Jeremiah (comics)
Jeremiah is a Belgian science fiction comic book series by Hermann Huppen. Jeremiah was created in 1979 for the German magazine Zack, and had a premiere in Sarajevo based Strip art magazine, since the editor of this magazine, Ervin Rustemagic, was also Hermann's manager. It has also been serialized in the French-language Métal Hurlant and Spirou magazine; as well as the Serbian magazines Stripoteka and Politikin Zabavnik. Currently, there are 34 volumes and one "Special Edition" in French and Dutch.
Plot
Racial wars have torn the U.S. apart, resulting in a post-apocalyptic world. Many small pockets of civilization still exist; from isolated super high-tech fortresses, hidden research labs, or racial groups in walled-in cities — all fighting each other among the more regular population which in many ways resembles the "old west".Jeremiah and his friend Kurdy travel the country, taking odd jobs and getting mixed up in various affairs. Jeremiah, being the more noble of the two, often sticks his neck out to help others, while Kurdy is a more wily, opportunistic scoundrel.
Despite its setting, Jeremiah
Reception
Jeremiah has been translated into 26 languages, and has a large fan base in Europe. Tome #25, Et si un jour la Terre, was nominated for the 2005 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience.Various attempts to introduce the series to the American market have had middling results, mostly due to the different tastes of the American and European comic book public. The current holder of the English language copyrights is Strip Art Features. After failing to reach American audiences in the 1980s and 1990s with such publishers as Fantagraphics, Catalan Communications, and Malibu Comics; Jeremiah found success with Dark Horse beginning in the 2000s. In March 2012 Dark Horse Comics began another English language reprint series in collaboration with SAF; three volumes of the Jeremiah Omnibus, collecting tomes 1 to 3, 4 to 6, and 7 to 9 respectively, have been released as of October 2017.
List of titles
Following are the Jeremiah comic albums as named in French, with publication dates.| Tome Number | Title | Publication date |
| 1 | La Nuit des rapaces | April 1979 |
| 2 | Du sable plein les dents | Oct. 1979 |
| 3 | Les Héritiers sauvages | Jan. 1980 |
| 4 | Les Yeux de fer rouge | July 1980 |
| 5 | Un cobaye pour l'éternité | May 1981 |
| 6 | La Secte | Feb. 1982 |
| 7 | Afromerica | Sept. 1982 |
| 8 | Les Eaux de la colère | April 1983 |
| 9 | Un hiver de clown | Nov. 1983 |
| 10 | Boomerang | Oct. 1984 |
| 11 | Delta | Oct. 1985 |
| 12 | Julius et Romea | Oct. 1986 |
| 13 | Strike | May 1988 |
| 14 | Simon est de retour | Sept. 1989 |
| 15 | Alex | Sept. 12, 1990 |
| 16 | La Ligne rouge | Oct. 7, 1992 |
| 17 | Trois motos... ou quatre | Feb. 2, 1994 |
| 18 | Ave Caesar | May 31, 1995 |
| 19 | Zone frontière | April 10, 1996 |
| 20 | Mercenaires | Sept. 3, 1997 |
| 21 | Le Cousin Lindford | Oct. 1998 |
| 22 | Le Fusil dans l'eau | Mar. 7, 2001 |
| 23 | Qui est renard bleu? | Mar. 6, 2002 |
| 24 | Le Dernier Diamant | Apr. 2, 2003 |
| 25 | Et si un jour, la Terre | Apr. 2004 |
| 26 | Un port dans l'ombre? | Oct. 2005 |
| 27 | Elsie et la rue | Jan. 2007 |
| 28 | Esra va très bien | Jan. 2008 |
| 29 | Le petit chat est mort | Jan. 2010 |
| 30 | Fifty-Fifty | Feb. 2011 |
| 31 | Le panier de crabes | Jan. 2012 |
| 32 | Le Caïd | Feb. 2013 |
| 33 | Un gros chien avec une blonde | Sept. 2014 |
| 34 | Jungle City | Oct. 2015 |
| 35 | Kurdy Malloy et Mama Olga | Sept. 2017 |
| 36 | Et Puis Merde | Oct. 2018 |
| 37 | La bête | Fall 2019 |