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Legends of the Pierced Veil - The Scarlet Blades (2023)

Mythical tales of bloodshed set in a Feudal Japan that runs rampant with spirits both demonic and heroic fighting for the fate of their world, from acclaimed creator Saverio Tenuta.

Centralia (Miel Vandepitte) (2023)

Inspired by the real Centralia, a mining town in Pennsylvania where an underground mine fire has been burning since 1962, Miel Vandepitte creates a world full of adventure, excitement and improbable characters. He has a field day portraying a fantastic abandoned metropolis full of spectacular buildings, as he juggles with perspectives and formidable panoramas. A beautiful range of colours and a fine pen complete the picture. With this debut, Vandepitte proves that we can expect a great deal from him in the future.

The Adventures of Hergé (2001)

A graphic biography of Tintin's creator by Jose-Louis Bocquet and Jean-Luc Fromental, Illustrated by Stanislas Barthélémy. The Adventures of Hergé is a biographical comic about the world-renowned comics artist Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Hergé. Meticulously researched, with references to many of the Tintin albums and complete with a bibliography and mini-bios for each of the main "characters," the biography is appropriately drawn in Hergé's iconic clear line style as an homage to the Tintin adventures that have commanded the attention of readers across the world and of many generations.

The Rainbow Orchid (repost)

The Rainbow Orchid (The Adventures of Julius Chancer) is a comic written and drawn by Garen Ewing, the first of a series of planned Julius Chancer books. It is set in the 1920s and follows Chancer's expedition to discover the mythical 'Rainbow Orchid'. Starting in England, the adventure takes the characters first to France, then Karachi in India and into the Indus Valley. It is drawn in the ligne claire style and published in English by Egmont, in Dutch by Silvester Strips, in French by BD Must Editions, in Spanish by NetCom2 Editorial, and in German by Salleck Publications.

By the Numbers (repost)

Victor Levallois did not lead the job. With his first class tunes, he finds himself plunged in a whirlwind of perilous adventures, in French Indochina or the disturbance of Paris after the war. By the Numbers. A comic by Laurent Rullier and Stanislas. An album that makes you want to fall in love with a whore of a brothel of Cao Bang is priceless. Without appearing, Victor Levallois, second knife of third zone, tells us the end of Indochina like nobody.

A Jew in Communist Prague (repost)

A Jew in Communist Prague is the title of a series of graphic novels created by Vittorio Giardino. They feature the main character Jonas Fink. They are published in the United States by NBM.

Jonas is a young Jew in 1950's Prague whose father is arrested by the communist police. He and his mother have to cope with the discrimination and oppression of Joseph Stalin's regime. The book, collected as A Jew in Communist Prague, won the Angoulème Alfred prize for best foreign work in 1995 as well as a Harvey Award at San Diego in 1999. Giardino detailed art style recalls the French ligne claire, while his writing owes to hard boiled and spy story authors like Dashiell Hammett and John le Carré.

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Sharaz-De - Tales from the Arabian Nights (2013)

A set of tales inspired by the Arabian Nights by European comics master Sergio Toppi, exploring a barbaric society where the supernatural is the only remedy to injustice, as Sharaz-de, captive to a cruel and despotic king, must each night spin tales to entertain her master and save her head from the executioner. Featuring tales filled with evil spirits, treasures, risk, and danger, but ever at their center the passions of gods and men. Collecting Sharaz-de nos. 01 - 06; translated from the original 2005 French publication. (Archaia: 192 pages).

Is That All There Is (2011)

A career-spanning collection from the heir to Hergé. 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. Under Swarte’s own exacting supervision, Is That All There Is? will collect virtually all of his alternative comics work from 1972 to date, including the RAW magazine stories that brought him fame among American comics aficionados in the 1980s. Especially great pains will be taken to match Swarte’s superb coloring, which includes stories executed in watercolor, comics printed in retro duotones, fiendishly clever use of Zip-a-Tone screens, and much more; there’s even a story about how to color comics art using those screens, with Makassar as the teacher (Fantagraphics: 142 pages).

Pinocchio (2012)

This award-winning graphic novel re-imagines the story of Pinocchio as a noir fairy tale both comic and tragic. In this dark rendition, a greedy Geppetto builds Pinocchio as a metallic weapon of war, while Jiminy Cockroach is a homeless squatter living the good life in Pinocchio's skull. Critically acclaimed, Pinocchio won the Grand Prize at France's Angoulême comics festival in 2009. Exquisite drawings by celebrated cartoonist Winshluss bring to life a rich tale of greedy fools, lust, sadness, redemption, and hope. Teamed with brilliant colorist Cizo, Winshluss creates an epic adventure through a lush world. As we follow Pinocchio along the way, the stories and vinettes intertwine, offering subtle political critiques and send ups of popular culture. We meet seven sleazy dwarves, follow Jiminy's struggles as a novelist, watch a blind tramp find God, and see the innocent, yet powerful Pinocchio encircled by those who would use him for their own ends.

The Adventures of Freddy Lombard (repost)

The Adventures of Freddy Lombard is a comic book series created by Yves Chaland. Five albums were released, all during the 1980s, before Chaland's untimely death. They were originally written in French, though have since received publication into English. Writer(s): Yves Chaland with Yann. Artist(s): Yves Chaland.

The stories feature the protagonist Freddy Lombard and his friends Dina and Sweep, as they desperately try to get money to pay their bills. This often leads them to their adventures.

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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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A Family Secret (2011)

While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother, Helena. Helena tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War, and mourns the loss of her Jewish best friend, Esther. Helena believes that her own father, a policeman and Nazi sympathizer, delivered Esther to the Nazis and that she died in a concentration camp. But after hearing her story, Jeroen makes a discovery and Helena realizes that her father kept an important secret from her.

Metal Vol. 01 - Thule (2010)

In a distant future, men no longer directly battle, but cast their minds into high-tech metal armor. Emperor Elias, who has become as hard and cold as his armor, rules the galaxy firmly, when an alien race resurfaces and threatens the borders of the Empire. Elias then rallied his nobles to fight them. The first battle was to take place on Meridia, the planet of the powerful Count Ordis, who allegedly made an alliance with the aliens. As the imperial fleet approaches Méridia, Elias bids farewell to his son, before going to his room of teleportation to win the battle theater. But this time, a betrayal at the heart of his family will prove to be the most destructive enemy. Elias will have to face terrible hardships in order to preserve his reign, his reason and his humanity.

Bamboo Memories 01 - The Trance of Thatch (2003)

Once the kingdom of Hauteroquailles was saved from the onslaught of crazy Bamboo by a strange warrior: Kriz. Years later humans are ruled by Prince Fu. The story begin with the arrival in town of Naar which belongs to the tribe Draims, actually "dwarf dreamers" the source books of legend who, of all time, rocked the imagination of humans. As he comes to sell the latest collections in the city it Provide online a human baby he calls CIOL. Years later when the kid grows up peacefully the threat of mad Bamboo resurfaces! Kriz has meanwhile become something of a legend as he travels the country selling his services to the highest bidder, believed to be the most powerful warrior in the world. He eventually discovers he has a son,CIOL and that it possesses the same powers as him!

The Forever War

The Forever War is a 1988 Belgian science fiction graphic novel trilogy drawn by Marvano and closely based on the award-winning The Forever War novel by Joe Haldeman, who has noted that he "supplied all of the dialogue and scripted [the comic] like a movie".

Drawn in the ligne claire style and originally published in Dutch as De Eeuwige Oorlog, it tells the story of William Mandella, an elite soldier fighting for Earth in a centuries-long interstellar war against the 'Taurans'. The series focuses mainly on the dehumanising effects of war and its attendant bureaucracy.

Gypsy

Gipsy (in some translations spelled as "Gypsy") is a French science fiction comic series drawn by Italian-Swiss artist Enrico Marini and written by Thierry Smolderen. The eponymous main character is a charismatic Roma truck driver who works on a worldwide net of motorways as a freelance trader with his own large truck.

The series is drawn in a style that combines elements from the ligne claire school, American comics, and Japanese manga, and was first published in 1992 by Dargaud. It has six volumes so far published as of 2010. It has also been translated from the original French to German, Dutch, Danish and English, and rights have been sold in multiple other languages.

Bob and Bobette

Spike and Suzy (British title) or Willy and Wanda (American title; Dutch: Suske en Wiske, French: Bob et Bobette) is a Belgian comics series created by the comics author Willy Vandersteen. It was first published in De Nieuwe Standaard in 1945 and soon became popular. Although not in its earlier form, the strip adapted to the Ligne claire style, pioneered by Hergé. This change took place when the strip became serialised in Hergé's Franco-Belgian comics magazine Tintin from 1948 to 1959. The books revolve around the adventures of the eponymous Spike and Suzy, two children (pre-adolescent or adolescent depending on the album), along with their friends and family. The stories combine elements of comedy, fantasy, and science fiction, such as talking animals, time travel and ghosts. The strip still runs daily in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard, and new books continue to be published; as of 2008, 300 albums have been published. 

English translations have been published in three incarnations. The first was in the U.S., under the name of Willy and Wanda. It was then published in the UK in the 1990s named Bob and Bobette, a copy of the Belgian title in French. The final print run was in the UK by the title Spike and Suzy.

Dick Hérisson

Dick Hérisson is a series of comics drawn and scripted by Didier Savard that features a private investigator, Dick Hérisson, and his friend Jerome Doutendieu journalist. The action takes place in the 1930s in France and especially in Arles and Provence.

The name Dick Hérisson is a tribute to Harry Dickson, the hero of Jean Ray. This is not the only tribute, Detective capita rue Jean Ray in Paris. Investigations are tinted fantastic as are the news of Jean Ray.
The drawings are part of a clear line elegant. Discreet homages to other authors like Hergé (we see effigies of Tintin and the Duponts, one of the characters is named Atom Karaboudjan) abound throughout the pages.

Jo, Zette and Jocko

The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Hergé, the writer-artist best known for The Adventures of Tintin. The heroes of the series are two young children, brother and sister Jo and Zette Legrand and their pet chimpanzee Jocko.

Jo, Zette and Jocko appear on the rear covers of some The Adventures of Tintin comic books, but never appear in the stories. A few Jo, Zette and Jocko comics allude to characters or events in The Adventures of Tintin.

The Valley of the Cobras was the first Jo, Zette and Jocko adventure to be translated and published in English in 1986. Mr Pump’s Legacy and Destination New York followed in 1987. The ‘Manitoba’ No Reply and The Eruption of Karamako remained unpublished (possibly due to Hergé’s unsympathetic depiction of the primitive natives of the island of Karamako, similar to Tintin in the Congo) until 1994 when they were published together in a single limited-edition double volume titled The Secret Ray.

Jhen

Jhen is a series of comic history of Jean Pleyers (drawings) and Jacques Martin (screenplay), established in Le Journal de Tintin entitled Xan in 1978 and published in the album Le Lombard (Xan) and Casterman (Jhen) in 1984 . From 2008, the scenario is taken Hughes Payen, while Thierry Cayman alternates with Pleyers for drawing. During his appearance in Tintin, the character named Xan Larc. Following the change of editor Jacques Martin, the series could not be prosecuted under the title Xan. Indeed, if the character belongs to its creator, the copyright of the series was held by Le Lombard. Martin has renamed Jhen. 

The hero, Jhen Roque, is a young master sculptor (and painter) which travels the roads of France at the end of the Hundred Years War; Volume 1 also begins with a failed attempt to save Joan of Arc. It crosses the path of Gilles de Rais, which will be the only friend he can not help but sink into madness, and other historical figures: King Charles VII, cynical but skilful politician, and dolphin Louis who really takes after his father.

Lefranc

Lefranc, formerly The Adventures of Lefranc (1954-1961) or Guy Lefranc (1977-1982), is a character of Franco-Belgian comics and a series of comic adventure Franco-Belgian created by Jacques Martin.

The series features the hero, the journalist - see Guy Lefranc in 1952. The first adventure The Great Menace sold over a million and a half copies until 2002, 2 - appeared in Tintin in Belgium on 21 May 1952 and in France the 3 July 1952 establishing the main characters of the series: the journalist Guy Lefranc, his protégé the young Jeanjean (in a relationship reminiscent linking Alix and Enak), the Commissioner Renard, and the eternal villain of the series, the mysterious Axel Borg.

The author only provides the realization of two albums: Hurricane The Fire and The Mystery Borg, who are among the best in the series, before devoting himself only to the scenario and leave the designs to Bob de Moor. He then says the designer Gilles Chaillet following nine albums.

Time Secret

Time Secret or Geheim van de Tijd is a series of 4 comicbooks created in between 2002 and 2006. It is a story about an ordinary woman who gets involved in timetravel, esoteric sects and other things. The artist is Eric Heuvel. Frits Jonker on scenario. They have drawn and written many other comics, and some real great ones too like Bud Broadway. 

Professor Palmboom

Professor Palmboom (literally translated as Professor Palm Tree or Julius Palmboom) is a comic album series written and drawn by Dutch artist Dick Briel. They are illustrated in the ligne claire style. So far, three albums have been released and one book. They follow the adventures of Professor Julius Palmboom. The series is set in the twentieth century and follows the adventures of Professor Julius Palmboom and his friends as they investigate science fiction mysteries.