This collected comic is about a victim of child abuse, while also serving as an homage to the work of storyteller Beatrix Potter. We discuss Talbot’s approach to representing such difficult subject matter, while also crafting a book that was more user friendly to non-comics readers.
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Additional Resources:
- The Tale of One Bad Rat homepage
- The Rat’s Whiskers
- The Tale of One Bad Rat (Graphic Medicine)
- The Tale of One Bad Rat, or, thoughts on teaching adults to read comics
- Still Relevant Today: The Tale of One Bad Rat
- #metoo stories. Library Journal; 4/1/2018, Vol. 143 Issue 6, p53-53, 1/3p
- (2018) Finding Beatrix Potter: Bryan Talbot’s The Tale of One Bad Rat, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1533484