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Showing posts with label Rodolphe. Show all posts
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Monday, August 30, 2021

Non Album Collections 320

The Man Who Invented the World (Europe Comics 2021)

Script by Rodolphe - Art by Bertrand Marchal. What do we really know about the nature of the universe, and about what is hidden in the dark depths of space? Navigator Captain John Bowman is the sole survivor of an exploratory mission to the far reaches of the cosmos. Upon his return, he is plagued by terrible nightmares… but also endowed with an extraordinary power. A power capable of destroying our world… or perhaps reshaping it?

Devil on Her Shoulder 01 - The Bruja Is Missing! (Europe Comics 2021)

Script by Cédric Mayen - Art by Sandra Cardona. Hell and damnation! The Bruja is missing! When the most powerful witch alive disappears without a trace, Norah, her 17-year-old niece, decides to investigate. But upon entering her aunt’s manor, she interrupts a summoning ritual and finds herself face to face with the devil… Or half of him, anyway, as he has been cut in two and is now stuck in a pentagram. Unable to return to Hell without Norah’s help, Lucifer agrees to assist her in finding the Bruja—a devilish task when you’re the most feared and hated being on the planet!

Lost in the Future 01 - The Storm (Europe Comics 2021)

Created by Damian, Alex Fuentes. A group of students is on a field trip to an ancient castle when a storm erupts. As they are about to leave, four friends are cornered by the class bully, who tries to pull one of his usual pranks. Instead, they all get the scare of their lives when they fall down a tunnel that takes them into the future: a future where mankind has nearly disappeared from the face of the earth, and where nature has taken control. The friends will have to face up to this hostile new world-as well as their nemesis-if they're to have any chance of making it back home...


Thursday, February 27, 2020

Mister George

Mechanic George Price has fulfilled his American dream: business is good, and he’s married to his devoted Tracy. But after he has surgery to remove a brain tumor, he suffers unnerving memory loss and other psychological trauma. His doctor and father-in-law, Walt, claims they’re just normal post-op side effects. But a few chance occurrences and disturbing discoveries begin to convince George that he used to be somebody else, somewhere else… And reporter Jennifer Lee is convinced of the same thing. As George sets out to find his true identity, Jennifer launches an investigation that might turn into the scoop of her career, against the backdrop of a country threatened by terrorism. Script by Serge Le Tendre, Rodolphe - Art by Hugues Labiano.


Friday, January 10, 2020

Non Album Collections 203

Stevenson, The Pirate Within (2018)

Script by Rodolphe - Art by René Follet. This is the fascinating life story of Robert Louis Stevenson, the beloved author of classics such as “Treasure Island” and “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” from his early days as an aspiring writer to his first published works, his love affair and then marriage to Fanny Osbourne, his success as an author, his many travels across Europe and the U.S., and finally his voyage to the islands of the South Pacific, where he eventually built the house of his dreams. Stevenson never let his weak lungs (which he referred to as pirates waging a battle inside him) and delicate constitution stand in the way of his insatiable thirst for adventure, living life on his own terms until the very end.

Superman Isn't Jewish (But I Am...Kinda) (2018)

Created by Jimmy Bemon & Emilie Boudet. An intimate and humorous autobiography of a boy's quest for identity as he struggles with his heritage and his heroes. “I’m Jewish!” yells Benjamin, adorning a cape, as he soars among his classmates on the playground. Convinced by his father that Judaism is some kind of superpower, Benjamin believes that each of his eccentric, Jewish relatives is a superhero in their own right, and that he is sure to follow suit—that is, until he realizes that being “different” has turned him into a Bizarro among his classmates.

My Beijing. Four Stories of Everyday Wonder (2018)

Yu'er and her grandpa live in a small neighborhood in Beijing - and it's full of big personalities. There's a story around every corner, and each day has a hint of magic. In one tale, Yu'er wants to swim in the Special Olympics, a sports competition for people with disabilities. But she and her grandpa don't have a pool! Their trick to help Yu'er practice wows the whole neighborhood. In another story, a friend takes Yu'er to a wild place full of musical insects. Later, Yu'er hears a special story about her grandparents. And in the final story, Yu'er and her grandpa show a cranky painter the sweet side of life.


Thursday, November 21, 2019

Centaurus

A gigantic "World Spaceship" left a dying Earth centuries ago. Twenty generations have since followed... Its purpose, to find a new planet that would welcome the descendants of humanity. Vera, a satellite of Proxima Centauri, is their final hope and destination. A carefully selected team will scout ahead, explore this potential new home... But what wonders and dangers will they find?


Monday, July 8, 2019

Non Album Collections 175

Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen (2016)

by Rodolphe (Author), Annie Goetzinger (Author). During the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond belief: it is the ghost of Marie Antoinette appearing to her to share a terrible secret that has tormented her for centuries. After being guillotined, the Queen is said to have been thrown into a common grave but then exhumed and buried with her husband, Louis XVI, in the Saint-Denis basilica. Yet the ghost tells Maud that her remains are still in the pit on which a chapel stands today. The queen asks Maud to move her body to the right place so she can finally find peace and no longer haunt people. Part fantastic ghost story, part biography, this is a delicious beautifully illustrated look into French revolutionary history by the artist of the bestselling ‘Girl in Dior.’

POS - Piece of Sh-t (2017)

by Pierre Paquet,  Jesús Alonso Iglesias (Illustrator). A young man struggles to build a publishing company, find love, and discover who he really is, with his one true trusted companion being the dog who truly seems to understand him. In the end, he realizes that for far too long he has been a self-absorbed piece of sh*t.nA touching autobiographical story by Swiss BD publisher Pierre Paquet, the spiritual sequel to Paquet’s Eisner-nominated A Glance Backward, which recounted his experience dealing with the death of his father at age 11.

Monet, Itinerant of Light (2017)

by Salva Rubio  (Author), EFA (Illustrator). The life of the great French painter, one of the founders of Impressionism, is narrated in lush comic art reminiscent of his style. From the Salon des Refuses (“Salon of the Rejected”) and many struggling years without recognition, money, and yet a family to raise, all the way to great success, critically and financially, Monet pursued insistently one vision: catching the light in painting, refusing to compromise on this ethereal pursuit. It cost him dearly but he was a beacon for his contemporaries. We discover in this comics biography how he came to this vision as well as his turbulent life pursuing it.

Sunday, December 16, 2018

Trent

Sergeant Philip Trent is a ‘Mountie’, a member of the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. At the end of the 19th century, it’s up to him and his fellow officers to crisscross the vast open spaces of Canada to maintain law and order. Sent after a small-time killer, he finds himself saving the beautiful Agnes from a pack of hungry wolves. The young woman has come from the city to find her missing half-brother. Against his better judgment, Trent agrees to help her… Creators:  Leo : artist, cover. Rodolphe D. Jacquette : writer.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Namibia

Namibia is a series of comic of adventure fantastic Franco-Belgian, the second cycle of Kenya, designed by Bertrand Marchaland written by Leo and Rudolph. Edited and published by Dargaud, the first album was released on 12 March 2010. 
1948, Göring, Reichmarschall sad memory of the Second World War, was sighted in Namibia although it is officially ... dead! Just returned from her mission to Kenya, Cathy Austin is therefore returned to Africa by MI5. She discovers an alien threat on site makes chilling: a race of aliens fee indeed DNA from human cadavers to rebuild and occupy the bodies. These discrete scouts (unless they bring to life the body of Göring!) Rise in the Namibian field insects that they also genetically modified to make it a massive colonization weapon! This is the first volume of the second season of Kenya drawn by Bertrand Marshal who gets the Leo style to perfection. Katherine "Kathy" Austin, the main character of the story, is an agent of the Secret Intelligence Service mission.


Monday, December 14, 2015

Kenya

Kenya is a series of Franco-Belgian comics fantasy created by Leo (script and drawing), Rodolphe (screenplay, dialogues and carvings) and Scarlett Smulkowski (color), the first volume is published on 1st October 2001 by Dargaud, thirty thousand copies. This being the first cycle, the second recognizes another title Namibia released on 12 March 2010. After living the character Trent ten years, Rodolphe and Leo want to do something else rather than stay in the cold universe with this solitary agent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the end of xix th century.Encouraged by their publisher, they take against the foot of the previous series: the heat, the Africa and many characters.
In 1947, in Kenya and especially in the region of Kilimanjaro, strange animals appear; some have seen flying saucers. These three phenomena of interest spies in the country at the beginning of Cold War. Under a blanket of teachers from a school in Mombasa, they go into the savannah to find a shipment disappeared while she crossed a gigantic animal.


Saturday, October 24, 2015

Cliff Burton

An adventure of Cliff Burton, or Cliff Burton, is a series of French comic created and scripted by Rodolphe and designed by Frederik Garcia before being replaced by Michel Durand in 1989. Bernard Pivot present on 30 November 1984, on his shelf famous show Apostrophes, broadcast on Antenne 2, the first volume of the series of Rudolph and Frederik Garcia shooting in animation stand. In 1989, Michel Durand succeeds Frederik Garcia.
Cliff Burton is a kind of Sherlock Holmes crazy who discovers a corpse on its way. 


Saturday, October 17, 2015

Comanche

Comanche is a series of comic strip created by Greg (script) and Hermann (drawing) for the Journal of Tintin in December 1969. It was published in the album Lombard editions from 1972.
After the abandonment of the series by Hermann, who wished to devote himself to Jeremiah, drawing was echoed by Michel Rouge from Volume 11, and the screenplay by Rodolphe in Volume 15. The Comanche series retains its original spirit with the tandem creator until Volume 10. It then moves from the volume 11. Volume 15 is the last of the series.
Comanche is a young landowner from Wyoming. With the old Ten Gallons, she painfully survive the 666 ranch that his father left him. One day, out of nowhere, appeared a Red Dust. Captivated by the quiet force of this unknown, Comanche assigned by the foreman. To face adversity and covetousness, it recruits members. Their true personality become clearer over the turbulent episodes of this western that takes place in xix th century.