Wake (comics)

Wake (titled Sillage in the original French) is a science fiction graphic novel series created by Jean-David Morvan and Philippe Buchet.

The foreword to the art book 1000 Navïs states that the series was conceived at the prompting of publisher Guy Delcourt, who wanted a space opera to add to his catalogue.

Jean-David Morvan presented the name Sillage to Philippe Buchet, who conceived of the space convoy, but made them entirely alien to avoid comparisons to Battlestar Galactica.

[3] The protagonist of the series is Navee (Nävis in the original French), a young human female who was shipwrecked and orphaned on an alien planet.

Her idyllic life ends when agents of Wake, a traveling civilization of many different alien species, arrives to Hotta-form (analogous to terraform) her planet for Hottard colonisation.

The Wake Civilization is a vast convoy of spacecraft that constantly travel around the galaxy in search of resources, races, and technology.

This convoy drops hypergates as it travels, allowing instantaneous access to previously visited star systems.

In an interview or commentary published in bilingual form (English and French) in a collection of his drawings (blockBuster, 2005) Buchet noted that science fiction had the peculiarity of "allowing a natural journey between past and future".

The story of Navee's childhood, created by José-Luis Munuera, Jean-David Morvan, Philippe Buchet, and Christian Lerolle, published by Delcourt-Neopolis.

(Morvan & Buchet + Collectif) Short graphic novels which takes place between principal chapters, published by Delcourt-Neopolis.

Navee in the censored American version compared to the original art; here the Finnish translation