Lupus

Award-winning Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters (Blue Pills, Sandcastle) soars to new heights with an existential interplanetary epic that never strays 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.

Frédérik Peeters is a Swiss graphic novelist. Born in 1974 in Geneva, he studied visual communication at the École Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués. His graphic memoir Blue Pills (2001), about falling in love with a woman with HIV, received the Polish Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, where it was also nominated for Best Graphic Novel. Blue Pills also won Spain's Premio de La Cárcel de Papel and Switzerland's Rodolphe Töpffer Prize, and was adapted for French television by filmmaker Pierre Oscar Lévy. His other graphic novels include Pachyderme (nominated for the Grand Prix at the 2010 Angoulême Festival), RG (a 2008 Angoulême Essential), Koma, Sandcastle, and the award-winning science-fiction series Aâma.