{"product_id":"lupus-isbn-9781603094597","title":"Lupus","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters (\u003ci\u003eBlue Pills\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Sandcastle\u003c\/i\u003e) soars to new heights with an existential interplanetary epic that never strays from the human heart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLupus 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArmed 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.\"Peeters examines the complexity of human relationships—among friends, lovers, parents and their children—in this moving and unpredictable sf epic... 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.\" \u003cb\u003e— Tom Batten, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003cb\u003e— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Frederik Peeters is without a doubt one of the leading \u003ci\u003eauteurs\u003c\/i\u003e of his generation. While \u003ci\u003eLupus\u003c\/i\u003e contains all the elements of the sci-fi genre, this master of subtlety, tone, and composition gives us an introspective tour of the palette of human relations... a true must-read of graphic novels.” \u003cb\u003e— \u003ci\u003eCanal BD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Magnificent… Peeters treats us with a touching story of love and humanity, crafted with the skill of a jeweler.” \u003cb\u003e— Jean-Louis Musy, \u003ci\u003eKiblind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A science fiction story that dismantles the flat conventions of the genre, using its creative possibilities to draw a lucid and eloquent meditation on the challenges of growing older and the fundamental disorientation of a human being confronting infinity.” \u003cb\u003e— Juan Manuel Díaz de Guereñu, University of Deusto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautifully realized comic-epic-romance... Its easy juxtapositions of the mundane and the spectacular are genuinely moving and the completion of the story is wonderfully satisfying. This is both a well-crafted page-turner and a book that rewards multiple re-readings. Does that make it a masterpiece? I suppose it probably does.” — \u003cb\u003eBart Beaty, \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFrédérik 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 \u003ci\u003eBlue Pills\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003ci\u003eBlue Pills\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSandcastle\u003c\/i\u003e (the inspiration for M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 film\u003ci\u003e Old\u003c\/i\u003e) with Pierre Oscar Levy, \u003ci\u003ePachyderme\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the Grand Prix at the 2010 Angoulême Festival), \u003ci\u003eRG\u003c\/i\u003e (a 2008 Angoulême Essential), \u003ci\u003eKoma\u003c\/i\u003e, and the award-winning science-fiction series \u003ci\u003eAâma\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Top Shelf Productions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303850299621,"sku":"NP9781603094597","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781603094597.jpg?v=1767731993","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lupus-isbn-9781603094597","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}