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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 152 The Art of Resistance? Defending Academic Freedom Lot 51