Mary Talbot, author of the prize-winning Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, and one of the founding patrons of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, is in Lancaster next month to give her Inaugural Lecture as Visiting Professor of Graphic Narrative at Lancaster University, discussing the art of graphic biography.

The free lecture will take place at The Storey on Meeting House Lane and is a free event, but you need to register for tickets here. All are welcome.

In 2012, Professor Mary Talbot was the first graphic novelist to win the Costa Biography Award, for Dotter of her Father’s Eyes (Jonathan Cape), part memoir, and part biography of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, and produced with her husband Bryan Talbot. 

Professor Talbot, who is Visiting Professor of Graphic Narrative at the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing at Lancaster University is currently working, with Bryan, on a graphic novel about the Lancashire-born surrealist, Leonora Carrington. 

She was appointed to her Chair at Lancaster in October 2021, succeeding the French graphic novelist Benoit Peeters. 

• “Life in Graphic Biography” – Mary Talbot Inaugural Lecture – with drinks – presented by the Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Lancaster University | 7.00pm Tuesday 8th March 2022 | The Storey, Meeting House Lane, Ashton Road, Lancaster LA1 1TH | Free • Register for your tickets here | All welcome