Non Album Collections 328

Mademoiselle Baudelaire (2021)

Two hundred years after his birth, Baudelaire continues to mark the generations and the poet has hovered over Yslaire's work from the beginning. Yet it is Jeanne Duval, the one the poet loved the most and the most accursed, that the designer has chosen to revisit in this masterpiece the sulphurous and autobiographical material of the Fleurs du mal. Of Jeanne, however, we know almost nothing, neither her real name, nor her date of birth, nor her date of death. No letter signed by his hand has reached us. There are still a few testimonies, portraits drawn by Baudelaire himself, an unauthenticated photo of Nadar, not to mention the poems she inspired in him. Jeanne, "it is the invisible of a whole era" which reappears in the feminist resonance of ours. She who was stigmatized as mulatto, Creole and nicknamed "Black Venus" in reference to the "Hottentot Venus", loving all the prejudices of a misogynist and racist century.

Eden (2018)

Once upon a Christmas Eve, animals begin to talk. And they refuse to be muzzled again. Humans aren't going to like what they have to say, and it isn't long before the consequences of the animals' newfound communication turn tragic. Not understanding their pets is no longer a valid excuse for ignorant masters, and shunning those who squeal and chirp ceases to be feasible. The tables are turned, and it's up to humankind to deal with the situation. A smart, thought-provoking book that prompts readers to rethink their habits, and which stands as a superbly crafted, emotion-packed story (Europe Comics: 222 pages). Tomek Woroniak.

Plutocracy - Chronicles of a Global Monopoly (2020)

The world's largest company, The Company, has seized power on a planetary scale and runs the world as if it were a business. In a plutocracy, the richer one is, the more powerful one is. In this context, an anonymous citizen becomes compelled to uncover how the world came to this situation, without paying any attention to the official version. Several members of the government end up encouraging him to carry out this investigation by giving him access to all information. He decides to discover the true history of The Company and the various interests that are trying to influence his investigation (NBM: 146 pages). Abraham Martinez.

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The Stranger - The Graphic Novel (2018)

by Albert Camus  (Author), Jacques Ferrandez (Illustrator). The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later—leading him to commit an irreparable act.

In Search of Lost Time - Swann's Way (Heuet) (2015)

by Stéphane Heuet (Adapter), Marcel Proust  (Author). In this first volume, Swann's Way, the narrator Marcel, an aspiring writer, recalls his childhood when―in a now immortal moment in literature―the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea unleashes a torrent of memories about his family’s country home in the town of Combray. Here, Heuet and Goldhammer use Proust's own famously rich and labyrinthine sentences and discerning observations to render Combray like never before. From the water lillies of the Vivonne to the steeple and stained glass of the town church, Proust's language provides the blueprint for Heuet's illustrations. Heuet and Goldhammer also capture Proust's humor, wit, and sometimes scathing portrayals of Combray's many memorable inhabitants, like the lovelorn Charles Swann and the object of his affection and torment, Odette de Crécy; Swann's daughter Gilberte; local aristocrat the Duchesse de Guermantes; the narrator's uncle Adolphe; and the hypochondriac Aunt Léonie.

Plutocracy - Chronicles of a Global Monopoly (NBM 2020)

by Abraham Martinez  (Author). 2051. The world's largest company, The Company, has seized power on a planetary scale and runs the world as if it were a business. In a plutocracy, the richer one is, the more powerful one is. In this context, an anonymous citizen becomes compelled to uncover how the world came to this situation, without paying any attention to the official version. Several members of the government end up encouraging him to carry out this investigation by giving him access to all information. He decides to discover the true history of The Company and the various interests that are trying to influence his investigation.