{"id":182,"date":"2007-04-20T18:49:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T23:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/04\/20\/so-how-did-the-bryan-talbot-event-go\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T23:49:44","slug":"so-how-did-the-bryan-talbot-event-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"So how did the Bryan Talbot event go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really well, actually!<\/p>\n<p>We had a turnout of about 40 people I think? We sold an absolute ton of books too, which was nice. Bryan&#8217;s talk was mostly drawn from <em>Alice in Sunderland<\/em>, meant to be heard by an audience who hadn&#8217;t yet read the book. Despite having already read it, I enjoyed it, and the book too. Afterwards Bryan was quite gracious and signed book after book for all who&#8217;d attended, though I don&#8217;t think he was sketching&#8230;? You can check out a further review of the event by <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fourrealities.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/lecture-report-bryan-talbot-at-merril.html\">Bob from the Four Realities Blog<\/a><\/strong>, as it looks like he had a good time as well.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note, while Mr. Talbot was in town he gave an interview to SPACE (Canada&#8217;s answer to the Sci-Fi network, for those of you not in the know). SPACE head honcho Mark Askwith wrote to let me know that the interview is now online! Head over to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spacecast.com\/hypaspace.aspx\">http:\/\/www.spacecast.com\/hypaspace.aspx<\/a><\/strong> and just look for Bryan Talbot&#8217;s name in the right-hand column.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s an event-report without pictures? Thanks to customer Andrew Specht for taking these for us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Askwith and Bryan Talbot\" id=\"image177\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/talbot-askwith.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSpace&#8217;s Mark Askwith chats with Bryan Talbot during the short interview session that followed the lecture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bryan Talbot and Christopher Butcher\" id=\"image178\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/talbot-chrisbutcher.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMe thanking Mr. Talbot, and announcing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beguiling.com\"><strong>The Beguiling&#8217;s plans<\/strong><\/a> for Free Comic Book Day and our Scott McCloud event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Talbot and his signing line...\" id=\"image179\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/talbot-crowd.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA small part of the line of folks waiting for Mr. Talbot&#8217;s signature.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bryan Talbot talks to a few of his fans.\" id=\"image180\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/talbot-fans.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBryan Talbot chats with a couple of his fans.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lorna Toolis, Bryan Talbot, and Peter Birkemoe.\" id=\"image181\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/toolis-talbot-birkemoe.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLorna Toolis from The Merill Collection, Bryan Talbot, and The Beguiling&#8217;s owner Peter Birkemoe.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to The Merill Collection at The Lillian H. Smith branch of the Toronto Public Library for hosting the event, and to Bryan and Mary Talbot for being wonderful guests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic\">(Photos Copyright 2007, Andrew Specht)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really well, actually! We had a turnout of about 40 people I think? We sold an absolute ton of books too, which was nice. Bryan&#8217;s talk was mostly drawn from Alice in Sunderland, meant to be heard by an audience who hadn&#8217;t yet read the book. Despite having already read it, I enjoyed it, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So how did the Bryan Talbot event go?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,17,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general","category-comics-retailing","category-the-beguiling","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}