Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago it was the greatest centre
of learning in the whole of Christendom and the very cradle of English consciousness.
In the time of Lewis Carroll it was the greatest shipbuilding port in the
world. To this city that gave the world the electric light bulb, the stars and
stripes, the millennium, the Liberty Ships and the greatest British dragon
legend came Carroll in the years preceding his most famous book, Alice in
Wonderland, and here are buried the roots of his surreal masterpiece.
Enter the famous Edwardian palace of
varieties, The Sunderland Empire, for a unique experience: an entertaining and
epic meditation on myth, history and storytelling then decide for yourself -
does Sunderland really exist?
From Bryan Talbot, the acclaimed creator of The
Adventures of Luther Arkwright and The
Tale of One Bad Rat, comes Alice
in Sunderland, a graphic novel unlike any before. Funny and poignant,
thought-provoking and entertaining, traditional and experimental, whimsical and
polemical, 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.
This looks to be a quite brilliant work from
one of the finest artist/writers the UK has ever produced (and also the
man widely credited with the first ‘proper’ British graphic novel). I’m so
looking forward to getting my hands on this; Brian has used a variety of
different styles and media throughout the different angles of the tales told
here; he even has a page scripted by the great Leo Baxendale (creator of the
Bash Street Kids in the Beano among
many, many others), a legend among British comics creators and readers. We
posted a long interview
with Bryan over on the FPI blog during British Comics Month where you can
read about Alice
and check out more of the artwork for this must-have book.
Jonathan Cape, hardback, 328 pages, published April 2007
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