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Legendary French-Americancomics and graphic novel publisher Humanoidsturns 50 this year.
Set on a desolate future Earth that has stopped turning, the remaining humans battle for survival.
Pack shots of Arkadi and the Lost Titan(Image credit: Humanoids)
Newsarama: Let’s start with the story of Arkadi and the Lost Titan.
What’s it about?
Caza:It’s a long story!
Pack shots of Arkadi and the Lost Titan(Image credit: Humanoids)
The world is our planet in the very distant future, whose rotation has become synchronous, i.e.
it always turns the same way towards the sun, as the Moon does around the Earth.
The result is a world with one hemisphere hot and the other icy.
In between, on the edge, “twilight,” the wind blows constantly.
Life clings on in the tepid zones, a primitive life frozen in superstitious rituals.
A single technological city remains, buried beneath the ice of the night pole.
But he disappears into the Great Outdoors, and without him, the city withers away.
And who is Arkadi?
Caza:He’s the young inhabitant of a barbarian village in the warm zone.
Pack shots of Arkadi and the Lost Titan(Image credit: Humanoids)
This is a true epic.
What were some of the challenges you faced while creating it?
Caza:I think the challenge was that of a novelist.
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The length and the ambition.
Up until then, I’d been producing short comics stories and illustrations.
With the hopes of making it all come together like a great novel.
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This project took quite a while to complete.20 years, in fact.
Why did it take so long?
Caza:Well, making comics is a lot of work, and I’m a bit slow!
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All in all, what should have taken probably 12 years to complete took 20.
Arkadi is also a publishing adventure!
Like my characters, I’ve had my descents into hell… and my ascent into light.
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What has it been like returning to the material all these years later for the new edition?
Caza:A great deal of pleasure and a great deal of worry!
Because I’m very attached to this saga, it’s a bit “my life’s work”.
I get involved as much as I can.
It’s a job and a pleasure.
I’m modest by nature, but all in all, Arkadi and the Lost Titan…
I’m proud of it.
Caza:That’s the (big) icing on the cake!
It’s like I’ve been waiting for this forever.
So this is my tribute, a way of giving back to them what they’ve given me.
Arkadi and the Lost Titan is published by Humanoids and available in deluxe and standard editionsvia Kickstarter.
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