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Cabbie GN

Story and art by Marti Riera. Introduction by Art Speigelman. THE CABBIE is a prototypical solitary individual, out of touch and helpless in a predatory world that doesn't have time for people who can't keep up with the 20th century.

Is That All There Is

By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Hergé’s classic “clear line” style, Joost Swarte revitalized European alternative comics in the 1970s with a series of satirical, musically elegant, supremely beautifully drawn short stories — often featuring his innocent, magnificently-quiffed Jopo de Pojo, or his orotund scientist character, Anton Makassar.

Vampire Loves (2006)

Author: Joann Sfar; Audré Jardel. Ferdinand is a Lithuanian vampire in Paris who is newly single and searching for love and has encounters with a tree-man, a teenage vampire, and assorted humanoids as he cruises bars, visits a mansion, and goes into the forest.

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Dolores

A model maker is commisioned by Hollywood starlet to reproduce her villa in model form. Really cool art, great colors, and a compellingly complex main character - unfortunately, the plot plays like a lesser Twilight Zone episode. Anne Baltus.

Rabbi's Cat (Joann Sfar) (Pantheon Books 2005)

In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn’t eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbi’s rabbi, who maintains that a cat can’t be Jewish–but the cat, as always, knows better. Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self-pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabya’s cosmopolitan in-laws. Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important–and trivial–details of life.

Tangents (1996)

The eight stories that make this book up are as many variations regarding tangential, imperfect, and limited sentimental relationships that come to their end. Artists, civil servants, professionals, politicians... people belonging to more or less well-off social strata for whom these relationships end up meaning a conflict of own interests; and who, in the end, don´t know how to keep them -or don´t want to. Miguelanxo Prado.

Little Vampire

There are three stories in the new Little Vampire collection. In the first, the little vampire makes friends with a living boy, Michael. In the second, the two overcome a bully. In the third, they protect a pack of dogs. If those sound simplistic, they should. The stories spun by the French cartoonist Joann Sfar are quite basic in structure. The monsters inhabiting little vampire’s home are more frightening and gruesome than cute. One monster is obsessed with poop and even pushes around a wheelbarrow full of it (which eventually becomes a minor plot point). In the story of the bully, the monsters actually kidnap and eat the bully that has terrorized Michael (acting out Michael’s dark fantasies). The story then becomes about using ghostly powers to return the bully to life.

Dungeon

Dungeon (French title: Donjon) is a series of comic fantasy comic books created by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with contributions from numerous other artists. It was originally published in France by Delcourt as a series of graphic albums; English translations of the first several stories have been released by NBM Publishing, first in a black-and-white periodical version and now as several color graphic novels.

The series is a parody of sword and sorcery conventions in general, and specifically of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. All of the characters are either anthropomorphic animals or other strange creatures. The "dungeon" of the title is, in the original series, a business establishment run by a mild-mannered chicken, where heroes come in search of adventure and treasure and invariably die. The timeline in the main continuity is described as the stages of day; the series that lead up to the dungeon's creation are described in the Potron-Minet (Dawn) segment, the castle's glory days are described as its Zénith, and its inevitable decay is described in the Crépuscule (Twilight) stories.

The Potamoks

The Potamoks is a series of comics. Scenario: Joann Sfar. Designs and colors: José-Luis Munuera. 

When professor Asclepios decides to go on the oceans in search of higher beings, it raises that doubt and ridicule. Yet his small boat soon crosses a titanic ship. a board, beings of unknown race: the Potamoks.