Non Album Collections 393

Lastman (2022)

Adrian Velba has trained all year to fight in the Valley of the Kings’ legendary tournament. However, despite his ambition, he has no chance of winning. Not only is his partner unable to compete, but at 12 years old, Adrian is the longest of longshots. That is, until a mysterious, powerful stranger enters town, offering to join forces with Adrian. But who is Richard Aldana? And why in a world of magic does he rely solely on his fists? Balak, Michaël Sanlaville, Bastien Vives.

The Court Charade (2022)

Young Serine is determined to become a lady-in-waiting to help provide for her family. But she soon finds herself at the mercy of a thoughtless queen, scheming lords and ladies, and vicious palace fauna. Luckily, this garrulous and down-on-her-luck countess has always been able to count on her wits—and her words!—to survive, and life at court proves no different. by Vesco Flore, Kerascoët.

Trapped on Zarkass (2022)

It is the third millennium, and gender definitions are gone, references practically banned. Larry and Marcel are two Earth agents sent to the lush and threatening jungles of the planet Zarkass forced to collaborate for an ultra-secret mission. Their official cover is to study the fauna, flora, and the unique customs of the native Zarkassian people. But really they are there to find and examine the mysterious wreckage of an alien vessel that has the government concerned. But the two young agents start to suspect that each of them might be hiding the real reasons for their presence on Zarkass… reasons that are much more personal… by Yann, Didier Cassegrain.

The Adventures of Freddy Lombard (repost)

The Adventures of Freddy Lombard is a comic book series created by Yves Chaland. Five albums were released, all during the 1980s, before Chaland's untimely death. They were originally written in French, though have since received publication into English. Writer(s): Yves Chaland with Yann. Artist(s): Yves Chaland.

The stories feature the protagonist Freddy Lombard and his friends Dina and Sweep, as they desperately try to get money to pay their bills. This often leads them to their adventures.

Black Angel

It is the early 1920s. The Volstead Act has recently prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol, which means that an active black market has sprung up—a market controlled by legendary gangsters such as Al Capone. Supplies must be secretly shipped from France to its outpost in Saint-Pierre, Newfoundland. This dangerous and illegal trade involves aviators flying primitive sea planes—aviators such as Bessie the "Black Angel," whose mixed heritage also makes her the target of the flourishing Ku Klux Klan. Based on the historical figure of Bessie Coleman, she flies in the face of injustice, prejudice, and discrimination. by Yann  (Author), Henriet (Illustrator).

Angel Wings

1944. As Japanese forces occupy the whole of Burma and threaten India and China, the pilots of the American forces ensure a bold and dangerous continuous airlift between these two allied countries in order to stem the Japanese advance ... Angela Mc Cloud is a WASP, a woman from the Woman Airforce Service Pilot. His mission was to bring his "C-47 Dakota" over the "Hump", the Himalayan massif, to refuel Chinese bases, the last lock that could rock the war ... Between two attacks of the enemy aviation, "Angel "Will have to prove himself to be admitted and win the respect of" Burma Banshees "... the squadron that escorts the cargo ships, to the P40 Warhawk adorned with a white skull.

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Aion (2019)

Script by Ludovic Rio - Art by Ludovic Rio. Captain Lexi Neel thought she’d sacrificed years of life with her daughter when she left Earth on a decades-long journey through the depths of space. But when a distress signal takes her out of hypersleep years ahead of schedule, she finds herself on the mysterious moon Aion, home to exotic wildlife and a research station dedicated to study of the moon’s “particularities.” It might mean a chance to start over as if she never left… As Lexi is about to learn, time is an experience.

Atomic Empire (2019)

An astonishing and captivating original graphic novel by Thierry Smolderen and Alexandre Clérisse. Inspired by a real psychological case, Atomic Empire is both a psychiatric enigma and a space opera.

Atom Agency 01 - The Begum's Jewels (2019)

Script by Yann - Art by Olivier Schwartz. Atom Vercorian is trying to make it as a private detective in post-war Paris, and he just needs that one big case to make a name for himself. His father, a police detective, isn’t making any headway in the case of a jewelry theft in the south of France. Atom, however, gets a lead that takes him and his partners, Mimi and Jojo, south to Marseille, where they meet ex-resistance fighters, gangsters, and henchmen. With audacity and enthusiasm, Atom and his cohorts dance their way through the worlds of organized crime, pro wrestling, and the ultra-rich in the pursuit of Miss France 1930’s stolen jewels. This could be Atom’s big break—if he survives the experience!

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East-West (2018)

Script by Pierre Christin - Art by Philippe Aymond. Prolific comic book author Pierre Christin, who penned the game-changing classic sci-fi series “Valerian and Laureline,” switches to autobiography here to bring us the thoughtful, enlightening tale of two vastly different lands, the American West during the civil rights movement and the counter-culture phenomenon, and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive French artist and journalist with a love for travel, intellectual query, gypsies, and jazz. Christin and his faithful road companion and “Valerian” co-creator Jean-Claude Mézières drive across landscapes ranging from Utah to Bulgaria in a series of cars each more dilapidated than the next, encountering people and adventures of all kinds in a story that is part travel journal, part geo-political documentary, and part artistic coming-of-age.

Double 7 (2018)

Script by Yann - Art by André Juillard. The Spanish Civil War attracted involvement from a wide variety of governments, individuals and political factions, with Italians, Germans, and North Africans helping Franco and his supporters, and the Soviet Union, Mexico, and international brigades aiding the Republicans. Dusting off a little‐known and often forgotten chapter of history, the authors take us back to this remarkable and terrible period of war as only they can, with a tale full of scheming intrigues. The world they uncover is one of no‐holds‐barred plotting to obtain victory at whatever the cost. And in the midst of the backstabbings and despair, one young Russian pilot falls in love with a feisty Spanish freedomfighter. In the hope it will outlast the bitter conflict engulfing them all.

The Song of Aglaia (2018)

The Song Of Aglaia Hardcover – July 3, 2018. Aglaia is a simple sea nymph. One day, a Merman seduces Aglaia, forever altering her life's course. She is cast out of Oceanid by her chauvinistic father, forcing her to wander many days and nights, until one day she finds herself at the benefit of one Mr. Author : Anne Simon.

Bear's Tooth

Silesia, 1930. Three children play with toy airplanes. Three friends – Max the Polish Jew, Werner and Hanna the Germans. All dream of becoming pilots, but they won’t all have the same opportunities, and the world is heading down a dark road... 1944. Max is now an ace in the US Navy, while Hanna is one of Germany’s top test pilots. Will anything remain of their old friendship, as the sides they each chose are locked in a struggle to the death? Written by Yann. Art by Alain Henriet.

Basil & Victoria

A humorous Victorian-era set social fable told in pure Dickensian tradition. Follow the titular pair of street orphans on adventures far and wide. London, 1887. While the British Empire is at its peak, and influences the majority of the world, most of London still lives amid poverty, disease, and crime. Basil and Victoria are two of the thousands of orphaned street urchins who survive by hustling, selling rats, and sleeping on the docks. Helped by Cromwell, their faithful bulldog, the trio travel from the mean streets of Whitechapel to exotic distant lands, meeting famous, and infamous, historical and literary figures along the way, as they lovingly bicker and squabble the entire time ! A comic by Yann and Edith.

The Eternals

The Eternals is a series of French comic. Scenario: Yann. Drawing: Félix Meynet.  The series combines police, action, espionage, romance. As in the best James Bond , agents with modern sophistication. As RA glasses (augmented reality) that provide real-time information on the scenes observed: armament, mindset, intentions of the protagonists. Eternals form a more or less secret organization responsible for the "police" of diamonds . They work in Antwerp , for the rich diamond, monitor transactions, transportation of diamonds. All work under pseudonym, discretion is one of its basic rules, professionalism at all times another. (The love affairs between agents are strictly prohibited).

Uma, a rather depressed young policewoman, have not heard from her twin for twelve years. The day she discovers a skull bearing all the characteristics of her sister, she is kidnapped by the Eternals. It must replace his sister Mira within the organization.

The Unspeakables

The Unspeakables (Les Innommables) is a Franco-Belgian comic series written by Yann le Pennetier and drawn by Didier Conrad. It began publication in serialized form in 1980 in Spirou magazine and was eventually published in album form by Dargaud. The first edition of the album Alix-Noni-Tengu contained two alternative endings. In re-editions, only the second ending was retained. The character of Alix was made the subject of a six-volume spin-off series, Tigresse blanche. The Unspeakables has been translated into German (Helden ohne Skrupel) and Dutch (De onnoembaren). The album Pas-de-mâchoire was nominated for the 2001 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario. 

The series recounts the adventures of three U.S. Army deserters – Mac, Tony and Tim – in 1949, as they trek across Asia and search for Alix, Mac's lover and a Chinese communist spy.  This comic is characterized by its black humor as well as frequent displays of nudity and violence – which eventually ended the series' run in Spirou. 

White Tigress

White Tigress is a series of comics drawn by Conrad and scripted by Yann then by Wilbur from Volume 3. This series derived Innommables is published by Dargaud. Volume 4, A spy on the roof, were pre-published in the summer 2007 release and received wide acceptance of newspaper readers. Philippe Sollers speaks in his column in the Sunday newspaper as "the delirium amazing Conrad and Wilbur ". 

Alix Yin Fu, a young Chinese woman, between the Gong Ju year, the secret service of the communist regime. China is in the midst of civil war between the nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists of Mao Zedong. During his first mission (volumes 1 and 2) she rubs the underworld Hong-Kong and the jet set of all British settlers seeking a nuclear bomb lost US (that of Shukumeï Series The Innommables). The third volume of the series, The Art of Happiness fifth, sending Alix Yin Fu in San Francisco where it must be driven by a French sympathizer officer appointed Rousseau. Maurice Rousseau principal occupation to track down Japanese war criminals refugees on US territory. Launched in the footsteps of the famous Masanobu Tsuji, Alix must prove that it can kill in cold blood if it is not to become a "fly gathering pollen," an agent who prostitute to obtain information from the enemy. A spy on the roof (Volume 4) takes place in China, Shanghai, and focuses on the struggle between the Chinese secret services. It shows for the first time the head of Gong Ju year, Kang Sheng and all the underworld fauna of Shanghai after the war. The fifth volume of The Year of the Phoenix takes place in Hong Kong, Shanghai and London. He concludes the first cycle. The White Tigress are stalked by the agent 005 of MI6, but the worst danger comes from inside the Gong Ju year.

The Nightowl

The Nightowl is a series of comics published in the "Cockpit" collection of Editions Paquet. It was completed in three volumes. Created by Screenplay: Yann. Design and colors: Romain Hugault.

The parallel lives of Wulf and Lilya on the Eastern Front from 1943 to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Wulf, Member of the Luftwaffe, wearing a wry look on this war that is taking place. Defining themselves as anti-Nazi, it is nevertheless a distinguished element of the night fighter German. Lilya is a woman pilot of the army of the Soviet air. She will have to prove to get the controls of a fighter. Three albums, Yann and Hugault share with us the destinies of these two people.

The Pilot in the Edelweiss

The Pilot Edelweiss is a series of comic of Yann (scenario) and Romain Hugault (drawing and color). It appeared in the "Cockpit" collection of Editions Paquet. The series ended in three volumes. 

In 1917-1918, the two brothers Castillac actively participate in global conflict; Henri became one of the "ace" of French aviation and Alphonse, a former pilot also was sanctioned and transferred to tanks for disciplinary reasons; but while the latter chomping at the bit and dream of flying again, his brother lives in terror of facing a certain German driver whose Fokker is decorated with a superb Edelweiss.Quel terrible secret buried in the past two brothers behind this panic? How beautiful Valentine, the wife of Alphonse, she will react to the evolving relationship increasingly ambiguous between the twins? ... And above all, what does this mysterious Edelweiss? 

Following his promise to kill Henri Castillac, Erik, the pilot at the Edelweiss, storks flying over the airfield and a challenge message, a real dogfight, just him and Henri Castillac the following week. The latter, petrified fear, goes on leave in Paris. Contrary to his habits, no Folies-Bergeres or thin parts. It is conscious and leaves his only friends have fun for a secret rendezvous. He meets his twin brother Alphonse to offer him a terrible trade. He will take his place at the controls of his new Spad-canon to face Erik. Alphonse aback but dream repiloter, who was fired in aviation ...

1918; for more than four years, the great world slaughter continues its ravages, avidly engulfing the flower of European youth in a maelstrom of blood, mud, barbed wire and despair ... At the rear, the Parisians themselves dread each night raids terrifying Gotha, the German giant bombers ?; the hospital is neat Henri Castillac is not spared. In bed, helpless, it begins to regret the identity substitution he performed with his brother. Once more through this pilot subterfuge among Storks, Alphonse aligns victory over victory ?; Unfortunately, because of this substitution, it can win the heart of Valentine without revealing the deception ... Alphonse Castillac one last time will face his most ruthless opponent, Erik, the dreaded "Driver Edelweiss" in a duel thank you at very high altitude. But Alphonse especially will definitely have to try to overcome his own inner demons, far more frightening ... and especially the enigmatic Walburga!

Marsupilami

Marsupilami is a fictional comic book species created by André Franquin, first published on 31 January 1952 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comic book series Spirou et Fantasio until Franquin stopped working on the series in 1968 and the character dropped out soon afterward. In the late 1980s, the Marsupilami got its own successful spin-off series of comic albums, Marsupilami, written by Greg, Yann and Dugomier and drawn by Batem, launching the publishing house Marsu Productions. Later, two animated shows featuring this character, as well as a Sega Genesis video game and a variety of other merchandise followed. The asteroid 98494 Marsupilami is named in its honour. The name is a portmanteau of the words marsupial, Pilou-Pilou (the French name for Eugene the Jeep, a character Franquin loved as a kid) and ami, French for friend.

Marsupilami's adventures had been translated to several languages, like Dutch, German, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and several Scandinavian languages. More than three million albums of the Marsupilami series are claimed to have been sold by Marsu Productions.
One album of Spirou and Fantasio featuring Marsupilami, number 15, was translated to English by Fantasy Flight Publishing in 1995, although it is currently out of print. Plans on releasing number 16 ended halfway through the translation process, due to bad sales. In 2007, Egmont's subsidiary Euro Books translated albums number 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 14 for the Indian market.
In 2013, Dupuis bought Marsu Productions and its characters, thereby allowing a new production of Spirou and Fantasio adventures including Marsupilami.