Blue Pills

Not to be confused with Blues Pills.

For other uses, see Blue pill (disambiguation).

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]

References

1. "Frederik Peeters talks about his bestselling graphic novel". TheGuardian.com. 23 March 2008.
2. Day, Elizabeth (23 March 2008). "Frame by frame: how to make a cartoon drama out of a crisis". The Observer. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
3. "Frederik Peeters talks about his bestselling graphic novel". TheGuardian.com. 23 March 2008.
4. "Frederik Peeters".
5. "Frederik Peeters".
6. "BLUE PILLS". www.colcoa.org. Archived from the original on 2015-04-05.