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Monday, April 25, 2022

History Time

Not far from Plymouth in 1775: The brothers Harry and Jason have serious money problems. When Jason tries to gamble to get out of a tight spot, they run into sinister figures. Luckily, energetic grandmother and loyal dog Hamlet keep a cool head... by Doris Ertel-Zellner (Author), Bernd Kissel (Author), Reinhold Zellner (Author).


Thursday, April 21, 2022

Non Album Collections 368

Azimut (2022)

This Crayon d'Or prize-winning graphic novel is an incredible Terry Gilliam-esque fantasy tale, penned by the award-winning author of the acclaimed Valerian spin-off. Azimut features a host of quirky characters in a colourful fantasy world whose lives are turned upside down when the magnetic North pole simply disappears! Writer: Wilfrid Lupano. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Andreae.

The Art of Mastantuono (2010)

Many artists are versatile. Corrado Mastantuono is something more: an artist who can change his style from Disney cartoon-like adventures to detailed fantasy universes to the movie-like black and white world of Bonelli Comics characters. Start a journey through unknown and magic, with surprises on every page. It’s your chance to have a look at unpublished concept art and less known work. The best of Corrado Mastantuono, finally collected in volume.

Jon Rohner (2019)

The end of the 19th century, the twilight of sailing ships, and the picturesque islands of the South Pacific, are the setting for these history-laced adventures. Jon Rohner, a likeable sailor who lives on the edge of the law, tells his stories to Robert Louis Stevenson -- the famed author of such classics as Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- who has settled on the Samoa islands and befriended Rohner. Through Rohner's stories we are taken into a world full of excitement, action and drama: from his kidnapping a princess to prevent a war between two tribes; to a story about a man who fell in love with a cannibal queen, left his family and got tattooed over his whole body and face; to Rohner's surviving a tsunami and volcano eruption. The stories -- Rohner's adventures -- are seemingly in endless supply.



Friday, April 15, 2022

Non Album Collections 367

RetroActive (Humanoids 2022)

by Ibrahim Moustafa  (Author). An agent working for the U.S. Bureau of Temporal Affairs sets out to discover the source of several anomalies in the timeline—only to become imprisoned in an inescapable time loop. Temporal agent Tarik Abdelnasser is trapped in a time loop, living and dying over and over again.

Her Night - A Woman's Fantasy (2016)

A Woman's Intimate Fantasies Fulfilled. An adult comic book.

The Nightmare Brigade 01 - The Case of the Girl from Deja Vu (Papercutz 2022)

by Franck Thillez (Author), Yomgui Dumont  (Illustrator). The Nightmare Brigade is a dream team led by Professor Angus. With his two young sidekicks, 14 year-olds Esteban and Tristan, they have one goal: help people get rid of their worst nightmares. With unique skills, the team members can literally infiltrate their patient’s nightmare to seek its root and destroy the cause. Things are shaken up a bit, however, when they meet the young Sarah. The Brigade has a feeling they have seen her before… Then, an insomniac is invading other’s dreams. How does he do it and how can he be stopped? It’s a paranormal story you won’t want to sleep on!


Thursday, April 7, 2022

Non Album Collections 366

MBDL My Badly Drawn Life (2022)

Drawn in Gipi's signature elegantly scribbled ink style and punctuated by vivid watercolor splashes, My Badly Drawn Life weaves through the past and present, through narratives both real and imagined, to create an impressionistic account of his complex inner life. In this kaleidoscopic journey into the depths of his psyche, Gipi processes the shadowy traumas of his upbringing; in doing so, he produces a gripping work of utter cartooning mastery.

The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks

Written and illustrated by an award-winning artist and translated into English for the first time, Igort’s The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks is a collection of two harrowing works of graphic nonfiction about life under Russian foreign rule. After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion.

Ladies with Guns, Part 1 (Europe Comics 2022)

Script by Olivier Bocquet - Art by Anlor. Five women from various backgrounds are brought together by fate to fight as allies for their survival. A retired schoolteacher, an Indian who’s handy with a bow, a young, immigrant widow from London, a brothel worker who’s made off with the till and a fourteen-year-old slave who’s been put in a cage. This unlikely band of adventurers must fight off the violence men resort to when caught in greed’s ubiquitous grip. They’ll do it with arrows, pies, brooms, pots, knitting-needles, and a lethal revolver that becomes even more dangerous in the hands of the sharpest-shooter of them all: a teenager who’s been whipped, locked in a cage and freed only to fall victim to pneumonia. These women have got each other’s backs and don’t take kindly to the worst mankind has to offer.


Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Sapiens - A Graphic History

The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for adult and young adult readers alike.

The second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution—when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.


Sunday, April 3, 2022

Non Album Collections 365

Cosplay (Europe Comics 2022)

Script by Mikko - Art by Maribel Conejero. Abel is a cosplayer. His parents don’t get it. His brother’s a big, dumb jock. Still, the geek heaven of Comic-Kon is just around the corner, and this year, Abel plans to win the cosplay contest as his hero, Batman. But the convention has other surprises in store. When an intelligence team invades the floor in hot pursuit of a rogue agent, Abel and his friends have a chance to be the heroes they only dress up as. A series of chases and double-crosses ensues that will teach these eager kids what being a true hero really means.

Makhno - Ukrainian Freedom Fighter (Humanoids 2022)

Philippe Thirault & Roberto Zaghi. The spellbinding true story of the infamous Ukrainian anarchist and revolutionary. In early 20th century Ukraine, freedom fighter Nestor Makhno, the son of peasants, was among the most heroic and colorful figures of the Russian Revolution, encouraging his people to find and embrace social and economic self-determination. This is his story, of a military strategist who tirelessly defied both the Bolsheviks and the Germans to protect his homeland.

Menji and the Sea Dragon (Europe Comics 2022)

Script by Fabien Grolleau - Art by Mathieu Demore. Once every thousand years, the incredible Sea Dragon reappears! It is said that the first person it lays eyes upon will become its master and be able to control its extraordinary powers. The time has come: the Sea Dragon is about to return at any moment! Master Fox wishes to use the Sea Dragon’s powers to reign over the Squirming Archipelago. But he will need the help of his servant, the cowardly and naive cat Menji. But others are also searching for the legendary Sea Dragon… and they will stop at nothing to get there first!


Friday, April 1, 2022

U4

“My name’s Jules. From the window of my Paris apartment, I’m looking in horror at the piles of bodies in the street below. My parents are on the other side of the world. They’re almost certainly dead. My older brother, Pierre, can only drown his sorrow in drugs, but I must look after Alicia, a little girl who somehow escaped the virus and is all alone. But what can I do for her? My only hope is to join the other Warriors of Time masters… You choose which volume to read first. The first four are parallel stories, so it doesn’t matter which one you start with. But you must finish with Khronos, where the four threads are finally brought together. Script by Pierre-Paul Renders, Denis Lapière - Art by Adrián Huelva.