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JERONATON - Champakou

Jeronaton's famous Champakou story about a Mayan astrologer who is visited by a beautiful extra terrestrial woman because she wants some of his virile male energy. Problem is he already has a secret lover who gets super jealous... Painted in photorealistic style. When I first saw it, I was weirded out how young Doll of Jade looked exactly like the Gypsy girl I dated one summer.

moebius - The Major - expanded edition+extras (2018)

The Major is at another mystical spiritual quest again, this time hunting for a key that will enable him to dream any dream he wants to. I'm not sure if this should have even been published, it is essentially a sketchbook drawings by moebius started in 1997. Moebius worked on it on and off untill 2009. It started with him just goofing around, the actual story begins at page 100. It was published in 2018, long after moebius' death.

Hugo Pratt - West of Eden

Lieutenant Abel Robinson's patrol tracks down a rebel group and its leader Mad Mullah in the Horn of Africa. The rebels who have sown death seem to be disappearing into the hot, quivering air of the desert, and the patrol's journey takes increasingly strange turns. When a sandstorm rises, Lieutenant Robinson ends up in another world - West of Eden...

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Fort Wheeling (2016)

Patrick Fitzgerald, aristocrat, and Chris Kenton, Virginian, are young soldiers serving on the frontier of Great Britain's American colonies just prior to the American Revolution. During the French and Indian war they fall in love with the beautiful Mohena, a captive rescued from the Shawnee Indians. When the American Revolution begins, however, the two friends choose different sides.

Tom Clancy's The Division - Remission (2021)

In the aftermath of a deadly biological attack, the world has descended into chaos. In the US, the Division agents are fighting to protect Washington, DC, from violent factions in this prequel to the hit Ubisoft video game Tom Clancy's The Division 2. The paths of four survivors, once childhood friends, deviate as they find themselves entangled in the vicious warfare. Writer: Jean-David Morvan. Artist: The Tribe.

Horrifying Delights (2022)

You will experience a forbidden romance where 50 Shades are really all gray (The Morning of a Terrible Happiness), you will find that greed doesn't pay off in space either (The Million Dollar Idea), and in the end you will witness a conversation with a time traveler who has chosen a concentration camp as the location for his excursion (that ends well, all's well). By Michal Suchánek, Ondrej Neff.

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Night of the Devil (2021)

In Night of the Devil, take a hallucinatory trip through the oppressive heat of the Burmese jungle along with British soldiers engaged in desperate skirmishes with the enemy. In Bayonet Jungle, Private Jack Green’s presence is seen as an omen of bad luck but he struggles to prove himself to the experienced soldiers of Third Platoon as they fight against the Japanese army that surrounds them. Two exciting and explosive war stories lushly illustrated by Hugo Pratt, comics legend and creator of iconic character, Corto Maltese.

False Guard 001 (2021)

by Merwan (Author, Artist). Young Mané is full of envy and strength, two essential qualities for someone who wishes to engage in Pankat, a brutal martial art and philosophy for those who practice it. Wandering the greatest Pankat schools in Irap, Mané will quickly prove himself with the advice of Eïam, one of the greatest masters of all time. But will he be able to resist the lure of Féssat, a former student who will try to lead the young man into a life of crime? The rules of life are not always as straightforward as those of a Pankat fight...

Farewell, Brindavoine (2021)

The French cartooning master Tardi’s first solo graphic novel is a riotous action-adventure comedy. Paris, 1914. In one auspicious night, Lucien Brindavoine’s humdrum life is thrown into wild disarray. Out of the blue, a strange old man visits Brinvadoine’s flat and implores him to go to Istanbul to seek his destiny. No sooner are these fateful words spoken than a shot is fired through the window and the man is murdered by a mysterious assailant. Thus kicks off a madcap adventure wherein the mild-mannered dilettante Brindavoine races to the Middle East ― by boat, plane, and jeep ―with cutthroat assassins threatening him at every turn. After much ado, he encounters an iron city in the desert where an eccentric American billionaire will decide his fate. The first solo graphic novel by Tardi, Farewell, Brindavoine showcases the French cartooning master’s signature blend of dark humor, brutal violence, and beguiling mystery. For Tardi fans, an essential early work; for newcomers, a thrilling primer to the Tardi oeuvre.

The Scorpions of the Desert

Autumn 1940, in the desert on the border between Libya and Egypt. The protagonists of the story are a group of men that belong to the fighting elite of the British Army: the Long Range Desert Group, aka the Scorpions of the Desert. They come from every battlefield of the Empire, and they travel alone, on the edges of the great maneuvers. They appropriate jeeps, armored vehicles, camels; or they march for days on end before an attack, striking and disappearing behind the sand dunes without much regard for rules.

But everything is bewildering around here, the borders, the enemy’s uniforms, the colors and the flags on the vehicles used by these men. Sometimes whoever is telling a story doesn’t tell the whole truth. Only Vladimir Koïnsky, lieutenant of the Polish cavalry, stays right on track. Koïnsky has enrolled in the LRDG after leaving behind the Cracow disaster and fleeing across Romania and Persia. He is a cynic and an individualist, but he can see beyond the mirages and recognize a spy. Redheaded, tough, disfigured (and not just in the face), Koïnsky is among those characters who do not want to make history, but rather live from day to day facing risks straight on, and overcoming them, because tomorrow doesn’t matter when you have nothing to lose. Created by Hugo Pratt.

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War picture library, issue 50 "The Crimson Sea" (Hugo Pratt)

One of a handful of war stories drawn by Hugo Pratt during the late 1950s early 1960s. War Picture Library No. 50 - The Crimson Sea. Publisher: Fleetway Publications Ltd, London.

A Game for Swallows. To Die, To Leave, To Return

Zeina Abirached’s evocative memoir, translated from French and told in a graphic novel format, opens with an attractive skyline of East Beirut in 1984. As the perspective zooms in, the initial beauty gives way to empty streets, windows protected by cinder blocks, rooftops lined with barbed wire, electrical wires dangling from homes, and rows upon rows of steel drums indicating the Green Line, a demarcation separating Muslim and Christian factions during the Lebanese Civil War, which took place from 1975 to 1990. The author’s apartment building looks out over this troubled area.

The Arab of the Future - A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 - A Graphic Memoir

This first part of former Charlie Hebdo columnist Sattouf’s autobiography was a controversial bestseller in France. It follows his early childhood through stints in France, Libya, and Syria, and his cross-cultural alienation from all of them. Sattouf’s father is Syrian, his mother French, and his story recounts the way his father commandeered their family life to reconcile himself with his Arab heritage. Though he is often forced back to France, Sattouf’s father takes teaching jobs in dictator-run Arab countries, then works to convince himself, and his family, that their near-utopian dreams are close to coming true. But through the author’s young eyes these regimes are revealed for all their weirdnesses and hardships. Despite his father’s determination to integrate his son into Arab society, little Sattouf—with his long blond hair—never fully fits in, and this report reads like the curious pondering of an alien from another world. Caught between his parents, Sattouf makes the best of his situation by becoming a master observer and interpreter, his clean, cartoonish art making a social and personal document of wit and understanding. - Publishers Weekly.

Corto Maltese

This story finds Corto reuniting with many friends from previous stories, searching for the Mu, the fabled lost city. The Mu story is incredibly convoluted, making this a particularly hard translation. Lots of statements contradicting previous statements. It took me a while to come to the decision that Pratt was doing this on purpose, but the discovery of just what Mu turns out to be is a big part of the ongoing story. This one is one of the longest Corto stories, and there are a lot of trippy dreams and dreamy trips that happen throughout. This is the loosest of Pratt's draftsmanship, and my favorite Corto Maltese art. The story meanders all over the place. The ending is in fact very affecting, especially if one has read some of the previous books (Corto Maltese in Siberia would be the key book there).