“Epileptic constitutes something new: a graphic intellectual history. A design-oriented history of ideas. (...) Because it is unafraid to dwell in detail on cultural and intellectual lineage, Epileptic seems to be influenced as much by Gide, Foucault, Malraux and Barthes as by Spiegelman. It is less a graphic novel, that is, than a bildungsroman about the artist as reader of continental philosophy, wherein Jean-Christophe's epilepsy, and its attendant familial disorder, are the fulcrum that forces Pierre-Francois to become the author David B., spawning his magnificent pictures, drawings full of the iconographies of both atavism and surrealism.”

Rick Moody (The New York Times)
author of Demonology (Stories) and The Black Veil