The Lion of Judah

1920s Nairobi. When two Africans are found gruesomely murdered, all signs point to John Wallace, a promising young plantation owner with a bright future ahead of him and a beautiful bride-to-be. What drove him to kill these men? His silence and a corrupt system lead to internment, without a trial, in a vicious Kenyan prison camp. But sadistic guards, conspiring cellmates, and harsh desert labor are no match for the suffering that Wallace feels inside over the life he lost, and how best to get it back. He’s willing to do anything for revenge—even loose the mysterious beast lurking within… Script by Stephen Desberg - Art by Hugues Labiano. 

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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2019)

by Kristina Gehrmann  (Adapter, Illustrator), Upton Sinclair (Author). Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair's 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today. Not many works of literature can boast that their publication brought about actual social and labor change, but that's just what The Jungle did, as it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In today's society, where labor and safety of the food we eat remain key concerns for all, Sinclair's shocking story still resonates. Bringing new life and energy to this classic work, adapter and illustrator Kristina Gehrmann takes Sinclair's prose and transforms it through pen and ink, allowing you to discover (or rediscover) this book and see it from a whole new perspective.

Forget Me Not (Europe Comics 2021)

Script by Alix Garin - Art by Alix Garin. When Clémence, a student and actress struggling with personal issues, sees how miserable her grandmother is in her nursing home, she decides to break her out and take her on a road trip to the coast so she can see her childhood home one last time. But traveling with a senior with Alzheimer’s Disease comes with a fair amount of challenges, and the journey is fraught with highs, lows, and near misses. Still, it’s a chance for the two women to reconnect, with each other and with themselves, and it’s a chance for Clémence to give Grammy the gift of one last thrilling and joyful experience.

Omni-Visibilis (Europe Comics 2021)

Script by Lewis Trondheim - Art by Matthieu Bonhomme. Hervé’s awkward, irritating, and maybe a bit OCD, but in the end, he’s a normal guy. He has a job, his buddies, a girlfriend, and a mother who keeps close tabs on him. One particular day starts out just like any other, but on his way to work, he quickly realizes that things are anything but normal. Every person he crosses paths with not only seems to know him, but sees what he sees, and hears what he hears. And he soon discovers that everyone else on Earth is connected with him too. So begins a day unlike any other, with Hervé cast out of anonymity and into a nightmare of confusion and danger.

Hercules Intergalactic Agent

Hercules and his friend Marlon have just enrolled at the School of Intergalactic Agents, but they’re both having problems. Hercules is a little young—and a little short—to make the grade, while Marlon just can’t help being a coward. For their first Surveillance Operation, they’re sent to Earth to gather information on a girl who’s behaving strangely. But while they’re away, the dreaded Blackbird plans to attack the School… Script by Zabus - Art by Antonello Dalena. 

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The Locker Room (2021)

by Timothé Le Boucher  (Author). As teen boys discover a renovated locker room at their school, it becomes the nexus of genuinely life-altering events. Body shaming, bullying, and the cruelty of prying eyes are only the tip of the iceberg inside this cauldron of hormones and developing adolescent minds.

A Gift for a Ghost (2020)

In Borja González’s stunning graphic novel, two parallel stories reflect and intertwine in a tale of youthful dreams and desires. In 1856, Teresa, a young aristocrat, is more interested in writing avantgarde horror poetry than making a suitable marriage. In 2016, three teenage girls, Gloria, Laura, and Cristina, want to start a punk band called the Black Holes. They have everything they need: attitude, looks, instinct . . . and an alarming lack of musical talent. They’ve barely started rehearsing when strange things begin to happen. As their world and Teresa’s intersect, they’re haunted by the echo of something that happened 160 years ago.

Brindille v1 001 (2021)

by Federico Bertolucci , Frédéric Brrémaud. A young woman wakes up in a humble town. He doesn't remember anything, not his name, or how he got there. As he tries to regain his memory and learns from the inhabitants of this world, he gradually awakens powers he cannot control.

Mister Invincible

He may be an average looking, unassuming guy in wrestling tights and a mask, but he manages to frequently save the day through his amazing – and sometimes unexplainable – ability to bend the laws of space and time… by reaching outside the panels of this comic book to affect things in the surrounding panels! This first issue introduces him to others with interesting comic-powered powers: Two-Dee and The Wordsmith, as well as the villainous JESTER! by Pascal Jousselin  (Author, Cover Art, Artist).

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The Two Lives of Penelope (Europe Comics 2021)

Script by Judith Vanistendael - Art by Judith Vanistendael. Penelope is a Belgian physician who works with Doctors Without Borders in war-torn Syria. She returns to Belgium when she can in order to see her husband and daughter, but the transition is hard. Her latest trip home for the holidays proves even tougher than usual, as the coexistence of the two excruciatingly different worlds she inhabits becomes increasingly fraught.

Plate Tectonics - An Illustrated Memoir (2019)

by Margaux Motin (Author). At age thirty-five Margaux’s life is full of upheaval and unexpected twists and turns. She’s divorced, raising a child on her own, and trying to get back on her feet in today’s fast-paced world. When romance eventually returns it takes on the most unexpected shape . . . in that of her best friend! Could things possibly get more complicated?!

Versailles - My Father's Palace (2020)

by Maïte Labat (Author), Jean-Baptiste Veber (Author), Alexis Vitrebert (Illustrator). Henri de Nolhac grew up without a father...though his father, Pierre, was very much alive and working mere meters away from their home at the Palace of Versailles. Once appointed to the Palace in 1887, Pierre de Nolhac dedicated his life to protecting its historical archives and restoring Versailles to its former glory: an agora of politics, art and culture. But it soon became more than a passion to him--it turned into an obsession, and the closer he got to Versailles, the further he drifted from his family and himself.

Magical History Tour

Current day kids Annie and Nico travel back to―ancient Egypt. That's about 4,500 years ago, when the world's largest pyramid was built, The Great Pyramid of Giza. It's also called the Pyramid of Cheops because it was built for the Pharaoh Cheops, who wanted to be buried in it when he died. That's right―pyramids are giant tombs! It was the first of seven buildings known as The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World―and it's the only one still standing! But it still has plenty of secrets waiting to be uncovered … by Fabrice Erre (Author), Sylvain Savoia (Illustrator).

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Marx, Freud & Einstein - Heroes of the Mind (Maier & Simon) (2017)

by Corinne Maier  (Author), Anne Simon (Illustrator). Through Anne Simon's irreverent illustrative comics style and Corinne Maier's witty, researched writing, readers can join the fight against capitalism with Karl Marx, meet the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and discover the fundamentals of physics with Albert Einstein. Explore complex scientific, psychological and political ideas in a wryly intelligent graphic novel format!

One Story (2020)

by Gipi  (Author). Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, a psych ward and the bloody trenches, and told through complex clues ― a lone gas station, an apathetic baroness, found love letters, and shifting from scratchy black-and-white to lush watercolors (sometimes on the same page), A Story documents the origins of pain that serve as the roots of a twisted family tree, and allows the reader to trace the branches.  Full-color illustrations throughout.

Park Bench (2017)

With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench. From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of the many who enter its orbit, the park bench weathers all seasons. Strangers meet at it for the first time. Paramours carve their initials into it. Old friends sit and chat upon it for hours. Others ignore the bench, or (attempt to) sleep on it at night, or simply anchor themselves on it and absorb the ebb and flow of the area and its people.

Mythics

In the ancient times of Gods and heroes, evil attempted to seize the world disguising themselves as six different gods. While they were spreading all their power of destruction, six heroes, each with extraordinary powers and brandishing sacred weapons, rose against these incarnations of evil. The evil was defeated and sealed in a secret place within the red desert on the planet Mars ...Today, enter six young heirs: Yuko of Japan, Parvati of India, Amir of Egypt, Abigail of Germany, Miguel of Mexico, and Neo of Greece suddenly pulled from their everyday lives. About to face the greatest threat that the contemporary world has ever known, in a flash, they get to discover just how worthy successors they may be of the ancient heroes. by Philippe Ogaki (Author), Patricia Lyfoung (Author), Patrick Sobral (Author), Alice Picard (Illustrator). 

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The Property (2013)

by Rutu Modan  (Author). After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw, Regina is forced to recall difficult things about her past, and Mica begins to wonder if maybe their reasons for coming aren't a little different than what her grandmother led her to believe.

Alone (2017)

by master illustrator-storyteller Chabouté (Park Bench, Moby-Dick). On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a lonely hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, its occupants never meeting him, never asking the obvious questions: Who are you? Why do you hide? Why do you never leave? What is it like to be so alone?

Deconstructing the Incal

by Jean Annestay (Author), Christophe Quillien (Author), et al (Author). Deconstructing The Incal lifts the veil on many of the mysteries and secrets surrounding the seminal science-fiction graphic novel, which has become the cornerstone of the Jodoverse. This encyclopaedic reference book is packed with fascinating insights from The Incal's creators, Jodorowsky and Mobius, alongside revealing text, and rare and unseen preliminary illustrations. With detailed biographies of the characters and worlds, not self-respecting Incal fan should be without this book.

Waluk - The Great Journey

Wáluk and Eskimo are two inseparable bears. Wáluk is very young and Eskimo is very old. Between the two they've found a way to survive in an extremely hostile environment, combining the agility of the younger with the experience of the older. When Eskimo decides they should go further north in search of better hunting, they set off on a great journey neither are truly prepared for... by Ana Miralles (Author), Emilio Ruiz (Artist).

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Pizzeria Kamikaze (2018)

by Etgar Keret  (Author), Asaf Hanuka (Illustrator). Mordy wanted to get away. Now in an afterlife for all victims of suicide, he still has to attend a crappy job in a place no more or less crappy than the place he came from. No matter where Mordy goes, he’s still Mordy. But he’s shaken from the mundane after he runs into his former roommate and discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend is there too, which sets Mordy up for a much needed road trip through an absurdist and fantastical landscape to find her.

Out in the Open (2018)

by Javi Rey (Adapter), Jesús Carrasco (Author). After suffering violence and betrayal at home, a young boy flees into an uncompromising landscape ravaged by drought. Without food or water, exposed to the heat of the sun and the violence of his pursuers, the boy sets out across the Spanish plains. An encounter with an elderly goatherd offers hope of survival. The old man can help him stay ahead of the dangers that lie outside—but he can’t fix the internal drama that plays out in the boy’s mind. Nightmares are a constant reminder of a traumatic past and an unstable present.

Mox Nox (Joan Cornellà) (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

King Classics (Joyas Literarias Juveniles)

Joyas Literarias Juveniles from the Spanish publisher Editorial Bruguera, produced 270 adaptations of classic stories from 1970 to 1983. 28 of these have been translated into English and published as King Classics. Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Last of the Mohicans., Herman Melvlle's Moby Dick etc. All this series was printed in Spain, but distributed in U.S. only from 1977-78.

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The Grand Abyss Hotel (2019)

by Marcos Prior (Author), David Rubin (Illustrator). In The Grand Abyss Hotel, neoliberalism has become a state religion while the citizens quietly and then not-so-quietly rebel, giving way to violence on the streets and sowing chaos. A masked vigilante takes on the role of hero to battle politicians, the erosion of democracy, and social media. After the fires burn low and the dust settles, social order returns. Or does it? Marcos Prior and Eisner Award-nominated artist David Rubín (The Hero, Rumble, Battling Boy: The Rise of Aurora West) weave a politically satirical look at democracy today through the lense of hyper-violence and explosive action.

Elizabeth I - A True Book (2020)

by Nel Yomtov (Author). A True Book: Queens and Princess tells the stories of women who were born or married into royalty. Who were these women who ruled nations and kingdoms and touched the lives of their people? They led sensational and sometimes luxurious lives. They also made sacrifices. They impacted war and peace, politics and economics, culture and tradition. These queens and princesses were so much more than their bejeweled crowns! With engaging text, primary source material, infographics, photography, and artwork, Queens and Princesses follows these vibrant women from childhood to the end of their reign.

Exit Wounds (2007)

by Rutu Modan  (Author). Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself piecing together not only the last few months of his father's life but his entire identity. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Rutu Modan creates a portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution of family ties.

Raj

Bombay, 1831. Freshly arrived from London, Alexander Martin reports to his new boss at the Indian Political Service—a government agency whose function is little more than helping the East India Company expand its grasp upon the Indian subcontinent. From the start, the enthusiastic and idealistic young man displeases the British establishment, and is shunned by Bombay’s polite society. Until, that is, until several of its members begin disappearing, forcing Alexander to investigate… Script by Conrad Didier, Wilbur - Art by Conrad Didier.