Elected: 2018
Bryan Talbot has been a master of the comic art form for 40 years. He has produced underground and alternative comics, notably Brainstorm!, and science fiction and superhero stories such as Judge Dredd. He has worked on DC Vertigo titles, including Hellblazer, Sandman (with Neil Gaiman), The Dreaming and Fables, and has written and drawn the graphic novels for which he is best known, including the first British graphic novel, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, the first graphic novel he produced with his wife, Mary M. Talbot, was the winner of the 2012 Costa Biography Award.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
