In the long history of alternative comics, few works are as venerated, or as underseen, as Saga de Xam, the legendary French graphic novel by Nicolas Devil and Jean Rollin. Originally published in 1967 in limited quantities, the book earned a devoted cult following for its innovative psychedelic visuals and avant-garde sensibilities, even as it spent decades out of print. Saga de Xam chronicles the adventures of Saga—a blue-skinned female alien on a mission to Earth—as she encounters both the cruelties and the possibilities of human civilization, from prehistory to the Middle Ages to the radical 1960s. No synopsis, however, could do justice to the book’s explosive graphic style, its narrative and linguistic complexity, and its countercultural fervor.

In case you are not familiar, Saga de Xam is the story of Saga, an emissary from Xam, which is an ancient civilization of women situated in a parallel dimension to ours. Observant of intelligence, beauty and love as their sacred virtues, the people of Xam are more or less immortal and reproduce only occasionally, through parthenogenesis. This has made for a socially rigid utopia: one ill-equipped to respond to unexpected disasters, such as all-out invasion by interstellar Troglodytes. The only option is to send a lone heroine, Saga, to "a strategic spatiotemporal point" (our world) to fire "a beam of catalyzed collective thought" that is supposed to cover Xam in an impregnable energy shield. Not everything goes according to plan. Flitting around the eras of human civilization, Saga falls in love with what she believes is an Earth woman, but is actually the folkloric Mélusine, a fairy associated with carnality, fertility and shape-shifting. Saga too changes shape, adopting irrational, passionate human characteristics through her adventures, leading to a climactic encounter with the Trogs on Xam, who both are and are not as destructive a force as they first seem.

Condition  - see pics...DJ has faded on spine & has been taped to strengthen it at some point - Book itself has a small split at the top of the gutter & has heavy rubbing to the bottom of the boards, Previous owners name in pen. However Internally the book is clean & Bright 

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