This is the official home on the web for Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville and all of its sequels. Grandville is an anthropomorphic, steampunk, detective, noir thriller and is a masterpiece of comic storytelling and artwork.

The Grandville Annotations

The Grandville Annotations explain where Bryan gets his ideas from and is full of reference images, homages to other artists and images of paintings used and adapted in the comic.

Also see the pages for the other Grandville graphic novels: Grandville Mon Amour, Grandville Bête Noire, Grandville Noel and Grandville Force Majeure

Reviews of Grandville:

• From the Booktrust: "LeBrock, the stoic badger detective, is a strong lead character, almost unstoppable in his relentless quest to uncover crimes and pick apart conspiracies. The steampunk contraptions and industrial feel to the background bring this together in a strong package that, along with his previous book, make Bryan Talbot a graphic novelist akin to Daniel Clowes and Alan Moore."
• My own review of Grandville: "This is an absolute delight to read and will keep fans of Talbot's work enthralled to the end. In fact if there is any justice it should bring in new fans of the whole anthropomorphic genre too."
• A review of Grandville from the nice people at Bookmunch. Do you think they liked it?!
• Bookmunch reviewed Grandville - "All told I have to say that Grandville ranks as possibly the most fun I’ve had with a graphic novel this year. If graphic novels are your bag, then I’d wholeheartedly recommend you track this down…"
• Grandville L'Intégral gets 100% recommendation from Bleeding Cool!

Interviews with Bryan on Grandville:

• SteamPunk magazine: Bryan Talbot on Bastable, Brass Goggles and badgers.
• Creating an anthropomorphic thriller in that ol' steampunk style: an interview over at Comics Bulletin
• The Grandville Tour: talking to Bryan Talbot: an interview at Newsarama
• Also see the official Dark Horse Grandville homepage.
• An interview with Bryan by Benjamin Berton for a French website, translated into English.
• the afterword to the French edition of Grandville published in English.
• an entire image gallery of previews of the comic.

Also see the Grandville Annotations where Bryan explains his influences and references and points out homages to other works of art.

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