Koma Vol.3 : Like in the Western
Pierre Wazem
• Pierre Wazem and Frederik Peeters are renowned Swiss graphic novelists who have won multiple European comics industry awards
• Frederik Peeters was nominated for an Eisner in 2009
• Pierre Wazem received the Töpffer Prize in 1998, Frederic Peeters in 2010.
• Pierre Wazem received Palmarès Prix International in 2005.
• Together with Tom Tirabosco, Pierre Wazem won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury of Comics in 2009; the judges consisting mainly of critics, teachers and professors as well as professionals and fans of comics.
• Frederick Peeters autobiographical graphic novel, Blue Pills, received the Polish Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival where it was also nominated for Best Book.
• Frederik Peeters has received five nominations in the Best Book category at Angoulême. In 2013, he won the Best Series prize for the first two volumes of Aama.
• Frederik Peeters won the Premios La Cárcel de Papel in Spain for Best Foreign Comic for Blue Pills.
Addidas is a bright and quirky young girl who spends most of her time helping her widowed father in his job as a chimney sweep. When Addidas ventures too far into a chimney, she encounters a bizarre new friend and in the process destabilizes a long-established system.
From prolific independent European creators Wazem and Peeters comes a touching and existential story that balances its fantastical elements with poignant and realistic themes.