This hardcover release was a hit in Europe where it was originally released.  It is the personal memoir of the artist relating the story of his relationship with an HIV positive girlfriend and her HIV positive son from a previous relationship.  _____ is a seasoned storyteller and the story flows along with its  ink brushed lines of his artwork.  The story deals openly with his navigation of the fears and anxieties that accompany the progess of the romance.  To learn more, read Derik Badman's in-depth review on Madinkbeard.

Here is yet another fine volume from the UK publisher Self Made Hero.  Powerful and confident pen & brush work by the talented Swiss comics artist, Frederik Peeters expertly translates this tale with a twist by French film director, Pierre Oscar Lévy.  We can't tell you too much about it without risking ruining the reading experience, but we can tell you that it's tailor made to read at the beach... SPECIAL PRICE!

We've listed and sold several other Peeters works here at Copacetic, but always they were done in collaboration with a writer.  This is the first of which he is the sole author, and it's a doozy!  When this full color hardcover was originally published in France in 2009, Europe's most important cartoonist had this to say:  "Pachyderme describes my own unease.  I want artists to take me far from every sensation I've ever felt before, into territory that is less the perversion than the reflection of some intimate, forceful urge.  In Pachyderme lies something mysterious and obvious that must, above all, not be explained."  -- Jean Giraud / Moebius (excerpted from his introduction to this volume).