Iris: A Novel for Viewers

Visionary illustrator Tjong-Khing (The Moon is a Ball: Stories of Panda & Squirrel) and author Hartog van Banda (Lucky Luke, Vol. 65: Ghost Hunt) present a psychedelic science fiction tour-de-force, originally released in the Netherlands in 1968 and finally available for the first time in English. Though she has garnered a strong following as a performer in Amsterdam’s nightclub scene, Iris dreams of becoming a worldwide megastar. Enter M.G., the enigmatic and seemingly all-powerful Dream King, who invites her to move into his highly guarded Dream Factory, where he and his legion of grim-faced minions begin the process of molding Iris into “the idol of a new era.” It works, but there’s a catch—M.G. turns out to be less interested in Iris as a performer than he is in her appearance and begins promoting performances by a holographic doppelganger and marketing life-size Iris dolls while she remains trapped within his headquarters.