Topping the (ahem, alphabetically ordered) Best Comics of 2014 is the first volume of aama, Swiss artist Frederik Peeters’ Angoulême -winning far-future science fiction series, equal parts Stanisław Lem and Stefan Wul, about family, AI, evolution, and strange plant life on distant planets. Oliver Sava says:
“The sci-fi aspects allow Peeters to venture into more experimental design territory with his artwork, but he doesn’t lean too heavily into genre elements, instead focusing on how to present Verloc’s personal experience with clarity and nuance.â€
If you’re hankering for the full-on SF visual explosion, wait’ll you see Book 2, just out in the UK, and Book 3, whose proofs I just went over. Peeters really ramps up the psychedelia, joining the ranks of psychedelic 70s animation classics from Topor, Moebius, and René Laloux one better. I mean, check it out:
Thank you, Oliver Sava and the Onion AV Club!
Topping the (ahem, alphabetically ordered) Best Comics of 2014 is the first volume of aama, Swiss artist Frederik Peeters’ Angoulême -winning far-future science fiction series, equal parts Stanisław Lem and Stefan Wul, about family, AI, evolution, and strange plant life on distant planets. Oliver Sava says:
“The sci-fi aspects allow Peeters to venture into more experimental design territory with his artwork, but he doesn’t lean too heavily into genre elements, instead focusing on how to present Verloc’s personal experience with clarity and nuance.â€
If you’re hankering for the full-on SF visual explosion, wait’ll you see book 2, just out in the UK, and and 3, whose proofs I just went over. Peeters really ramps up the psychedelia, joining the ranks of psychedelic 70s animation classics from Topor, Moebius, and René Laloux one better.
Thank you, Onion AV Club!
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