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The Official Bryan Talbot fanpage / The Bryan Talbot Gallery Guide
 

The Bryan Talbot Textgallery: part 2

 

This is the second text only guide to the images on the site of Bryan's: I have created it so that there is more than one way to browse the images and you can choose whichever method suits you best. Also in the Textgallery series is Textgallery One, Textgallery Three, Textgallery Four, Textgallery Five, Textgallery Six, alternatively, there are the thumbnail galleries, and the best list of those are on the gallery guide page; and finally for those that just want to see the images with minimum hassle then there is a single page with a link to every image on the site in the image page navigator.

On this page there are links and descriptions to the images from the covers of the Dark Horse edition of One Bad Rat., the covers of the Dark Horse edition of the Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Thumbnail Gallery Four, Thumbnail Gallery Five and Thumbnail Gallery Six, The Papist Affair; being the first ever appearance of Luther in print: a complete, unabriged comic online, Shadowdeath: a from the Teknophage universe, with covers and script by Bryan and the favourite scenes gallery, with my own, personal favourite scenes from Bryan's work. Bryan suggested that I add to the site a list of all of the complete strips that are on it, and the strip listing is the result.

One Bad Rat Cover Gallery

  Book One
    Helen as she is when she first arrives in London.
(62.5k - approx 22 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Book Two
    Dodging the rozzers!
(61.5k - approx 21 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Book Three
    Helen and her rat in the Lake District.
 (73k - approx 23 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Book Four
    Catharsis.
(63.6k - approx 23 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     

 

The Dark Horse Editions

  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 1
   

An all new cover for the American Dark Horse edition of the Adventures of Luther Arkwright: a classic picture of Luther in a "You lookin' at me?" pose.
(68k - approx24 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)

     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 2
    Luther arrives in St Petersburg for the signing of the Treaty between King Charles, the Tzar and Archduke Willhelm of Prussia. Behind him is the Imperial Prussian command ship "Siegfried", that allegedly cost their weight in gold, and the mere sight of which keeps the Serbs and Poles in subjugation.
[67k - approx23 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem]
     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 3
    Luther screams as the force of the data that he wrests from Firefrost by pyschometry hits him, and Octobriana defends him, and in the background vast alien fleets clash in a distant galaxy...
( 75k - approx26 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 4
    Luther defending the Royalist stronghold in the Maze on Black Tuesday.
( 72k - approx25 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 5
    Cromwell's crimes and perversions.
( 75k - approx26 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 6
    Luther dies for the first time, and suffers breakdown of ego illusion.
(71k - approx25 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 7
    Luther in the Royalist camp at Aldershott, shortly after healing Fairfax:
"Things are in the saddle and ride mankind..."
(59k - approx20 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 8
    Rose in her Brittania costume in the Battle of London.
(68k - approx24 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  Dark Horse Editions: Cover 9
  Luther; his adventures done.
(78k - approx27 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)

 

Gallery Four

  Fairy Caravan
   

This is an image that Bryan has donated to the Stardust Benefit book. This special benefit project will help defray the costs of hospitalization and rehabilitation of Vess' wife, Karen Shaffer, who suffered severe spinal cord injuries in a recent car accident. Both Vess and his wife are freelancers with no health care insurance to cover these costs.
Check out their website at http://www.greenmanpress.com/
(91 - approx 32 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)

   
  Heart of Empire: new page.
   

A new page released for publication from the forthcoming Heart of Empire, the sequel to the adventures of Luther Arkwright. (Also check out the Information Bulletin on Heart of Empire, and the image of the frontispiece for it, which is in Gallery 3)
(203k - approx 72 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)

   
  Desertification
    This is a picture that Bryan contributed to the fundraising publication for a recent UN conference on climate change.
(91 - approx 32 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
   
  Mad Minstrels
    This is a picture that Bryan drew for the Radio Times
(203k - approx 72 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)
     
  An honest answer: part 1
   

Page One of a complete strip, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Bryan (and lettered by Sonja Curtis], giving an honest answer to the age-old question of: where do writers get their ideas from?! [And it's not to be taken too seriously...)
(130k - approx 45 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)

     
  An honest answer: part 2
    Page two of the Honest Answer strip.
     
  An honest answer: part 3
    Page three of the Honest Answer strip.
     
  An honest answer: part 4
    Page four of the Honest Answer strip.
     
  Nemesis the Warlock
   

Nemesis the Warlock really losing his cool as he discovers that the Terminators are responsible for killing his wife and kidnapping his child...
(130k - approx 45 seconds to download on a 28.8k modem)

 

Gallery Five

  Chester P Hackenbush the brand of beer?!
   

Bryan spotted this and sent it to me: it is Chester P Hackenbush, the Pschedelic Alchemist acting as the brand for a make of beer! I kid you not!

   
  Luther in Redfox
   

This is an example of how the innimitable Mr Arkwright gets around the known - and unknown - multiverse....

Here he is sitting in a pub when that wonderfully petite barbarian Redfox walks in... and he also seems to be talking to a certain well - known author who in our dimension goes by the name of Neil Gaiman....

   
  Barrow Ghoul
    Bryan's contribution to the world of gaming cards starts here with his depiction of a Barrow Ghoul.
   
  Tolarian
    Bryan's second trading card, entitled "Tolarian"
     
  Necratog
    The third card in the series of trading cards drawn by Bryan, this one being the Necratog.
     
  Mana Chains
    Bryan's fourth card in the Wizards of the Coast series, this one entitled "Mana Chains"
     
  Straw Golem
    The fifth in the trading card series, the Straw Golem.
     
  Bryan\s version of Morpheus
   

This is what Bryan imagined when asked to draw a picture of Morpheus by Neil Gaiman,

And I know I will only get in trouble if I say things like "better than the original...." so I will refrain.....

 

Gallery Six

  Chester's advert number 1
    This is an advert that was published in the original Brainstorm comic back in the '70's and was sent to me by a fan who got in touch with me via the bulletin board: a big thanks goes out to Marsha!
   
  Chester advert number 2
   

This is another advert that was published in the original Brainstorm comic back in the '70's, and was sent to me by a fan who got in touch with me via the bulletin board: a big thanks goes out to Marsha!

By the way - does anyone from London know if this shop is still there? Or if not have any memories of it?

     
  For A Few Gallons More page 1
   

Another realization of a long-held ambition for me: the posting on the site of the long lost legendary Luther Arkwright Adventure- "For a few gallons more"!! It has taken me forever to find a copy of this - and then a thoroughly decent chap from the bulletin board lends me a copy, and what's amazing is that he lives about 5 minutes away! Anway, many thanks go to Rob Brewer for lending me his precious copy for scanning in, and here is is: enjoy!

This was published in Sideshow Comics, Issue 1, and was originally published in Moon Comix 2 in 1978. Ogoth and Ugly Boot featured in the "Ogoth the barbarian" strips written by Mick Farrer and drawn by Chris Welch, and appeared in Nasty Tales and Cosmic Comics. In chronology terms this adventure occurs just before the duel in Hyde Park...

Please be warned: at around 367k each thesepages are big:(in terms of both download and physical page size) I have scanned them in at a fairly high rez in order to make them more legible. So: best to view them when at work or college then....

     
  For A Few Gallons More page 2
    Page 2 of this rare appearance of Luther....
     
  For A Few Gallons More page 3
    Page 3 of this rare appearance of Luther....
     
  For A Few Gallons More page 4
    Page 4 of this rare appearance of Luther....
     
  Bryan's self portrait
   

A self portrait of Bryan, created for Popimage's special on Bryan in December '99. I've also reprinted a load of the stuff that Popimage did - there's a review of Heart of Empire, a review of Luther Arkwright, an interview with Bryan and a script example of Heart of Empire.

 

The Papist Affair

  The Papist Affair Thumbnail Gallery
    The thumbnail gallery for the whole papist affair online comic.
     
  Issue One
    "... to witness the execution of Luther Arkwright, mercenary, infidel..."
(175k - approx 1 minute to download on a 28.8k modem.)
     
  Issue Two
    Nuns?
Motorbikes?!
Nuns on motorbikes?!?
(164k - approx 1 minute to download on a 28.8k modem.)
     
  Issue Three
    "So long, sucker!"
 (164k - approx 1 minute to download on a 28.8k modem.)
     
  Issue Four
    "Ugh! Impure thought! Noyatin!"
(160k - approx 1 minute to download on a 28.8k modem.) 
     
  Issue Five
    "Eat leaden death!"
(165k - approx 1 minute to download on a 28.8k modem.)
     
  Issue Six
    "Ah, the relics of the blessed St Adolf... I'll get a good price for these at the Vatican..."
(175k - approx 1 minute to download on a 28.8k modem.)
     
  Issue Seven
    "Holy mudderagod!"
(176k - approx 1 minute to download on a 28.8k modem.)

 

Shadowdeath

  Issue One
     
  Issue Two
     
  Issue Three
     
  Issue Four
     
  Issue Five
     
  Issue Six

 

The Favourite Scenes Gallery

  The Skull picture...
    This panel illustrates a lot of what I love about Bryan's work - especially the amazing care and detail that he devotes to every single panel of his work, and also how it repays to revisit his stuff. I had read Arkwright about 15 times before I realised that the characters in this panel actually formed the shape of a skull.
     
  The Meaning of Life
   

Yet another of Bryan's images which makes me wish I wasn't limited by bandwidth speeds... the signing of the Treaty of St Petersburg.
Just look at the detail and love that has gone into this - which is after all simply a single panel from a comic strip
I have seen entire comics that have had less care and attention lavished on them than this single image

   
  The first page...
   

This is it... this is what started the whole thing for me... when I first saw this I was hooked.
Putting this, the very first page of the Adventures of Luther Arkwright up on the site, fulfills another long term ambition of mine....

     
  The signing of the treaty
   

Yet another of Bryan's images which makes me wish I wasn't limited by bandwidth speeds... the signing of the Treaty of St Petersburg.
Just look at the detail and love that has gone into this - which is after all simply a single panel from a comic strip
I have seen entire comics that have had less care and attention lavished on them than this single image

     
  "How did you know I was cheating... I mean I'm not...."
    This is the first time that Luther meets Harry Fairfax, his contact in the London Royalist underground...
     
     

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
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