Synopses & Reviews
This cinematic tale opens surrealistically: with a traffic jam caused by a wounded elephant. Our heroine, Carice, abandons her car and walks trancelike through a wood to visit her husband in the hospital. Along the way she meets a few odd characters, including a blind pig keeper and an alien-looking baby. The surreal encounters do not stop there. The hospital is eerie and foreboding. When Carices whistling wakes up an apparently dead body in the morgue, she soon realizes that the aged cadaver shes talking to is her future self.
Praise for Pachyderme:
Peeters tale of self-discovery is enthralling; in the authors hands, Cold War paranoia and thoughtfully subverted realist art provides commentary on other kinds of secrets, other kinds of betrayals and the conflict between duty and need.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Peeters evocative artworkinspired equally, it seems, by classic Hollywood and the great horror comics of mid-centurymakes every page eye-catching.” Slate
Review
andldquo;Fans of weird sci-fi comics will be sated by this award-winning series.andrdquo;
Synopsis
This cinematic tale opens surrealistically: with a traffic jam caused by a wounded elephant. Our heroine, Carice, abandons her car and walks trancelike through a wood to visit her husband in the hospital. Along the way she meets a few odd characters, including a blind pig keeper and an alien-looking baby. The surreal encounters do not stop there. The hospital is eerie and foreboding. When Carices whistling wakes up an apparently dead body in the morgue, she soon realizes that the aged cadaver shes talking to is her future self.
Synopsis
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 unravelandmdash;but the truth about aama remains unknown, and reality begins to waver.
About the Author
Frederik Peeters is one of the worldandrsquo;s most important comics artists, best known for his autobiographical graphic novel Blue Pills. He has received five nominations in the Best Book category at Angoulandecirc;me and in 2013 won the Best Series prize at the same event for the first two volumes of aama. He is also the author of Pachyderme(Fall 2013, SelfMadeHero) and Sandcastle (Spring 2013, SelfMadeHero). Peeters lives with his wife and daughter in Geneva.