''Blue Pills'' (original title: ''Pilules Bleues'') is a 2001 Swiss-French

autobiographical An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...

comic written and illustrated by

Frederik Peeters Frédérik Peeters (; born 14 August 1974 in Geneva) is a contemporary Swiss graphic novelist. Biography Peeters received his bachelor of arts degree in visual communication from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués in Geneva in 1995. Pee ...

. The comic tells the story of a man falling in love with an HIV-positive woman. The book won the 2001 Prix de la ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée and the 2002 Prix Alph'Art. In 2014 the

graphic novel A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...

was adapted into a TV film, directed by Jean-Philippe Amar and broadcast on

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