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Mary M. Talbot


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Dr Mary Talbot is the author of the graphic novel Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (Jonathan Cape 2012), illustrated by her husband, award winning comic artist Bryan Talbot. She is an internationally acclaimed scholar who has published widely on language, gender and power, particularly in relation to media and consumer culture. Dotter is the first work she has undertaken in the graphic novel format. It went on to win the Costa Biography Award in January 2013.

Mary’s recent academic work includes a second edition of Language and Gender (Polity 2010), a book that continues to be popular with university lecturers and students worldwide. However, she’s probably still best known for her critical investigation of the “synthetic sisterhood” offered by t ...more

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Flanders expo and a London book launch!

2025 continues to be busy. On Saturday 1st-Sunday 2nd November, Bryan was a guest at FACTS Belgian Comic Con, which was in the Flanders Expo centre in Ghent. The day before, there was a signing in the centre of Ghent, at Paard van Troje,  a great independent bookshop, with substantial graphic-novel sections in both Dutch and English. Before the signing, Kris, the proprietor, took us for lunch foll Read more of this blog post »
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