Blue Pills Explained

Blue Pills should not be confused with Blues Pills.

Blue Pills (original title: Pilules Bleues) is a 2001 Swiss-French autobiographical[1] comic written and illustrated by Frederik Peeters.[2] The comic tells the story of a man falling in love with an HIV-positive woman.[3] [4]

The book won the 2001 Prix de la ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée and the 2002 Prix Alph'Art.[5]

In 2014 the graphic novel was adapted into a TV film, directed by Jean-Philippe Amar and broadcast on Arte.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Frederik Peeters talks about his bestselling graphic novel. TheGuardian.com. 23 March 2008.
  2. News: Day . Elizabeth . Frame by frame: how to make a cartoon drama out of a crisis . . 23 March 2008 . 2014-09-26 .
  3. Web site: Frederik Peeters talks about his bestselling graphic novel. TheGuardian.com. 23 March 2008.
  4. Web site: Frederik Peeters.
  5. Web site: Frederik Peeters.
  6. Web site: BLUE PILLS . www.colcoa.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150405002714/http://www.colcoa.org/colcoa-television-2015/tv-films/blue-pills . 2015-04-05.