Minus Eighty is the first published adventure in the graphic novel series featuring The Bear Rider.

The term "minus eighty" refers to the degree which can cause some pure waters to suddenly turn to ice after just a little movement; hence, also to an underground cavern in which the beginning of the story is set.

First published in Turkey in June 2008, the concept took time in the making: Yalcin Didman

Yalcin didman

Yalcin Didman is a Turkish comic book creator. He worked for almost every major newspaper from the late 60s to mid 90s.-Biography:Didman was part of the legendary humor magazine Girgir...

, one of the famed Turkish comic book creators, introduced his post-apocalyptic dystopia

Dystopia

A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four...

 in the pages of some comics magazine in the early 1990s.

However, the 121-page-long, full-color first adventure had to wait until Didman bagan to produce for Rodeo, an emerging comics company: Published as the first book in a series of graphic novels (RAD), the book (though in Turkish) helped introduce the imagination of Didman to collectors worldwide.

External links

• Homepage of the graphic novel
• Didman cited after the publication of the book
• An article on the book, Hürriyet
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