1848. In Ottoman-occupied Montenegro, young doctor Vanko Winczlav is one of the leaders of a popular uprising. Betrayed, wanted by the authorities, he flees the Balkans for the United States in the company of a Bulgarian refugee, Veska, whom he marries to allow her to enter New York legally. So begins the history of a family closely entwined with that of a still new country going through many transformations (Cinebook: 58 pages). by Jean Van Hamme, Philippe Berthet.
The charming and humorous adventures of a handsome Parisian novelist, as recounted with a uniquely European sensibility. Monsieur Jean is a young writer whose everyday life and its inescapable existential woes are comedically told by the talented team of Dupuy & Berberian, winners of the 2008 Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême. Whether it's the unexpected visit of an old friend, a trip to his in-laws, the arrival of a child, the frustrations of writer's block, or even dealing with his moody landlady, Monsieur Jean's life and times all share a tenderness and a dash of irony. A series full of the nostalgia and droll absurdity that invariably come with adulthood.
New York in the 1940s on the crime scenes, flashlights crackle to feed the press eager to shock images that make his A. Lou Cale is one of those press photographers in bad reputation. But the hunter image turns into sleuth when a detail that no one had seen him put on a track to solve the case. A comic by Eric Warnauts and Raives.
With "Sarah", Christophe Bec is definitely emerging as a high-class writer, able to like a Stephen King in literature to keep the reader in suspense from the first to the last page. Remarkably imaged by Italian Stefano Raffaele, "Sarah" arises immediately as a reference: in the register of fear, never cartoon series had indeed placed as high voltage! A comic by Stefano Raffaele (Illustrator), Christophe Bec (Scenario).
Sarah followed her husband, ranger, in a remote area of Pennsylvania. Their new house is beautiful, but the city of Salamanca is not very welcoming and the people are not more. But isolation does not frighten Sarah, she even seems to need, for a while at least. Time to rebuild, to finish with his inner demons, to break free of traumatic past experiences. To find peace and escape the torment, Salamanca however may not be the ideal place. In early 2008, Christophe Bec is in top form. After a second volume of Bunker very successful in his way to associate and geopolitical fantastic and opening Deus seeking to revisit the theme of the search for immortality in a context where the death swept by waves, so here is a story of pure horror.
Late 19th century Tibet. When the Grand Lama Mipam dies, the seeds of corruption are sown across the land. Raised by locals, Gabriel, the orphan of white explorers, is chosen as the reincarnation of the Grand Lama. Torn between two worlds, he must master the sacred ways, defeat his own personal demons, and battle a great evil. He will need to enlist the aid of warrior monks, yetis and the Lord of Cats if he is to save his adopted country from utter devastation. The White Lama.
If you aren’t familiar with Alexandro Jodorowsky as a comic book writer, you might be know him better as cult director of films like “Santa Sangre”, “El Top” and “Holy Mountain”. The illutration in this book are so unique and come from the award-winning team that created “Son of a Gun”. This series also travels a bit away from the world of sci-fi that Jodorowsky has conquered with his past comics but it does show his range and that he is able to show some great range.
A young Englishwoman, Kim Nelson, travels to Istanbul in search of information about her grandmother Jade. In the years before World War I, Jade had been the favourite of the "Black Sultan", and ordered by him to seduce an English diplomat, Lord Nelson, in order to alter Turkey's influence in European politics. Kim's story and that of her grandmother are revealed in tandem, in a Europe where sexual and political allegiances are constantly shifting.
The Red Army has just delivered his last fights in spring 1945, and Berlin is no longer a field of ruins. Direct order of Stalin, a group of Russian soldiers paid the price yet to seize a building containing a priori harmless but a coveted secret by the Soviet dictator. This secret is perhaps what will lead the American submarine USS Nebraska in the depths of the Mediterranean. June 20, 2029, while the flagship building of the Navy sailing off the Syrian coast, a strange radar echo is received on board. The USS Nebraska mark the place of issue of the signal and discovers the wreck of an old Soviet submarine, lying near a huge sanctuary. Scenario: Xavier Dorison | Design: Christophe Bec. Sanctum.
The American submarine USS Nebraska was sent on a surveillance mission to the Syrian coast wide. The crew will capture a sonar echo and discover in a huge underground cave the remains of a Soviet vessel lying at the foot of a sanctuary. While a reconnaissance teams disappears into the remains, things go wrong aboard the USS: a man Amok and one is struck by the plague! Blood tests performed by the ship's doctor says the crew develops a characteristic hormone psychotic states. Hamish the commander decides to go with a small team to locate the group lost in the sanctuary before fleeing to the surface. The submarine is damaged and out of time. The commando enters the gallery that leads into the bowels millennia ruins.
Megalex city is an industrial perfection. It has spread almost all over the planet, destroying everything that is natural, random, abnormal. Megalex works correctly, with the perfection of the artificial. Police are cloned so that they are all the same, perfect, and can fight for Megalex during his four days of life. This is a happy world, as would Aldous Huxley. There are still some pockets of Nature, primarily Forest Chem, a conscious jungle trying to sabotage the unstoppable advance of Megalex, while waiting to Geomesías. In this world must survive a police clone cloned defectively the size of a giant. Only the love they feel Zerain and Kavatah can end this spiral of hatred and destruction. Created by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fred Beltran.
On Megalex, a gigantic planet-industrial city, every nature is banished. It Man and woman reproduces by cloning itself, people are preprogrammed from birth until death, regimented in classes with unequal privileges. The most spectacular life. The police only has live in 400 days, for citezen they are 40 years, but for the queen 4000 years. Everything would be fine in the Brave New World if only a few remaining ‘anomalies’: a forest irreducible and aggressive, rebels buried and, from time to time, there always a malfunction in the system.
In a world where humans have to live with the living dead, a new job opportunity is born: zombie catcher. Karl Neard, his sister Maggie and his Belgian friend Freddy Merckx embrace this career in hopes of making easy money. Unfortunately, the job isn’t that simple: not only are zombies dead bodies walking, but they also have a terrible scent and an awful sense of humor. As a matter of fact, zombies just don’t care about anything, since their lives are behind them and they have an eternity to enjoy. Karl and his team end up attracting all sorts of freaks in 2064 Los Angeles.
Albino, bastard son of a space pirate, has only one goal, to become a member of the Technoguild and create the video games that influence every citizen in the galaxy, or die trying. And he just might! The path to become a Technopriest is a difficult one and Albino must face many trials before he can fulfill his destiny. Meanwhile, Albino's mother, brother and sister begin a perilous quest to find the brutal pirates who fathered Albino and his siblings. The Technopriests is an eight-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, artist Zoran Janjetov, and colorist Fred Beltran.
To fight power one must have it, but power always has a price. Through its technology and mind numbing entertainment, the Technopriest guild controls the entire galaxy. Albino, bastard son of a space pirate, has only one goal: to become a member of the Technoguild and destroy the guild from within. The path to become a Technopriest is a difficult one and Albino must face many trials before he can fulfill his destiny. Meanwhile, Albino's mother, brother and sister conclude their perilous quest to find the brutal pirate who fathered Albino.
