The first English translation of the entire Adventures of Dieter Lumpen series the most famous work of the Angoulême award-winning team of Jorge Zentner & Ruben Pellejero Dieter Lumpen is a man of the world an adventurer who wants no part of adventure Nonetheless he is swept along to exotic locations from Turkey to the Caribbean from China to Venice He is not quite so hard-boiled as the typical adventure hero As written by Zentner Dieter’s irony is gentler more subtle more reflective & more tongue-in-cheek than hard or bitter Pellejero is quite simply one of Europe’s top comics artists who was chosen for the plum job to illustrate the new adventures of Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese Dieter Lumpen began in 1981 & continued until 1994 This definitive omnibus collects all eight short stories & the three graphic novels with a foreword by Tim Sale