Beaty on Lupus
Wow. How gorgeous does this look? Bart Beaty reveiws Frederik Peeters’ Lupus over on Spurgeon’s The Comics Reporter.
“Lupus is the story of a twenty-something young man on an intergalactic fishing vacation with his friend, Ted. They roam from planet to exotic planet in their spaceship, doing drugs, eating local delicacies, meeting girls, and, um, fishing. This slackers in space comic, the first science fiction epic in which virtually nothing happens, is interrupted by the arrival of Sanaa, a young woman on the run from her billionaire father. In short order Lupus is smitten, Ted is tragically and violently killed, and the duo is on the run.”
Um, do I have any French readers who will sit down and read this to me?
August 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 am
I love the Lupus books: left France with the first three, of course, when I moved back to the States.
I know Peeter’s earlier, slightly rougher autobiographical book Pilules Bleus (Blue Pills) is coming out in English from Houghton Mifflin, where it got picked up by the editor who’d previously picked up Persepolis for Pantheon (since moved therefrom). I think she’s translating it herself.
I’d love to see the Lupus books in English. Heck, I’d love to get to translate them too. (That’s what I do, translate French comics…)