A wartime Bryant & May from Chris Fowler's excellent series (which I'll cover here when the next book is out, oh yes). There's a comic too on the way illustrated rather wonderfully by Keith Page. For more on either, each or both: http://www.peculiarcrimesunit.com/
That's much more how I imagined Arthur Bryant to be. As opposed to the shrunken troll-like figure in the (otherwise excellent) upcoming comic book art.
ReplyDeleteI think that that comic art is of them nowadays, in their eighties. Keith Page draws the city really well and I love the almost sepia quality of his water colours.
ReplyDeleteThis is them in wartime. I confess I'd like more of the stories to be about earlier cases - though I believe there are a couple of such coming out as short stories in upcoming collections.
Yes, that much is obvious (Page's art being the old version of Bryant, that is) but I still don't think of the character as looking like a hunched up troll. It's not how I imagine him to look. But as you say, the water colour London style looks good.
ReplyDeleteActually Keith Page worked from the photographs I provided him of my inspiration for Arthur Bryant as he is now, but there will be stories featuring their younger selves very soon. I like this one a lot.
ReplyDeleteYou're not the only one, first time a piccie has hit the top ten and presently at number two.
ReplyDeleteCrickey.