The Tipping Point

Fourteen international creators—all renowned and all unique—present 13 short stories in this love letter to the endless possibilities of sequential art in all its forms. Some of the world's greatest creators have each written and drawn an original story that explores the key moment when a clear-cut split occurs, a mutation, a personal revolt or a large-scale revolution that tips us from one world into another, from one life to an entirely new one: The Tipping Point. From slice-of-life tales and science-fiction adventures, to amusing asides and fantastical fables, witness these major (and minor) changes and evolution through the eyes of these visionaries from the worlds of manga, bande dessinée, and comics.

Non Album Collections 233

Springtime in Chernobyl (2019)

Emmanuel Lepage (Author, Artist, Cover Artist). April 26, 1986, Chernobyl: the reactor core of the nuclear power plant begins to melt. It is the greatest nuclear disaster of the twentieth century. A cloud laden with radionuclides travels thousands of miles in every direction, contaminating a populace unaware of its danger and who cannot protect themselves. At that time, Emmanuel Lepage was 19 years old, watching and listening, incredulous, to the news on television.

Tales from behind the Window (2019)

Script by Edanur Kuntman - Art by Edanur Kuntman. “Tales from behind the Window” is based on memories of an Anatolian grandmother and women she knew who suffered from male dominance over their lives. Writer and illustrator Edanur Kuntman seeks a unique way to express and give voice to women in her grandmother’s memories and in our reality who were not able to reconcile their inner emotional depth with their rural worlds in Northern Turkey. One long and two short stories included in this book revolve around terrifying emotional burdens such as forced marriages, being betrayed by patriarchs, and lost love, which have haunted and still haunt many in rural Anatolia.

Trap (2019)

Script by Mathieu Burniat - Art by Mathieu Burniat, Loup Michiels. A man lives in the wild with a dog as his only companion… and great powers at his disposal. All he needs is an animal’s hide to take on its abilities. Together, he and his dog will go off to seek a terrible monster, in a silent story brought to vivid life by Burniat and Michiels. Fierce, funny, strange, endearing!

Muchacho

Lifting the skin of things Nicaragua, 1976. Supported by the Guardia disaster, "Tachito" Somoza reign supreme in this small Central American country. Young seminarian son of a large family of Managua, the capital, Gabriel painted. Christ, the Passion, the saints. He is good at that. That's why he was sent to exercise his art from Ruben, the priest of San Juan, a small village nestled in the mountains. Disliked by villagers, because he is the son of his father, Gabriel will get to know them and love them, encouraged by Ruben urging him to paint them as they are, men and women of flesh and blood. Thus, by "lifting the skin of things," Gabriel discovers military repression against peasants and against itself the crushing yoke of sensuality. For him as for the villagers, times are rumbling revolt and revolution smoldering.

After his flight from San Juan, Gabriel Serna roams the forest wounded. Exhausted, he is rescued by Sandinista guerrillas. They seek to reach their base to negotiate the exchange of Ruben and father of one of them against the American military adviser they hold hostage. Disavowing his name and wishing also to cut down the power in place, Gabriel joined the group. Begins a long journey through the hostile environment in which he will take up arms and kill, and know love. The teenager became adult. The young seminarian erased turns into a determined man. In ninety beautiful pages, Emmanuel Lepage painted with force and power metamorphosis of his hero, perceptible just by looking at the cover of the second volume of Muchacho. The first game had brought the young Gabriel to see the world with different eyes, to understand the misery of his compatriots, far from the hushed atmosphere. This bande dessinee was created by Emmanuel Lepage.