The author of the Grandville series and Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes talks about steampunk, Judge Dredd and Beatrix Potter
Choosing an animal sometimes takes a while, says graphic novelist Bryan Talbot, sitting in the crepuscular basement of his Sunderland home. Casting a badger as the steampunk detective in a world where Britain is a former colony of France was straightforward compared with other figures in his anthropomorphic Grandville series.
“I wanted a tenacious character who would battle against all odds, and badgers are tenacious. They also look cool – it’s to do with the black-and-white stripes,” he says of his hero, Archie LeBrock, a remarkably ripped detective inspector who dresses like Sherlock Holmes and fights like a Tarantino villain. But Talbot struggled to find the correct animal head for a “snooty French waiter” until his wife, Mary, an academic turned prizewinning graphic novelist, told him: “‘That’s obvious, a cod.’ Yeah! It’s ideal,” laughs Talbot.
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“I wanted a tenacious character who would battle against all odds, and badgers are tenacious. They also look cool – it’s to do with the black-and-white stripes,” he says of his hero, Archie LeBrock, a remarkably ripped detective inspector who dresses like Sherlock Holmes and fights like a Tarantino villain. But Talbot struggled to find the correct animal head for a “snooty French waiter” until his wife, Mary, an academic turned prizewinning graphic novelist, told him: “‘That’s obvious, a cod.’ Yeah! It’s ideal,” laughs Talbot.
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