Non Album Collections 316

Parallel Lives (2018)

by Olivier Schrauwen. One of comics’ true visionary formalists reinvents science fiction in this graphic novel. This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast. Full-color illustrations throughout.

The Case of Alan Turing - The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker (2016)

by Eric Liberge (Author), Arnaud Delalande (Author). Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 created what became known as the "bombe" which descrambled the German navy's messages and saved countless lives and millions in British goods and merchandise.

Portrait of a Drunk (2020)

by Olivier Schrauwen, Jérôme Mulot. Guy is no master mariner, with a clipped red (or black) beard. He's just an ordinary member of the crew — able enough, but also a lazy, cowardly liar, a drunkard, and a thief. His story is told in two allegorical parts: "The Blowout" and "The Hangover." Three contemporary comics titans, Belgian Olivier Schrauwen (Parallel Lives) and the French duo Ruppert and Mulot (The Perineum Technique) collaborate to bring you the best pictorial and narrative elements of the great tales of the sea — bright colors, grand battles, gallows humor — in this tour de force of black comedy.

Eleanor The Dark Legend

1137. Eleanor, duchess of Aquitaine, aged fifteen, becomes queen of France. Humiliated in public by her mother-in-law, treated like a child by the king's adviser, kept away from the affairs of the kingdom, the young woman swore to take her rightful place. Politician, intriguing, perfidious or sublime in love, she will decide the course of history. Scenario: Delalande, Arnaud. Mogavino, Simona. Drawing: Gomez, Carlos.

Codex Sinaiticus

In the footsteps of the very first version of the Old Testament. A dangerous, erudite, fascinating quest. "I am the one who follows." This is the last sentence of the testament that his father left to the young and brilliant researcher Christopher Wertmann. A strange formula borrowed from another testament: the Old Testament in which Chris will find a second letter, which will send it in the footsteps of the Codex Sinaiticus, the very first version of this founding text of Christendom. A first version, which is said to contain mysterious secrets, which several Nazi scholars tried to discover in their time, and in particular a certain ... Kurt Wertmann, Christopher's own grandfather. Aware that " He must shed light around his father's death and protect the Codex from the wrong hands between which he seems to be about to fall, Christopher immediately sets out for the most dangerous of adventures. Between pure action and pure erudition, a new great series with the epic and esoteric breath has just begun.

The Last Cathar

In the 13th century, in the region of Toulouse, Escartille, a young troubadour, will find himself in spite of himself witness of a massacre that the pope would have liked to keep secret. A terrible inquisitor is going to throw himself at his heels. The Last Cathar. A comic by Arnaud Delalande and Éric Lambert.