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Babylon Berlin (2018)

A tale of corruption, trafficking and scandal in 1920s Germany, as the birth of the Weimar Republic sends the world scurrying into economic and political turmoil. As Germany faces radical change, an unfortunate manslaughter sends detective inspector Gereon Rath away to Berlin.

Almost (2018)

An autobiographical story in which Manu Larcenet, with raw sincerity, describes a day in the army. But not just any day... Page after page, Larcenet's spare storytelling combines deep introspection with graphical and narrative audacity.

Yragaël & Urm the Mad (2018)

Born from chaos, Prince Yragaël, is the last hope for Earth. Gods and demons stroll the land, attempting to enforce their authority on the Last Men once more. He falls prey to the queen of Spharain, and from their union comes a son, Urm - a grotesque fool with the potential to redeem mankind.

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Microcosm (2018)

They're spots... spots that speak, think, judge, talk about everything and nothing... Depressive spots, euphoric spots, racist spots, swinger spots, spots that change their hue while remaining resolutely off-color. Manu Larcenet brings to life a large family of spots in a series of biting, caustic, hilarious strips.

The Front (2018) 

Here, no main characters or heroes, The Front portrays the soldier reduced to its simplest expression: the individual caught in the turmoil of the Great War. The soldier, whatever side he is in, knows every day: shells, gas, noise, waiting, permission, fear ... death.

Industrial (2018)

In Industrial, Zezelj tells two stories—one of a disillusioned stoker on a steamship who finds himself part of an invisible group of workers that live meager lives in contrast to the rich and powerful. He becomes drawn into various groups of dissention that leads to his involvement in a violent busted strike and a failed attempt as a suicide bomber. In a second story, a woman factory worker, like the stoker, is isolated and marginalized. After being drugged and raped by a wealthy industrialist, she plans and succeeds with her revenge. Zezelj’s metaphorical use of animals cleverly inserted into the plot and the stark urban settings reveal a painstaking narrative skill in presenting a glimpse into lives caught in the squalor of capitalism.

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Making Do (2018)

Manu Larcenet shares his personal thoughts and puzzlements about mysteries such as God, death, love, war, the other, to name a few.

The Golden Compass

Now, in this graphic novel adaptation of The Golden Compass, the world of His Dark Materials is brought to visual life. The stunning full-color art will offer both new and returning readers a chance to experience the story of Lyra, an ordinary girl with an extraordinary role to play in the fates of multiple worlds, in an entirely fresh way. This volume collects the full journey of Lyra to the far north, her rescue of the kidnapped children at Bolvangar, her escape via hot-air balloon, and her crucial role in Lord Asriel's ambitions to build a bridge to another world. 

Saturday Respite (2018)

In recounting a banal story of car theft, Andrea Bruno focuses on a brief moment of the life of these lost beings (the title of the book is taken from a poem by Samuel Beckett "Saturday respite / more laugh / from midnight / until midnight / no crying. " ) That summarizes all existence. Bruno tells his country with a lucid pessimism. He spreads his black ink on the blinding whiteness of the paper, works the material, constrains the light and makes it spring from its darkly realistic pages and visionary metaphor.

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Panic Fables (2017)

In 1967, in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political “black list” in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled, Alejandro Jodorowsky decided to pursue a new form of artistic expression to earn his living: comics. Working with his friend Luis Spota, the editor of the cultural section of the newspaper El Heraldo de México, Jodo initially planned 3 months’ worth of weekly comics, which he would draw himself. However, his “Panic Fables”--named after his early ‘60s avant-garde theater movement in Paris--were met with such insatiable popularity that he continued the series for six and a half years, from June 1967 until December 1973.

Dallas Cowboy (2018)

Dallas Cowboy brings the reader into the author's face-off with insomnia, that weird limbo between wakefulness and slumber when we're conscious of being unconscious. The author looks back--or rather, flashes back to childhood, fears, complexes, mistakes.. everything that makes up a life. In his first book published by Les Rêveurs, Manu Larcenet experiments with autobiography, a new genre, a graphic narrative experience which ultimately gives birth to a story that's neither harsh nor tender, just sincere.

Pacific (2016)

Young Udo's first mission in the second world war is as a radio operator aboard a German U-Boat, patrolling the Pacific. In his personal effects, he carries a book banned by the Nazis. When the war hero and master of the vessel, Captain Kaleunt, tries to destroy it, it mysteriously reappears...

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Sabrina

Sabrina is a graphic novel by Nick Ornaso that was first published by Drawn and Quarterly in May 2018. In the story, the murder of a woman named Sabrina spawns various conspiracy theories, and the book examines the impact these false narratives have on the lives of the victim's friends and family.

The Artist in the Family (2018)

In this seven-chapter graphic novel, Manu Larcenet doesn't hold back as he grapples with his relationship to drawing, his doubts, his limits, and others' perception of his books.

A Sea of Love (2018)

Each morning, a frail, old, bespectacled fisherman heads out to sea, leaving his doting, matronly wife at home patiently caring for the house, awaiting his return in the evening. But one evening he doesn't come home, instead accidentally snared by a much larger, industrial fishing trawler that absentmindedly carries him across the Atlantic. Back home, the village wonders what might have happened, assuming his death, but his wife refuses to give up hope. She consults a fortune teller who sees his visage in a crepe . . . alive in Cuba. Convinced her husband is still alive, she sets off on an improbable mission to save him. 

Back to Basics

What happens when a native of Juvisy, a laughing little town in the Parisian suburbs, sets out to settle in the country among calves, cows, pigs? At a minimum, a huge cultural shock. It is necessary to learn to speak the dialect, to discover the effects of local alcohol and especially to detoxify the perif. Back to Basics. Created by Jean-Yves Ferri, Manu Larcenet.

On remember, Mariette and Larssinet had decided to settle for ever in the country. And for good reason, the young woman awaits a baby and Manu, meanwhile, anguish thoroughly. And he can read and re-read Laurence Pernoud, it does not help him to find answers on his condition of future dad. The first two volumes were hilarious, this one, despite the change of subject, is equally so. Disappeared the disappointments of life in the country, Manu has finally acclimatized itself, we laugh here of his emotions before the state of his companion. And even if the subject has already been developed remarkably by other authors like Dodo and Ben Radis, the treatment of the authors of the vast world is very different, but equally funny.

Dungeon

Dungeon (French title: Donjon) is a series of comic fantasy comic books created by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with contributions from numerous other artists. It was originally published in France by Delcourt as a series of graphic albums; English translations of the first several stories have been released by NBM Publishing, first in a black-and-white periodical version and now as several color graphic novels.

The series is a parody of sword and sorcery conventions in general, and specifically of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. All of the characters are either anthropomorphic animals or other strange creatures. The "dungeon" of the title is, in the original series, a business establishment run by a mild-mannered chicken, where heroes come in search of adventure and treasure and invariably die. The timeline in the main continuity is described as the stages of day; the series that lead up to the dungeon's creation are described in the Potron-Minet (Dawn) segment, the castle's glory days are described as its Zénith, and its inevitable decay is described in the Crépuscule (Twilight) stories.

Ordinary Victories

Marco left Vélizy for the campaign. He left his psychiatrist because he finds that he's better. He left his job to see because he is tired of photographing "exotic people dead or about to become so." Apart from that, everything's fine. He has an accomplice brother (laughs and big firecrackers) who calls George and vice versa, because of John Malkovich, who said in Of Mice and Men: "I'll have a little bunny and I'll call George, and I keep against my heart. "He has relatives in the sea. A wizened dad forgets the present but remembers well the color of the dress her mother on the day of her wedding. A mom who cares for him, his constipation, his future and lung cancer that will surely caught, as the son of Mrs. Bergerin. After an affectionate spree (and exhausting) in parents, he finds the silence of his small house in the countryside, and her cat (named Adolf because of a character "asserted"), which is carved up by the big dog of an asshole hunter. On this occasion, he met Emilia, veterinarian by profession, and a nice old man who picks blackberries. That makes him a love and a friend. But now everything is falling apart: Emilia starts wanting distressing things (to share with him a house and a baby), and past the disgusting sweet little old suddenly emerges. Marco crack. And the cruelty and stupidity ended destroy his world, he hits bottom. Allowing it to go up. "I still have many things to clear up if I do not want to be reincarnated as a manhole cover," he said, citing his delicate relations with women. It will avoid the manhole cover: it will do just enough to find Emily.

"This is the story of a tired photographer, a patient girl, mundane horrors and a painful cat" written Larcenet. It is also perfectly controlled scenario, funny - this funny accessory that avoids the irony - and tender, in total harmony with hypersensitive drawing happiness and distress. (Not to mention the cat or Emilia, any couch is cute.) The ordinary combat, light and moving story of rebirth, is the album most personal Larcenet. Ordinary Victories.

The Cosmonauts of the future

The Cosmonauts of the future is a series of cartoon comedy, scripted by Lewis Trondheim and illustrated by Emmanuel Larcenet . The color development is carried out by Brigitte Findakly . Albums are published at Dargaud in the collection Poisson Pilote. 

Two children, a girl named Martina and a boy named Gildas, are persuaded to live in a world full of robots and aliens of all kinds. In both (along with Gaëlle, the little sister a little naive Gildas) they will try to uncover the mysterious conspiracy that hovers over the Earth. The 6 June 2008, Emmanuel Larcenet launches on YouTube that looks like an excerpt from a pilot episode of an adaptation of the comic cartoon . Since then, the video has been withdrawn and no new project, called "Mainframe" , was issued one. Scenario : Lewis Trondheim. Drawing : Emmanuel Larcenet.

The Wondrous Adventure of

Sigmund Freud's tired old biddies hysterical. He decided to test a new continent and to exercise his talents on the cowboys. So he landed in America with his faithful assistant Igor, who groan: Vienna was the glory and the good life, and here in a hostile country, full of scorpions and Mexican killers. Sigmund, what worries him is the absence of sofas. Meanwhile, the poor mutt Spot suffered the worst abuse Penitentiary Pessimistic Lines, specializing in stray dogs. Every Sunday, the priest reminds them why they are with the mess they have no soul. So Spot wants a soul, he will pick from the Tacomo shaman. To do this, he escaped from the penitentiary. No introduction Sigmund Freud, but he will be present ". Viennese psychoanalyst world renowned neuroses of all kinds, psychoses wholesale and semi-wholesale" Nevertheless, since he questions the indigenous on their childhood and mom - usually raped and murdered - the result is distressing. "We are making progress," he said nevertheless whenever it sinks. What is wrong is the somewhat brutal experiences of each: this country has only victims and executioners. The executioners are infréquentables and victims too resigned for the treatment is working. But no question of return empty-handed in Vienna. Sigmund like to psychoanalyze an American - "even a little would do" - and he swears to drain thoroughly next neurotic who cross his path. The neurotic is Spot, the dog who wants a soul.

A dream psy! According to Sigmund, old bluestem Academy will be green. According to Igor, they will rather die of laughter. "Do not care, 'em lunch," replied soberly Sigmund. The Good, the Bad and the couch. The convoluted paths (and monomaniac) psychoanalyst parachuted into a world without faith or law, is an interesting clash. For example, if the guardians of the penitentiary (born killers) are attacking the dog is that they make us "anal caprice probably traumatic order," Sigmund advance. "We're making progress." For his first solo comic Dargaud, Larcenet offers a western hilarious, a little-known page (and somewhat crazy) the life of Sigmund Freud, and a beautiful story of friendship between a man and a dog. The Wondrous Adventure of created by Manu Larcenet.