2016 marks the 20th year I have been honoured and privileged to run Bryan's fanpage!

The earliest post I can find where I announced the then new fanpage was in a comics news group (remember them?!) on November 1st 1996... - although I am morally certain I launched it the year before, I cannot find any concrete evidence of it. (The earliest mention of it at the Wayback Machine web archive is in April 1999, but at the time of writing the archive was not being loaded)

I don't know of any comic fanpages that have been in continuous operation this long... - heck I don't know of many websites full stop that have been run this long! It is something I continue to take an immense amount of pride in.

Here's to the next 20 years of amazing comics from Bryan!

Also in the news:

• The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia in the Guardian 2016 Literary Calendar
  The Literary Calendar is the Guardian's annual listing of essential reading. Mary and Bryan's next book is the only graphic novel to be included. Unfortunately it's in the wrong month (June, not May) and is wrongly listed as fiction!
  
  
• It's also listed in The Irish Times as one of the Books to look out for in 2016 - and they did get the category and the month right! Again, it's the only piece of sequential art.
  Wallace says: Husband-and-wife graphic novelists Bryan and Mary Talbot follow their Costa-winning study of Lucia Joyce (Dotter of Her Father¹s Eyes) with the equally offbeat The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia (Jonathan Cape, May). The subject is Louise Michel, an anarchist-feminist who fought on the barricades in 1871.
  
  
• Also check out 24 amazing graphic novels to add to your reading list from Arlos House, which lists Arkwright in one of their top 24.