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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[...]

Sally Heathcote never existed. The product of the mind of Mary Talbot, brought to life by Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot in their new graphic novel published by Jonathan Cape and launching at the British Library tonight is a Forest Gump of a figure, a fictional figure surrounded by very real people, at the right place[...]

It's a start. THE LAKES I've started to be told about names being lined up for October's Lakes Comics Art Festival, an attempt to start to build a very British Angouleme. Patrons Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Sean Phillips of course, but I'm also being told about comics journalist Joe Sacco, author Kurt Busiek, cartoonist Posy Simmonds (who[...]

Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot appeared on Britain's Channel 4 News tonight to talk about their Costa Award-winning graphic novel Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes, being the daughter of a writer and also defending the very medium itself… The summary on Channel 4's website? Written by Hayley Campbell, daughter of Eddie… Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot[...]

Announced on BBC's Front Row (listen to it here), Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot has won the Costa Best Book Award for Best Biography.  Another graphic novel had been noiminated for Best Novel, Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart. Bryan Talbot tells me; It's amazing, not just for us but[...]

And now… full circle. On the 20th of April, Rebellion publish 2000AD Prog 1735, featuring a new Dredd story written by Michael Carroll, pencilled by Bryan Talbot and digitally inked and painted by his son, the games designer Alwyn Talbot. Keeping it in the family, Bryan is also illustrating a graphic novel written by his wife, Mary[...]