Frederik Peeters
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Frederik Peeters | |
Born | August 14, 1974 Geneva, Switzerland |
Area(s) | artist, writer |
Notable works | Blue Pills |
Frederik Peeters (born August 14, 1974 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a contemporary graphic novelist. He received his degree in visual communication from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués in Geneva in 1995.[1]
His autobiographical graphic novel Blue Pills[2] received the Polish Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, where it was also nominated for Best Book. Blue Pills also won the Premios La Cárcel de Papel in Spain for Best Foreign Comic. This is his first work to be translated into English.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Frederik Peeters' entry on nouvellebd.com (French). Retrieved on 2008-01-21.
- ^ Frame by frame: how to make a cartoon drama out of a crisis, The Guardian, March 23, 2008