Comic Boom - Comics in Education with graphic novel author Mary Talbot

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Lucy chats to graphic novel author and academic Mary Talbot.

Dr Mary Talbot is the author of the graphic novel Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (Jonathan Cape 2012), illustrated by her husband, award winning comic artist Bryan Talbot. She is an internationally acclaimed scholar who has published widely on language, gender and power, particularly in relation to media and consumer culture. Dotter was the first work she undertook in the graphic novel format. It went on to win the 2012 Costa Biography Award in January 2013, making it the first British graphic novel to win a major literary award.

Mary has recently taken up the position of Visiting Professor of Graphic Writing in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. Her recent academic work includes a third edition of Language and Gender (Polity 2019), a book that continues to be popular with university lecturers and students worldwide. However, she may still be known best for her critical investigation of the “synthetic sisterhood” offered by teen magazines.

This episode is part of the Comic collaboration with Lakes International Comic Arts Festival!

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