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Bryan Talbot?british
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (Page 64)
2011
Signed
Framed
Pen and Ink on Paper
42 x 29.5 cm
Guide Price £400
Born in 1952 in Wigan, Lancashire, Bryan studied
at the Wigan School of Art. His first published
illustrations were in Mallorn, the British Tolkien
Society Magazine in 1969. His work includes a
number of graphic novels including, among
which Grandville (2009), Heart of Empire (2001)
and Alice in Sunderland (2007), which was
nominated for a Quill Award, and Eagle, a Harvey
and an Eisner.
Bryan has held six one-man Comic Art
exhibitions in Lancashire, London, Tuscany,
Finland, Sweden and New York, appeared in
numerous others, and is a frequent guest at
international comic festivals. In 1998, he taught
a five-day comic course at Ouro Preto
University, Brazil and in 2004 lectured at the
Comic Art School in Florence. He teaches the
Creative Writing for Graphic Novels residential
course for the Avron Foundation.
In 2000, he received the annual San Diego
Comicon Inkpot Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Comic Arts. In Adult Comics by
Roger Sabin (Routledge 1993) he is cited as one
of the creators of the graphic novel form. In July
2009 he received an honorary doctorate for his
‘outstanding contribution to the Arts as writer
and graphic artist’ by Sunderland University.
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes won the Costa
Biography Award this year.
‘Cold Mad Feary Father’ was the original working title
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