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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[...]