Mary M. Talbot's Blog, page 9

New GN project underway, with an Arts Council grant!

I’m delighted to announce that we have funding from the Arts Council for another project together. In a complete departure from our previous ones, this new collaboration is neither biographical nor historically distant. It deals instead with the here and now … Continue reading →

The 16th Arras Book Fair: Colères du Présent on 1st May

We’ve recently returned from a unique French book fair that takes place on the 1st of May every year in Pas de Calais’ capital, Arras. It’s the second time we’ve been invited, this time on the strength of the French … Continue reading →

Barcelona Comics Fair 2017

A fortnight ago we were in Barcelona for the 35th International Comics Fair. This annual event seems to get bigger each year, expanding into more and more of the massive Fira complex by the Plaza de España. Here’s a write-up … Continue reading →

Francospheres of Resistance and Revolution – podcasts

On Monday (3rd April 2017) Bryan and I had the pleasure of participating in an academic conference at the University of London’s Institute of Modern Languages Research. The conference as a whole explored articulations of resistance and revolution in a … Continue reading →

Forthcoming events in March and April

We have two events in the Northeast of England coming up in March. Bryan will be doing his lavishly illustrated talk on Grandville and the Anthropomorphic Tradition again, this time in Newcastle’s Discovery Museum. It’s on Saturday 11th March at … Continue reading →

HERE I STAND anthology event in London

In and around London on the evening of Friday 3rd February? There’s a free panel event on Amnesty’s anthology Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom at the London Piccadilly branch of Waterstones. (Bryan, myself and Kate Charlesworth contributed … Continue reading →

Happy New Year from Dotter & Co!

Last month I was contacted by Isabella Ford, a student at Lancaster University. I was delighted to hear that she’d been introduced to Dotter of her Father’s Eyes on her English Literature course there. How times have changed! Comics really … Continue reading →

Solstice greetings everyone!

Have a cool yule!

November-December update

In mid November, Bryan and I were in London for an illustrated talk on The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia at Tower Hamlet’s Write Idea Festival. This took place in Whitechapel’s Idea Store (what the more traditionally-minded among … Continue reading →

The National Health Service, sharp vision and the death of Tinkerbell

This website is basically for news about books, for promotion of festival appearances and such like, so I don’t normally post about non-professional matters. However, I’m making an exception here with my recent experiences as an NHS outpatient. In the … Continue reading →