In this alternative reality France is the major world power and its capital is thronged with steam-driven hansom cabs, automatons and flying machines. Inspired by the work of the nineteenth-century French illustrator Gerard, who worked under the pseudonym Grandville and frequently drew anthropomorphic animal characters, it tells the story of detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard as he stalks a gang of murderers through the heart of Belle Epoque Paris. n Grandville Talbot brings us another steampunk masterpiece. Le blaireau est de retour Alone in Grandville, Detective Inspector LeBrock stalks a growing religious cult led by a charismatic unicorn messiah who. Ive never come across a fictional world as fully-realised as. I think theyre superbly designed, beautifully conceived, admirably written - everything about them is terrific.
Before that, at the start of his career, he created the first ever steampunk graphic novel, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. I have greatly enjoyed the Grandville books.
"Bryan Talbot s most recent book, Alice in Sunderland, was hailed by the Guardian as one of the ten best graphic novels ever and acclaimed by critics all over the world.
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