During the ten plus years that I have been routinely reading comics in all of their forms, I came to a point where I figured that I knew the countries where most were created: the UK, Japan, France, America, and South Korea to a degree. That can be seen not only in the way comic readers name these comics from around the world (for instance the French word “tome” translates over to English as “volume”), but the way certain publishers are set up. Maybe these countries just have more visible comic industries then others? Who knows? In an odd example of what interests me, my interest was piqued when I found the Swiss comic (yet to add to my confusion, this thing was originally released in French), 2001’s Blue Pills.

Blue Pills is by Frederik Peeters, and in a sad bit of bio-writing, other titles like Pachyderme and Lupus that showcase his art style’s improvement have not been translated over here in the States. This, and the fact that he seems to be behind all of Blue Pills creation leaves this to be a rather short creator’s bio- a rare change of pace indeed.

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