The Fortune of the Winczlavs

1848. In Ottoman-occupied Montenegro, young doctor Vanko Winczlav is one of the leaders of a popular uprising. Betrayed, wanted by the authorities, he flees the Balkans for the United States in the company of a Bulgarian refugee, Veska, whom he marries to allow her to enter New York legally. So begins the history of a family closely entwined with that of a still new country going through many transformations (Cinebook: 58 pages). by Jean Van Hamme, Philippe Berthet.

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Beirut Won't Cry (2017)

by Mazen Kerbaj (Author). Beirut Won’t Cry shows us how an artist views the world and everything in it ― his relationships, his family, and his creative pursuits ― as it violently crumbles around him. Both historically vital and hilarious, Beirut Won’t Cry introduces Mazen Kerbaj’s unique voice and urgent pen to an American audience for the very first time, teaching readers how to carry on and resist in times of war and oppression.

The Other Side of the Border (2020)

Script by Jean-Luc Fromental - Art by Philippe Berthet. Arizona, 1948. Novelist François Combe has taken up residence with his wife, his son, and his mistress in the strange no man’s land of the Santa Cruz Valley. His imagination is sparked by the surrounding desert, its ghost towns, and other vestiges of the pioneer past. The present, too, draws him in, especially in the border town of Nogales, where luxury and lust come together against a backdrop of misery and servitude… and where games of the flesh are paid for in blood. Sometimes the grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the border.

Flower of a New World (2020)

by Sánchez Abulí (Author) , Alfonso Font (Illustrator). In 1541, Spaniard Isabel de Maluenda and her husband Juan journey into the New World following Pedro de Valdivia's expedition to New Extremadura, and further South into the land of Chile. After being attacked by the Mapuche tribe, Isabel is taken captive by the chieftain Huagale, who tries to woo her into becoming his newest wife. After a failed escape attempt in the dangerous jungle, Isabel is saved by a Spanish soldier and taken to the very modest but prosperous city of Villarrica. But her newfound life is soon threatened by the return of Huagale, who is soon beaten and taken captive himself. The Mapuche retaliation is fierce, and not even the local Friar can negotiate peace. In a last desperate attempt, Isabel vows to return Huagale to his people, only to shoot him in the back in front of his men and scare them away for good. Isabel is finally free, but the treacherous jungle still claims her life by the riverside and her soul drifts away like the river flower she held in her hands at both the beginning and end of her journey.

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Violette Around the World 01 - My Head In the Clouds! (2018)

A 12-year-old girl travels the globe with her parents' circus, having adventures and learning to appreciate the joys of being different. Her name is Violette, like the flower in the spring, like the seventh color of the rainbow. She lives with the Circus of the Moon, where her mother is the stuntwoman and her father is the insect tamer. At the end of the 19th-century, Violette is a curious, happy 12-year-old who is fascinated by the beauty of the world around her: music, painting, drawing, nature, and much more. She shares adventures with her friend Samir (a budding trapeze artist), her unusual animal friends, and her father's trained insects!

Bigby Bear 01 (2019)

It's a series of one-page comics by Philippe Coudray starring Bigby Bear and friends. Where Peanuts’ jokes were often verbal (and Coudray’s animals can talk), Bigby Bear’s punchlines tend to be visual. Bigby himself is an artist who we first meet chipping away at a rock with his chisel.

The Art of Dying (2019)

Script by Raule - Art by Philippe Berthet. Philippe Martin, a Paris cop, is called to Barcelona to look into the suspicious suicide of a girl who might be his daughter. Barcelona is a charged place for Martin—he’s been visiting every summer for the 25 years since the girl’s mother left him and fled there. His investigations lead him into a labyrinth of criminal activity stretching from the most violent depths of Barcelona’s society to its wealthiest families. Taunted by a particularly vicious and wily opponent, the stakes of Martin’s investigation are not only justice but his very soul.

Perico

In Perico, which is the first of two volumes, Régis Hautière and Philippe Berthet take us to Cuba in 1958, a few months before the Castroist revolution ... This first episode of Perico opens with the murder of an American at the Exit of a casino in Havana, Cuba. The incident puts the head of the local underworld, Santo Trafficante, and the president Batista on the teeth ... And the young Joaquin quickly understands that, having wanted to help his brother, he is now in a bad history! It remains to understand why this assassination creates so much agitation in a country where settling of accounts are commonplace ... First part of the diptych Perico: corruption, mafia, Cuba, pretty girls and suspense ... a series that inaugurates a new comic collection, dedicated to black stories: Black line.

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Gunblast Girls 01 - In Your Face Loser! (2018)

Script by CRISSE - Art by CRISSE

After a job that went wrong, Zdenka and the other “Galactic Sistas” decided to go their separate ways. But now Zdenka has found something that seems to offer big rewards for zero risk, which is why she’ll need to convince her “sistas” to get the old gang back together. The job? Taking the director of the Economic Consortium’s daughter safely across Alliance lines. Fearing that too large a protection detail could attract unwanted attention, the director has requested something more discreet. But his headstrong teenage daughter isn’t going to make things easy. And as if that wasn’t enough, certain people seem to have a score to settle with Zdenka… Action, comedy, girls, and big guns are all on the menu in this first-rate space opera.

Sour Apple (2018)

Script by Jerzy Szyłak - Art by Joanna Karpowicz

By all appearances they are a happy couple. Married, religious, hardworking. What happens behind closed doors, however, is a secret, even to those closest to them. “Kwaśne jabłko” (Sour Apple), written by Jerzy Szyłak and illustrated by Joanna Karpowicz, tells a story of domestic abuse, a story of a victim and persecutor. This story of violence spiraling out of control brings no hope, instead playing on emotions and powerful illustrations, painted with acrylic on canvas-textured paper, to create a unique atmosphere of horror. It is violence as seen by a painter. In truth, no one would like to hear this kind of story, and yet such stories are told, and need to be told. They need to be told because they happen to real people, be they old or young, educated or uneducated, pious or atheist. None of these people wants to take a bite from the sour apple in the basket. However, it happens to some. That is why such stories must be told.

A Hell of an Innocent (2018)

Script by Zidrou - Art by Philippe Berthet

When unassuming candy store owner Ike Hopper dies of a heart attack, he leaves behind a bombshell that rocks his small Australian town. His confession of guilt to a 27-year old murder—the savage stabbing of local girl Lee Duncan—brings his brother Greg, accused of the crime, out of the bush where he’s been hiding. But Greg, returning to his hometown of Dubbo to tie up loose ends, finds not all ghosts go quietly to the grave. For instance, he seems to see his ex-wife Lee taunting him wherever he wanders… A hard-hitting, guilt-ridden, sun-drenched slice of outback noir.

Pin-Up

The GI's punaisaient (in English "To pin-up") drawings or photos of their starlets on the wall of their barracks. A literal translation of "Pin-Up" in French would be "Bug down," which has nothing to do and we digress (? Though). Pin-Up so, we continue to call them, these creatures of dreams that allowed soldiers to escape moments in their sad condition. Airmen also adopted them. Their luscious and generous shapes adorned the cabins warplanes and flanks bounced bombers. The young drivers their virtues were lucky. They often christened their plane the nickname of the starlet contained therein. Their success was such that the cartoonist Milton Caniff (authentic designer, creator in 1942 of a series commissioned by the army, called Male Call, and which has inspired Yann Berthet and to create Pin-Up) did not hesitate to take with him his models in the flesh during his tours in US bases. Screenplay: Yann Le Pennetier | Design: Philippe Berthet.

December 1941. Pearl Harbor precipitated the United States in World War II. Joe is one of those young GI who think reassembled block smashing the Japanese in three weeks. In fact, the only survivor of his patrol, he goes into hiding for months in a remote atoll, before being "recovered" with one John Fitzgerald Kennedy failed to close. Dottie, his fiancee as blonde qu'innocente, languishes pending his letters. It is hosted by her friend Talullah - as dark as cynical - that finds him a job at Yoyo's Club. But now the girls of the box are hired as models pinup lucky designed by Milton on cabins bombers. With a treatment for Dottie: it will Poison Ivy, pulpy and patriotic heroine of the BD that the army controlled Milton Caniff, giant comics who actually served as models and was touring with her on the forehead creatures. Joe, who rediscovered the joys of the army, finds Poison Ivy and, like all his classmates, falls in love. Unable guess that Poison Ivy and Dottie are one and he sends to Dottie, become too bland for his taste, a very macabre breakup letter.