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Someone to Talk To (Europe Comics 2021)

Script by Grégory Panaccione - Art by Grégory Panaccione. Samuel is feeling blue, and for good reason! He’s single, lives in a tiny Paris apartment, and is languishing in a job he hates. Alone on his birthday, he decides to amuse himself by calling the only phone number he knows by heart: the one for his childhood home. To his surprise, someone picks up… His past self! All 10-year-old Sam wants to do is play soccer, travel the world, and write books to impress girls. How will Samuel ever be able to tell him the truth without crushing his dreams? It’s time he got his life back on track.

Little Sister (Europe Comics 2021)

Susie has two older sisters: the vivacious Effie, and the elegant Sandra. Life is hard when you're the baby of the family! No one ever lets you do anything. No one ever pays any attention to you. Everyone makes fun of you. Bestselling children's author Susie Morgenstern takes readers back to 1950s Newark and all the everyday charms and heartbreaks of the year she turned ten: spelling bees, synagogue, Christmas lights, Halloween candy, nights out at the movies, sneaking fast food. In his joyous art, Johann G. Louis lovingly evokes the era and a young girl awakening to life.

The Secret Garden Part 1 (Europe Comics 2021)

When Mary's parents die, she moves to England, where she is sent to a strange mansion in the middle of the Yorkshire moors, belonging to her uncle. It is here that she discovers the comfort of friendship... and a wonderful secret that she soon shares with her new companions: a garden forgotten by everyone, whose key, as if by magic, also opens the doors to broken hearts. This is a two-part graphic adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1912 classic of children's literature. by Maud Begon  (Author, Illustrator).

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Mox Nox (2015)

Spanish cartoonist Joan Cornella’s viciously funny Mox Nox single-page strips are wordless, full-color, hand-painted marvels of the form. That his visually inviting artwork is in the service of Cornella’s graphic sense of humor/horror only heightens the appeal. Mox Nox is populated almost exclusively by smiling psychopaths who invariably turn even the most mundane situation into a side-splitting and cringe-inducing farce. Full-color illustrations throughout (Fantagraphics: 56 pages).

Zonzo (2017)

Joan Cornellà’s Zonzo is the most magical comic of the year — and the latest entry in a proud, under-appreciated tradition of sequential art designed to provoke both denouncements and surreptitious giggles. It is, in a word, appalling. It’s a slim compilation of dozens of the Spanish artist’s wordless webcomics, most of them six panels long and all of them offensive in one way or another.

Ayak & Por 01 (Europe Comics 2021)

Wild adventures are on the horizon for little girl Ayak and her one-eyed dog Por. In the first story of this two-part tale, Ayak, Por, and the wacky professor seek shelter in an abandoned house, after their biosphere in Kamchatka explodes. But the discovery of an old teapot will soon whisk them away to a far-off land. In the second story, Ayak meets a lonely crown prince who is kept away from his people. Everyone thinks he is foolish, but what if he is just misunderstood? Wilbert van der Steen.

TKO Shorts

When a space pioneer attempts to create a self-sustaining colony on Jupiter, her visit takes an unsuspecting and deadly turn. From Liana Kangas & Joe Corallo (She Said Destroy) and Paul Azaceta (Outcast).

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The Last Detective Redemption (2021)

After 20 years, detective Joe Santos is forced to return to investigate a series of crimes in «New Amazonia». A strange drug offers one week of physical beauty and pleasure… and a painful death, and it seems that no other than Santos can solve the mystery. Will Joe solve this time the case that ended his career, crushed his body and caused the death of his partner?  Geraldo Borges & Claudio Alvarez.

Occult Presence (2018)

Paqaru creates fantastic realms that extend endlessly, populated here and there with silent dangers of monstrous appearance. Occult Presence is his debut monograph, a beautifully realized oracle of dying earths and diverse biomes. Step through this arcane door and enter a dream from another dimension. Luis Fernández del Piñar Rueda (aka Paqaru) is a freelance illustrator born in Málaga, Spain in 1993. He is usually more present in his imaginary worlds than in reality itself (Floating World Comics: 48 pages).

Renoir - Father and Son (2021)

Art is a family matter for the Renoirs. The path is carved by Pierre-Auguste, the painter who along with Monet, Cézanne, Degas was at the origin of the impressionist movement and continues with Jean, the poetic avant-garde filmmaker. Indisputably one of the masters of French painting of the 19th century, Pierre-Auguste fathered one of the greatest cineastes of the twentieth century in Jean Renoir. From the father’s paintings to the son’s films, the artist affiliation reveals a similar pursuit, and a single source of inspiration: an ode to freedom finding its origins in a profound humanity and love of reality. by Eddy Simon (Author), Jak Lemonnier (Illustrator), Jacques Renoir (Preface).

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Ion Mud (2021)

Lupo, a lone human, wanders the bowels of a gigantic ship, trying to survive and find the aliens who kidnapped him nearly 50 years ago. He's faced with a contamination from a hostile organism transforming all forms of life into mutant creatures and causing major malfunctions to the ship. Is this what has forced the aliens to take refuge behind monumental doors, impassable to all others? Left to himself in a world far beyond him, this man will have to use all his wits and stubbornness to unravel the mysteries of his very existence! Amaury Kundgen.

He Who Fights With Monsters 001 (2021)

It's World War 2 and the struggle between good and evil is in full force. In Prague, the great Bohemian city is being oppressed by the Nazi occupation and the population lives in terror, while the resistance forces try to organize themselves in the shadows.  It is an almost impossible task. With the ruthless SS tightening their grip on every street and neighborhood with overwhelming might, only one hope feeds the struggle. A crazy hope, which rests on the fragile foundations of an ancient, monstrous legend... (W) Francesco Artibani (A) Werther Dell'Edera (CA) Moy R.

Lugosi - The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula (2021)

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi's stardom would be assured...but with international fame came setbacks and addictions that gradually whittled his reputation from icon to has-been. Lugosi details the actor's fall from grace and an enduring legacy that continues to this day (Humanoids: 163). Koren Shadmi.

Gunblast Girls

After a job that went wrong, Zdenka and the other “Galactic Sistas” decided to go their separate ways. But now Zdenka has found something that seems to offer big rewards for zero risk, which is why she’ll need to convince her “sistas” to get the old gang back together. The job? Taking the director of the Economic Consortium’s daughter safely across Alliance lines. Fearing that too large a protection detail could attract unwanted attention, the director has requested something more discreet. But his headstrong teenage daughter isn’t going to make things easy. And as if that wasn’t enough, certain people seem to have a score to settle with Zdenka… Action, comedy, girls, and big guns are all on the menu in this first-rate space opera. Script by CRISSE - Art by CRISSE

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Dracula - Vlad the Impaler (2021)

A prince of Wallachia and son of Vlad Dracul (The Dragon), Vlad Dracul the Younger (Vlad Dracula) is taken hostage as a young man by Sultan Mehmed I to ensure his father's loyalty. When his father is killed at the hands of traitorous nobles in his own land, he assumes the crown and wages a cruel war to regain his lands and avenge his father. Throughout his life, he continued the fight to retain his kingdom, committing acts that would later lead to the formation of the famous character created by Bram Stoker.

Streamliner 01 (2020)

An abandoned stretch of road in the middle of the desert, a rusty old gas station, and a plume of dust rising in the distance… When Billy Joe steps onto old Evel O’Neil’s property, trouble follows close behind: misfits, criminals, cops, and media, all of them in search of freedom, justice, and glory… But only the fastest one among them will get it. Story and art by Fane.

Palimpsest - Documents from a Korean Adoption (2021)

Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins. “Be thankful,” she was told; surely her life in Sweden was better than it would have been in Korea. Like many adoptees, Sjöblom learned to bury the feeling of abandonment. by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom (Author).