Sorry I haven’t written lately. Still not well, and horribly addicted to Facebook.

You remember when I told you all about that excellent graphic novel related to Beatrix Potter and a homeless girl with a pet rat a few weeks ago? The author strikes again! Observe where I will be next Monday night, and feel free to join me there if you wish…

A Conversation with Bryan Talbot

Monday, April 16, 2007 – 6:00 PM
Lillian Smith Public Library – 239 College St, Toronto (College & Spadina)
Hosted by SPACE’s Mark Askwith
Free to attend.

In support of his new graphic novel ALICE IN SUNDERLAND, Bryan Talbot is coming to Toronto!
The creator of TEH TALE OF ONE BAD RAT, LUTHER ARKWRIGHT, and the artist of THE SANDMAN SPECIAL #1: THE SONG OF ORPHEUS is on tour. Talbot will be doing a presentation from the work, and will be interviewed on stage by Mark Askwith.

“Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest center of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness. In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and stripes, the millennium, the Liberty Ships and the greatest British dragon legend came Carroll in the years preceding his most famous book, Alice in Wonderland, and here are buried the roots of his surreal masterpiece. Enter the famous Edwardian palace of varieties, The Sunderland Empire, for a unique experience: an entertaining and epic meditation on myth, history and storytelling and decide for yourself – does Sunderland really exist?”