When the Rain Comes: announcing the official launch of Bryan and Mary Talbot's new graphic novel

RAIN, the 4th graphic novel from Bryan and Mary Talbot will be officially launched at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival at 12.30 in the council Chamber of Kendal Town Hall ("The Comic Clocktower") on Saturday 12th October with a presentation on the book, followed by a signing in the Page 45 room.

Set against the backdrop of disastrous flooding in the North of England, Rain dramatically chronicles the developing relationship between two young women, one of whom is a committed environmental campaigner. Their wild Brontë moorland is being criminally mismanaged. Birds and animals are being slaughtered. Across the country, crops are being systematically poisoned, even the soil itself.

Rain is a complete departure from Bryan and Mary Talbot's previous biographical and historical collaborations. It deals instead with the here and now of environmental degradation that threatens us all. The characters are fictitious: what's happening around them is shockingly real.

Book tickets at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival official site.

Hebden Bridge launch of Rain

RAIN is set in a fictional version of Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, and the following Saturday October 19 at 7:00pm, there's a special launch event there for the book, a presentation at the Town Hall, followed by a signing.

More signings to be announced, so watch this space!