…And the Vision of Utopia.

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Unfortunately the library doesn’t own a copy of The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, but we do have a couple of cult Bryan Talbot – the grandfather of British graphic novels – tomes on the senior fiction shelves. Have you read Grandville or Alice in Sunderland? If you like thrillers and steampunk; genre-busting weirdness, history, myth and…uh, Lewis Carroll, then these are for you! 🙂 Talbot also collaborates with his wife, Mary M. Talbot, and they produced Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which won the Costa Biography Award in 2012.

This, from Forbidden Planet International may also pique your interest –

“Mary and Bryan Talbot were invited to a recent academic conference on Francospheres of Revolution and Resistance, discussing their graphic novel about French social revolutionary Louise Michel, The Red Virgin, and Bryan tells us there is now audio up of the discussion. I was lucky enough to chair a talk with them about the book at last year’s Edinburgh Book Festival & it’s a fascinating subject, so I think this should be well worth the attention of your ears!“