Two actors alternate in a single role. On the day of the premiere, one of them falls ill and the other has to step in for him. In the final scene, the character he is playing is supposed to shoot himself on stage. After the shot is fired, blood spurts out and the actor collapses to the ground. This is no longer a performance—he is truly dead. Thus begins the story of an original graphic novel detective tale set in the theatre world, where there is no shortage of suspects. The investigation is taken over by the experienced Commissioner Oulibský, the husband of theatre critic Dita.

An excerpt from the graphic novel, trans. by Alex Zucker, was featured in Words Without Borders.

Published in 2014 by Labyrint in the Czech Republic.
90 pages / 24 × 18 cm

Anna Wants to Jump is a story set in the Czech Republic of the 1990s, an era full of changes in personal and professional lives. Twenty-seven-year old Anna, who feels frustrated by her present life, coincidently gets involved in a thriller adventure with a young man who witnessed a murder and is being chased by the Russian mafia. Through him, Anna learns about the secret history of her family. The final firefight is also joined by bodyguards of President Havel, whom the runaway couple happens to meet when he is walking near his Hrádeček cottage, close to the Krkonoše Mountains. In her first graphic novel for adults, Lomová chose a black-and-white style and two drawing techniques: while most of the book is rendered in pen and ink, while passages of dreams and memories are drawn in pencil. 

Published in 2006 by Éditions de L’An 2 in France.
78 pages / 22 x 30 cm

The graphic novel Savages, based on the memoirs of Czech adventurer Alberto Vojtěch Frič, tells the remarkable true story of how the explorer brought a Chamacoco Indian named Cherwuisch from South America to Prague in 1908. Three years of work on the graphic novel resulted in a precisely rendered depiction of early-20th-century life in the final years of pre-war Austria-Hungary, presented convincingly in 150 pages of sophisticated, full-colour artworks. By presenting the various amusing and unsettling trials and tribulations of this disparate pair, the work thematizes issues of ethnocentrism, otherness, the (apparent) opposites of “civilization” and “savagery,” as well as the possibilities and limits of inter-cultural understanding. It was very well received and has also been published in French, German, Polish and English.   

Published in 2011 by Labyrint in the Czech Republic.
152 pages / 25 x 19 cm