Featured guest of honour of the convention.
Submitted by Anne M Kletcha on 13 October, 2011 - 12:02
Bryan Talbot is probably the most important English language writer and artist of comics and graphic novels of our time.
Bryan was born in Wigan in Lancashire on the 24th of February 1952. At the age of seventeen he was having illustrations published in Mallorn, the Journal of the British Tolkien Society, and in 1971 he drew the cover to the first issue of Dark Horizons, the magazine of the British Fantasy Society. A few years later he the character of Chester P.
Submitted by Anne M Kletcha on 13 October, 2011 - 10:35
What can I say about Robert Rankin that hasn’t been said already, and probably by himself?
Robert Fleming Rankin was born in Parsons Green in London on the 27th of July, 1949, and he lived there or thereabouts for most of his life, with his time in the borough of Brentford providing the inspiration and home for much of his output.
P-Con VIII Guest of Honour: Hugo Award Winning Ian McDonald, author of best selling novels, "Brasyl", "River of Gods", "The Dervish House", and many others.
