(published in English as ''Equator Cold'' and ''Cold Equator'') is a

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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 ...

published in 1992, written and illustrated by

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

n-French

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

and storyteller

Enki Bilal Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilal; born 7 October 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director. Biography Early life Bilal was born in Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from ...

. It is the third and final part of the ''

Nikopol Trilogy ''The Nikopol Trilogy'' is a series of three science fiction graphic novels written in French by Yugoslavian-born Enki Bilal, published between 1980 and 1992. The original French titles of the series are ''La Foire aux immortels'' (1980), '' La F ...

'', started by ''

La Foire aux immortels ''The Carnival of Immortals'' (french: La Foire aux immortels; also published in English as ''Gods in Chaos'' and ''A Bedlam of Immortals'') is a 1980 science fiction graphic novel written and illustrated by the Yugoslavian-born French cartoonist ...

'' (''The Carnival of Immortals'') from 1980 and continuing with '' La Femme piège'' (''The Woman Trap'') in 1986. The books were awarded with the Book of the Year Award by the magazine '' Lire''. ''Froid Équateur'' had an initial print run of more than 150,000 copies.

Chess boxing

The book extensively features chess boxing, a

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mixing

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

and

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

. In 2003, chess boxing became a real sport, directly inspired by how it appeared in ''Froid Équateur''.

References

1992 graphic novels 1992 comics debuts Comics by Enki Bilal 3 Science fiction comics Comics set in the 2020s {{1990s-graphic-novel-stub