Frederik Peeters · Astiberri · 2021
The Swiss Frederik Peeters appeared on the international board in 2001 con blue pills, an autobiographical graphic novel that attracted attention at Angoulême and the Barcelona Comic Fair, and twenty years later, Astiberri again, We have a new comic in which he is once again the protagonist. Mayor, a metaphysical point, more daring in the script, with a more refined humor, skeptical and disenchanted with the world. Here he teaches his virtues, but also their insecurities. Yes in blue pills He was dealing with his girlfriend's HIV-positive status and her young son., in Oleg His wife suffers a stroke that awakens the fear of losing the person he loves most., and with him, bravery. But this is just the climax, the excuse to tell us the maturity of a cartoonist with a small crisis of creativity that is overcome at times by the new times. AU
