Saturday, 16 July 2011
The jade tiger tattoo that Bryan designed for novelist Chaz Brenchley
lots of updates today!
- Bryan will be giving his presentation Grandville and the Anthropomorphic Tradition next Saturday July 23rd at 5:00pm at LassFest in Manchester: Lass O Gowrie, 36 Charles St, Manchester, M1 7DB, 0161 273 6932: Entrance is £5 and tickets are available from We Got Tickets.
The inimitable novelist Chaz Brenchley got a jade tiger tatto designed by Bryan: jealous does not begin to describe it!
- Also today, check out a piece by Bryan in the Guardian: "The artists' artist; graphic novelists" where famous graphic novelists say who they themselves are fans of.
- Graphic Short Story Prize: Jonathan Cape and Comica have got together with The Observer to offer you the chance to see your work in print and win £1,000. The runner-up will receive £250 and your work will appear on The Guardian and the Vintage website.The deadline for entries is 14th October 2011.Bryan is one of the six judges of this year’s competition. See the Jonathon Cape site for more info.
Saturday July 9th 2011: The Naked Artist, Bryan’s prose book documenting the outrageous, daft and occasionally educational tales of the comic industry is now available in Kindle, iBook and several other formats, including PDF, for the ludicrously low price of $2.99 (approx £1.86). It’s an updated edition with an extra few thousands words’ worth of stories. In fact, he was thinking of calling it The Naked Artist,- Engorged! You can even read the first 20% of it free over on the Combustoica Naked Artist page!
Here is the official blurb:
If on the night of a comics convention you were to go to the the hotel bar and buy a few drinks for a comic book pro, you'd soon hear stories about his fellow creators - tales of drinking and drugs, of missed deadlines and missing pants, of maniacal editors and crazed fans. These are the urban legends of the comic industry.
Acclaimed graphic novelist Bryan Talbot (creator of the award-winning The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, and Grandville) saves you the cost of gin & tonics by bringing you this collection of the wild and hilarious anecdotes told by - and starring - some of comicdom's leading lights. This expanded edition includes all the stories from the original print edition and more. Illustrated by Hunt Emerson.
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Thursday June 7th 2011: a world exclusive for the Bryan Talbot fanpage- the first page of Grandville: Bête Noire!