‘Life in Graphic Biography’ - Mary Talbot Inaugural Lecture

In 2012, Professor Mary Talbot was the first graphic novelist to win the Costa Biography Award – this was for Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (Jonathan Cape), part memoir, and part biography of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, and produced with her husband Bryan Talbot.

Professor Talbot is currently working, with Bryan, on a graphic novel about the Lancashire-born surrealist, Leonora Carrington.Professor Talbot was appointed to her Chair at Lancaster in October 2021, succeeding the French graphic novelist Benoit Peeters.

Lecture followed by drinks and canapes, and bookstall with signing: book tickets here.