History Time

Not far from Plymouth in 1775: The brothers Harry and Jason have serious money problems. When Jason tries to gamble to get out of a tight spot, they run into sinister figures. Luckily, energetic grandmother and loyal dog Hamlet keep a cool head... by Doris Ertel-Zellner (Author), Bernd Kissel (Author), Reinhold Zellner (Author).

Sapiens - A Graphic History

The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for adult and young adult readers alike.

The second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution—when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.

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Alfred HITCHCOCK - Master of Suspense (NBM 2022)

by Noel Simsolo (Author), Dominique He (Illustrator). “Psycho” traumatized viewers around the world. Never before had the angst or the suspense been so well presented in cinema. But where does the talent of this Alfred Hitchcock come from, the one nicknamed the "Master of Suspense"? To find out, we must first go back to his youth, in England, during the first half of the 20th century. Having grown up in a Catholic family - a religious originality that will be felt in a large part of his cinema - “Hitch” is an atypical Englishman who, very early on, has a taste for telling chilling stories. The temptation to work for the cinema will not be long in coming, first as a graphic designer where his visual talent will lead him to make his debut behind the camera, as an assistant and then as a full director.

Sapiens - A Graphic History, Volume 2. The Pillars of Civilization (2021)

by Yuval Noah Harari  (Author). This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution—when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.

Report to an Academy (Europe Comics 2022)

Script by Mahi Grand - Art by Mahi Grand. A man is invited to the Academy of Sciences to give a report on his incredible metamorphosis: in five years, he transformed from an ape into a man. He describes to the members of the Academy how, following his capture, he was forced to kneel, to demonstrate resilience, to observe, to adapt, and ultimately to renounce his animalistic state in order to survive and enter the world of men. But has he truly become human?

Magical History Tour

Current day kids Annie and Nico travel back to―ancient Egypt. That's about 4,500 years ago, when the world's largest pyramid was built, The Great Pyramid of Giza. It's also called the Pyramid of Cheops because it was built for the Pharaoh Cheops, who wanted to be buried in it when he died. That's right―pyramids are giant tombs! It was the first of seven buildings known as The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World―and it's the only one still standing! But it still has plenty of secrets waiting to be uncovered … by Fabrice Erre (Author), Sylvain Savoia (Illustrator).

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The Mitaines Gang 001 - A Bear's Tale (2020)

Script by Loïc Clément - Art by Anne Montel. The seemingly idyllic town of Mitaines has been beset by a wave of kidnappings. Strange prints have been spotted in the woods, but there’s no sign of foul play. With the authorities baffled, will young Arthur and the rest of the Mitaines Gang be able to solve the crime? More importantly, will they be able to stay out of trouble themselves?

Radio Delley (2019)

Writer : Alex Martinez. Illustrator: Xavier Bonet. For three best friends, a small town, endless days of summer and an old radio form the recipe for an unforgettable adventure. It’s summer in Delley, a quiet town in the American Midwest. Perhaps too quiet for Jeremy, Stella, and Sam, three inquisitive kids with a desire to solve mysteries and seek adventure in a place that, to be honest, doesn’t offer a lot of either. However, when Jeremy gets an old radio that connects him and his friends to a girl who needs their help, the adventure they find themselves in may be a bit more dangerous than they hoped for.

Rampokan v01 - Java (2020)

by Peter van Dongen. 1946: The Dutch have been driven out of Indonesia by the Japanese invasion, but they refuse to recognize the country's declaration of independence. In an attempt to regain their former colony, the government mobilizes the Royal Dutch Indian Army. When they fail to take control, an unofficial force is sent to subdue the "terrorists." Among the volunteers is Johan Knevel, who has personal reasons for joining: he wants to find out what happened to his Indonesian nurse. But far from rediscovering the lost idyll of his youth, he is confronted by the complex realities of a country in turmoil.

Operation Overlord

On June 6, 1944, 14,000 Allied paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division landed in the hinterland of the Utah Beach stretch of beach and conquered the town of Sainte-Mère-Église. They should secure the area until reinforcements come. This action became known as the start of Operation Overlord. There are five American soldiers among the fighters - each with their own story, dreams and motivations. Everyone experiences the horrors of war in their own way and none of them will return home ... Exciting preparation of one of the most spectacular military operations of the Second World War.

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The Little Book of Knowledge - New Hollywood (2018)

In the late 1960s a new generation of filmmakers took Hollywood by storm. Visionaries like Scorsese, Coppola, Altman, Peckinpah, Romero, and Cimino led cinema in a new direction, capturing the spirit of counterculturalism and the frustration created by the Vietnam War. Perfect for film enthusiasts, history buffs, and anyone who has an interest in the "American New Wave" era of independent filmmaking.

The Danes (2018)

Script by Clarke - Art by Clarke. When an Aryan baby is born to a Muslim woman living in Copenhagen, her husband’s family shuns her. But DNA tests prove Sorraya’s fidelity. And she is just the first in what soon becomes a rash of similar cases across Europe, threatening widespread social change even as they ignite passions in immigrant communities and incite familiar racial hatreds. What mysterious conspiracy connects a retrovirus, a young slacker biogeneticist, a former punkette, a dogged reporter, and pharmaceutical giant Keoxis? Clarke delivers a contemplative slice of near-future science fiction paced like a thriller but full of probing questions about our prejudices.

Garlandia (2018)

Garlandia is the newest collaboration between master cartoonist Lorenzo Mattotti, whose stunningly realized pen and ink drawings paint a vivid, phantasmagorical portrait of Garlandia, and Jerry Kramsky, who has written a graphic poem of mythic scope and surprising political relevance.

On the History Trail with Ariane & Nino

This is an educational collection for young readers interested in history. Starting out with a real‐life situation (such as a snowball fight in the yard), Ariane and her little brother Nino get talking about historical subjects. Each subject is covered in 32 panels, followed by educational appendices to complete the discussion (portraits of historical figures, maps, timelines, etc). Script by Fabrice Erre - Art by Sylvain Savoia.

Cassio

Rome, 145 CE: Cassio, a prominent lawyer who once saved the Emperor’s life, wakes in the night to noises. Four assassins have entered his villa and overpowered his formidable slave, the warrior Alva. He seems to know them, and knows why they have come… Ephesus, present day: archeologist Ornella Grazzi finds a ruin with a fresco of Cassio’s face. The papyrus scrolls inside tell the beginning of a story she has long suspected and been searching for clues to all her life: how Cassio survived his own assassination and came back from the dead for vengeance…Script by Stephen Desberg - Art by Henri Reculé.

Best of Enemies

“Best of Enemies is surely destined to stand alongside Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis as a graphic history of the Middle East. A must read for anyone interested in learning, or teaching, about the region.”—Mark Levine, professor of history at UC-Irvine and author of Heavy Metal Islam. In the third volume of their graphic history of US and Middle East relations, Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B. take in the tumultuous period that began with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and ended with Obama’s decision, in 2013, not to intervene in Syria.

Spanning the First Gulf War, the rise of al-Qaeda, the military response to September 11, and the present conflict in Syria, Best of Enemies: Part Three is propelled by a clash between four presidents and their Middle Eastern antagonists: on the one hand, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama; on the other, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Bashar al-Assad. Covering 30 years of conflict and diplomacy, Best of Enemies: Part Three is a breezy and engaging guide to the events that shaped the politics of today.

Stalingrad Khronika

Stalingrad Khronika is a two-volume graphic novel that tells the misadventures of a handful of men from the Red Army, the political Commissariat and the Soviet propaganda bureau who have been commissioned by the top dog himself (Stalin) to film a documentary about the Russian soldiers defending the city of Stalingrad from the Germans, for patriotic propaganda purposes. It's 1942, the place is a complete ruin, and none of the involved sides want to surrender an inch. The Soviets have fully grasped the usefulness of war propaganda to encourage their troops and keep morale up through releasing films and footage praising the courage and sacrifice of their men, and they've sent some of their best film-makers for this purpose. by Franck Bourgeron.

The Complete Crepax

Italian cartoonist Guido Crepax’s comics, saturated with surrealism and sophistication, infused fashion, fine art, sex, history, and the French New Wave into the mid 20th-century adventure serial — and legitimized the erotic genre in Europe. Inspired by 1920s film icon Louise Brooks, his signature character Valentina is a fierce femme fatale and glamorous, globetrotting photographer. Her passion for BDSM flourishes in the anything-goes 1960s and ’70s — and her sensual exploits often occur on the border between dreaming and waking life. The Complete Crepax will collect the entire life’s work of the Italian comics master Guido Crepax (1933–2003) in English for the first time. While some of his work has appeared in English intermittently over the years, there was never an attempt to take a careful, contextual, comprehensive approach to its publication, and certainly not in a deluxe format. This series will correct that injustice. The Complete Crepax will be published in 10 generously sized volumes, each about 350 to 400 pages, each focused on a particular genre or aspect of Crepax’s art.

Temujin

The night Temujin was born, the old shaman Özbeg was late. When he arrived on the scene the members of the tribe were very agitated. It was too late to save the mother and dark events surrounded the child's conception. but all that, the shaman already knew it. He had been contacted by the spirits to help this little being, so he could live and give free rein to his fabulous destiny! Between History and Fiction: The writer Antoine Ozanam offers a personal variation on the youth of Genghis Khan; a fiction, a "revival" of the life of this great Mongol leader. Scenario: Ozanam, Antoine. Drawing: Carrion, Antoine.

The Man of the Year

The Great War breaks the life of two men who separated everything, yet forever linked in the hell trenches Boubacar N'Doré and Joseph, his master in the plantations of Côte d'Ivoire. The first will leave the life and the second will find rest before honoring one last time his comrade. In 1920, the opportunity is offered to him, following the decision to bury a disinherited death under the Arc de Triomphe... The Man of the Year. Scenario: Pécau, Jean-Pierre. Blanchard, Fred. Duval, Fred. Drawing: Mr Fab.

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Nero Wolfe - The Red Box (1992)

A lovely woman is dead, and the fortunes of overextended theatrical producer Llewellyn Frost depend on solving the mystery of the red box: two pounds of candied fruits, nuts and creams, covered with chocolate -- and laced with potassium cyanide. When Nero Wolfe's suspicion falls on Frost's kissing cousin, Frost wants the detective to kill the sickly sweet case--before it kills him.

The Terminator (Fazekas)

Classic Hungarian Comics: The Terminator (Fazekas) ... scan: kyriee translation: SWATura-OD retext: Akela

The Iliad (Sebok)

This comic book adaptation of Homer's The Iliad has never before been released in album format. The scanned pages are directly from collected newspapers, edited, and remastered according to our opinions on how we think they should have looked, if... they were ever published. The ENG translation of Sebők's adaptation of Homer's Odyssey.

Codex Sinaiticus

In the footsteps of the very first version of the Old Testament. A dangerous, erudite, fascinating quest. "I am the one who follows." This is the last sentence of the testament that his father left to the young and brilliant researcher Christopher Wertmann. A strange formula borrowed from another testament: the Old Testament in which Chris will find a second letter, which will send it in the footsteps of the Codex Sinaiticus, the very first version of this founding text of Christendom. A first version, which is said to contain mysterious secrets, which several Nazi scholars tried to discover in their time, and in particular a certain ... Kurt Wertmann, Christopher's own grandfather. Aware that " He must shed light around his father's death and protect the Codex from the wrong hands between which he seems to be about to fall, Christopher immediately sets out for the most dangerous of adventures. Between pure action and pure erudition, a new great series with the epic and esoteric breath has just begun.

Grandville

Grandville is a Hugo Award nominated British graphic novel series written and drawn by Bryan Talbot. It is a mixture of the steampunk, alternative history and thriller genres. It is set in a world in which France won the Napoleonic Wars and invaded Britain, and in which the world is populated mostly by anthropomorphic animals. The main character is Detective Inspector Archibald "Archie" LeBrock of Scotland Yard, a British anthropomorphic badger.

The plot of the first book, entitled Grandville and published on 15 October 2009, sees LeBrock investigating a murder which leads him to visit "Grandville" (Paris) in order to solve the crime, which itself leads him to uncover a political conspiracy. In the second volume, Grandville Mon Amour, published on 2 December 2010, LeBrock attempts to track down an escaped serial killer that he previously brought to justice. Grandville Bête Noire was published in 2012. The fourth volume, Grandville: Nöel, was published on 6 November 2014. A fifth volume, Grandville: Force Majeure, is planned.

Seven

Seven is a series of comic whose volumes, independent of each other, are made by various artistic teams. Each story is a complete story takes place at a time and in a genre that varies from one album to another (historical, fantasy, science fiction). Their only common point is the number of characters: seven.