Rain by Mary and Bryan Talbot

I've been collecting Bryan Talbot graphic novels for some time now - the Grandville series (Inspector Le Brock the badger), Alice in Sunderland, the Tale of One Bad Rat and The Adventures of Luther Arkwright.
I've also got two of the graphic novels that Bryan and Mary Talbot collaborated on - Sally Heathcote: Suffragette and Dotter of Her Father's Eyes (and Kate Charlesworth for Sally Heathcote: Suffragette).
So I was very pleased with my birthday present, Rain by Mary and Bryan Talbot - and my Young Man had got me a signed copy!
It's about a flood in a Yorkshire town, and the grouse moors above the town, and the clash between environmentalism and profit, as seen through the eyes of a young couple - one of whom lives in Yorkshire, and the other in London. It also brings in the Zone Rouge - battlefields of the First World War in France which are still dangerously contaminated - and the Bronte sisters, and fracking, and climate change protests.
It sets out the facts clearly, and shows the different points of view on the subject, and the story is bookended with scenes from Alexander von Humboldt's life. He's a scientist who should be better known, as he was the first person to look at human activity and its effect on the wider environment - around the year 1800. Even then it was evident how deforestation, irrigation and pollution were affecting the climate.
Highly recommended.