Zombies: A Brief History Of Decay
By (Author) Olivier Peru
Illustrated by Sophian Cholet
Illustrated by Simon Champelovier
Insight Editions
Insight Editions
4th April 2017
United States
General
Fiction
741.5
Hardback
152
Width 216mm, Height 286mm, Spine 15mm
905g
A vivid and richly illustrated graphic novel, Zombies offers an action-packed tour through an apocalyptic vision of America.
Mankind is no longer at the top of the food chain. Zombies have taken their place, and nothing can stop them. Is this the end of humanity Perhaps, but for some it is only the beginning.
Six billion living corpses are all that remains of civilization. Among the few survivors is Sam Coleman, a man who owes his salvation to Smith & Wesson and a little luck. Fleeing Seattle at the onset of the zombie outbreak, he was forced to leave his daughter behind. Yet now that silence has fallen over the city, he believes that she may still be alive. And his conscience serves up a constant reminder that to be human in this grim world is to have hopeand to keep fighting.
Olivier Peru is comic book writer,screenwriter, story boarder and designer for film and television. He has written several comic book series, including Zombies, Nosferatu, Mjllnir, Lancelot, and The Orc War. His novels include the Martyrs trilogy, Les Haut-Conteurs, and Druid, whichwon both the 2011 Futuriales Festival Revelation Awardand the 2013 Prix Imaginales des lycens Award. In 2015, Peru also co-founded the transmedia writing studio Termites Factory.Their first novel, Darryl Ouvremonde by Olivier Peru, was launched through a crowdfunding campaign and succeeded withthe second fastest recordof all time, reachingtheir first goal 10,000 in just 13 minutes and 20 seconds.
Sophian Cholet grew up redrawingscenes from the television series V,Tintin, The Fair of Immortals, and Dragon Ball, and after discovering, Akira, Gunnm, and Spawn hebecame very passionate about fantasy films. Cholet studied animation at Studio M Academy with Thomas Debitus, a former layout artist for Disney, and spent two years training in animation, cartoons, illustration. He has worked on a number of animated short films, produced illustrations for magazines, and taught amateur cartoonists.In his second year of training, Cholet presented his first comic book project at the Angoulme Festival where he met Olivier Peru, and then later released his first comic book series, Zombies.