Bryan has announced a competition to promote the "Brainstorm!: The Art of Bryan Talbot" exhibition is at Wildman Studios, in Wildman Street, Kendal, Cumbria between October 4 and November 10.

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To enter, answer these questions:

1. In the Brainstorm Comix series, Bryan's first published protagonist, Chester P Hackenbush, was partly named after a character played by which famous movie comedian in which film?

2. Who first published the first nine-part comicbook series of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright?

3. In The Tale of One Bad Rat, what's Helen Potter's father's forename?

4. Which famous English dragon legend is adapted into comic strip form within Alice in Sunderland?

5. Which early nineteenth century French illustrator used the nom de plume "JJ Grandville" and was the original inspiration for Bryan's Grandville series of detective thrillers?

Tie-breaker: How many times do penguins, in whatever form, appear in Dotter of Her Father's Eyes?

The prizes are as follows:

1 signed limited edition exhibition poster for Bryan's Brainstorm! The Art of Bryan Talbot,
2 Two tickets for his event on Sat 19 October and a limited edition tshirt with his festival design on it
4 A page of original art work from the Nazz
5 a copy of Cherubs written by Bryan and drawn by Mark Stafford

Enter the competition via email - and add the event to your Facebook calendar - and help us publicise the competition and the exhibition by mentioning it on Twitter.

Also: here's a good write-up of Bryan and Mary's appearance at the Edniburgh Book Festival - and the full Lakes Comics Festival program is now online.