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Un album jeunesse à croquer, sans parole, avec un petit poisson tout mignon comme héros. En échappant à des monstres marins, un petit poisson innocent se fait capturer par un vieil inventeur. Le vieil homme le place alors dans un bocal, devenant ainsi la tête d'un robot programmé pour parcourir le monde. Le but de ce robot : livrer le petit poisson en cadeau à la petite fille du vieil inventeur.

72 pages, Hardcover

Published March 27, 2024

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Author 24 books43 followers
June 1, 2024
Beautiful little artbook with no words, drawn in Laufman's unique style while channeling a Miyazaki-style setting and tone. I'm not the biggest fan of Miyazaki (not a hater either, generally I just don't get it, but his art is incredible) yet I've seen a few of his films and I think they helped me appreciate this one just a little more.
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10 reviews
December 12, 2025
C’est magnifique, autant visuellement que l’histoire, de plus il n’y aucun mot et il n’y en a clairement pas besoin
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604 reviews9 followers
October 24, 2024
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BOT-9 je krátký komiks pro děti a je třeba jej tak brát. Dítě uvidí nádherně nakreslený příběh o rybce zachráněné před sežráním, která se v robotovi vydává na dobrodružnou cestu cestu po dně moře, i po souši. Cynický dospělý pak uvidí únos ubohé rybky z jejího domácího prostředí, její uvěznění a následný transport kdoví kam. Kromě pěti stránek na začátku ta ryba v podstatě jen sleduje, co se kolem děje, bez jakékoliv šance cokoliv ovlivnit. Jelikož sledujeme celý příběh právě z pohledu té ryby, tak mi to přišlo trošku smutné. Komiks se nevyhnul ani lehké připomínce globálního oteplování a znečišťování moří. Postrádal jsem v tom humor, který by tomu velmi prospěl.

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BOT-9 is a short comics for children and you should count with that. The kids will see a beautifully drawn story about a fish saved from being eaten, which in a robot sets off on an adventurous journey along the bottom of the sea and on land. A cynical adult will see the kidnap of a poor fish from its home environment, its imprisonment and transport to an unknown destination. Except for the first five pages, the fish basically just watches what's going on around it, without any chance to influence anything. Since we are watching the whole story from the point of view of the fish, I found it a bit sad. The comics did not avoid even a light reminder of global warming and sea pollution. I lacked the humor in it, which would have improved it a lot.
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157 reviews8 followers
January 2, 2021
Lo que dice la sinopsis es lo que sucede en el libro, me gusto las ilustraciones, la historia, los temas que tocan pero solo un vistazo como es la contaminación en el mar, el calentamiento global, la sobre pesca por el método de arrastre que daña gravemente el balance de la vida marina.
Me gusto que se mostraran los anteriores robots y en que parte del camino se quedaron, el final que no tenia ni la menor idea de porque salia el robot y la mayor interrogante para mí porque poner un pez en la parte superior del robot.
También me encanta que los autores cuando se inspiraron en su historia, que los motivo, si cambiaron la historia o personas y Derek me da esto y me siento satisfecha mi lado curioso.

*Que emoción mi 1er libro del año, y fue un regalo, que bonita manera de empezar el año.
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July 8, 2025
A family friendly wordless comic about a fish who strays from it's bank, gets tailed by a monster and ends up in the hands of a mad scientist who stick him in a fishbowl headed robot. Thus starts our hero's whacky journey through land and sea, hurdle after hurdle. Kind of reminded me of that silent underwater Bojack Horseman. In the afterword Laufman mentions bingeing Miyazaki's filmography before starting this project and I can definitely see that in some of the characters and landscapes. Laufman's art is very clean, almost too much, but he managed to inject a lot of soul into it.
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63 reviews10 followers
January 5, 2023
Creative wordless graphic novel about a fish that unwillingly becomes a robot.
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