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[...]
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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.
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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.
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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[...]
Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Knockabout, Blank Slate, Self Made Hero, those are the kind of publishers you expect to find there.
Well, now they have sold out to the man. Because they had done a deal with Dark Horse to list their graphic novels as well.
Which means Dark Horse, which prided itself on its own independent digital app,[...]
Grandville: Noel from Jonathan Cape, by Bryan Talbot
One that sneaked in at the end of the year, but how wonderfully so, and perfectly pitched for the time of the year This sumptuous telling of an anthropomorphic Victoriana steampunk world dominated by French culture, and an alternate history of our own world took on great resonance[...]
One of my favourite comic book reads in the runup to Christmas has been Grandville: Noel, the fourth volume in Bryan Talbot's stellar steampunk anthropomorphic detective thriller series And with this volume, given the title and the time of year, takes on a religious feeling.
There's nothing a new reader needs to know upon reading the book, but[...]
Bryan Talbot has, in recent years become one of Britain's most prominent comic book creator, with a Costa Award under his arm for Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes, recognition of academic institutions for Alice In Sunderland, heading up the Lakes Festival and gaining plenty of coverage in the process It's a toss up between him,[...]
But when it did Matt was lucky enough to meet Bryan Talbot back in the 80's who introduced Matt to a drinking club for artists down in London which he managed to hang out in long enough for British editors to assume he was a professional artist First came work for the socially minded Crisis[...]