The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia

The creative partnership of acclaimed writer and academic Mary M. Talbot and graphic-novel pioneer Bryan Talbot has produced some of the most challenging and entertaining graphic novels in recent memory, including 2012's Costa Award medalist Dotter of Her Father's Eyes. The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia explores the life of revolutionary French feminist Louise Michel, a visionary teacher, poet, and radical who took up arms against a reactionary regime that executed thousands. Even deportation to a distant penal colony could not stop Michel from taking up the cause of the indigenous population against French colonial oppression.

Bryan Talbot s a British comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, its sequel Heart of Empire, the award-winning Tale of One Bad Rat, and the anthropromorphic steampunk series, Grandville. He also collaborated with his wife, Mary M. Talbot to produce Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, which won the 2012 Costa biography award. For more please visit http://www.bryan-talbot.com/biog/index.php The author lives in The Lakes Country, England, U.K..