Taïpi

In 2016, Gallimard launched Taïpi, a single-issue comic that adapts Herman Melville’s early novel of the same name. This French graphic novel brings the author’s semi-autobiographical tale of a sailor’s desertion and life among the Typee people in the Marquesas Islands to a new medium. The project is notable for its literary source material and its place in Gallimard’s catalog, offering a concise, visual interpretation of a classic adventure story.