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The Official Bryan Talbot fanpage / The Bryan Talbot Gallery Guide
 

The Bryan Talbot Textgallery: number 4.

 

This is a 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 Six, Textgallery Five, Textgallery Three, Textgallery Two and Textgallery One; 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 to the images from thumbnail gallery seven and thumbnail gallery eight , thumbnail gallery nine, thumbnail gallery ten and thumbnail gallery eleven, thumbnail gallery twelve, the entire memento strip, and gallery thirteen. 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.

Thumbnail Gallery Seven

  Luther flying
    This is Luther telekinetically propelling himself from the Cathedral across the street to where the Puritan Cabinet are meeting in order to assassinate them. All of them.
     
  Page 236 of Heart of Empire
    I am bidding for this page myself, mainly because of the first two panels where I am haranguing the crowd in my capacity of Leveller Committee Member!
     
  Luther begins to meditate
    Luther starts to absorb psionic energy from the Multiverse in a meditation session...
     
  The start of the duel
    The start of the duel where Luther first finds out where Firefrost is hidden.
     
  Exorcism
    Luther "exorcises" the demons from Mad Murdoch - in reality draining off the psionic energy that Murdoch unconsciously taps and cannot control....
     
  So, what is the purpose?
   

This page was only in the Dark Horse editions of the Adventures of Luther Arkwright: it was not in the Valkyrie Press edition, nor the infamous Proutt exploding one.... Bryan added it to get the page number even.

If you look closely at the window top left you can see Bryan himself working at his drawing board....

     
  The start of Black Tuesday
    Luther being very cool in the face of the Puritan attack and causing maximum mayhem with just one well placed shot...
     
  The spear of Destiny pierces his side...
    Luther just on the point of dying, the Spear of Destiny piercing his side....
     
  Luther's descent
   

Luther completes the violent descent into his own subconscious....

Also see the next page: Luther's ascent....

     
  He sees... he sees a door....
    Luther struggles to refine and narrow his range of input to something he can work with... after removing the filters of perception that we are all born with he has to create a new working map of reality in order to be able to interact with it...
     
  On the Disruptor base
    Luther takes cover in the Disruptors base as the Rooks leave through the trans parallel gateway.
     
  "Miranda was right..."
    His adventures done, he casts aside his weapon and forswears violence...
     
  Luther's walk in the woods
    After resurrecting himself, Luther walks through the woods, totally at one with nature...
     
  "Flowers that cannot bloom by day..."
    Luther searches for Harry in the Shoreditch Tavern, whilst a certain Mr Michael Jagger Esquire plays a ballad
     
  Montpelier at Heliopolis
    The archaeologist JR Montpelier finds Firefrost....
     
  Luther at Marx's tomb
    Luther drops a tarot card in front of Karl Marx's tomb, and it seems to flutter away into infinity....

 

Thumbnail Gallery Eight

  Thundadoom!
    Chester P Hackenbush, the Psychedelic Alchemist approaches the villains stronghold.
     
  "Someone's buggering with unreality!"
    Another page from Chester P Hackenbush, with the immortal line:"Affirmative! Someone's buggering with unreality!"
     
  A streetcar named Delirium
    The streetcar makes it's first appearance
     
  "I wanna go home!"
    Well, wouldn't you, when faced with this?!
     
  The Ziggurat of Cinnamon
    ... which ain't too bad, if you like cinnamon!
     
  "Kreeeek"?!
    The sound of the villains coffin opening....
     
  Chester comes down
    And needs to do a quick check to see if this really is reality...
     
  Heart of Empire: Barberini's walk
    Barberini's walk through Rome, on the way to the Vatican and the dying Pope.
     
  Victoria enters Dee's hideaway
    "God, Dee, what an earwigs nest!"
     
  Nemesis the Warlock: the Garden of Alien Delights
    This is one of the innovative "Diceman" comics that 2000ad did, which was a roleplaying game in comics format where you got to play out the actions of the 2000ad character: in this one you got to play Torquemada in an environment heavily influenced by Bosch...
     
  Nemesis: book 4, page 65
    Nemesis and the ABC Warriors do what they do best...
     
  Nemesis: book 3, page 18
    A classic Nemesis front page.
     
  Nemesis: book 4, page 44
    Alien superfiends and Tyrannosaurs?!
     
  Nemesis: book 4, page 45
    "Destroy the evil beast!"
     
  Nemesis: book 4, page 64
    A superb full page spread of Nemesis and the ABC Warriors.
     
   

 

Thumbnail Gallery Nine

  Luther and Rose
    An image from the Arkwright Portfolio that was never published: Luther and Rose make love.
     
  A walk in the woods
    Another unpublished image from the Portfolio: Luther and Anne walk in the woods.
     
  Luther lights the flare
    After assassinating the entire Puritan cabinet, Luther lights the flare over Bosworth square to announce the start of the revolution.
     
  Victoria as Brittania
    Victoria dressed as Brittania for the Comics 2000 festival.
     
  The end of the duel
    Luther puts the Disruptor Knight out of his misery, after learning the location of Firefrost...
     
  Luther takes off
    Luther leaps from the Cathedral on hiw way to wipe out the Puritan cabinet.
     
  "Fire, Agamemnon!"
    Sir Roderick of the Rhine revels in the heat of battle!
     
  The final page of the adventures
    The very last page of the adventures of Luther Arkwright.

 

Thumbnail Gallery Ten

  Bryan, Victoria and Me!
    A photo from the Eagle Awards Ceremony at Comics 2000, featuring left to right, me, Victoria Arkwright Stuart and Bryan...
     
  G-Man
    G-Man was never published. It was written by Pat Mills and one of the strips in a dummy magazine produced by Emap called Heroes, a rival to 2000AD. This was the front cover.
     
  San Diego Booklet illustration
    This is Bryan's illustration for the San Diego convention, one of whose themes is "giant robots and dinosaurs"!
     
  Serpents Kiss
    This is promotional illustration for a film proposal called Serpents Kiss for Ed Would Productions
     
  Old 2000ad cover
    This is an old 2000ad cover recently sent to me by a fan, showing Bryan's work on the cover of the Galaxy's greatest comic...
     
  The one and only God of the Guitar - Jimi
    Bryan painted this image in the early '80's for a greetings card: it has since been re-used many times, as a giant wall poster and was used as a Hendrix CD cover in Germany and Warner Brothers used it as the cover of their Jimi Hendrix video.
     
  Ax Preston
    Bryan has drawn these three protagonists for SF writer Gwyneth Jones. They are from her forthcoming novel Bold As Love.
     
  Fiorina
    Bryan has drawn these three protagonists for SF writer Gwyneth Jones. They are from her forthcoming novel Bold As Love.
     
  Sage
    Bryan has drawn these three protagonists for SF writer Gwyneth Jones. They are from her forthcoming novel Bold As Love.
     
  Winds of Winter
    This is the first piece of artwork Bryan has done completely on computer.. It's for an Italian comic called Winds Of Winter, written by Gianluca Pirreda and drawn by Stefano Cardoselli, to be published in September.
     
  Luther... on a cliff!
   

This is a picture that Bryan drew for Walt Parrish's site... Walt has a unique hook: he asks people to draw something on or near a cliff!

Check his site out: there are a lot of comic artist's work there.

 

Thumbnail Gallery Eleven

  Bold as Love frontispiece
    The frontispiece to Bold as Love, by Gwynneth Jones.
     
  One Bad Rat German edition cover
    The cover to the German translation of One Bad Rat.
     
  Page 244 of Heart of Empire
    A full page image of Victoria dressed as Brittania.
     
  Crystal Palace
    This is the cover to one of the famous Proutt exploding editions of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright: the strange thing is that I never even knew this cover existed until Bryan showed it to me recently, and I thought I was a Talbot completist!
     
  Gaze into the face of Fear!
    The only known drawing of the face of Judge Fear - anywhere!
     
  Imagine Magazine cover
    This is it... this is the exact moment in time where I first became aware of Bryan Talbot and his work.... this is yet another ambition fulfilled: getting this on the site shows exactly when I first began to appreciate the work of Bryan's: from this magazine and it's role playing game scenario based on the Adventures of Luther Arkwright I sent off for the first book of the Arkwright Adventures: Rat Trap.
     
  Luther and Rose
    This is an image of Luther and Rose originally drawn for the never published Luther Arkwright portfolio.
     
  A walk in the woods
    Another image from the unpublished Arkwright Portfolio: Luther and Anne walk in the woods.

 

Thumbnail Gallery Twelve

  Alien pin-up
    A gorgeous image - in terms of both execution and subject - of an alien pin-up.
   
  Batman and the Joker
    Batman and the Joker
     
  Elaine as Victoria
    A fellow fan dressed up as Victoria.
     
  William Hartnell
    An image of William Hartnell as Dr Who.
     
  Storm Dragon
    Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the Storm Dragon: for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead Publishing.
     
  Honesty
    Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the personification of Honesty: for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead Publishing.
     
  Greed
    Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the personification of Greed: for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead Publishing.
     
  Tree Sprite
    Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the Tree Sprite: for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead Publishing.
     
  Dr Who
    An illustration by Bryan for a recent Dr Who book.

 

Memento

An entire online strip by Bryan, first published in 2000ad.
1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7, 8 9, 10, 11, 12 13, 14, 15, 16
17, 18, 19, 20 21, 22, 23, 24 25, 26, 27, 28 29, 30, 31, 32
33, 34, 35, 36 37, 38, 39, 40 41, 42, 43, 44 45, 46, 47, 48
49, 50, 51, 52 53, 54, 55, 56 57, 58, 59, 60 61, 62, 63, 64
65, 66, 67, 68 69, 70, 71, 72 73, 74, 75, 76  

 

Thumbnail Gallery Thirteen

  Uncommon Mona
    A version of the Mona Lisa by Bryan for one of the Uncommon conventions
   
  Ragnarok
    A video cover for a character called Ragnaraok, designed and drawn by Bryan and created and written by Alan Moore.
     
  Castles made of Sand
    Another frontispiece of a Gwyneth Jones book, second in the series that started with Winds of Winter.
     
  The Seafarer
    Another of Bryan's images.
     
  Luther Emmanuel
    A homage to Luther Arkwright, published in the Nikolai Dante strip in 2000ad.
     
  Diceman page 52
    A very early role playing experiment by 2000ad where you took the role of Torquemada
and tried to escape the Garden of Alien Delights: the original artwork of this page is for sale at the time of writing - check out the full size image page for more details.
     
  Diceman page 59
    A very early role playing experiment by 2000ad where you took the role of Torquemada
and tried to escape the Garden of Alien Delights: the original artwork of this page is for sale at the time of writing - check out the full size image page for more details.
     
  Diceman page 60
    A very early role playing experiment by 2000ad where you took the role of Torquemada
and tried to escape the Garden of Alien Delights: the original artwork of this page is for sale at the time of writing - check out the full size image page for more details.
     
  Small Press Expo flyer
    Bryan will be at the Small Press Expo, September 6 - 7 2--2002, just outside Washington DC. Check out their fine site, and also check out their flyer: they used an image from Heart of Empire!
     
  Arkwright figure preproduction image 1
    A stunningly good and an incredibly faithful rendition of one of Luther's famous poses.
     
  Arkwright figure preproduction image 2
    A stunningly good and an incredibly faithful rendition of one of Luther's famous poses.

 

 

 
   
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