The guy lighting the cigarette, Luther leaping off the top of the spire. And the splash pages in the second book were some of the most impressive comics pages I'd seen, maybe ever. This was a long time ago, when I still imagined I would draw my own comics, and seeing the growth that Bryan Talbot's work took across the course of those two books was inspiring as hell. This was the dark ages, pre-internet, when you'd see a few panels of something that looked amazing in a review in The Comic Journal or CBG or someplace, but actually finding the books themselves was like a quest for buried treasure most of the time.

We sat at the counter and turned the pages for hours, in awe at these books, which we'd heard about for years but never seen. Painstakingly compiled over 2 years, this exquisite and lavishly-illustrated book is a a must-have, not only for fans of Talbot's legendary oeuvre, but for anyone with an interest in the history of comics and the craft that goes into creating them!ĭeep in the fog of my comic-obsessive memory, I clearly remember the day at Comic Kingdom in San Diego, that my coworker Mike pulled the imported copies of LUTHER ARKWRIGHT out of the box from some tiny distributor that's no longer around.

Experience the sweeping biography of the one and only Bryan Talbot, the Eisner Award Winning British comics artist and writer behind some of the most acclaimed comics in British and American history, with collaborators such as Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Bill Willingham, Peter Milligan and other writing icons.įrom his work at DC on Batman and The Sandman to his work at 2000 AD on Judge Dredd and Nemesis the Warlock to his creator-owned comics like The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, Grandville, and the legendary The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, the first British graphic novel, you’ll discover never before revealed information about his life and work in this beautiful new hardcover designed by Alan Fisher with an exclusive cover illustration by Bryan himself and intros by industry titans Neil Gaiman and Ed Brubaker.

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