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Cinegeek (2017)

An encyclopedia of fun little tidbits about the most popular films! Imagine a list of the best romantic comedies without Hugh Grant! Or a tally of the most improbable fantasy flicks. Or even a ranking of giant movie monsters by size! In Cinegeek, messy, fun, and 100% subjective appreciation of cinema comes into focus for the delight of moviegoers and pop culture fans everywhere!

The Interview (2017)

This graphic novel is set in Italy in 2048. Raniero is a fifty-something psychologist whose marriage is failing. In the sky, strange bright triangles appear, bearing mysterious messages from an extraterrestrial civilization. Dora, his young patient, is part of the "New" Convention, a movement of young people preaching free love and alternative models to coupling and family. She declares that her telepathic abilities can parse the signal ― a warning of some kind. Initially skeptical, Raniero's curiosity and attraction grows. The Interview is a science fiction novel that eschews the stars in favor of the delicate, fragile, interior world of human emotion.

Reading the Ruins (2018)

The new book by David B. takes place during the First World War involves soldiers, secret agents, underworld characters and mystical creatures. Do you care about the nature of reality when horror is your everyday world?

War of the World War One

In 1916, during the battle of Verdun, a huge German mine destroys an important French fort and kills general Nivelle. However, the explosion uncovers a strange and massive machine which had been buried in the ground beneath the fort for centuries. Protected by a force field, the machine suddenly sends a message into Space – a message that will awaken what is hidden under the dead cities of the planet Mars...

The Dream of Jerusalem

France, 1076. Hermance Languedolce, a child with miraculous healing powers, falls in with religious rebels and is branded a heretic. Hideously tortured, he summons a miracle and saves himself, only to be taken in by kind gypsies. When fearsome warrior Karlis Oresund is converted to Christ, he too receives a miraculous ability to sense evil. Entering the service of Bohemond of Taranto, he sets forth on a crusade to the Holy Land, conscripting Hermance by force along the way. Hermance can’t or won’t remember his powers, but can Karlis bring them out of the scarred young man? Script by Philippe Thirault - Art by Marty.

Alcyon

In ancient times, long before Sparta and Athens engaged in a ruthless war, Alcyon and Phoebe set off on a journey to find a legendary necklace, thinking they could repair an injustice done to their tribe, commanded by their respective fathers. Aided by Kirilos, a young Sparta, the two friends will cross the Aegean Sea, Asia Minor and places where still live nymphs and sea monsters, harpies and griffins, and so many other mythical creatures ... A comics by Richard Marazano and Christophe Ferreira.

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Body and Soul (2018)

Script by Grégory Mardon - Art by Grégory Mardon. The lives of a handful of Parisian characters trying to connect with themselves, their bodies, and each other intertwine in this insightful snapshot of modern society: mothers and daughters, sons and parents, lovers, friends, and neighbors interact and experience each other in ways both simple and profound.

The Perineum Technique (2018)

Script by Florent Ruppert Jérôme Mulot - Art by Florent Ruppert Jérôme Mulot. Ruppert and Mulot dive into the bizarre fantasies, bitter disappointments, and downright depravity of modern sex lives in this highly original graphic novel. Couples and singletons, real life and online, the authors take us deep into the subconcious, with all of its bizarre and wonderful imaginings and little insecurities, of a young man like so many others.

The Client (2018)

Script by Zidrou - Art by Manolo Carot

An average Joe falls in love with a hooker from Ecuador and, when she goes missing, pressures a local mobster into telling him where she is by kidnapping his only daughter… What could possibly go wrong? A story about second chances, with a buddy road trip and musings on art and beauty thrown in for good measure.

The Season of the Snake

'Aliens' meets '2001: A Space Odyssey' in this all-new sci-fi epic! Written by multi-award winning science fiction writer Serge Lehman, creator of 'The Chimera Brigade'. A rich and intricate world, perfect for both science fiction and fantasy fans.

Interpol

A highly dubious investigation in the heat and humidity of Mexico’s badlands. When headless women’s bodies are found all across Mexico City, Interpol agent Clare Burnell faces the indifference of the local police and the ultra-violence of gangs of drug traffickers. Her only choice is to team up with Pablo Tikal, a P.I. whose methods are as effective as they are unorthodox. Script by Philippe Thirault - Art by Marty.

Winter 1709

Hunger strikes at the gates of the kingdom of France, cold and death rule. A man challenges them. While the last war of Louis XIV drags on, France must survive the Great Winter that hits it. The frost kills, the famine threatens. The grain nourishing peoples and armies becomes more precious and coveted than gold. Braving the deadly cold and the bad matches, the adventurer Loys Rohan launches in a race against the clock to prevent the enemy from seizing a cargo of providential wheat for the Kingdom. The confrontation promises without mercy ... 

For the holidays, find in full the first cycle of the series of Nathalie Sergeef and Philippe Xavier, between History, adventure and narration of capes and swords.

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Dark Museum 01 - American Gothic (2018)

Written by Alcante Gihef. Art by Stéphane Perger. The austere painting American Gothic, by Grant Wood, has a special place in the Dark Museum. 1930, Iowa. The effects of the crash are terrible in this part of America.
With mass poverty, egoism prevails everywhere. In the middle of a terrible drought, the installation of a traveling circus stirs up the already heated spirits of the residents. As Lazarus Henkel despairs, struggling to provide for his family, a car accident occurs close to his farm. And the smell of the driver’s burning body suggests a macabre solution...

The Lost Path (2017)

If you've got the taste for adventure, come join this treasure hunt! Three young boys set off from Camp Happiness, map in hand, determined to be the first to find the treasure before anyone else. But the shortcut they take leads to something far more spectacular and sinister! All manner of magical beasties live in these woods, and the kids find themselves caught between warring Forest Spirits. Will the three boys find their way out of trouble? Get your map and ready, set, go! Amélie Fléchais's incredible artwork combines the best of French illustration with manga influences. A spooky new fairytale, for fans of Over the Garden Wall.

Limited Edition (2018)

Script by Aude Picault - Art by Aude Picault. Claire is a thirtysomething neonatal nurse who is becoming increasingly discouraged about her prospects of getting into a long-term relationship and starting a family. She thinks she may have finally met her man in Franck—if not a Prince Charming then at least a friendly and compatible person—but societal pressures and gender norms seem to rear their heads at every turn and Claire begins to wonder if it will ever be possible for her to be happy with another person on her own terms. Aude Picault’s chronicle of everyday romance is full of wit and sympathy but it is also backed up by a bibliography of feminist essays and studies of gender relations, offering a valuable and complicated case study of the challenges facing modern women.

White Claw

Taho-the-Quick, a poacher, has an encounter with the animal totem of his people, the dragon queen, who entrusts him with the dangerous mission of carrying her egg to her dragon brothers up in the mountains. On his journey, Taho-the-Quick will not only have to fight enemies but also join forces with unexpected allies, including the mysterious White Claw, a warrior with unparalleled skills. The survival of the dragon species and that of a whole people will depend on their partnership. Written by Serge Le Tendre. Art by Olivier Taduc.

Gaijin

Alex Otoishi, half-breed of Japanese father and American mother, is a private investigator. But of a kind a little peculiar since it works only on behalf of the four families of yakuza who share the Japanese capital, and of which he has earned respect. Flanked by his sidekick Sanzo, Alex is contacted to protect the key witness from the most important investigation against one of these families. Scenario: Erbetta, Luca.  Blengino, Luca

Drawing: Gallo, Pier.

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Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen (2016)

by Rodolphe (Author), Annie Goetzinger (Author). During the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond belief: it is the ghost of Marie Antoinette appearing to her to share a terrible secret that has tormented her for centuries. After being guillotined, the Queen is said to have been thrown into a common grave but then exhumed and buried with her husband, Louis XVI, in the Saint-Denis basilica. Yet the ghost tells Maud that her remains are still in the pit on which a chapel stands today. The queen asks Maud to move her body to the right place so she can finally find peace and no longer haunt people. Part fantastic ghost story, part biography, this is a delicious beautifully illustrated look into French revolutionary history by the artist of the bestselling ‘Girl in Dior.’

POS - Piece of Sh-t (2017)

by Pierre Paquet,  Jesús Alonso Iglesias (Illustrator). A young man struggles to build a publishing company, find love, and discover who he really is, with his one true trusted companion being the dog who truly seems to understand him. In the end, he realizes that for far too long he has been a self-absorbed piece of sh*t.nA touching autobiographical story by Swiss BD publisher Pierre Paquet, the spiritual sequel to Paquet’s Eisner-nominated A Glance Backward, which recounted his experience dealing with the death of his father at age 11.

Monet, Itinerant of Light (2017)

by Salva Rubio  (Author), EFA (Illustrator). The life of the great French painter, one of the founders of Impressionism, is narrated in lush comic art reminiscent of his style. From the Salon des Refuses (“Salon of the Rejected”) and many struggling years without recognition, money, and yet a family to raise, all the way to great success, critically and financially, Monet pursued insistently one vision: catching the light in painting, refusing to compromise on this ethereal pursuit. It cost him dearly but he was a beacon for his contemporaries. We discover in this comics biography how he came to this vision as well as his turbulent life pursuing it.

Ravage

The future. All trace of technology seems to have disappeared from the face of the Earth. Two armies face each other at the ancient village of La Cadiere d'Azur. In his command tent, an elderly but charismatic man talks with his advisors. Hostile to any form of progress, the man they all call the "Patriarch" is about to launch his attack to destroy the "machine" designed by his opponent. Because he remembers ... 100 years ago, in 2052, François Deschamps is just a simple student at the Graduate School of Agricultural Chemistry in Paris. Betrothed to the young and beautiful Blanche, everything seems to be going well in his life. The world is ruled by a powerful technology. Until everything stops. Until the disaster...

Ravermoon

For more than a century, Ylgaard has been the capital of the Magi. They express their art within the Arcanade, a place of research that includes many schools, each corresponding to a field of magic expression. Time Managers are the most modest of these communities. Hardly they reach the glory with the discovery of the Slices of Time that they are all murdered during a bloody night! All except Gillian who, miraculously, escapes the massacre. Who commissioned these heinous crimes? The Miracle Church, religion of a hated neighbor who settled in the kingdom of Sikhor? Another school? Brigands? This is what Nadira, sister of Gillian and formidable mercenary, Rhomdal, Black Regent of Sikhor, and Ornelas, captain of the legendary Knights Tournefers, will try to discover ...Scenario: Cordurié, Sylvain. Drawing: Pilipovic, Leo.

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The Czech Coup (2018)

Script by Jean-Luc Fromental - Art by Hyman. A former actress and spy, Elizabeth Montagu, is tasked with guiding British author Graham Greene around postwar Vienna, as he conducts research for a screenplay. However, the visit of “G.,” a former spy himself, soon proves to be just as mysterious as his best-selling thrillers, winding through Vienna’s shadowy underground before leading to a Prague on the cusp of revolution…

BONI 01 - The Last Bite of Carrot (2018)

Boni is a nice little rabbit who has to learn the harsh realities of life. He always manages to maintain his sunny disposition and enthusiasm, even in a cruel world where catastrophes -- and school bullies -- smack him in the face at every turn. His parents are well-meaning but sometimes exasperated, while his many younger siblings cause all kinds of trouble, and his grandpa just wants to be left the heck alone.

Total Jazz (2018)

In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the music but the nature of the jazz subculture. The grumpy festivalgoer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan “types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus — everything from loose linework to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils — Blutch captures the excitement of live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but not down.