"Young and highly acclaimed Swiss comics artist Frederik Peeters makes his UK debut with BLUE PILLS, an intimate, poetic and accessible black-and-white graphic memoir very much in the tradition of works by Marjane Satrapi, Craig Thompson and Alison Bechdel. A deeply moving and universal love story about how we face, and overcome, adversity in our everyday lives told through the story of Peeters' relationship with his girlfriend, Cati, and her three-year-old son, both of whom are HIV positive BLUE PILLS is sure to capture the attention of those memoir fans and comics readers hungry for the next great new work in this emerging genre. BLUE PILLS explores a daunting and difficult subject in a way that is refreshingly honest, moving and revelatory. Peeters, while writing specifically about HIV, has also given us a nuanced and deeply personal story that will resonate with anyone who is intimately acquainted with any kind of illness and all of us who have chosen to love in the face of challenges."
