One of my favourite graphic novels of all time is Talbot's harrowing tale of homelessness, child abuse and Beatrix Potter, One Bad Rat. Grandville doesn't disappoint, an amazing tale of a future with reference ton the works of French charicaturist JJ Gerard, science fiction illustrator Robida, Conan Doyle, Rupert the Bear, Tarantino and Herge. In this dystopia Napoleon won, the French rule Britain as a backwater annex and the 'people' have mostly animal heads, with the exception of a few humans, an underclass known as 'dough faces'. The badger faced Detective Inspector Lebrock of Scotland Yard stars with his Watson type Detective Ratzi, a return to Talbot to his love of the intelligence and talent of rats as seen in One Bad Rat. I loved the use of animals to denote character or the surface appearance of, and his use of Snowy Milou is genius, particularly his opium addled dreams in the Blue Lotus house of Tintin's trip to the Moon.
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