Wednesday 15 June 2011

New Pencil: Bryant & May


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/

5 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. I 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.

    This 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. Actually 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.

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  5. You're not the only one, first time a piccie has hit the top ten and presently at number two.

    Crickey.

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