Broken Frontier

Glacial Period, the first graphic novel from Paris’ Louvre Museum, is selling out of its first U.S. edition. To keep readers and retailers from missing out, NBM is going back to press. 

NBM has sold more than four thousand copies since releasing Glacial Period — the first of four Louvre graphic novels — at the end of 2006.  The book, from NBM’s ComicsLit imprint, was born after artist Nicolas De Crecy felt overwhelmed, small, and ignorant before Louvre’s incredibly rich art collection. The result is a story set thousands of years hence in a glacial period where all human history has been forgotten.  A small group of archeologists fall upon the Louvre, buried in age-old snow. They cannot begin to explain all the artifacts they see. What could they have meant? The interpretations are nonsensical, absurd, and farcical.

The critics love Glacial Period.

“A clever upending of the resilient myth that masterworks of art preserve the history and spirit of their era; the meaning of art, De Crecy suggests, belongs to the people who experience it.” — Washington Post

“Humorous, insightful, and touching.” — Comics Buyer’s Guide

“Beautifully painted.” — Book Page

“De Crecy is a gifted storyteller whose eye for body language and ear for a funny line never fails him. He deftly combines art history, science fiction and simple philosophizing in a short but very sweet tale.” — Publishers Weekly

“De Crecy's art is breathtaking.  He lives up to his reputation as a mad genius with this amusing work.” — Booklist

Book details: 6” x 9”, 80 pages, full color trade paperback with flaps, cover price $14.95, ISBN 1-56163-483-2.  Pages are available at www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/glacialperiod/glacialpre1.html.