Black Crow's Stories

Through the story of a frigate, become a witness to the independence of the American people in the Age of Enlightenment. In 1778, in the arsenal of Rochefort the frigate L'Hermione is started according to the plans of the engineer Chevillard Senior. For nearly a year, carpenters, piercers, caulkers, blacksmiths and convicts took turns to build this vessel of nearly 45 meters, with a wing of 1500 m2, 26 guns that can shoot 12-pound balls. In 1779, Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, sought official and firm support from France for the conflict between England and its thirteen colonies in North America. Louis XVI agrees to provide military and financial assistance to the men of General Washington and orders La Fayette to embark on L'Hermione to fight alongside the insurgents. A comic book by Jean-Yves Delitte.

Black Crow

A pirate fresco and American beating drum signed by a roaring J.-Y. Delitte! Nova Scotia, December 1775. In the midst of the American War of Independence, a man cleverly slips between the English lines. His name: Black Crow, his mission: to report the results of a piracy mission against the insurgent troops of a certain George Washington ... Except that Black Crow also came to take revenge, because its sponsor did not exactly respect all the terms of their strange contract. A hitch that Black Crow will make him pay at the high price ...

In the company of Jean-Yves Delitte, official painter of the Navy, and his sublime talent as historical storyteller, trace the thread of revenge in American lands, in the secret footsteps of Black Crow, the darkest and most fascinating mercenaries, for a great pirate fresco with dazzling perfumes of history and elsewhere. Scenario + Drawing: Delitte, Jean-Yves.

The New Tsars

1991, the Soviet Union is no more. Nevertheless, with the exception of the countries of Eastern Europe, all states that become "independent" remain under Moscow's benevolent influence. This fragmentation greatly favours the emergence of the Russian Mafia. Just think about it this way : Russian political figures at the highest levels are corrupt, colluding with disillusioned military leaders in search of money, and all of them having dealings with the Chechen rebellion. If we add an investigation conducted by members of the FSB (ex-KGB) to the cauldron and stir. Graphically, Jean-Yves Delitte offers us a classic design. The line is simple and the colour layout highlights the gray and cold of Russian winters. The New Tsars.

Yuri Vladimir is a forty-something. A highly qualified physicist who performed his military service in the Soviet Army, he left the Soviet Union for Europe in the late 80s and was soon recruited by a NATO nuclear control office. He is regularly sent to Russia to oversee the dismantling of nuclear weapons. During one of these stays, he witnesses a conspiracy and becomes a marked man.

Tanâtos

Tanâtos, alias "The Son of Death" or "The Man of a Thousand Faces" arrives on the scene in December 1913 when Raymond Poincaré is President. The Socialists, led by Jean Jaurès, still believe that war can be avoided, and fight the warlike ardor of the government and the nationalists. The infamous criminal intends to use this pro-war climate to become the richest man in the world. 

His knowledge of disguise, his unlimited resources, his exceptional intelligence, his total lack of conscience, allow him to dream up crimes and schemes with perfect indifference to his victims. Only two men, Antoine Bernin, inspector in the Police judiciaire, and Louis Victor of the detective agency Fiat Lux, stand against the man who plans to become the Master of the World. Scénario : Didier Convard. Design : Jean-Yves Delitte.

U-Boot

This naval war comic is created by Jean-Yves Delitte and published by 12A. Atlantic March 1945. While the Third Reich is at bay, a German submarine fled towards Buenos Aires aboard a mysterious package monitored by an SS officer. A series of unexplained murders and mutilated bodies, however this secret mission to transform nightmare for forty-six crew members. Amazon May 1951. A team of the English cartographers discovered totally rusted carcass of a U-Boat from the Second World War. In May 1957, an expedition of English cartographers recognize from the route of the Amazon between the counter of Obidos and the city of Manáos. They discover the carcass eaten by a German submarine in World War II, a U-boat stranded in the jungle and eaten away by time and corrosion. This submarine which sailed in March 1945 to Brazil with his captain and forty-six crew seems to have been the subject of a curse.

Venice, Venetian June 2059. A young student and his teacher were murdered as they were about to reveal an unprecedented financial scandal. In 2054, Pietro Campinello young student Venetian fascinated by the mysterious history of the submarine, going about it make a gruesome discovery and outrageous that will cost him his life. Between historical narrative and international marine thriller, this highly structured comic keeps us in suspense from one end to the other amid financial and medical scandal. Still very comfortable on the water, Jean-Yves Delitte offers this time a closed-door taking in the depths of the ocean. Its plot drop down three times and in three different places, it still remains in a maritime universe.