In an autobiographical account about love in the time of AIDS, Frederik meets Cati and falls in love, but the two face many obstacles to happiness because Cati is HIV positive, just like her three-year-old son, in a deeply personal graphic memoir.

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story

Comics & Graphic Novels

Peeters, Fredérik

Graphic Novels

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Award-winning Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters (Blue Pills) soars to new heights with an existential interplanetary epic that never strays far from the human heart. Lupus Lablennorre is a man on the run. Like a cosmic Odysseus, he wanders from planet to planet, haunted by his past and orbiting around a woman. It starts as a fishing trip with his old pal, Tony. Their friendship has started to feel different lately, and not just because of the drugs. Picking up Sanaa, a beautiful runaway, only complicates the situation. When tragedy strikes, they're forced to flee to new worlds, each offering many ways to disappear. But Lupus will find that the tendrils of friendship, love, and family are not so easily severed. Armed with astonishingly expressive brushwork and a dreamy, intimate narrative, Frederik Peeters drifts on the solar winds to a new understanding of memory, guilt, isolation, and connection.

Lupus

Top Shelf Productions

In the distant future, Verloc Nim wakes up in the middle of nowhere suffering from complete amnesia. He remembers nothing of his former life. But when Verloc is handed his diary by a robot-ape called Churchill, he is able to revisit his past. His life, he discovers, has been a miserable one. He lost his business, his family, and his friends because he refused the technological advancements of society. The eye implants, the pharyngeal filters, the genetic modifications—he went without all these. He was astray in a society he deeply resented—that is, until his brother, Conrad, took him to another planet to retrieve a mysterious substance called aama. Full of action, adventure, and strange characters, Aama is a unique exploration of society’s dangerous relationship with technology.

aama: 1. The Smell of Warm Dust

Selfmadehero

Verloc Nim has traveled with his brother Conrad to the desert planet Ona(ji) to recover the mysterious biorobotic experiment aama. The planet is home to an abandoned group of scientists who have been left to their fate, and in this second volume of Frederik Peeters’s critically acclaimed science-fiction series, Conrad sets up an expedition to find the professor who has taken aama to another part of the planet. With the assistance of their robot-ape Churchill, Verloc and Conrad embark on a journey that brings spectacular discoveries and unsettling encounters.

aama: 2. The Invisible Throng

Verloc Nim and his brother, Conrad, depart on an expedition to recover the mysterious substance aama, which has transformed the environment of a distant planet. As they progress through a world that is both hostile and amazing, the mystery begins to unravel—but the truth about aama remains unknown, and reality begins to waver.

aama: 3. The Desert of Mirrors

Science Fiction & Fantasy

On Ona(ji), Verloc Nim is the sole survivor of an expedition to recover Aama, the experiment that has transformed this desert planet into a landscape inhabited by lethal biorobotic creatures and plants. Having pieced together the events of his recent past—his journey to Ona(ji), his part in the deadly expedition to Aama’s source—Verloc finds himself physically transformed by his confrontation with the experiment. But will his extraordinary new powers be enough for him to save his daughter? The final volume of Aama, You Will Be Glorious, My Daughter, is the culmination of Peeters’s award-winning series—a gripping blend of breathless action, existentialism, and suspense, and a spectacular vision of the distant future.

aama: 4. You Will Be Glorious, My Daughter

Texas, 1872. With the Civil War over, exploration has resumed in the territories to the west of the Mississippi, and the geologist Stingley is looking to capitalize. Together with photographer Oscar Forrest, who catalogues the terrain, and their young assistant, Milton, Stingley strikes out into territory that might one day support a new civilization. But this is no virgin land. As the frontiersmen move west, it becomes clear that the expedition won’t go unchallenged. Stingley has led them into a hostile region: the native Comanches’ last bastion of resistance. In a spectacular landscape, under the looming threat of attack, the boundaries between two worlds dissolve. As social conventions disappear and personal inhibitions go into retreat, an intimate relationship develops between Oscar and Milton. The Smell of Starving Boys is an intense Western about the clash of two worlds: one old, one new; one defined by rationality and technology, the other by shamanism and nature.

The Smell of Starving Boys

Phang, Loo Hui

Aâma: L'odeur de la poussière chaude (1)

GALLIMARD BD

C’est en novembre 2001 que paraît pour la première fois Pilules bleues. Sans aucune promotion, le titre rencontre ses lecteurs, tout d’abord grâce au travail des libraires, puis de la presse qui s’en empare… douze ans plus tard, Pilules bleues s’est vendu à près de 40 000 exemplaires, a été traduit dans une douzaine de langues, est courtisé par le cinéma et son auteur, Frederik Peeters, n’est plus vraiment un inconnu. Aujourd’hui considéré comme un titre incontournable, il a su trouver une audience bien au-delà du monde de la bande dessinée. Parce que la perception de la maladie mais aussi son traitement ont évolué, parce que les « personnages » du livre sont toujours là mais ont eux aussi changé, il nous a semblé intéressant de faire le point… Ce sera donc fait dans cette nouvelle édition de Pilules bleues, cartonnée, légèrement remaquettée, mais surtout augmentée de dix pages qui permettent de remettre certaines pendules à l’heure et de prolonger cette belle « histoire », encore un peu… Pour mémoire : à travers une histoire simple et des thèmes universels (l’amour, la mort), Frederik Peeters nous parle de sa rencontre et de son histoire avec Cati, de ce maudit virus qui va bouleverser la donne et de toutes les émotions les plus contradictoires qu’il va devoir apprendre à gérer : compassion, pitié ou amour pur et inaltérable? Pilules bleues nous propose, sans pathos ni sensationnalisme, de regarder sous un jour rarement abordé le quotidien de la maladie du sida, tout en nous balançant quelques vérités surprenantes et bien senties sur le sujet. Malgré la gravité du thème, Pilules bleues se présente comme une œuvre remplie de fraîcheur et d’humour.

Pilules Bleues - Nouvelle Édition

Manga

ATRABILE

Frederik Peeters est un animal insaisissable, et comme le prouve son parcours, jamais où on pourrait l’attendre; Saccage, son nouveau livre, le démontre une fois encore. Saccage, voilà un ouvrage qui défie toute forme de définition, de classification : entre livre d’images et bande dessinée, Saccage dépeint une épopée pleine de tourments, celle d’un homme (prophète? Héraut de l’apocalypse?) qui traverse un monde dément, chaotique, baroque, où toute la folie et l’histoire de l’homme semble se télescoper, se mélanger, pour former un magma empli de visions fantasmagoriques, juxtaposant alors écho d’un enfer bien trop terrestre, jeu de références et fresque prémonitoire. Fable d’anticipation, allégorie hallucinée, Saccage se lit comme un poème graphique en forme de constat pour le moins amer et présente un monde en pleine déliquescence, sidérant comme un massacre, effrayant comme un cauchemar mais Saccage est bien plus qu’un délire visuel, c’est une véritable œuvre coup-de-poing, incroyablement habitée par un artiste au sommet de son art et les dessins sans texte (mais pas « muets »!) de Frederik Peeters donne alors bien plus à lire que nombre de romans ou d’essais. Dans une bibliographie où le changement et le renouvellement font quasiment office de règle, Saccage pousse le bouchon encore un peu plus loin et ce livre unique (carrément!), joyau torturé et incandescent, marquera, à coup sûr, les esprits de tous les lecteurs qui oseront s’y aventurer.

Saccage

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