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.

The Corsairs of Alcibiades

The scene is early nineteenth century England. in a secret and exclusive university under the auspices of the British Crown. Peter. Lydia. Mike. Curtis. and Maryline. five young people with nothing in common. have been brought together here to take part in the admissions process of this most unusual school. Why were they chosen? And to what end? None of them realize yet that they will soon leave behind their relatively calm lives for untold adventures that lie ahead of them. Created by Denis-Pierre Filippi, Eric Liberge.

Mr. Ash Tuesday

A fatal slip on the toy car that his son had left in the bathroom, and Victor Tourterelle is dispatched straight to the other side of the mirror, to the beautiful world of chalk desert, under a sky as black as ink. No noise, not a soul. In his new state, Victor finds that he’s still fully conscious, more acutely than on earth, even. But his body is only bones. Little does the dead man know that he’s at the dawn of the wildest adventure of all time…Script and Art by Éric Liberge.

The Privateers Of Alcibiades

London, 1825. Peter is burglar. So it ends to open the trunk of a still asleep, he is faced with masked men, too, searched the house and carry with them. Mike, student, also that night in the middle of night progress to reach the window of Miss Ewitt, when a group of masked men immobilized through strange hands. He falls asleep immediately. Lydia, right arm of a boss of the underworld, realizes that their refuge is surrounded by the police. The battle rages, and Lydia owes its salvation to the unexpected intervention mysterious masked men. Created by Denis-Pierre Filippi & Eric Liberge. The Privateers Of Alcibiades.

Curtis is a student and Maryline is the daughter of the school's caretaker. They have discovered the solution to the puzzle picture displayed in the school that led them to a secret passage. They then pass into the dark tunnel. The next day, all the five find themselves in an unfamiliar place, invited to participate in the selection of a training school unlike any other! Why were they chosen? What purpose ? None of them does not suspect they leave for their long lives rather quiet in view of the adventures that await them. A great adventure saga is born! We are in the early nineteenth century England, the heart of a secret and selects the British crown university. Through the fate of five young men and women who are total opposites and yet will be one of the most successful teams of this secret society, Denis-Pierre Filippi sign an adventure saga in the spirit of  Jules Verne novels . Eric Liberge gives this epic full extent of his talent, multiplying the graphical prowess on every page. "Alcibiades" is certainly one of the great new adventure series of contemporary comics.