(Mar.Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. De Pins, also an acclaimed animator, has a clean, flowing art style-flat blocks of color eschewing black lines-that keeps his opposing scales vivid and seamless, beautifully capturing character movement, and the cluttered space inhabited by humanity. A tapestry of human behavior unfolds on the beach, mixing larger environmental battles and the sordid actions of individuals. But De Pins’s lens is wider than the world of crabs, and the hero’s interactions with two nature documentarians on their quest to film the square crab reveals the chaos of the human world and its ability to crisscross in any manner it pleases.

One day, he stumbles on a way to change his direction and sets into motion a sudden evolutionary leap. See the complete Zombillnium series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.

A single square crab, soon to ne named Sunny, begins a journey that changes his life and the lives of all square crabs. The Zombillnium book series by Arthur de Pins includes books Gretchen, Ressources Humaines, Control Freaks, and several more.

The fictional square crabs-who are as sentient and charming as the creatures in Pixar movies-can only move in one direction, a limitation that dictates an anonymous love life, almost perpetual loneliness, and an inability to flee from danger.

Shifting from the vantage point of tiny, wandering crabs up to the depiction of larger seaside confrontations and other interactions between humans, this first book of a trilogy tells a tale of varying scales, both physical and emotional.

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