![]() Bryan’s Grandville series stars a steampunk badger and while his magnum opus Alice in Sunderland may start in modern Britain, its twists and turns connect prehistoric beasts, Humpty Dumpty and Sid James. Two of Britain’s finest graphic novelists, the husband and wife team have previously covered the Paris Commune and imperialism in the South Pacific ( The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia) and the women’s suffrage movement ( Sally Heathcote: Suffragette). ![]() The samosa-bearing aid worker isn’t the only person on unfamiliar ground: with its tight contemporary focus, Rain is something of a departure for Mary and Bryan Talbot too. “Not usually in Yorkshire, though!” That natural disasters can and increasingly will affect not just people in rolling news stories a long way away but anyone, anywhere, is at the heart of Rain, a love story that’s also a flood story. “W e provide help in disaster areas all around the world,” says the aid agency volunteer serving warm samosas. ![]()
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