Author guide
Bryan Talbot Books in Order
Bryan Talbot is a British comics writer and artist whose career spans underground comix, creator-owned graphic novels, mainstream comics, prose nonfiction, and collaborative graphic biographies. His major works include The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, Metronome, Cherubs!, the Grandville books, and graphic novels created with Mary Talbot. He has also worked with writers including Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Pat Mills, and Tom Veitch.
Bryan Talbot's Newest Book
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Start with one of these
The Tale of One Bad Rat
A self-contained, acclaimed graphic novel and an accessible introduction to Talbot's storytelling.
Grandville
The first volume of his completed steampunk detective series.
The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
His foundational science-fiction graphic novel and a landmark of British comics.
Read in order
Books by series
graphic-novel-series · completed
Luther Arkwright
A science-fiction graphic novel series following the dimension-spanning adventures of Luther Arkwright.
graphic-novel-series · completed
Grandville
A steampunk detective graphic novel series featuring Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock in an alternate Belle Époque Europe.
graphic-novel-series · completed
Grandville: Stamford Hawksmoor
A prequel graphic novel set in the Grandville universe and centered on LeBrock's mentor, Detective Inspector Stamford Hawksmoor.
- 1 The Casebook of Stamford HawksmoorAmazon ↗
Book 1 · graphic-novel · 2025
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (10)
- The NazzAmazon ↗
graphic-novel · 1990
- The Tale of One Bad RatAmazon ↗
graphic-novel · 1995
- The Naked Artist: Comic Book LegendsAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2007
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Alice in SunderlandAmazon ↗graphic-novel · 2007
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Cherubs!Amazon ↗graphic-novel · 2007
- MetronomeAmazon ↗
graphic-novel · 2008
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Dotter of Her Father's EyesAmazon ↗graphic-novel · 2012
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Sally Heathcote: SuffragetteAmazon ↗graphic-novel · 2014
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The Red Virgin and the Vision of UtopiaAmazon ↗graphic-novel · 2016
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RainAmazon ↗graphic-novel · 2019