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Marx, Freud & Einstein - Heroes of the Mind (Maier & Simon) (2017)

by Corinne Maier  (Author), Anne Simon (Illustrator). Through Anne Simon's irreverent illustrative comics style and Corinne Maier's witty, researched writing, readers can join the fight against capitalism with Karl Marx, meet the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and discover the fundamentals of physics with Albert Einstein. Explore complex scientific, psychological and political ideas in a wryly intelligent graphic novel format!

One Story (2020)

by Gipi  (Author). Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues ― a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters, and shifting from scratchy black-and-white to lush watercolors (sometimes on the same page), A Story documents the origins of pain that serve as the roots of a twisted family tree, and allows the reader to trace the branches.  Full-color illustrations throughout.

Park Bench (2017)

With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench. From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of the many who enter its orbit, the park bench weathers all seasons. Strangers meet at it for the first time. Paramours carve their initials into it. Old friends sit and chat upon it for hours. Others ignore the bench, or (attempt to) sleep on it at night, or simply anchor themselves on it and absorb the ebb and flow of the area and its people.

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The Property (2013)

by Rutu Modan  (Author). After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren't a little different than what her grandmother led her to believe.

Alone (2017)

by master illustrator-storyteller Chabouté (Park Bench, Moby-Dick). On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a lonely hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, its occupants never meeting him, never asking the obvious questions: Who are you? Why do you hide? Why do you never leave? What is it like to be so alone?

Deconstructing the Incal

by Jean Annestay (Author), Christophe Quillien (Author), et al (Author). Deconstructing The Incal lifts the veil on many of the mysteries and secrets surrounding the seminal science-fiction graphic novel, which has become the cornerstone of the Jodoverse. This encyclopaedic reference book is packed with fascinating insights from The Incal's creators, Jodorowsky and Mobius, alongside revealing text, and rare and unseen preliminary illustrations. With detailed biographies of the characters and worlds, not self-respecting Incal fan should be without this book.

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Moby Dick (2017)

A masterful adaptation of the timeless literary classic, faithfully and beautifully rendered by an award-winning artist. In striking black-and-white illustrations, Chaboute retells the story of the Great American Novel. Captain Ahab strikes out on a voyage, obsessively seeking revenge on the great white whale that took his leg. This hardcover edition collects both of the Vents d'Ouest volumes, printed in English for the first time.

Zanardi (2017)

In this graphic novel, presented in English for the first time, the Italian “Crumb” portrays a lost generation of late 1970s/early 1980s teenagers coping with family problems, school, sex, and drugs. A true visionary, with a fluid line and an uncanny sense of color and composition, Pazienza’s innovative graphic style served up stories that were iconoclastic, outrageous, humorous, and deeply personal, often based on himself and his microcosm of friends and collaborators. Pazienza was a revolutionary cartoonist who ushered an underground sensibility to Italian and European comics, breaking from the more staid tradition of genteel adult (and children’s) graphic albums.

Bluesman (2010)

This story, structured like a traditional twelve bar blues song, with three sections each made of four chapters, follows blues musician Lem Taylor's harrowing journey across Arkansas of the late twenties, hunted for a crime he didn't commit.

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Chaboute

After ten years in prison Zoe is no longer afraid of solitude. So, when she leaves, she decides to go and live alone in the small village of La Goule, inheriting from her grandmother's house. Of course she expected a difficult integration, but all the same! The reception of the villagers is particularly inhospitable ... Zoé disturbs them, but in what? The hints of sorcery that emanate here and there are a staging intended to make it flee or the clues of some secret practice to which this strange community is engaged ... In the pages Christophe Chabouté raises the suspense and transforms A remote village in a deadly spider web. A detail, a look, a light and the trees themselves become menacing to the point that the reader shares the anguish of Zoe, the prey of these monsters with a human face. A graphic of beauty, playing both the nervousness of the line and the flat blacks, confirms the talent of this young author awarded at the last festival of Angouleme.

Lydie

This is just a little one-shot with a sweet story, I wouldn't really know how to categorise it. Basically, inter-war France, a young woman's baby dies at birth, a couple of months later, she says it's come back to her, but no-one can see it. The book's pretty cute.

Maybe this Tuesday

Achilles, a man in his forties, has just buried his parents. He likes to sit on the beach below his house and watch the passing ships heading for the high seas. So much so that one evening he falls asleep sitting on his chair with both feet firmly buried in the sand. However, when he awakes he is unable to move: during the night he has literally taken root. As a huge storm brews over his island, a seagull flies towards him. The seagull, which can talk, informs Achilles on which day of the week he will die: a Tuesday. But which one? That's the question. Fortunately today is a Wednesday. The tide is rising and will soon flood the beach. If the seagull is telling the truth Achilles needs to uproot himself quickly to avoid drowning. It would appear that the time has come for him to cease contemplating passing ships...