Armed With Madness: Art Masters

Mary M. Talbot is an academic turned graphic novelist. Her first graphic novel, Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (with Bryan Talbot), won the 2012 Costa Biography Award. Her recent book, Rain (2019, with Bryan Talbot), is a rallying cry to protect the planet. Her previous graphic novels are Sally Heathcote, Suffragette (2014, with Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot) and The Red Virgin (2016, with Bryan Talbot), and she wrote the academic book Language and Gender (3rd ed, 2019). She is the visiting professor of graphic narrative at Lancaster University.
Multiple award-winning artist Bryan Talbot has been working in comics for more than 40 years. He’s produced underground, fantasy, and superhero stories such as Batman and (with Neil Gaiman) Sandman, and graphic novels including The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, and the Grandville series, as well as illustrated the books written by Mary.
Bryan and Mary Talbot are both founding patrons of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Bryan was awarded a doctorate in arts and another in letters and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.