The official Rain homepage
Launch events for Rain - the next graphic novel by Mary and Bryan Talbot
- London - Saturday 26th October, 1 - 2pm
Signing at Gosh!, 1, Berwick Street, Soho, London W1F 0DR
- Newcastle - Saturday 2nd November 1 - 2pm
Signing at Forbidden Planet Megastore, 49, Grainger Street, Newcastle, NE1 5JE
- Newcastle - Saturday 23rd November 2 - 3pm
Books on the Tyne: The Newcastle Book Festival
Presentation, followed by a signing. Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge St W, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX
Videos from the launch of Rain at the Lakes International Comic Festival
Mary and Bryan launched Rain at the Lakes International Comics Festival on Saturday October 12, and I was there to take some videos of their introduction to their latest graphic novel:
Mary has just published a preview taster of Rain - see it at Mary Talbot's official site.
Reviews of Rain
- Wuthering depths: the Brontë country graphic novel about floods and fracking - Claire Armitstead:
"I suspect if I were to start to write the book now,” says Mary, “it would have a greater sense of urgency and I might find it harder to be optimistic. Even the Arctic is on fire, for goodness sake."
- Doomrocket: Required Reading by Arpad Okay:
"Rain is a work of sublime tactile beauty. Your eyes can feel paper grain and watercolor stain your fingers cannot touch. There’s a vivid tension between enjoying a good story that a crafty natural aesthetic improves and the inclination to let go of the story entirely to be touched by artwork. The interplay between watercolor objects and ink line contours is gentle, subtle, a natural touch. Even the format of the book, panels sized to landscape, contributes to the experience. If you care to catch a film in 70mm, you will fall hard for the book-ness of this graphic novel."
- James Smart at The Guardian:
"Passionately political, this tale of a budding relationship between two women set against the 2015 floods in the north of England is an inspiring cry of protest."
- John Freeman at Down the Tubes:
"It’s no easy task to deliver such a powerful graphic novel, outlining at the same time some of the environmental issues which face our planet – issues which the authors note were first raised over two hundred years ago."