Bryan Talbot

[Anonymous]

I was wondering if you have ever worked with Bryan Talbot or have any plans to? It would be a fanboy's dream to see something written by you and illustrated by him.

[Michael Moorcock]

Not strictly. Bryan wrote to me when he was planning Luther Arkwright and asked if he could 'borrow' some of my ideas from Warlord, Cornelius and Gloriana. So in that sense we've collaborated!

[David Mosley]

Mike, you provided the Introduction to the first edition of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Book One: Rat Trap (1982), although the second edition replaced it with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell.



You also provided the Introduction for the complete trade paperback collection in 1997. The copyright information in Tales from the Texas Woods suggests that it might be different from the 1982 introduction. (Not entirely surprising since TAOLA was still a work in progress in '82.) Can you confirm that the two Introductions were different, or was the second an expansion of the first?

[Michael Moorcock]

I'm pretty sure they're the same, David. Any changes would be miniscule.

[Krzysiek]

I'm not sure if it means anything, but 1997 introduction is signed: "Michael Moorcock, Port Sabatini, Texas, January 1997".

[Michael Moorcock]

Hmm. Suggests they ARE different. Wonder if John Davey would know...? There's another book out currently, The Art of Bryan Talbot, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.

[David Mosley]

Thanks to a particularly cheap (but very fine) copy purchased on eBay, I'm pleased to announce that Mike's Introduction to the original edition of Luther Arkwright Book One is indeed different to his Introduction for the trade paperback collection (reprinted in Tales from the Texas Woods).

Scan uploaded to the Image Hive.

Moorcock, you're an insatiable name-dropper!

[Michael Moorcock]

I'd forgotten about the tongue in cheek intro I'd done. Which is probably because I felt I should do something more for the next one.