Totem

Specs:

128 Pages

hardcover

Full-color

ISBN: 978-3-945034-52-1

TOTEM

Days of rain, mud, a deep, mysterious forest—and this is supposed to be a summer camp? On top of that, Louis, as an outsider, finds it particularly difficult to fit in with the customs and traditions of the scout troop. When a mysterious beast starts terrorizing the forest and he has to fight his way through a harsh initiation ritual with the other newcomers, the game turns serious. Louis must face a test that leads him down into unknown depths of his own self.

Scenario: Nicolas Wouters

Drawings: Mikael Ross

PRESS REVIEWS

Totem is a very fascinating, dark, exciting, and formally daring book.

Frank Meyer – Deutschlandfunk Kultur

How imagination, driven by fears, creates monstrous images, and how these images develop almost anarchically and form a story that can only be told in the form of a comic book—this has rarely been more impressively portrayed than in the graphic novel “Totem.”

Gottfried Knapp – Süddeutsche Zeitung

Here, the story and images mesh perfectly.

Christian Meyer – Tagesspiegel

AWARDS

PÉPITE DE MONTREUIL 2016 – Categorie Grands !

Salon du livre et de jeunesse, Montreuil

RUDOLPH-DIRKS AWARD 2017

Category: Coming of Age

EDITIONS

Totem has been translated into German and Dutch

The German edition was published by avant-verlag

Translation:

Claudia Sandberg

the Dutch Edition was published by Soulfood Comics

Translation:

Toon Dohmen