Insectopolis – Komiksov dobrodrustv v i hmyzu Kuper Peter (2026)

Prehistoric dragonflies the size of hawks, dung beetles that navigate by the stars, and mosquitoes that alter the course of human history all feature in this comic adventure. Peter Kuper imagines what might happen if people disappeared from the world and abandoned cities were taken over by ants, cicadas, bees and butterflies, turning ecological apocalypse upside down in a work that is both a visual spectacle and a fantastic natural-history narrative. The graphic novel follows tiny arthropods that, in the authors imagination, move into a New York museum, as well as the entomologists and pioneering researchers who study them. Its heroes include butterfly enthusiast Vladimir Nabokov and Charles Henry Turner, an African-American scholar who described the intelligence of cockroaches. This vivid, opulent journey spans 400 million years of insects and their people and offers a radically changed view of the world around us. The book is in Czech.