Bryan Talbot

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Bryan Talbot (born February 24, 1952) is a British comic book artist and writer. He is probably best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its recent sequel Heart of Empire.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Wigan, Lancashire, Bryan Talbot's work started in the underground comix scene of the late sixties and helped influence the later emergence of more "grown up" British comics scene, including publications like 2000 AD, and providing inspiration for some of the writers and artists who would later become known as the British Invasion of American comics'. 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).

In 1978 he started possibly his best known work, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. 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 the first British graphic novel.

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.

In the nineties Talbot did work in the US, principally for DC, on titles like Hellblazer, 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.

Recently he has done some art duties on Bill Willingham's Fables as well as returning to the Luther Arkwright universe with Heart of Empire. He has worked on The Dead Boy Detectives and his current project is Alice in Sunderland. He is also acting as agent for French-Japanese concept artist Veronique Tanaka's [1] [2] experimental graphic novel Metronome, an existential, textless erotically-charged visual poem.

[edit] Bibliography

Comics work includes:

  • Nemesis the Warlock (with Pat Mills):
    • "The Gothic Empire (Book IV)" (in 2000 AD #390-406, 1984-1985)
    • "Vengeance of Thoth (Book V)" (in 2000 AD #435-445, 1985)
    • "Torquemurder (Book VI) Part 1" (in 2000 AD #482-487, 1986)
    • "Torquemurder (Book VI) Part 2" (in 2000 AD #500-504, 1986-1987)
  • One-Off:
    • "Alien Enemy" (with script and pencils Mike Matthews, in 2000AD Sci-Fi Special 1987)
    • "Memento" (in 2000 AD prog 2002, 2001)

[edit] Awards

He has won a number of awards:

[edit] Trivia

  • Bryan Talbot is the only artist to ever draw the face of Judge Fear, one of the Dark Judges from Judge Dredd in 2000 AD
  • The Tale of One Bad Rat deals with recovery from childhood sexual abuse so well that it is used in the treatment of people who have themselves recovered from such abuse. [citation needed]
  • The Tale of One Bad Rat is also the second most borrowed graphic novel in American libraries. [citation needed]
  • The name "Chester P. Hackenbush"; the main character from the graphic novel "Brainstorm" is a pseudonym for a London hip hop artist, though often known as simply Chester P. He forms part of the Group Task Force. He has only referred to the origin once in the song "Groundhog Day" which appeared on the album "Music From The Corner Volume 4";

Lyrics excerpt:

"Sandman brainchild, warped by the Brainstorm
where do you think I got my name from?"

"Sandman" may also refer to the The Sandman series of novels written by Neil Gaiman, of which volumes 5 and 8 featured illustrations of Talbot's.

[edit] References

  1. ^ A Graphic Poem [Online] Down The Tubes
  2. ^ Metronome sequence [Online] Lying In The Gutter

[edit] External links

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