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He has also illustrated [[Bill Willingham]]'s ''[[Fables (comic)|Fables]]'',<ref name="vert-fabl">{{Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = Fables | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 72–81 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]] | place = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015}}</ref> as well as returning to the Luther Arkwright universe with ''[[Heart of Empire]]''. He has also worked on ''[[The Dead Boy Detectives]]''.
He has also illustrated [[Bill Willingham]]'s ''[[Fables (comic)|Fables]]'',<ref name="vert-fabl">{{Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = Fables | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 72–81 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]] | place = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015}}</ref> as well as returning to the Luther Arkwright universe with ''[[Heart of Empire]]''. He has also worked on ''[[The Dead Boy Detectives]]''.


He is also acting as agent for French-Japanese [[concept artist]] Veronique Tanaka's experimental graphic novel ''Metronome'', an existential, textless erotically-charged visual poem.<ref>''A Graphic Poem'' [Online]
He adopted the alter ego of French-Japanese [[concept artist]] Veronique Tanaka for his experimental graphic novel ''Metronome'', an existential, textless erotically-charged visual poem.<ref>''A Graphic Poem'' [Online]
[http://www.downthetubes.net/news_archive/2006/07july2006.html#poem Down The Tubes]</ref><ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2526 ''Metronome'' sequence; Lying In The Gutter]</ref>
[http://www.downthetubes.net/news_archive/2006/07july2006.html#poem Down The Tubes]</ref><ref>[http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2526 ''Metronome'' sequence; Lying In The Gutter]</ref>


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For the footballer, see Brian Talbot.
Bryan Talbot
Talbot at the Big Apple Con, 14 November 2008.
Area(s)Artist and writer
Notable works
The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
Heart of Empire
Alice in Sunderland
AwardsEisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint (1996)
Haxtur Award for Best Long Comic Strip (1999)
Inkpot Award (2000)
http://www.bryan-talbot.com/

Bryan Talbot is a comic book artist and writer. He is best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its recent sequel Heart of Empire.

Biography

Talbot began his comics work in the underground comix scene of the late 1960s. In 1969 his first work appeared as illustrations in Mallorn, the British Tolkien Society Magazine, followed in 1972 by a weekly strip in his college newspaper.

He continued in the scene after leaving college, producing Brainstorm Comix, the first three of which formed The Chester P. Hackenbush Trilogy (a character reworked by Alan Moore as Chester Williams for Swamp Thing).

He started The Adventures of Luther Arkwright in 1978. It was originally published in Near Myths and continued on over the years in other publications. It was eventually collected together into one volume by Dark Horse. Along with When the Wind Blows it is one of the first British graphic novels.

In the early to mid-eighties he provide art for some of 2000 AD's flagship serials, producing 3 series of Nemesis the Warlock, as well as strips for Judge Dredd and Sláine.

The Tale of One Bad Rat deals with recovery from childhood sexual abuse.

Talbot moved to the American market in the 1990s, principally for DC, on titles like Hellblazer,[1] Sandman and Batman. He also produced the art for The Nazz by Tom Veitch and worked with Tom's brother Rick Veitch on Teknophage, one of a number of mini-series he drew for Tekno Comix.

He has also illustrated Bill Willingham's Fables,[2] as well as returning to the Luther Arkwright universe with Heart of Empire. He has also worked on The Dead Boy Detectives.

He adopted the alter ego of French-Japanese concept artist Veronique Tanaka for his experimental graphic novel Metronome, an existential, textless erotically-charged visual poem.[3][4]

In 2007 he released Alice in Sunderland, which documents the connections between Lewis Carroll, Alice Liddell, and the Sunderland and Wearside area.[5] He also wrote and drew the layouts for Cherubs!, which he describes as "an irreverent fast-paced supernatural comedy-adventure."[6]

His upcoming work includes Grandville, which Talbot says is "a detective steampunk thriller" and Paul Gravett calls it "an inspired reimagining of some of the first French anthropomorphic caricatures". It is due in Spring 2009.[6]

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

  • One-Off:
    • "Alien Enemy" (with script and pencils Mike Matthews, in 2000AD Sci-Fi Special 1987)
    • "Memento" (in 2000 AD prog 2002, 2001)
  • The Tale of One Bad Rat (Dark Horse, 4-issue mini-series, 1995, ISBN 1-56971-077-5)
  • Batman: Dark Legends (reprints Legends of the Dark Knight #39 - 40, 50, 52 - 54, 1996, ISBN 1-85286-723-X)
  • The Dreaming #9-12 (writer, with artists Dave Taylor (#9) and Peter Doherty (#10-12), DC, 1999, collected in Gates of Horn and Ivory, ISBN 1-84023-076-2 )
  • Heart of Empire: Or the Legacy of Luther Arkwright (Dark Horse, 9-issue limited series, 1999, ISBN 1-56971-567-X)
  • The Dead Boy Detectives (with Ed Brubaker, Vertigo, 4 issue mini-series, 2001)
  • "Nightjar" (with Alan Moore, in Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths #1, Avatar, 2003)
  • Fables: Storybook Love (with Bill Willingham, Vertigo, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0256-X)
  • Alice in Sunderland (graphic novel, Jonathan Cape, April 2007, ISBN 978-0-224-08076-7)
  • The Naked Artist: Comic Book Legends. Calumet, Illinois: Moonstone. ISBN 1-933076-25-9.
  • Cherubs! (with Mark Stafford, graphic novel, 104 pages, Desperado Publishing, November 2007, ISBN 0979593999)
  • The Art of Bryan Talbot (96 pages, NBM Publishing, December 2007, ISBN 156163512X)

Awards

Notes

  1. ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "John Constantine Hellblazer", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 102–111, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
  2. ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Fables", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 72–81, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
  3. ^ A Graphic Poem [Online] Down The Tubes
  4. ^ Metronome sequence; Lying In The Gutter
  5. ^ Robertson, Ross (2007-03-27). "News focus: Alice in Pictureland". Sunderland Echo. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
  6. ^ a b Bryan Talbot: An Artistic Wonder From Wearside, interview with Paul Gravett
  7. ^ 2008 Eisner Award Nominees Named (press release), Newsarama, 14 April 2008

References

Interviews

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