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Apache Junction 01

The Western takes place around 1875 and follows a US Army messenger, at a time when Apache tribes refuse to be locked up in reservations and engage the federal government in guerilla war fare. The messenger gets wounded in a knife fight and needs to seek refuge at a lonely farm. Holly Moors has this to say about Apache Junction: “Nuyten seems to want to combine the exciting stories of Jean Giraud and the engaged, critical attitude of Hans Kresse. He is a bit too wordy in the first part of the album, and could use a good, tight script writer. That way he can focus on the art, where he doesn’t quite yet reach Giraud’s level, though he is getting there. Still, I have finished the album in one go, and will certainly read the second part, because this is definitely an artist to keep an eye on.”

Catherine De' Medici - The Flying Squadron 001 - The Good Girl (2023)

In mid-16th century France, at the royal court, the queen's spies use their charms and talents to disarm her enemies and learn their secrets, often in the bedchamber. Among them is the young and naive Gabrielle, who's trying to find her place in the so-called "flying squadron" of Catherine de' Medici. Author Manon Textoris offers an exquisite and charming account of courtly life.

Hearts of Steel 001 - Debree, Cyrano, and Me (2023)

In a steampunk world where humans live surrounded by robot servants, young Isea prefers to take refuge in Cyrano de Bergerac, a movie recommended to her by her only friend, Tal, whom Isea has only ever met via video chat. But the day that Debree, her beloved nanny robot, is unfairly dismissed by her mother, Isea's fragile equilibrium collapses. Isea then decides to leave and rejoin the only being who has ever given her love, at whatever the cost—even if that being is a robot... by BeKa (Author), Jose Luis Munuera (Author, Illustrator) 

The Snake and the Spear

While the Aztec Empire suffers under a terrible famine, pushing it to sacrifice more people than ever, three boys are born in Tenochtitlan. Despite the differences in their social standings, fate will bind them together. Many years later, a young girl disappears in a corn field, while elsewhere, children playing discover a strange mummy, hanging from a cactus, its face painted white and its eyes put out. These are not the first such events, and the governor fears that word will sow terror among the people. So, he gives his henchman, Snake, a mandate to end it by any means necessary. Struck by the similarities between the crimes and the practices of his priesthood, Cozatl, the high priest of Tlaloc fears the swift 'justice' that his former fellow pupil Snake might dole out. So he sends a message to his old friend, Spear-Eye, now a travelling merchant. But his friend wants nothing less than to get involved, and time is running out... by Hub.

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Little Nemo (2021)

Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comics strip is in the public domain, and French artist Frank Pé applies his reinterpretation in Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay. On 15 October 1905, readers of the New York Herald were introduced to a young cartoon boy affectionately called Little Nemo. Each weekend, as a part of the Sunday Supplements, Little Nemo would journey in his dreams to Slumberland, a world of wonder and imagination, as a guest of King Morpheus, king of Slumberland, to be a playmate for his daughter, the Princess.

Jim Lives - The Mystery of the Lead Singer of The Doors and the 27 Club (2021)

by Paolo Baron  (Author), Ernesto Carbonetti (Artist). Amid the intense colors of a foreign land, JIM LIVES is the story of a man searching for his son–a correspondent for a popular american newspaper–who vanished into thin air after sending one last, enigmatic message: “Jim Morrison isn’t dead. He’s hiding out in Italy. I saw him with my own eyes. I’ll call you tomorrow and tell you everything...”

Pocahontas - Princess of the New World (2016)

by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky (Author). Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, has been promised to her betrothed, Kokum, according to custom. At that very moment, three British ships arrive on the coast of America. It is 1607, and the life of Pocahontas—like the fate of the entire American continent—is about to change dramatically. With her great love of freedom—as well as her belief in understanding and tolerance between the two peoples—and by defying her father’s taboos, Pocahontas forges a relationship with the British colonists who have just disembarked. She secretly provides them with food and saves the life of the handsome Captain Smith . . . and falls madly in love.

The Collected Toppi

Presenting the first in a seven-volume library of works by master illustrator Sergio Toppi. The first volume, The Enchanted World, contains eleven tales of high fantasy in English for the first time, previously collected as Black & Tans, Krull, and A Minor God.

Lost Captain

After adapting the novels of Jean Raspail (Seven Horsemen), it is in one of his travel books that Jacques Terpant learns the existence, on the banks of the Mississippi, of Saint-Ange, the last of the French captains who had to hand over to the English the keys of all America. In two volumes and in direct colors he creates a fresco of this ignored epic, which marked the end of the first colonial empire. Created by Terpant, Jacques.

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A Son of the Sun

Parlay is the French king of a dying island tribe and the father of the sublime Armande. He’s selling his pearls, a fortune collected from his island’s lagoon. The wealthiest traders in the Solomon Islands have been invited to the auction, except for David Grief, the Englishman the natives call the Son of the Sun. Come hell or high water—probably both—Grief will be there. And he isn’t coming for the pearls.

Satania

Charlotte – aka Charlie – a pretty redhead, sets up an expedition to find her brother. The young scientist, who disappeared underground several months ago, claimed – to everyone's astonishment – to be able to prove the existence of Hell by using Darwin's theory of evolution! The little group, led by Charlie, plunge underground in his pursuit. The deeper they progress into the entrails of our planet, the more they enter another world that hides other forms of life heretofore never experienced. The discovery changes them gradually in a way they cannot perceive...

The Return of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The adventures of Disney's Snow White continue in this graphic novel, which is being released in the US to celebrate the animated film's 80th anniversary. Prince Charming leaves Snow White in the care of the Seven Dwarfs while he leaves for an expedition with the king. But the Evil Queen is back! Then, the Dwarfs build a special diamond throne for the Princess, but when it vanishes, they set out to find the thief. Also: what is the secret of the eighth dwarf? Jiminy Cricket makes a guest appearance! Perfect for Disney fans of all ages. Written & Art by Romano Scarpa.

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Strip 014 (1990) (MavelUK)

The magazine "Strip", in which the story "The Labyrinth of Death" of The fantastic Storm series by Don Lawrence was published. This is a copy of the Strip Magazine #14 (1990) that features an interview + pictures of Don Lawrence at work.

Modern Speed (2017)

Script by Blutch - Art by Blutch. Modern-day Paris. One night, as she’s leaving rehearsal, Lola, a young dancer, is approached by Renée. She introduces herself as a writer, and asks Lola if she could share her life for a while in order to gather material to write a book about her. Despite not feeling entirely comfortable with the idea, Lola accepts. The very next day, Lola and Renée experience the strangest day of their lives, involving an absent father who reappears at random points throughout the book, a bashful but psychopathic admirer, Omar Shariff, and a huge spider… All this is set against a backdrop of a general power cut, a highly demanding dance class and a very rainy day. In the world of today, where everything goes too quickly, twenty-four hours is sometimes enough to change your life.

Geronimo (2017)

1850, Northern Mexico. On the ancestral lands of the Apaches, yet another massacre. A camp is attacked by Mexican soldiers. Among the victims, the woman, the three children and the mother of a young medicine man renowned for his science and his premonitions: Goyahkla, "the one who yawns". Thirsty for revenge, Goyahkla reunites the various Apache tribes to avenge the village where the massacre took place. The great chefs Cochise, Juh, Mangas Coloradas follow him. In the Homeric fight that will follow, Goyahkla will illustrate himself, win the rank of warrior and a new name: Geronimo. Because the Mexican survivors fleeing invoked St. Jerome. But if Geronimo decided to dedicate his life to revenge on the Mexicans, the arrival of the whites will upset everything. The Apaches have to face an even more numerous and more dangerous enemy, which Geronimo will begin to underestimate. It is a desperate struggle, that Geronimo will lead to the limit of his forces and those of his own, elusive for the US Army. Geronimo was the proverbial Indian, living in communion with nature. He was the repository of the ancestral customs of the Apaches, knew his territory better than anyone, the last free Indian.

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Legend T01 - The Wolf Child (Soleil 2004)

Once upon a time ... A child whose destiny changed tragically, from the first days of its existence ... I, Aelred de Hilseim, having gathered at best testimonies and memories of the last survivors, I will tell you by the menu the events dramatic, consequences of the insatiable thirst for the absolute of some men, who made Tristan de Halsbourg, the one who was called ... the Wandering Knight.

Geeks - Lingeekstics (2013)

A Geek is a stereotype passionate about, or even obsessed with, computers, science fiction, animation, heroic fantasy, role playing games, video games, or perhaps all of the above. They wear T-shirts with strange logos, speak a language incomprehensible to mere mortals, feed mainly on that which can be ordered online, and would rather spend an evening upgrading their computers than going out with friends... Fred is a Geek and, all things considered, his life is pretty great. This special was compiled using gags from several volumes of Thomas Labourot's 'Les Geeks'.

Wetamo (Hans G. Kresse)(1972)

Based on historical events - King Philip's war, from the author of "Indians" series and "Vidocq". He did this album before starting "Indians" series.

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Beautiful Death - One-shot (2011)

Unclassifiable, dreamlike and simply beautiful post-apocalyptic tale about a handful of people trying to survive on the deserted streets of a huge metropolis... Note: Patrick Swayze is shown as the characters are watching Dirty Dancing in one panel.

Bastien Vives - To my Eyes

Dans Mes Yeux (In My Eyes), 2009, Casterman: On the surface, the plot of Dans Mes Yeux isn't revolutionary. A guy meets a girl, they go home together, she leaves the next morning. Where it is different, is that the narrative is told entirely from the view of the male protagonist. Vives is constantly experimenting and as well as using techniques where the images get blurred as the protagonist's concentration wavers, the art here is composed from pencil crayons and looks pretty stunning for it.

Auclair - The Story of Pointed-Nose and the Three-Legged-Wolf

The stories tell about mountain-men and early pioneers in the "west", of the times before civilization ended all. When GRIZZLY was published in Kuifje/Tintin in early 1971 the big audience was not ready for this story. An album-publication according to the 44, and 46 pages principle could be realized in 1976, when Auclair had made The Story Of "Pointed-Nose" And The "Three-Legged-Wolf" (LE LÉGENDE DE NEZ POINTU ET DE TROIS-PATTES LE LOUP/Gebroken-Neus en Drie-poot-de-wolf).

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The White Indian (1985)

In the Orient Express magazine, Serpieri continues to tell even unpublished western adventures with the stories of Shaman (in color, June 83) and White Indian (black and white, published in four parts between August and November 1983, numbers from 13 to 16 of the magazine). The white Indian will be reprinted in the magazine Skorpio in 1987.

The Sands of Sarasvati (2008)

The Sands of Sarasvati. Sands, from Finnish publishers Tammi, is a graphic adaptation of an award-winning science fiction novel Sarasvatin Hiekkaa by author, science journalist and environmental activist Risto Isomäki.

The Abducted Planet

A sci fi Romanian comic.

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India Dreams T1 - The Ways of Mist (2002)

London, December 1944. Emy hates the Indies. She lost her parents 16 years earlier. And here comes the past. Inadvertently, Emy becomes acquainted with the diary of her mother, Amelia, a young woman resigned, just outside the principles of Victorian England, and confronted by a so-called lewd India, awakening her own sensuality. January 1930. Amélié arrives with Emy on the first liner destined for Bombay, to find Thomas, his husband, captain in the army of the Indies in Khalapour, at Radjasthan. But the reunion is disappointing, Thomas seems to have changed, unless it is Amelia, proven by the suffocating heat reigning in this region located on the edge of the Thar desert. Fortunately, there is Kenneth Lowther, a friend of Thomas, an atheist philosopher and preceptor of the Royal children, who tries to explain to Amelia the disconcerting India, its religion, its customs and the magnificence of its maharajas.

The Shadow's Treasure

Because of their love of both word and image, Alexandro Jodorowsky challenged François Boucq ("Bouncer") to a game. Jodorowsky would write dozens of short stories full of wisdom and humor, poetry and brutality, irony and beauty. From these diverse fables, Boucq would pick forty or so tales to draw, to comment on, to direct. The dialogue between them ended up taking them further than expected. Together, they created a truly original piece of work, where the art was fully intertwined to the writing, as lyrics are to music.

Beast 01 - Yunze, God Of Protection

The ancient human civilizations have been ravaged by a mysterious catastrophe whose survivors cannot accept the magical origin. Three peoples clash in a war without outcome: Humans, other machines and hybrids. Once fallen into torpor, the ancestral deities awaken and incarnate in the form of gigantic animals that seek a cure, but refuse to act in concert in their quest. Uok, the eagle, would like to unite men against the peril of the droid. Tône-Teth, the serpent, calls his followers and foments dark planes. Amrath, the Panther, watch. In the midst of chaos, Yunze, the watchdog, leads the little Nay. This child torn apart by the conflict that is rumbling, is not at the end of her sorrows ... nor of her surprises!

Kelts

280 BC, on the heights of Massalia, a Celtic warrior seems to flee a great danger. Even in the winter, Mordred, King Pen'dragon, learns from the augurs that a great misfortune is near, that he comes from the Levant, and that his kingdom will disappear. Moreover, his brother, Prince Ursus, discovers that he is promised a great destiny but that he will lose his life. Then everything begins. Kelts. A comic by Igor Kordey and Jean-Pierre Pecau.

Gypsy

Gipsy (in some translations spelled as "Gypsy") is a French science fiction comic series drawn by Italian-Swiss artist Enrico Marini and written by Thierry Smolderen. The eponymous main character is a charismatic Roma truck driver who works on a worldwide net of motorways as a freelance trader with his own large truck.

The series is drawn in a style that combines elements from the ligne claire school, American comics, and Japanese manga, and was first published in 1992 by Dargaud. It has six volumes so far published as of 2010. It has also been translated from the original French to German, Dutch, Danish and English, and rights have been sold in multiple other languages.

Aritz

Aritz and his companions will leave for Mexico to attend a pelota competition. They will provide assistance to a young boy who takes them on a journey to the lands of the Huichol Indians. There, our héroes discover an unknown world where nothing is quite as it seems. A comic by Pello Gutierrez and Daniel Redondo.

Down Under

Australian colonies, end of 19th century. Since the landing of Captain James Cook in April 1770, the course of time has accelerated on the island continent. The colonizing power never ceases to appropriate and subject endless territories to its laws, denying the right of existence to its original inhabitants who have lived in the rhythm of the Dream for tens of thousands of years. The waves of migrants arrive in perpetual motion. Down Under. A comic by Nathalie Sergeef and Fabio Pezzi.

Having freshly landed in New South Wales, Lonan O'Farrell, young orphan torn from his native Ireland, decides to escape the unenviable fate reserved for him. His path crosses that of two adventurers : Ian McFarlane, the son of Scottish migrants, himself facing dark manoeuvers from powerful stockbreeders, and Allambee, native son of the people here. Following a series of tragic events, the trio is forced to flee into the heart of the Outback, whose harshness is matched only by its splendour. Their destiny will be part of the ochre earth.

Kraa

This is a western-style mini-series set in the fictional land of Malaskar, wedged between Alaska & Siberia, during the early years of the 20th century. Unscrupulous businessmen have come to the region to exploit its great mineral wealth, build a megacity, and generally make an all-out assault on Nature. But Nature fights back. It's a tale of : Bonding between a human (boy) and an animal (eaglet) who have much in common. A comic by Benoit Sokal.

Kraa is the last of the sacred giant eagles which the Indian tribe of Lost Valley has revered since time immemorial.Yuma, an Indian child, is the last of his tribe, spared from a massacre only because he was away tending the wounded Kraa. They are spiritual twins, able to read each other's thoughts from any distance. Together, claw and arrow exact bloody revenge.Lost innocence because, in the process, Yuma becomes more like his eagle friend : killing quickly, without any emotion, beyond morality.

We, The Dead

Sixteenth century, Europe suffered an epidemic that turns men into zombies. 500 years later, the other side of the ocean, the Aztec people, maintained threat of colonization, continued to grow. His only link with Europe, a group of strange men arrived by boat shortly after the outbreak. The surprising survival of these plot the Aztec emperor. He decided to send an expedition to understand this mystery. A comic book by Darko Macan and Igor Kordey. We, The Dead.

For almost seven centuries, Europe was the continent of the dead. Yet these dead do not rest in peace. They at war against each other, endlessly. In the midst of this perpetual battlefield that Manco and his little band of survivors will try to find the fountain of youth. Some do not survive the journey, others will rise after death, while a strange companion will join their quest.

Red Caps

Davey, a young dreamy shepherd, sees his life changed when he meets the gaze of a beautiful aristocrat. With flaming heart, he scales the walls of the castle to declare his love for the lady, but it’s just a beginning of his adventure. This comic has everything: beautiful artwork with breathtaking landscapes and a story inspired by Scottish poetry, legends and history. Perhaps the characters could be a little less stereotypical. But hey, it's still a wonderful series. For the fans of Rob Roy and William Wallace! Screenplay: Pierre Dubois | Design: Stéphane Duval.

Rocked by the wonderful stories of an old pastor, Davey has always lived Waterlez head turned to the gold-colored Faerie. So when the love and the English soldiers forced him to join the Highlanders, the young farmer relies on fairies. In the eternal highlands of Scotland, Davey had a childhood rocked by the legends of Reverend Kirk. Of all his stories, especially the one impression: that of Red Caps, cruel elves, to give luster to their caps, dip them regularly in the blood of stray they intersect and massacre. As an adult, Davey meets one day a beautiful young noblewoman.

Konungar

A viking fresco, terrible and majestic. The northern edge of Europe, in the Kingdom of Alstavik, the threat is everywhere. The Centaurs, mortal enemies of the Vikings prepare to cross the ancient walls protects from the last invasion. On the side of the sea, the Celts kingdom Moh Ruith are pressing, so that the kingdom is still plagued by a terrible civil war. Because since the King's death, his two son Rildrig Sigvald and compete for the throne.

Forced by the threat rumbling everywhere, enemies brothers team up to face the threats extérieures. Retrouvez noise sword and the smell of blood in the cold of the far north, with the first triptych taken by the passionate Sylvain Runberg and Juzhen virtuoso. Konungar.