Emma and Violette

Emma and Violette are sisters who share the same dream of attending Paris’s most prestigious dance school. Violette passes the first audition with flying colors, but Emma doesn’t, and their world comes crashing down. But there may be more than one way to dance through life… This is the revelation at the heart of the first volume of this lively and graceful narrative. Script by Jérôme Hamon - Art by Lena Sayaphoum.

Mermaid Project

Paris, end of the 21st century. Inspector Romane Pennac is the only white woman in her station. The world has suffered devastating wars and ecological disasters, and the old powers of Europe and America are now the third world. Amidst it all, it is to this young woman, now a member of a discriminated-against minority, that a couple of devastated parents turn. A mysterious letter has just announced that the body of their daughter, recently deceased in New York, is missing from her coffin...

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Betty Boob (2017)

BETTY'S BOOB is a sweet and humorous comic about loss, recovery, and self-love. Véro Cazot and Julie Rocheleau cleverly mix together surrealism, referencing classic cartoons and exaggeration to portray Betty's experience with cancer and her whimsical journey to reinvent herself.

Exquisite Corpse (2015)

Zoe isn't exactly the intellectual type, which is why she doesn't recognize world-famous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment...and into his life. It's also why she doesn't know that Rocher is supposed to be dead. Turns out, Rocher faked his death years ago to escape his critics, and has been making a killing releasing his new work as "lost manuscripts," in cahoots with his editor/ex-wife Agathe. Neither of them would have invited a crass party girl like Zoe into their literary conspiracy of two, but now that she's there anyway. . . . Zoe doesn't know Balzac from Batman, but she's going to have to wise up fast... because she's sitting on the literary scandal of the century!

The Marvelous Adventures of McConey - Slalom (2018)

McConey and his buddies can't wait to hit the mountain for winter vacation. Skiing, relaxing, dance parties, and card games... Just what the doctor ordered to get away from it all. Except nothing goes as planned, starting with the mysterious wolf on the prowl that's gobbling up skiers and closing down resorts! A brilliant and off-beat tale to hold you over until your next run down the slopes.

Jane

Bikers! It’s the big gathering of Daytona. Kirk and his gang are there for the bikes, the beer, the girls and the fights. But Jane dreams of another life. At the funeral of her aunt, she meets her cousin Andrew, with him she get along fine. For Kirk, it’s a declaration of war. Someone wants to steal Jane from him.. it’s the beginning of a nightmare! Jane and Andrew have to runaway save their own hides, they attempt a race against death. Scenario: Bonifay, Philippe. Drawing: Falque, Denis

Fredegund the Bloodthirsty

560. Fredegund, a beautiful ambitious peasant, became Queen Audevere's wife, wife of Chilperic. This situation is not enough for him. She seduces the king and obtains from him the secret promise of a marriage. While intriguing to get rid of the Queen, her ambitions will be thwarted by the desire of Chilperic to enter into an alliance with a Visigothic princess. Scenario: Greiner, Virginia. Drawing: De Vincenzi, Alessia.

The Millennium Trilogy

Presenting a new vision of the worldwide bestselling Millennium novels by Stieg Larsson, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is the first comic book adaptation of Lisbeth Salander's harrowing story ever to appear in English.

The Millennium saga continues with The Girl Who Played With Fire: the second chapter in Stieg Larsson's best selling novel series. nIn this exciting comics adaptation, anarchist-hacker Lisbeth Salander finds herself on the run after being accused of triple-murder and only renowned journalist Mikael Blomkvist has the skills to help clear her name.

The Fifth Gospel

Holy Land. XIIth century. Thirteen young Saracen children have disappeared. All the girls, at least 13 years old, orphaned and tattooed with a hand of Fatima on the forearm. The disappearances continue ... At this same time, troubled by incessant quarrels, Lord Milon de Plancy has just been savagely assassinated by four hooded men. This is only the beginning of a series of mysterious murders linked apparently to a codex whose revelations are likely to wreak Rome.

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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.

The Realist

Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and cartoonist whose award-winning webcomic The Realist began as an account of his adventures in house-hunting, but quickly transformed into a much more ambitious and inspirational exploration of his life as an artist, husband, and father as he tries to make sense of politics, technology, and his daily anxieties. Combining visual flourish, moments of fantasy, and startling use of color, Hanuka is brilliantly effective at putting his inner thoughts and fears on the page.

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Tears of an Afghan Warlord (2017)

Script by Zabus Pascale Bourgaux - Art by Thomas Campi. In this documentary comics we meet Belgian journalist Pascale Bourgaux as she travels with a cameraman back to a small village in the north of Afghanistan that she has been visiting regularly for ten years. The village is controlled by the warlord and resistance fighter Mamour Hasan, who fought to expel the Taliban from his land just like the Russians before them. To her great surprise, she finds the people there weary of the Europeans and corrupt Afghan officials and even the warlord’s own sons seem ready to welcome the return of the Taliban. This book uses the pacing and observational skills of artists Vincent Zabus and Thomas Campi to give a palpable sense of daily life in this troubled, faraway land as well as a behind-the-scenes glimpse of two seasoned journalists at work.

Sens (2014)

Case to box, without a word, Marc-Antoine Mathieu tells the initiatory journey of a man. What is he looking for? Where is he going ? This anonymous walker wanders in a refined universe, crossed by the spirit of the labyrinth ... Time, space, chance: over this quasi-meditative narrative is taking shape step by step a contemporary form of vanity.

The Little Red Wolf (2017)

Lose yourself in in the dark forests of Amélie Fléchais' spectacular artwork. A young wolf, on a journey to bring his grandmother a rabbit, is charmed by the nice little girl who offers to help him . . . but nice is not the same as good. A haunting fairy tale for children and adults alike.

Night of the Living Dead

It's Halloween. Lizbeth leaves her husband and two children to accompany her brother Leland, the favorite son, to visit the grave of their adoptive parents. But no sooner do they arrive at the cemetery than they are attacked by a group of living dead! After a terrifying chase, Lizbeth and Leland find refuge in a squalid hotel that will prove to be the only defense against a horde of zombies hungry for fresh meat. They are safe, for now. But the real danger is right outside the hotel walls and the invasion is widespread. Several cities are already devastated. Created by Jean-Luc Istin & Elia Bonetti.

The survivors discover that the hotel manager is holed up in his room, ready to shoot the first person (or thing) that comes too close. As night begins to fall, they discover another problem. There is no electricity. Lizbeth has no choice. She decides that someone has to turn on the emergency power system. But she will have to pass through an area infested with zombies. Will Lizbeth survive? Will she be reunited with her husband and children?

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Bandit (2017)

Script by François Troukens - Art by Alain Bardet. Based on the life and crimes of François Troukens, “Bandit” delves into the former armed robber’s childhood and early criminal acts, recounts some of his most famous and audacious heists and the life on the run that followed, and shows how even a Public Enemy Number One can change his ways and embark on the path towards redemption.

Kobane Calling 01 - The First Trip (2016)

Script & Art by Zerocalcare. Zerocalcare, the Italian cartoonist, undertook a journey in the Middle East with the association Rojava Calling that tries to help the Kurdish population in their fight against ISIS. The reportage is a heart-breaking tale of courage, friendship and resistance. Zerocalcare, with his unique style and with his incredible sense of humor, gives us a personal report of what happens every day in Syria, and who the Kurdish resistance units really are. A book of beautiful and well-drawn characters, a lot of humor and above all, a lot of sympathy.

Aya (Drawn & Quarterly-2007)

By Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie. An Eisner Award-nominee! Meet the studious and clear-sighted Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a breezy and wryly funny account of the desire for joy and freedom, and of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. An unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa rarely seen - spirited, hopeful and resilient.

For the Empire

Glorim Cortis is a military celebrity in the Imperial army. The Empire has conquered many known lands, but not yet any unknown. This is the mission entrusted by the emperor to Glorim and his squadron. Once they cross the final frontier of mapped Imperial territories, this group of elites rides their way through a series of intense emotions spanning from doubt to fear. One thing is for sure: as the new map’s outlines slowly take shape, their expedition will lead to things that none of them were expecting. Written & Art by Merwan, Vives.

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Life Under Occupation (2017)

Script by José Pablo García - Art by José Pablo García

“Life under Occupation” is the adaptation of author José Pablo García’s trip to the occupied Palestinian territories, in collaboration with Action Against Hunger and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). From high-security airports to tension on the ground, García’s ten-day trip from Nablus to Gaza makes for a non-fiction graphic novel full of emotion and eye-opening discoveries.

Religion - A Discovery in Comics (2015)

In Fall 2015 the book about religion appears at NBM (as the third book in the U.S.) with the title Religion: a Discovery in Comics. "Outstanding Dutch comics artist de Heer follows her previous books in the Discovery series on philosophy and science with this lively, intelligent survey of the world's major religions."

The Peruvian Diary (1984)

An adventure story about meeting speleogues with extraterrestrial civilization. black-and-white The Czech Speleological Society published the occasion of the International Speleological Union (UIS) meeting in Javoří u Maletin and the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Koněprusy Caves on the Golden Horse at Beroun.