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"Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is doubly enjoyable for writer Mary Talbot's masterful interweaving of two father-daughter relationships and cartoonist Bryan Talbot's equally brilliant drawings, which transported me back-and-forth between gritty postwar Britain and the swinging Paris of the '20s and '30s. This is one of the best collaborative efforts I've seen in the comics medium."
Joe Sacco, author: Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde and Footsteps in Gaza
Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2012! See Videos and Web Links below...

Photograph by kind permission of the Sunderland Echo
Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes contrasts two coming of age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions and personal tragedy are played out against two contrasting historical backgrounds, poignantly evoked by the atmospheric visual storytelling of award winning comic artist and graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot. Produced through an intense collaboration seldom seen between writers and artists, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is intelligent, funny and sad - a fine addition to the evolving genre of graphic memoir.
Mary adds, "I think what's been most distinctive about this project is that I haven't just completed a script and then passed it over to an artist. We've been able to work on the book together, with an intensive and ongoing creative interaction that's usually missing from writer/artist collaborations."
"A fascinating and original book, which will have wide appeal—not just to fathers and daughters!"
Jennifer Coates, Emeritus Professor of English Language & Linguistics, Roehampton University, Fellow of the English Association
See also: Launch video at Bleeding Cool
Costa Awards Win Articles
BBC News - Look North (video)
Mark Brown at The Guardian
Claire Armistead at The Guardian
Dotter Extracts at The Guardian
Bleeding Cool
Costa Awards Nomination Articles
Mark Brown at The Guardian
Rachel Cooke at The Guardian
Peter Wild at The Guardian
Becky Barnicoat at Guardian Weekend
The Independent
The Mail Online
Metro
BBC Mundo (Spanish)
El Pais (Spanish)
Tom Murphy at Full-Page Bleed
Best-Of Links
Independent's Books of the Year: Memoirs
Guardian's Christmas gifts 2012: the best biographies
MTV Geek's Best Graphic Novels of 2012
Publishers' Weekly's Best Graphic Novels of 2012
Huffington Post
Spectator Tribune
Comic Book Resources
Forbidden Planet International
Blogs/Interviews
Mary and Bryan on the Panel Borders Podcast
Mary Talbot's "Director's Commentary" at the Forbidden Planet Blog
Interview with Mary and Bryan at Comic Book Resources
Mary and Bryan interview at Broken Frontier
Mary and Bryan at Bookmunch
Daily Blam interview
Metro 5 Questions
Con Sequential Blog
La Cupola blog (Spanish)
Virtual Lancaster blog
Reviews
Biographile
Her Circle
Neil Gaiman at the New York Tmes
Paul Gravett
Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool
Stephen Holland at Page45
Kashfi Fahim at Review Fix
Publishers Weekly
Rachel Cooke at The Guardian
Stuart Kelly at The Scotsman
Tim Martin at The Telegraph
Iris on Books
Tony Ingram at Broken Frontier
Bookmunch
Washington Independent Review of Books
Nymeth at things mean a lot
John Lloyd at The Bookbag
Comic Book Alliance
Montserrat Terrones talks about Dotter (Spanish)
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