Lupus

Title:

Lupus

Author:

Peeters, Frederik author, illustrator.

ISBN:

9781603094597

Physical Description:

391 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Subject Term:

Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.

Interplanetary voyages -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Added Author:

Gauvin, Edward.

Summary:

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.

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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.

Author Notes

Frederik Peeters is a Swiss graphic novelist. Born in 1974 in Geneva, he studied visual communication at the cole Superieure d'Arts Appliques. His graphic memoir Blue Pills (2001), about falling in love with a woman with HIV, received the Polish Jury Prize at the Angoulame International Comics Festival, where it was also nominated for Best Graphic Novel. Blue Pills also won Spain's Premio de La Carcel de Papel and Switzerland's Rodolphe T pffer Prize, and was adapted for French television by filmmaker Pierre Oscar Levy. His other graphic novels include Sandcastle (the inspiration for M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 film Old ) with Pierre Oscar Levy, Pachyderme (nominated for the Grand Prix at the 2010 Angoulame Festival), RG (a 2008 Angoulame Essential), Koma , and the award-winning science-fiction series A ma .

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

This brooding sci-fi saga from Peeters (The Smell of Starving Boys) rides along with a wayward traveler through outer space's strangest, most hallucinatory reaches. Lupus and his childhood friend Tony have set out on a haphazard, hedonistic trip: they aim to see some sights, do some space--sea fishing, and spend as much time as possible on whatever drugs they can get their hands on, much like a Fear and Loathing friendship of the hyperspace set. But picking up Sanaa, an alluring tight-lipped runaway, turns their jaunt into something more serious, first seeding jealousy between the men for her attention, then when Sanaa's powerful father gets involved, leading them into outright danger. Peeters's black and white brushwork is a versatile marvel, capturing everything in lush detail, from the menacing murk of deepest space to the delicate curve of Sanaa's hip. As the sprawling graphic novel grows to encompass odd alien life-forms along with the quiet corridors of an abandoned vacation planet, his visuals grow ever more adventurous and assured. Peeters explores the drive to lose one's self in something larger, and renders Lupus's obliteration as terrifyingly dark as it is extravagantly beautiful. The result is a melancholic/psychedelic triumph of graphic fiction. (Feb.)

Library Journal Review

Acclaimed Swiss cartoonist Peeters (The Smell of Starving Boys) examines the complexity of human relationships--among friends, lovers, parents and their children--in this moving and unpredictable sf epic. While reconnecting on a drug-fueled interplanetary fishing trip, recent college graduate Lupus and military veteran and best friend Tony encounter a mysterious young woman named Sanaa, who insists on tagging along. The ensuing love triangle is soon interrupted by a bounty hunter determined to return Sanaa to her family. An act of shocking violence and some thrilling action sequences follow, but Peeters's true interest lies in dwelling on the quiet moments spent between dashes for sanctuary, first in a village inhabited by aging anarchists and later within an abandoned space station manned by malfunctioning robots, where forced intimacy leads to intense bonding, bickering, bitter resentments, and--while calling this a love story would be a real stretch--something like romance. VERDICT Peeters is a compositional genius, utilizing stunning swaths of negative space and thick fields of inky darkness that imbue nearly every panel on every page of this volume with dynamism and pathos.

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