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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, December 12, 2015

D-Day

This epic comic was created by Jean-Pierre Pecau, Fred Duval and Fred Blanchard. Published by Delcourt.

THE CONCEPT
What if history had taken a different course than the one we know? What if the Russians had succeeded in landing on the moon before the Americans? What if the epicentre of the cold war had been Paris, and not Berlin? What if the assassination in Dallas had happened in 1973, and not in 1963? What if the Germans had won the First World War? What if imagination had taken power in May 68? What if the anarchists had overthrown Tsar Nicolas II in 1917? All these stories, based on historical facts and realistic assumptions allow us to discover the consequences of one day where everything changes: D-DAY.

THE ALBUM
October 1962, the Cuban missile crisis kicked off a three day war which saw the USSR annihilated and the USA crippled. Several years later, the two remaining nuclear powers, Great Britain and France, decide to intervene to guarantee the territorial integrity of the former United States, threatened by Mexico...

THE HERO
Georges-Émile Crenn, para officer, was part of the first contingent of UN troops to land at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba after the War of 10,000 Suns. He will be marked by this experience to the end of his days. When the Anglo-French expeditionary force reaches the shores of Texas, little does he suspect that a very dangerous mission will lead him to jump into a nest of vipers and Titan missiles...


Friday, December 11, 2015

The Final Flight (One Shot)

This comic is a one-shot book, created by Romain Hugault and Regis Hautiere in 2007.
1943-1945. The 20th century sees its darkest hours. While the earth trembles under bombing, the sky becomes the scene of a fierce fight for supremacy. Up there, planes converge, men clash, and fates intersect. Four men, from four different Air Forces, take-off to complete the mission they were assigned. Their Final Flights...

Thursday, December 10, 2015

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.


Wednesday, December 9, 2015

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!


Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Beyond the Clouds

Austral winter 1933, two pilots meet in the Andes. For Pierre, French, and Allan, the US, this is the beginning of a long relationship that will mingle friendship and rivalry. Their shared passion for aviation will be salt and cement this relationship. For if it is the ground that asserts affection and conflicts arise, it is in the air that the accounts are settled, Beyond the Clouds.
Scenario: Regis Hautière. Drawing: Romain Hugault.


Monday, December 7, 2015

Once upon a time in France

Once upon a time in France (Il etait une fois en France) is a series of comic of Fabien Nury (scenario) and Sylvain Valley (drawing), published by Editions Glénat in 2007.
It traces a fictionalized version of the life of Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jewish scrap metal dealer, became one of the richest men in France and was, during the Second World War, both close to the Gestapo in Paris and main provider of funds of the Resistance.
According to the warning at the beginning of each album, the story freely mixes historical facts, assumptions and deliberate inventions.