davidson, Alex Toth, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Suydam, Scott McCloud, Ryan North, Mort Drucker,[...]

A two-minute trailer has been released to promote the new graphic biography by Professor Mary M Talbot and Doctor Bryan Talbot, Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington Directed and edited by designer Jordan Smith, it features music composed by Gary Lloyd Take a look/listen.   Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel refugee… the[...]

The venue also brought out creatives and culture warriors from a different time as old bohemia joined the crowd for a few drinks and a bit of a sing-song. It is a remarkable location for any exhibition, that it was for the comic book work of Mark Stafford and comic book creators of his choice, including[...]

Ane next month he is opening All About The Ink! a new exhibition of comic book artwork – some of it his, but mostly many other people  – including Rachael Ball, Hunt Emerson, Lucy Sullivan, Bryan Talbot, Krent Able, Ed Pinsent, Sarah Gordon, John Paul Milne, Rob Davis, Jason Atomic, Sean Azzopardi, Oscar Zarate, Fraser[...]

Rebellion and 2000AD's May 2023 solicits including a collection of Dice Man by John Wagner, Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill, Bryan Talbot, David Lloyd, Steve Dillon, Mike Collins & Hunt Emerson How many other projects have that level of talent? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /*[...]

Armed With Madness is a new graphic novel by Professor Mary M Talbot and Dr Bryan Talbot being announced by Self Made Hero for May 2023. Armed With Madness, New Graphic Novel by Mary M Talbot & Bryan Talbot "Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel refugee… the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played[...]

He tells me "I spent a fair chunk of my life under lockdown digging out old files and scanning art, restoring some stories and completing others and putting them all into some kind of order that makes sense to me." Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbord "So it contains my small press comics, contributions to anthologies, unpublished gems, beer[...]

Credit: Vintage Publishing There are more Luther Arkwright comics, and they're precisely as humanist and anti-fascist as you'd hope. You know the history, but pretend you don't: 50 years ago, Bryan Talbot wrote and drew the issues that would eventually become The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright Since then, the TPB's influenced The Invisibles and The Matrix while[...]

Bryan Talbot: The Father of the British Graphic Novel is a new biography of Bryan Talbot by J.D Harlock, with a cover by Talbot and introductions by Neil Gaiman and Ed Brubaker, and about to be crowdfunded on Zoop. This week also saw the release of Bryan Talbot's The Legend Of Luther Arkwright and the launch of[...]

Last night saw the launch of Bryan Talbot's new graphic novel, The Legend Of Luther Arkwright at London's Cartoon Museum on Wells Street, which accompanies the new exhibition of the life of Luther at the Cartoon Museum, and ahead of tomorrow's signing at Gosh Comics. Musician and record label owner, Kavus Torabi,  one of the founding[...]

Written and drawn by its creator, the acclaimed graphic novelist Bryan Talbot, it was first serialised in the adult SF comic Near Myths in October 1978, featuring the character Talbot had previously introduced in The Papist Affair in 1976, a short strip for Brainstorm Comix where Arkwright teamed up with a group of cigar-chewing biker nuns to recover the sacred[...]

Bryan Talbot tells me "BTW, as a fan of Grandville [I am], you might be interested to know [I am] that the book I'm planning to draw after Mary [Talbot]'s next is a Grandville prequel, set 23 years before the first book, at the time of the French withdrawal from Britain – "The Casebook of[...]

Bryan Talbot and Tom Veitch's The Nazz was published by DC Comics in 1990, in four prestige issues, but they have never been reissued or collected in the 32 years Until now It sadly comes after Tom Veitch's death earlier in the year But now It's Alive Comics will be publishing The Nazz as a[...]

London's Cartoon Museum has announced a new exhibition launching this summer to mark the release of Bryan Talbot's third – and final – Luther Arkwright graphic novel, The Legend of Luther Arkwright The exhibition, Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright: 50 years of a British comics legend will run from the 14th of June to the 2nd of[...]

Alan Brooks, Lowell Cunningham, Eric Shanower, Mark Verheiden and Bryan Talbot. Comics scriptwriting is a largely unseen craft By the time the reader sees the actual comic book, the panel descriptions and other instructions have all been replace by the art that makes comic books so glorious But comics scripts have a glory unto themselves, with[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running stories about Grandville by Bryan Talbot since Bleeding Cool was a thing A series of graphic novels telling an anthropomorphic steampunk alternate history Victoriana detective mystery action-adventure, it plays with the traditions of French graphic novels, with British sensibilities and references, and happens to be utterly gorgeous And this week[...]

The rights to a film version of Bryan Talbot's The Tale of One Bad Rat have been optioned by Grasp the Nettle Films, a company based in Devon and London Run by producer Rebecca Wolff and writer/director Dean Puckett, they are currently working on a slate of features including Magpie, a folk-horror backed by Bankside[...]

Knave, Sean Konot, Piotr Kowalski, Ilias Kyriazis, Jonathan Lang, Christine Larsen, Janet Lee, John Lees, Fabian Lelay, Shawn Lee, Cath Lobo, Marissa Louise, Andrew MacLean, Andy MacDonald, James Maddox, Ariana Maher, Ryan Maniulit, Shaun Manning, Shanna Matuszak, Hannah Means-Shannon, Oliver Mertz, Joe Mulvey, Andrea Mutti, Micah Myers, Mike Norton, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Eric Palicki, Chas! Pangburn,[...]

Three River Studios has optioned the rights for Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright graphic novels: The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire to develop, finance, and produce a live action, returning, Luther Arkwright TV series. Considered to be one of the most significant and influential British graphic novel series to come out of Britain, Luther[...]

Yesterday, the Bryan Talbot Fanpage posted news of a complete collected edition of Talbot's anthropomorphic steampunk Victorian detective thriller, Grandville To be published in June from Dark Horse and Jonathan Cape for a deservedly high price, containing all five graphic novels in the series Grandville is a favourite of ours at Bleeding Cool and you[...]

It was really hard narrowing down their canon, and you'll note that some favorites like The Umbrella Academy (surely one of Dark Horse's breakout series) or Finder don't make the list. Editorial credit: Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright Arkwright Integral by Bryan Talbot and published by Dark Horse Comics. Famously ripped off by The Matrix[...]

Legendary comics artist Bryan Talbot is offering a free download of his rare comics on his official website! This is a gift for everyone stuck in self-isolation. Head over to bryan-talbot.com and you can download a PDF or CBR file of over 90 pages of comics drawn by Bryan It includes rare stories written by the likes of Alan[...]

And now it's back. Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the legendary underground comix horror title, Last Gasp will be releasing Slow Death Zero, a graphic anthology of all-new stories including both old school Slow Death alumni William Stout (who contributes the lead story and cover art), Bryan Talbot, Tim Boxell, and Richard Corben.  Plus[...]

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The events also inspired Mary and Bryan Talbot to create a graphic novel, Rain, set in the area in the run up to the floods, looking at all the local environmental issues that led to the disaster, and looking at the clear-up situation, and plans necessary to stop it from happening again. Well, it happened again[...]

It is an extreme political polemic, which finds not only conflict with authorities and the state but also within the revolutionary movement, and the arguments allow the author to drop a lot of information in a short space of time in a fashion that I can recall today after not reading it for almost two[...]

Written and drawn by its creator, the acclaimed graphic novelist Bryan Talbot, it was first serialised in the adult SF comic Near Myths in October 1978, featuring the character Talbot had previously introduced in The Papist Affair in 1976, a short strip for Brainstorm Comix where Arkwright teamed up with a group of cigar-chewing biker[...]

The Literary Calendar is the Guardian's annual listing of essential reading in the year ahead. And The Red Virgin And The Vision of Utopia by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot is the only piece of sequential art mentioned. Unfortunately it's in the wrong month, June, not May and is wrongly listed as fiction! But you don't look a gift horse in[...]

Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot have become true powerhouses of the British graphic novel scene As well as their involvement in the recent Lakes Festival, they have been putting out graphic novels, together and apart. And at the Lakes there were two new books to announce  First to be published next year in May by Jonathan[...]