Translated by Luke Burns

217 x 278mm --  Pages: 112 -- softcover -- ISBN: 9781681379845

A New York Review of Comics book in collaboration with Breakdown Press

A galaxy-spanning odyssey of ancient astronauts and cosmic pilgrimages . . . What elevates [The Children of Light] above these genre trappings however is its timely allegory of disclosure: who gets to know what, and to what ends? . . . Pleyers’s work remains fascinating because it is at once a compelling science-fiction fantasy and a contactee testimony, birthed by Cold War paranoias and inexplicable encounters.
—Jamie Sutcliffe, Art Review

A blazingly colourful work of madcap, intergalactic sci-fi, it has a retro charm—glass elevators, monorails, little green men—but also speaks to some of the preoccupations of our time . . . [Pleyers's] drawings quiver with energy which, with the great bursts of colour, makes the whole enterprise feel slightly radioactive.
—Killian Fox, The Observer (UK)

In the far reaches of the Andromeda Galaxy, a supernova obliterates the homeworld of the Zors, an advanced alien race. But the Zors knew this particular apocalypse was coming. To escape destruction, they built a world-sized spaceship run by an omniscient supercomputer. They search for a new home, but the odds are bleak. Aboard the ship, major unrest amongst the crew and passengers endangers the mission of survival.

Written and drawn in two volumes by Belgian cartoonist Jean Pleyers in the early 1980s, The Children of Light is his awe-inspiring vision of a universe completely different from our own. Intricately drawn and laser-blasted with radiant color, this is the first time The Children of Light has been collected in a single volume and translated into English. This new edition features an interview with Pleyers conducted by Tom Oldham of Breakdown Press, which sheds light on the creation of this wholly original work.

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This is a pre-order. Orders containing this book will be shipped 31st of August.