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Nowhere Girl (Europe Comics 2021)

by Magali le Huche. This is the story of a girl growing up in the 1990s – a middle- schooler who finds herself lost in the gulf between childhood and adolescence, developing paralyzing fears of failure, school, other people, and her own changing body. Along the way, she becomes obsessed with the Beatles... which might be just what she needs to find her way back to being okay. Yeah yeah yeah!

The Famous Quartet of Piraeus (Europe Comics 2021)

Written by Giorgos Skabardonis. Art by Dimitris Kerasidis. The Famous Quartet of Piraeus was formed in 1934 as a café band. It was the first group featuring the bouzouki and the baglama, and consisted of frontman Markos Vamvakaris, Giorgos Batis, Anestos Delias, and Stratos Pagioumtzis. Markos’ fiery love for Zingoala, his first wife, is the main and painful source of inspiration for the founder of rebetiko music. Starting as a skinner at a slaughterhouse, Markos becomes a pioneer who paves new paths for traditional Greek music and entertainment, running constantly afoul of the musical mores of the era—as well as the police, his wife, and the dictatorship of Metaxas. And all the while, war is approaching in the background like an inevitable chorus...

Mitchum (Blutch) (2017)

by Blutch. Mitchum is an artistic adventure as fascinating as it is original. Free to invent or break his own rules, Blutch dodges the traps of virtuosity to let emotion alone guide his hand. Interrogating the themes of the gaze, the artist and the model from different angles, Blutch captures with sensuality the sentimental crossovers.

Dead and Unburied

Yan is on top of the world. School's almost out for summer, he's about to have a new baby sister, and he's going to be spending his vacation making a zombie movie with his best friend Nico. But on his way home from school, he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and before he knows it, his life is slipping away... Things are no longer smelling rosy now that Yan's pushing up daisies. But for some reason, Yan's soul isn't going anywhere: his body may be rotting, but his mind is clear, and once out of his grave, Yan is determined to be reunited with his family. He may be falling apart, but he isn't about to let that happen to them! Created by Jocelyn Boisvert and Pascal Colpron.

Alt-Life

On a dying Earth in a not-so-distant future, Josiane and René are the first to enter a new virtual world where just about anything is possible… Part dystopian love story, part psychedelic meditation on human nature, “Alt-Life” takes the reader down a mind-bending rabbit hole of desire, loneliness, and self-discovery. Script by Thomas Cadène - Art by Joseph Falzon. 

Empress Charlotte

At sixteen, Princess Charlotte falls in love with an Austrian archduke, Maximilian of the House of Habsburg. Soon enough, she finds herself enmeshed in the cruel and unpredictable world of international diplomacy as her marriage founders. Increasingly shrewd, naïveté and idealism replaced by practicality and skepticism, Charlotte will help ensure that she and Maximilian are sent to Mexico to reign as emperor and empress…Script by Fabien Nury - Art by Matthieu Bonhomme. 

1000 Storms

Lisa is a lonely girl who enjoys wandering nature and collecting odd bones and pebbles. The other kids think she’s kinda weird, maybe a witch, and avoid her. When one day she discovers a tree that allows passage to a parallel world, she finds herself in the middle of a demonic invasion plot, faced with saving the very children who ridiculed her.

In this magical tale (set in the same world as WATERSNAKES), Tony Sandoval takes readers back to his world of mysterious adolescence and surreal beauty. Like WATERSNAKES, and DOOMBOY before it, the reader is faced with recognizable feelings of solitude and longing mixed with danger and adventure through a visual wonderland.

The Tiger Awakens - The Return of John Chinaman

You’ve followed his adventures through the Gold Rush, the building of the Continental Railroad, and the taming of the frontier. Now Chen Long the Chinaman, the triumphant creation of Olivier TaDuc and Serge Le Tendre, is back for his greatest adventure of all: finding out he’s a father. Twenty years after his violent past drove away his true love Ada, the Civil War, prison camp, and opium have left Chen Long a broken-down shell of his former proud self. Can the tiger rise to save his son? A fitting conclusion to an epic series that explores forgotten pockets of western history. Script by Serge Le Tendre - Art by Olivier TaDuc. 

In Search of Lost Time

"Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth," wrote Graham Greene. "For those who began to write at the end of the twenties or the beginning of the thirties, there were two great inescapable influences: Proust and Freud, who are mutually complementary." With its sweeping digressions into the past and reflections on the nature of memory, Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging literary experiences. Influencing writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and even anticipating Albert Einstein in its philosophical explorations of space and time, In Search of Lost Time is a monumental achievement and a virtual rite of passage for any serious lover of literature. by Stéphane Heuet (Adapter), Marcel Proust  (Author).

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The First Man - The Graphic Novel (2018)

by Jacques Ferrandez (Adapter), Albert Camus  (Author). A visually arresting adaptation of Albert Camus’s masterful biographical novel that offers a new graphic interpretation for the next generation of readers. This new illustrated of Camus’s final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus’s own. This stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood defined by poverty and a father's death, yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria—and the young protagonist's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother.  

Astro Mouse and Light Bulb 01 - vs Astro Chicken (Papercutz 2021)

by Fermin Solis  (Author). Join Astro Mouse, the insightful Light Bulb, and their... er... pet Caca, as they battle intergalactic potatoes, (delicious) astro chickens, and solve a civil war between mint and fruit flavored chewinggum. Getting lost in space has never been so ridiculous!

Michael Jackson in Comics! (NBM 2021)

by Ceka (Author). Well beyond his passing in 2009, Michael Jackson remains one of the most adulated and mysterious stars in the world. Incredible singer, brilliant musician, amazing performer, he was just as talented as he was eccentric, adored as well as reviled with sordid accusations, sadly caught between a stolen childhood and a suffocating star system. Discover in this biography mixing comics and documentary chapters, how the youngest of the Jackson 5 was propelled to the front of the stage and then onto one of the most extraordinary solo careers in music. The next volume in the sellout series featuring the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Marley.

The Mask of a Thousand Tears

After a horrific battle in a mythical Asian land, a peasant soldier with a mysterious past encounters a young woman who has come to find the body of her dead fiancé. She is determined to travel to Takedo Castle and get her hands on the Mask of a Thousand Tears, a golden mask which will allow her to travel to the underworld and bring her fiancé back to the land of the living. The peasant, Masamura, accompanies Sadakyo on her quest. She discourages him but soon learns that she has no chance of surviving without his help. They are both determined, for different reasons, to see this mission through to the end, no matter what the cost. A story in two volumes. Script by David Chauvel - Art by Roberto Ali.

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Love Love Love 001 - Yeah Yeah Yeah (2021)

by Kid Toussaint  (Author), Garrido Andrés (Illustrator). If robots can fall in love, it's because they have a soul. However, in this futuristic world, there is no question of recognizing a humanity in them. Exploited, they are maintained by humans under the yoke of programmed obsolescence which destines them for destruction, preventing all updates. In this deleterious climate, war seems inevitable. But love does not prevent and between Elle, the human, and Karel, the Cherish Bot, it's love at first sight. How will they succeed in loving each other?

The Story of the Velvet Underground (2021)

by Prosperi Buri. The Beach Boys and the Beatles are filling up the airwaves, but halfway between California and Liverpool, another band is putting together a sound that will change rock ‘n’ roll forever. Andy Warhol discovers the Velvet Underground in a little tourist bar in New York, and he soon becomes the producer for this group whose songs aren’t so much about girls and hot rods but shooting up, alternative lifestyles, and the melancholy after the party. It’s the late sixties, but not quite everything is flower power. The radio wants nothing to do with the Velvets, but the cool kids know who they are, and the enormous influence of this short-lived band has yet to abate.

Hellship (2015)

by Jared Muralt  (Drawings). The Second World War saw its last upheavals. War is still raging in the South Pacific. But if the position of the Japanese is desperate, they are all the more dangerous. On the American side, however, the atmosphere is not festive. With only two more wins to hold the Air Force record, Captain Edward Baxtor wants only one thing: to go home and find his pregnant wife. However, his squadron must fulfill one last mission: to find and destroy a convoy of Japanese ships. And that day that can make him a hero will perhaps be the darkest day of his life ...

Where are You, Leopold

Leopold is just like every other boy in town...except that he can turn himself invisible! Perhaps when he grows up, Leopold will use his powers to fight the forces of evil...but for now, he just wants to have a little fun—sometimes at his sister's expense, other times as her partner in crime. Join Leopold and Celine as they turn everyday life into a silly adventure! by Michel-Yves Schmitt (Author), Vincent Caut (Illustrator). 

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Old Pa Anderson (2020)

by Hermann Huppen (Illustrator), Yves Huppen. The US state of Mississippi, during the segregation of the 1960s. All his life old Anderson has been slavish and obedient. When his daughter was brutally murdered a few years ago, the old black man has always known that the culprits were white and that the court would never do anything about it. Yesterday his wife died of old age.

Assholes (2021)

Simon Kennedy and Chuck Atkins are well-known TV presenters. With their bleached teeth, dyed hair and overly bronzed skin they’re trying to look as young as they did twenty years ago. In the course of an 18-hole round of golf, they endlessly spew out vile remarks – denigrating the caddy, ethnic minorities and especially women. These sexist, racist jocks are utterly repellent in every way, yet Bram Algoed and Micah Stahl keep managing to make them seem a little bit human… until you turn the page and Simon and Chuck once again cross every line of decency.

Nationalist Love (2021)

When Zapsky and Byro meet during a right-wing nationalist march, their joint escape from the police results in an unexpected and violent outburst of passion. Their initial euphoria quickly turns into doubt and fear—after all, if their buddies found out about them, the consequences would be terrible... But now that they’ve come together, will they be able to simply forget and move on with their lives? Or is it something more lasting, despite the risk it represents for both? "Nationalist Love" is the third graphic novel by Jakub Topor, nominated for the graphic novel of the year award at the Lodz Comics Festival.

Yojimbot

This yojimbo, as you might have guessed by the name of the book, is a robot. He wanders the land, taking on other robot warriors and trying to act within the rules for the betterment of mankind. And then things get turned upside down. Writer/Artist Sylvain Repos is purposefully vague about the details, but the general outline is that robots have their own set of rules that they need to live by, though they’re not quite the same as Isaac Asimov’s most famous ones. 

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Loonicorns 001 - Bleary-Eye (2021)

Script by ced - Art by Gorobei, Waltch. Welcome to the wonderful world of Looniland, filled with loonicorns, cyclopes, dodos, and other fantastical creatures! Life is good in Looniville… if you’re a Pretty. Meanwhile, the Uglies do all the work and get teased and ridiculed. Until, one day, a huge storm blows through, bringing with it a mysterious illness that only seems to affect the Pretties. And in the nearby forest, a strange new creature has landed. Her name is Penelope, and no one has seen anything like her before. Where did she come from? Could she be the cause of this nefarious disease?

The Tiger Awakens - The Return of John Chinaman 01 (of 02) (2021)

Script by Serge Le Tendre - Art by Olivier TaDuc. You’ve followed his adventures through the Gold Rush, the building of the Continental Railroad, and the taming of the frontier. Now Chen Long the Chinaman, the triumphant creation of Olivier TaDuc and Serge Le Tendre, is back for his greatest adventure of all: finding out he’s a father. Twenty years after his violent past drove away his true love Ada, the Civil War, prison camp, and opium have left Chen Long a broken-down shell of his former proud self. Can the tiger rise to save his son? A fitting conclusion to an epic series that explores forgotten pockets of western history.

Knights of Heliopolis (2021)

The 18th century. In a monastery in the North of Spain hides the sacred temple of the Knights of Heliopolis: an assembly of immortal alchemists cut off from the world. As disciple Seventeen prepares to complete his training and integrate order, his master Fulcanelli reveals to the other knights the terrible secret of his origins - Seventeen is actually the hidden son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette! Will the young heir claim the throne or remain in the shadows, faithful to the millennial precepts of Alchemy?

The Red Baron

In the skies of France during the Great War, a red-painted fighter is chasing a British SPAD. The relentless German pilot eventually wounds his opponent mortally, and lands near the downed Briton to watch him die, confessing his delight in war and victory. Ten years earlier, a young Manfred Von Richthofen is attending a military academy in Berlin when, during an incident with classmates, he comes to realise he has an unnatural gift. Created by Pierre Veys, Carlos Puerta.