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by Benjamin Legrand (Author), Jean Marc Rochette (Illustrator)
A brand new edition of the stunning graphic novel which inspired the Oscar-winning movie starring Chris Evans (Captain America, Fantastic Four) and Netflix/TNT series starring Jennifer Connelly and Hamilton's Daveed Diggs!
The inspiration for the highly-anticipated TNT TV series that airs Spring 2020, experience the original post-apocalyptic world of Snowpiercer from creators Benjamin Legrand and the award-winning Jean-Marc Rochette! On a future, frozen Earth, a train that never stops circumnavigates the globe. On board: all of humanity that could be saved from the great disaster that wrapped the planet in ice. It has long been thought that Snowpiercer was the last bastion of human civilization... but there is another train. Coursing through the endless, wintry night, its occupants live in a constant state of terror that they will collide with the train that went before... From this second train emerges a small group of the passengers who are willing to risk their lives in the deadly cold to explore what's left of our world. The bestselling post-apocalyptic graphic novel series that inspired the movie by Oscar winning director Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) and critically acclaimed TNT/Netflix TV show.Author Biography
Jacques Lob, winner of the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême award, was Franco-Belgian comic book author, best known for his Superdupont series. He began his career as an editorial cartoonist, before an editor suggested he focused on his writing, which bore rich fruit across a number of genres. He passed away in 1990.
Benjamin Legrand is the author of numerous thriller novels, screenplays, and comic scripts. As well as his own original works, he is well-known as the French translator of the works of such authors as Tom Wolfe, Paul Cleave and Nelson DeMille. After Jacques Lob's death in 1990, Legrand continued the Snowpiercer series with a two-part sequel, collected by Titan in a single second volume.
