Comics Artists T
Ferdinando Tacconi
Online 'Men at Arms' Gallery: www.ultrazine.org/ultraeventi/mostre/tacconi/online
Italian
artist Tacconi died in 2006. He began producing art for the British market
through the studios of Roy d'Ami in the 1950s, including Jet
Morgan, based on the famous radio show, which began a life long friendship
with the show's creator and the strip's writer, Charles Chilton, drawing Journey
Into Space in Express Weekly, which is
currently being reprinted in Spaceship Away.
Tacconi also also drew Jeff Hawke for the Junior
Express, one episode of Riders of the Range for Eagle and
various works for Fleetway, including contributions to Comet, Buster, War
Picture Library, Air Ace Picture Library and
others.
Bryan Talbot
Official: www.bryan-talbot.com
One of the best comics artists in the UK, whose
brilliant art has graced many a DC Comic, 2000AD and
whose own titles include One
Bad Rat and the eagerly-anticipated Alice
in Sunderland, due to be published by Jonathan
Cape in the UK in 2007.
His best known work, The
Adventures of Luther Arkwright,
developed over several years, has been optioned as a movie by Benderspink
(see
related news story)
First created in 1978, and described by fellow comics
creator Garth Ennis as "one of the all-time great epics of the medium", Arkwright story
took Talbot more than 12 years to complete, first serialised in various
comics and magazines in England before being wrapped up in a series of
comics published by Valkyrie Press. A sequel, Heart
of Empire, was published in 1999 by Dark Horse.
Audio drama company Big Finish have also adapted the story, starring Doctor Who's David Tennant as Luther Arkwright.
LUTHER ARKWRIGHT
LINKS
• Buy The
Adventures of Luther Arkwright via
Amazon.co.uk
• Buy the Big Finish audio drama The
Adventures of Luther Arkwright from Amazon.co.uk
• Buy Heart
of Empire: or, The Legacy Luther Arkwright via Amazon.co.uk
ALICE IN SUNDERLAND LINKS
In 2007, Jonathan Cape published Bryan Talbot's Alice
in Sunderland, a funny and poignant, thought-provoking
and entertaining, traditional and experimental, whimsical and polemical
graphic novel. Alice
in Sunderland is a heady cocktail of fact and fiction, a sumptuous
and multi-layered journey that will leave you wondering about the
magic that's waiting to be unlocked in the place where you live.
• Read
an interview with Bryan Talbot on Panel to Panel about Alice in Sunderland
• Buy Alice
in Sunderland from
Amazon.co.uk
Joseph Talbot
Official: www.josephbloggs.com
Creator of Oneironaut as his final project for
the MA in Electronic Media at Oxford Brookes University, is the story of
a place - the Dreamscape - and the people that inhabit it.
Jospeh is a web designer.
Darren Taylor
Blog: mycvstuff.blogspot.com
Art: www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=4090
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/darren_taylor
UK artist Darren taylor, whose strips include This
Life! has worked professionally
as a spot illustration artist, worked in the Games industry as a Concept
Artist and in films asworking as a Storyboard Artist.
Bill
Titcombe
Anybody interested in the work of Telegoons and TV Comic artist
Bill Titcombe might be interested in this info about him on the Telegoons
web site: www.telegoons.org/FAQ.htm#O
Just one of those great little nuggets of fun on the web!
Alex Toth (1928-2006)
• Official: Tothfans.com
US comics artist Alex Toth died at his drawing
board on 27 May 2006; he was 77. His career in com ics is legendary and
he also designed characters for many animated TV SF
series in the 1960s-70s -- including Space Ghost, Jonny
Quest, The Herculoids and
Cambria Productions' space opera Space Angel,
one of several cartoons to use the company's synchro-vox
system, combining live-action lips with animated drawings.
Hsiao-chen Tsai
Official: usscatastrophe.com/zettwoch
Tsai was born and raised in Taiwan. She
moved to the Bay
Area seven years ago to escape her mom's "lifetime mothering policy" as
well as to pursue a larger audience for her drawings of cute creatures
doing bad things. After several years of burning out from her many
crappy jobs performing various robot-tasks, she finally found her
Double Happiness: lovely husby and sweet kitties.
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