Isambard kingdom brunel a graphic biography comics

The Brunel Graphic Biography, or ‘Brunel comic’ as it became known, was a steam-powered feast of entertainment brought to you through the miracle of modern precision-engineered cartoon.

Written by Eugene Byrne and illustrated by Simon Gurr, with an introduction by Adam Hart-Davis, the comic proved to be more successful than the team could have hoped for.

Simon draws and writes comics, and creates pieces for web and print: some of his web games are live on the award-winning ARKive site and he has illustrated several books for Oxford University Press, including Arnold Bennett’s The Card and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

His published comics include The Enhancer, co-written with Peter Gurr, St.

Vincent’s Rock, written by Eugene Byrne, The Day of The Triffids, serialised for newspaper by the artist and Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Graphic History