Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Reprint, The Tale of One Bad Rat is the story of a young girl, Helen Potter, who runs away from home to escape an uncaring mother and a sexually abusive father. Eventually she finds her way to the Lake District, drawn there by her love of the work of Beatrix Potter, and in that beautiful landscape she at last finds peace.

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Story and art by Bryan Talbot. In the fourth and final issue, Helen Potter steels herself for a long-overdue showdown with her father over the years of incest and abuse he put her through. It's a battle she may not be able to win, but win or lose, she knows it's her only hope of ever becoming a whole person. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.