Alice in Sunderland

[yendi]

This is what I get for skipping the Dark Horse section in Previews (usually a safe bet, since they haven't had a non-Usagi monthly I've cared about in ages*, and I trust that I'll hear about any new Grendel stuff over the grapevine). Turns out that Brian Talbot has a new book called Alice in Sunderland (thanks to sbisson for mentioning it). One of the true visionaries in comics writing a book about Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell? Oh, I am so there.


*And yes, I don't doubt it was mentioned on places like Newsarama, but I try to spend as little time there as possible. And I'm sure that it was mentioned somewhere in Neil Gaiman's journal, but I only get around to reading it every other week or so.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Me too - as in, I'm actually in it... *g*

Do chase it down; it's the most extraordinary book...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Aren't we all?

(which reminds me, I really must get the wonderful steampunk picture that Bryan drew for marypcb's and my wedding invitations turned into a LJ icon)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, please - I'd love to see that...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Here's a link (http://sbisson.livejournal.com/405972.html) to the original LJ entry about it...

...and another (http://www.sandm.co.uk/~simon/images/MarySimon.JPG) to a massive full size JPEG...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That is so cool...

[yendi]

Seriously? That's awesome! As Chaz, or as an artist's reference (or as both)?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

As Chaz - I worked for a year as crimewriter-in-residence on a sculpture project in Sunderland (http://www.chazbrenchley.co.uk/sculpture.html), and sculptor Colin Wilbourn and I took Bryan for a walk around the work. Which walk he has turned into a few pages in the narrative. I cannot get over how smug important humble this makes me feel...

Also I proofread the book a couple of times, and did a sort of line-edit job on it here and there. There is value, eventually, to being a pedant...

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

I have to say it's always been one of my favourite sections (and one of my favourite walks!)

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

This is one of the books I am sitting here waiting for right at this moment (UPS where are you!?!?!?).

Skipping Dark Horse in Previews is a big mistake. The Playboy Interview Collections, various amazing graphic novels such as Blessed Thistle (http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=13-983)... dude, this book is right up your alley, brilliantly themed horror/thriller which will need repeat readings to be "ah...wow!"

and the extremely well priced limited edition Jimbo vinyl fiigure:
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=14-172

among other stuff...

oh and well, Alice in Sunderland or anything else Bryan does. They're the exclusive American publishers for him I believe.

and there's stuff like this which they basically pre-solicit by months (meaning they state it as a May release even when they KNOW it's for October):
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=12-410