Buy Bryan Talbot original artwork

Buy Bryan Talbot original artwork

This is the only place you can buy original Bryan Talbot artwork - except from Bryan in person at a convention.


The Legend of Luther Arkwright

The Legend of Luther Arkwright collates all details about Bryan's latest graphic novel.

The Legend of Luther Arkwright page collates all details about Bryan's latest graphic novel.


Heart of Empire - Directors Cut

Buy the Heart of Empire Directors Cut

 

This labour of love from Bryan and myself contains every single page of Heart of Empire in pencil, ink and final full colour format - as well as over 60,000 words of annotation, commentary and explanation from Bryan... - as well as the whole of the Adventures of Luther Arkwright!

 

 

Or see the Heart of Empire Directors Cut page for more details.


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The Grandville Annotations

The annotations for Grandville Force Majeure by Bryan Talbot

Bryan and myself have created a series of annotations for the Grandville graphic novel series, explaining references and homages to other works, how the pages are drawn, inked, coloured and put together.

All of the annotations are now complete and online for:

- Grandville

- Grandville Mon Amour

- Grandville Bête Noire

- Grandville Noël

- Grandville Force Majeure



This is the new version of the Bryan Talbot fanpage
But the whole of the original Bryan Talbot fanpage is still online.


Introduction to the Dutch Edition of The Spiral Cage


Dear reader. You are in for a unique experience.

I first met Al Davison and read through The Spiral Cage about twenty-five years ago. It was unique then and it still is today. The version Al showed me was a work-in-progress, a folder of relentlessly experimental and uncompromisingly personal sequential art that was at once poignant, shocking, funny and uplifting. I was amazed. It was a truly groundbreaking piece of comic storytelling that went on to become the first British autobiographical “graphic novel”. It amuses me that there is now the marketing term “non-fiction graphic novel” to describe autobiography and reportage, genres that are patently not novels at all. When Al created The Spiral Cage the comic autobiography genre as such didn’t exist.

When the first edition was published by Renegade Press in 1988 I could read it properly for the first time and it was everything I’d remembered and more. This is what comic albums should be like. They should be as adult, as rich, involving and rewarding as prose books. This seems pretty obvious to readers in the present day but before the graphic novel revolution, in an Anglo-American milieu dominated by bland superhero fare aimed mainly at adolescents, it was an extremely recent concept.

Clearly The Spiral Cage is not unique just because it is autobiography. Though one of the first, proceeded by Justin Green’s Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, Harvey Pekar’s work and, to some extent Art Spiegelman’s Maus, it has been followed in recent years by a torrent of life stories in comic form, from harrowing trauma to lightweight tales of first love.

No, The Spiral Cage is unique because, quite simply, so is Al Davison. His story you are about to begin so I won’t act as a spoiler. What is not mentioned in here though is that Al holds black belts in both Kung-Fu & Karate and has won several martial arts tournaments. He is a theatrical choreographer, set designer and film maker. He teaches drawing skills and storytelling techniques. He performs a Spiral Cage one-man show. He’s worked in the comic industry for over twenty years, creating his own graphic novels and writing and drawing for DC Vertigo and others and is currently drawing the new Doctor Who comic – in a way coming full circle from a scene in this book where he watches the show as a child.

He’s also working on Scar Tissue, a sequel to The Spiral Cage, continuing his story and delving deeper into his past. But, for now, prepare to enter a singular world of brutal honesty, laugh-out-loud humour, astounding images and single-minded determination as Al Davison battles to forge his own destiny against frightening odds.

Bryan Talbot
Sunderland May 2009