BrainStorm!

Before Bryan Talbot brought us The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, The Grandville Series, and Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, he was an underground cartoonist, bringing his energy and love of visual detail to hallucinatory, drug-laden, adult themes of the underground comix form. This volume includes his graphic novel Chester P. Hackenbush: The Psychadelic Alchemist (a work which was influential on such things as the Alan Moore Swamp Thing run), an adventure of Ace Wimslow: Freelance Rock Reporter, the pothead strip series Smokey Bears, plus covers and more, brought back to print for the first time in decades!

Bryan Talbot has received several Eagle Awards, a UK Comic Art award, a Society of Strip illustrators Mekon Award, an Eisner Award, a Haxtur Award, and an honorary doctorate form the University of Sunderland. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, In 2024 he was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame.