The Bryan Talbot fanpage is also on Twitter - so give us a follow and join in the conversation!Īnd we are also on Instagram: give us a like and a follow! Join the Facebook group for Bryan Talbot fans for lots of discussions and special offers announced on Facebook first. Grandville Force Majeure original artwork is now available to buy. “I get to talk about comics and play games all day.Grandville Force Majeure original art and other Bryan Talbot artwork now on sale “I’m very happy about ,” said Grandville. In addition to comics, Grandville’s store Revolution Comics offers various card game tournaments and its Free Comic Book Club, in which customers who spend $100 in comics one month get a $20 gift card. Grandville’s daughter, Julia, is a senior at the Meadowbrook Alternative Program and avid Harley Quinn fan. He added that such a truth could be found through the character arc of Harley Quinn, a villain on her path to reformation in the Batman universe. Grandville added that modern comics have the power to promote universal truths such as the importance of helping one’s community and accepting diversity. “They sparked an imagination in me,” he said, adding that he would not be an avid reader of various news sources, Cosmos Magazine or classic literature without them. “So my dad had me write an essay on Captain America for my teacher.” Grandville said that his teacher was impressed by the essay and allowed him to choose any book at the library for the subject of his next report.Īccording to Grandville, comic book writers have an obligation to educate the youth of America in the same way they educated him. He told his son to spend the night reading them and Grandville finished the stack in an hour and a half, making sure to tell his father what he had learned before he went to sleep.

did not admonish young Grandville, but responded by purchasing ten comic books. “The stories they were giving me to read were really boring,” he recalled telling his father after receiving a note home from his teacher about his unsatisfactory grades. Grandville knew how to read before entering kindergarten, but he stopped paying attention to his course material when he started first grade.

Grandville’s passion began when he was a first-grade student at Newbridge Road Elementary School and had his reading material replaced with a stack of comic books. “I wanted to do something I loved as opposed to something just to make a paycheck,” he said. Grandville opened Revolution Comics, in Bellmore, in October 2016 after working for most of his life as a salesman with various companies. “You like Harley Quinn?” He’d say, “You’d love Deadpool.” The 50-year old lifelong Bellmore resident said that he could recommend ten titles to anyone based on their favorite character. Raymond Grandville is a human comic book encyclopedia.

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