Self-Made Hero Announces New Mary And Bryan Talbot Graphic Novel Armed With Madness

The Last Of The Surrealists

Armed With Madness is a new graphic novel coming from Self-Made Hero by Mary and Bryan Talbot about surrealist Leonora Carrington and here’s a few details and the cover…

Armed With Madness

Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot

Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel refugee… the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for the more exciting elite of Paris’s 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders (and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador Dalí, after embarking on a complicated love affair with Max Ernst. But the demons that have both haunted and inspired her work are gathering, and when the world goes mad with the outbreak of war and the Nazi invasion, Leonora’s own hold on reality collapses into a terrifying psychotic episode of her own. Eventually fleeing war-torn Europe, she emerges into a new and richly creative life in Mexico City, establishing herself as a prodigious painter, writer, and advocate of women’s rights. This new work by the acclaimed partnership of Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot celebrates the life and career of a truly remarkable woman – and artist.

RRP £19.99 (144pp, colour, hardback) ISBN: 978-1-914224-12-6

PUBLISHED IN MAY BY SELF-MADE HERO