Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:12 am Post subject: Bryan Talbot's Grandville
Bryan Talbot's next book is Grandville a steampunk detective-thriller set in a retro sci-fi world populated by anthropomorphic animals and stars Detective Inspector LeBrock, who the writer artist describes as a "large working class badger”.
"LeBrock has the deductive abilities of Sherlock Holmes but, being a badger, he’s also a bruiser and is quite happy to beat the crap out of a suspect to get information," Bryan recently told Steampunk magazine. "His adjunct and close confidant is the diminutive and elegant Roderick Ratzi, who talks like Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey.
"I wanted to do one of those sorts of adventure stories that starts very small and parochial but gets bigger and more exciting as it goes along until it finishes in an epic climax," he continues. "The story begins with LeBrock investigating a murder in a small English village (in actuality Rupert Bear’s Nutwood). The trail leads him to Grandville, where he discovers a shocking and far-reaching conspiracy. It’s basically fin-de-siecle Paris, populated by animals and furnished with speaking tubes, automatons and steam-driven hansom cabs."
Grandville is set for release in October 2009 and will be published by Dark Horse in the USA and Jonathan Cape worldwide.
Signed copies will be at Brum
There is an interview about it with more details over on [url"http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/inside/bryan-talbot-on-bastable-brass-goggles-and-badgers/"]Steam Punk Magazine[/url].
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