Alice in Sunderland (at last!)
Jun. 14th, 2006 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustA message from Bryan Talbot:
Alice in Sunderland is unique: not a graphic novel, because it's not fiction, but a graphic polemic, singing the praises of Bryan's adopted home and tracing the lives of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell not in Oxford but in the north-east. Jabberwocky meets the Lampton Worm and the late Sid James in a blend of music hall, stand-up comedy and artistic credo - and it's all told in comics, in pages full of colour and detail and realism and humour. Ulysses S. Grant is in it, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smccloud and desperance, and I can't wait for February to be able to read the whole book the way it's meant to be read.
But in the meantime, there are some pages to look at on Bryan's web site.
Hokay...I knew I said that I was waiting till the contracts were signed, sealed and delivered before announcing the publishers of ALICE IN SUNDERLAND but it's becoming apparent that the contracts are taking and will take forever and I don't want to leave it too late. Besides, both publishers have confirmed that they are committed to the project and are beginning to advertise it.
The book is going to be published in the UK by Jonathan Cape (Random House) and in the States by Dark Horse. As far as I know, it'll be out in February.
That's it. After four years work on the book I've very pleased to be able to say that!
Alice in Sunderland is unique: not a graphic novel, because it's not fiction, but a graphic polemic, singing the praises of Bryan's adopted home and tracing the lives of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell not in Oxford but in the north-east. Jabberwocky meets the Lampton Worm and the late Sid James in a blend of music hall, stand-up comedy and artistic credo - and it's all told in comics, in pages full of colour and detail and realism and humour. Ulysses S. Grant is in it, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
smccloud and desperance, and I can't wait for February to be able to read the whole book the way it's meant to be read.But in the meantime, there are some pages to look at on Bryan's web site.
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Date: 2006-06-15 07:53 am (UTC)Now, all we need is for the completion of Big Numbers...
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Date: 2006-06-15 01:45 pm (UTC)That's "good" as in "expensive", is it? But yes, good news.
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Date: 2006-06-15 07:11 pm (UTC)By the way, I've just had a thought - is this the sort of thing that Bryan would want released to the public yet? Maybe friends locking this entry for a while could be an idea. Or can I go ahead and mention it on the Millarworld message boards?