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Monday, September 30, 2019

Non Album Collections 186

Brina and the Gang of the Feline Sun (2018)

Script by Giorgio Salati - Art by Christian Cornia. When the cat Brina goes on vacation with her owners, things don’t quite turn out as planned. Should our loved ones be held on to and protected, or should we let them go, to live out their own adventures? A charming and spirited graphic novel from scriptwriter Giorgio Salati (Disney, RAI) and artist Christian Cornia.

Michigan. On the Trail of a War Bride (2018)

Script by Julien Frey - Art by Lucas Varela
When Julien arrives in Michigan to meet his wife’s American family, he gets to know the American Midwest, as well as some unusual cousins. But above all, he meets Odette, his French great aunt with what one might call a resilient personality. Originally from Paris, she married an American soldier at the end of the Second World War. Like her, 200,000 other European “war brides” left behind their families and their countries to be with the G.I.s they loved.

Story Without a Hero (2018)

Script by Jean Van Hamme - Art by Dany. A plane from a South American company crashes in the jungle. Only half of the passengers and crew survive. Some businessmen, a university professor, a steward, an aging movie star, a banana republic general, a young boy and his nanny… All these varied personalities will have to find a way to unite and work together to survive. But who should they listen to? Who should they follow? Who can they trust? And is help even on its way?


Saturday, September 28, 2019

In Search of the Unicorn

1471. Leading a band of faithful crossbowmen, Juan de Olid leaves Castile in secret, bound for adventure and the unknown lands of Sub-Saharan Africa. The expedition’s objective is to bring back a unicorn horn as quickly as possible—the future of the kingdom depends on it. On the advice of the most pre-eminent experts of their day, Juan de Olid and his companions take along with them the one thing that can help them in their quest: a virgin. For the scent of unsullied maidens has the power to tame the most formidable of unicorns. Meanwhile, the apothecaries of King Henry IV of Castile, nicknamed “the Impotent,” impatiently await this legendary horn, as it is said it can cure the King and ensure the continuation of the royal line… Script by Emilio Ruiz - Art by Ana Miralles.


Thursday, September 26, 2019

Revolutions

Technological revolutions are a time of incredible inventions, brilliant minds, and fantastic discoveries. As well as bad inventions, failed experiments, and bizarre ideas. “Revolutions” brings to life a series of alternate histories, and offers inventions so fantastic they could never be brought into existence in our world. Instead, these inventions disappear into oblivion, or transform into something completely other than what their makers intended. A truly “revolutionary” series of graphic novels. Script and Art by Mateusz Skutnik.


Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Katanga

In 1960, after 80 years spent under Belgian colonial rule, Congo declares its independence. Less than two weeks later, the rich mining province of Katanga secedes. Immediately after the secession, Congo and Katanga enter into a war for the dominance of mining territories, including the diamond province, Kasai. The war is followed by civilian massacres and exoduses, at which point the UN intervenes and sends peacekeepers to the area. At the same time, though, a ruthless horde of mercenaries are recruited and sent there to liberate occupied areas. A black servant, Charlie, changes his own fate drastically by getting his hands on a priceless treasure, making him the most wanted man in Katanga… Script by Fabien Nury - Art by Sylvain Vallée.


Sunday, September 22, 2019

Narcos

TWO AGENTS OF THE DEA FACING THE CARTELS 
His name is Rico Riva. For his wife and friends, he is a trainer for the DEA's young recruits. In reality, he emerges in Action and inherits the most dangerous missions. He spent his life in the slums of Latin America, weapon in hand, to destabilize the production of cartels of drugs. A goal he shares with his colleague Matthew Deadrick. But Matthew's field would be more like the posh yachts of Miami, where the distribution is decided. A common goal, two parallel roads ... A comic book by Emmanuel Herzet and Giuseppe Liotti.


Friday, September 20, 2019

Non Album Collections 185

Jazz Club (2018)

Script by Alexandre Clérisse - Art by Alexandre Clérisse. Norman was a talented sax player in his heyday, until he lost his musical gift seemingly overnight and fled to France. Over thirty years later, with the millennium approaching, he finds himself confronting unresolved questions, a former lover, and diehard fans who have taken obsession to a new level…

Little Mama (2018)

Script by Halim - Art by Halim. Life isn’t easy for little Brenda, whose single teenage mom is immature, selfish, and prone to violent mood swings. Brenda takes care of her as best she can, missing out on many childhood joys to be her mother’s Little Mama. Sadly, her already challenging existence gets even worse when her mom’s abusive boyfriend moves in. Brenda loves having a new baby brother, but her home life soon turns into pure living hell. Finally she reaches her breaking point, and has to find the courage to save herself and embark on the difficult road towards recovery. A heartbreaking and inspiring tale of abuse and survival.

The Big Empty Life of Alphonse Tabouret (2018)

The Big Empty Life of Alphonse Tabouret is an existential fairy tale about Life, Love, Loss, and the search for answers to questions we all ask nobody in particular. While cute and silly on the surface, almost every encounter is metaphorical (without being heavy-handedly so). This adorably engaging and heartwarming tale invites the reader to decipher the life lessons gleaned by Alphonse in personal terms that speak to today's social conditions. Through the innocent lens of simple, cute characterization, readers are presented with honest questions about parenting, materialism, addiction, codependency, narcissism, depression, and the search for meaning that we all undergo every day.


Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Baker Street

Did you know that Watson owes much of its popularity to a jellyfish? That Holmes sometimes practices burglary? And would you be able to find a relationship between a canned devil, a dumbbell, an alarm clock, a cactus and a mass of weapons? No ? Well, dive into Dr. Watson's secret notebooks, miraculously exhumed by two "froggies". Scenario: Veys, Pierre. Drawing: Barral, Nicolas.

Monday, September 16, 2019

The Word of the Mute

Late 1920s. Celestin has only one dream in mind: making movies. Freshly landed in Paris, he became a decorator for a large studio, where he met Constance who made him read a story she wrote. Enthusiastic, he decides to bring her to the screen, despite her inexperience. Aided by some friends, he will invest the night studios to make his film! Scenario: Galandon, Laurent. Drawing: Blier, Frédéric.

Saturday, September 14, 2019

Dogs of Pripyat

April 26, 1986: A series of explosions ravages the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, contaminating everything in a radius of more than 200 km. After the evacuation of the nearest villages, groups of hunters are formed with the mission of slaughtering the animals affected by radiation and living freely in ghost villages. For thirty rubles per animal killed, a brigade agrees to enter the area. There they will meet the fate of extraordinary characters. Lost souls, abandoned in the irradiated moor. by Aurélien Ducoudray ,  Christophe Alliel (Illustrator)

Thursday, September 12, 2019

My Lady Vampire

THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST TRAPPED INTO A BLACK CHURCH 
Lorelei is blind and bored to death in a house where her father and mother-in-law tyrannize her. To deceive her boredom, she heals all the bugs coming to burst in front of her door, until the day when it is a wounded vampire who comes there to run aground. Once the wolf in the sheepfold, he will of course pull out fangs. But Alois, the vampire, is hunted by his fellow men who want his life. From then on, the survival of the beast depends on that of the beautiful, and conversely ... Scenario: Alwett, Audrey. Drawing: Nicolaci, Silvestro.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Non Album Collections 184

The Little Book of Knowledge - Heavy Metal (2017)

ROCK ON! Whether they're new initiates to the cult of heavy metal or lifelong headbangers, this little book has something for metalheads everywhere.
Learn to identify the many tribes of the international heavy metal community, from Thrash to Black Metal. Master the codes, from the sign of the horns to the Diabolus In Musica. Understand how satanic Metal coexists with Christian Metal. Discover genres that have spread outside the Western world, like Japanese and Iranian Metal. With so much more to uncover, your journey into Heavy Metal has just begun.

Voices in the Dark (2017)

Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations - the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear - and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to Party rallies, to the Eastern Front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her...
Based on an acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark is the first fictional graphic novel by Ulli Lust, whose award-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life appeared in English in 2013. It is the story of an unlikely friendship and of a childhood betrayed, a grim parable of naïveté and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece.

The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)

This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to the Nazis, who sent him to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, where he spent the war among thousands of other Spaniards and other prisoners. More than half of them would lose their lives there. Through an odd turn of events, Boix finds himself the confidant of an SS officer who is documenting prisoner deaths at the camp. Boix realizes that he has a chance to prove Nazi war crimes by stealing the negatives of these perverse photos—but only at the risk of his own life, that of a young Spanish boy he has sworn to protect, and, indeed, that of every prisoner in the camp.


Sunday, September 8, 2019

On the History Trail with Ariane & Nino

This is an educational collection for young readers interested in history. Starting out with a real‐life situation (such as a snowball fight in the yard), Ariane and her little brother Nino get talking about historical subjects. Each subject is covered in 32 panels, followed by educational appendices to complete the discussion (portraits of historical figures, maps, timelines, etc). Script by Fabrice Erre - Art by Sylvain Savoia.


Friday, September 6, 2019

Now - The New Comics Anthology

This is the launch of brand-new, periodic anthology of comics from some of the best cartoonists in the world, such as Eleanor Davis (How to be Happy). Now is an affordable and ongoing (three times a year) anthology of new comics that appeals both to the comics-curious as well as the serious aficionado. It's a platform for short fiction, experimentation, and for showcasing diversity in the comics field. The only common denominator to each piece is an exemplary use of the comics form, with a lineup of established and up-and-coming talent from around the globe. The first issue includes new work from acclaimed creators such as Noah Van Sciver (Fante Bukowski), Gabrielle Bell (Lucky), Dash Shaw (Cosplayers), Sammy Harkham (Crickets), and Malachi Ward (Ancestor), as well as international stars such as J.C. Menu, Conxita Herrerro, Tobias Schalken, and Antoine Coss. Plus strips from Tommi Parrish, Sara Corbett, Daria Tessler, and Kaela Graham, as well as a gorgeous painted cover by artist Rebecca Morgan.


Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Non Album Collections 183

Land of the Sons (2018)

In an uncertain future, a father and his two sons are among the survivors of a cataclysm whose causes are unknown. It is the end of civilization. There is no society anymore. Every encounter with others is dangerous. The father and his two sons, like the few other characters met, the Sorceress, Anguillo, the Grossetête twins, the Faithful, furious devotees of the god Trokool, live in a bad and dark world. The air is saturated with flies, poisoned water. The existence of the father and his two sons is reduced to the daily struggle to survive. The father writes every evening on a black notebook. What does he write? What is his secret? We do not know, his sons too. They would like to learn to read, they would like to know how we lived "before". But the father refuses to

Niki de Saint Phalle - The Garden of Secrets (2018)

Niki de Saint Phalle knew art could save the world because art saved her. From madness, from violence. From herself. Niki de Saint Phalle was a French-American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker. She was one of the few women artists widely known for monumental sculpture.

Persephone (2018)

Persephone is an ordinary girl, which is exactly what is bothering her. She may be the adopted daughter of the famous magician Demeter, but Persephone struggles to find her place alongside such a force of nature. Driven by recurring nightmares as well as a budding curiosity, Persephone decides to explore the secrets of her birth, which everyone seems rather intent on keeping from her. With or without help, Persephone will embark on an epic adventure deep into the Underworld where she’ll discover far more than she bargained for. Storyteller Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky weaves a story of magic and intrigue in this stunningly rendered modern retelling of the Greek myth of Goddess Demeter and her daughter, Persephone.


Monday, September 2, 2019

The Vampire of Benares

They are among us ... When his friend journalist suddenly disappears in Benares, India, Mircea goes in search of him. What he finds is beyond comprehension ... His investigation leads him to the heart of a hallucinatory world where terrible and evil creatures reign, Vampires ?? These are organized into castes and sub-castes, and an entire aristocracy revolves around an all-powerful ruler. Vampiric history dates back to the dawn of time. Mircea will discover that vampires gather in clans and hives and engage in endless fratricidal wars. But the worst thing is that he also discovers that they are the ones responsible for the calamities that strike humanity forever. At the end of a real descent into hell, horrified by this terrible revelation. A comic of Georges Bess.