Dark Horse to Release "Grandville: Force Majeure" in November 2017 Dark Horse is thrilled to announce the grand finale of Bryan Talbot’s epic anthropomorphic steampunk detective thriller Grandville with Grandville: Force Majeure! The Eisner and Hugo nominated series began in 2009 with Grandville, followed by 2010’s Grandville Mon Amour, 2012’s Grandville Bête Noire, and 2014’s Grandville Noël. Grandville: Force Majeure finds Detective Inspector LeBrock wanted for murder and on the run from gangland overlord Tiberius Koenig. But LeBrock is a fighter and now, battling against insurmountable odds, the British Badger needs every ounce of his strength, deductive skills and tenacity to in order...
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A missing girl, a string of thefts across Europe, a religious cult, the rights of human beings, and Christmas. All of these and more are explored in this volume of Grandville. The steampunk adventures of Detective Inspector Archibald “Archie” LeBrock, a large bipedal badger. Oh I did mention the world is full of fully sentient, bipedal animals, right? Grandville has a depth to it that few graphic novels or comics usually do. There are so many layers to the work it is astounding. At first look this is an anamorphic detective novel set in an alternate steampunk earth. It works very well as a detective story. You have a very noir story that has twists, but all the evidence is there for the reader that when they look back every...
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The 2011 Hugo nominees have been announced, and our own Grandville Mon Amour is up for Best Graphic Story! Initiated in 1953, the Hugo is presented each year by the World Science Fiction Society for achievements in science fiction and fantasy storytelling. The Best Graphic Story category was first included in 2009. Previous nominees include Fables, Serenity, Y: The Last Man, Batman, and more. Chris Warner, editor of the book says: "Bryan Talbot is rightly regarded as one of the most innovative creators in all of comics, but I've always felt that his incredible skill as a science-fiction visionary has been a bit overlooked. Looks like I was wrong!" In Grandville Mon Amour, convicted...
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Before you pick up a copy of Grandville Mon Amour by legendary comics scribe Bryan Talbot, check out this great blog post by Dark Horse editor Chris Warner. You'll be glad you did! Years ago, my father was in England taking a sabbatical from teaching college English. This was right after the time Dark Horse launched, and he happened to run across a London comics shop that had Dark Horse Presents #1 (featuring my Black Cross story) on display. My dad took pictures and went inside to ask the proprietors what Brit comics his comics-creator son back in the States might find interesting. Long story short, one of the books he brought back was the first issue of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot. I remember reading the book...
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Smoke rises from the ruins of the weekend, the Monday morning hour grows late and Dark Horse in the Headlines rides to the internets once again. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the three day work week, prep your gullets for turkey and do so with some Dark Horse-related links! I'm Dark Horse Publicity coordinator Jim Gibbons and as Hannah Montana once said, "Let's Do This!" Heart Transplant Andrew Vachss, Frank Caruso and Zak Mucha's Heart Transplant has been a regular feature online recently across book-centric sites and newspapers' online outlets. This past week was no exception. Time Out Chicago chatted with Vachss last week about HT, and a radio interview with Mucha can be heard at WBEZ91.5's Web site. The Bay...
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The righteous book-lovin' supergroup YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association for the uninitiated, recently released their list of nominations for 2010's Great Graphic Novels for Teens. The big DH received five excellent nominations—more than Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Image, IDW or Boom! Huzzah! And now, the nominees... Brody’s Ghost: Book 1 by Mark Crilley Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites by Dorkin, Evan and Jill Thompson 365 Samurai And A Few Bowls Of Rice by J.P. Kalonji. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects by Mike Mignola Grandville by Bryan Talbot Congrats to the nominees and many thanks to YALSA for recognizing these tremendous books! And you know, all these wondrous bits of fiction make great...
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