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Showing posts with label Julie Maroh. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Non Album Collections 205

Skandalon (2014)

Julie Maroh burst onto the scene in 2013 with Blue Is the Warmest Color, a tender, bittersweet graphic novel about lesbian love, in which a young woman named Clementine becomes infatuated with Emma, a girl with blue hair. The book spawned a controversial and acclaimed feature film that won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival as well as accolades for its stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux; the book itself is a New York Times bestseller and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.

Invincible 01 - Justice and Fresh Vegetables (2018)

by Pascal Jousselin. Invincible to the rescue! The one and only true comic book hero is here. there and everywhere! But this is no normal caped crusader. He has the power to traverse time. space... and page. a power he uses to foil the devious plans of evildoers the world over! And as if fighting crime wasn't enough. there are cats to be saved and corrupt politicians to take on! How will Invincible manage?! Especially with more heinous villains lurking on the horizon... It's going to be a wild ride. that's for sure. but if anyone can save humanity. it's the people's hero. it's Invincible!

Cici's Journal. The Adventures of a Writer-in-Training (2017)

by Joris Chamblain, Aurélie Neyret (Illustrations). Cici dreams of being a novelist. Her favorite subject: people, especially adults. She’s been watching them and taking notes. Everybody has one special secret, Cici figures, and if you want to write about people, you need to understand what’s hiding inside them. But now she’s discovered something truly strange: an old man who disappears into the forest every Sunday with huge pots of paint in all sorts of colors. What is he up to? Why does he look so sad when he comes back?


Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Non Album Collections 204

Curtain Call (2018)

Written by Wilfrid Lupano. Art by Rodolphe Guenoden. Vincent is spiraling down the drain, circling himself with no clue of what direction his life should take. He has already abandoned the woman he loved and their newborn child he never met, frightened of the responsibility of fatherhood. That's too much like growing up. But now, with nothing in his life but a barfly drinking buddy named Gaby Rocket, he's ready to finally fix himself and make things right. And that all starts with a bank truck heist . . .

The Heart of Shadows (2018)

Script by Marco Cosimo d’Amico, Laura Iorio - Art by Roberto Ricci, Laura Iorio. Luc is a frail child who’s afraid of anything and everything, no thanks to his Italian grandmother and her dark bedtime stories. So when he disappears from his bedroom one night, everyone fears the worst. Has he been kidnapped? Did he run away like his sister once did? Little do they know, Luc has traveled to a mysterious land filled with monsters and strange creatures named Shadows and is about to embark on a terrifying journey around the world where he must learn to conquer his fears if he ever hopes to return home. Accompanying him on his journey is the mysterious Uomo Nero, the bogeyman from the nursery rhymes his nana used to sing to him…

Blue is the Warmest Color (2013)

Blue Is the Warmest Color (Le bleu est une couleur chaude, originally announced as Blue Angel) is a French graphic novel by Julie Maroh, published by Glénat in March 2010. The English-language edition was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013. The novel tells a love story between two young women in France at the end of the 1990s.