Grand Prix

In the interwar period, motor racing was an extremely popular sport in Europe. Shopping, spectacular and deadly, attracted tens or even hundreds of thousands of spectators. Grand Prix in three parts traces the history of this microcosm in the last years before World War II and how Hitler used this sport for its propaganda. This is a story mixing action romance, danger, exotic trips, adultery, humor, drink, drugs and melancholy, in an era of hope, deprivation, waiting, carefree and growing threat. A time when people just lived from day to day, hoping that there would be a tomorrow. This comic is created by Marvano in 2010 with Dargaud Publications.

Tarou

Tarou is a magazine of comic strips appeared in Small publisher Arédit Artima. 263 numbers from January 1954 to July 1977, part in the Courage Exploit collection. tours to adventure stories whose hero is Tarou. TAROU "The Master of the Tigers", created by Bob Dan (Robert Dansler) begins in the collection "An Adventure", goes in the "Dynamic" collection 'first series), then after a brief stint in "Ardan "(1953) accesses its own monthly title (1954). Bob Dan, excellent storyteller, knew captivate readers and compensate a quick drawing by the efficiency of its line. Tarou continue until 1972, date of death of the author. The editor will pursue the collection up to No. 263 (1977) with covers. Tarou, son of an engineer and a native malaise, five years ago when a disaster devastates the forest, killing his parents. It will be saved by a tigress who will raise it. Afterwards, Tarou will have new companions, two tigers and a lion: Salvator, a monkey Bali and, of course, a companion, the lovely Denise, who will share his adventures in the jungles around the world.

Tarou will cross safely the period of the early 50's where publishers, cautious, avoided edit masked hero, superhero or men of the jungle, not to incur the wrath of the famous Commission for Monitoring Publications the Juenesse, who had finally overcome Tarzan in 1953 and a lot of American series (the Phantom of Bengal, the King of the Prairie ...). No doubt Tarou, French BD, without excessive violence and eroticism without (unlike designed American series, it must be remembered, for mature audiences), could not offend the censors. Subsequently, the return of the jungle hero will be in the same spirit.

The Sentinels

The Sentinels is a WWI bande desinee created by Scenario: Xavier Dorison, Drawing: Enrique Breccia.

Because it was necessary to exceed human capacity, science has made ​​them. Sentinels In 1911, during the French intervention in Morocco, a secret branch of the military, the "Sentinels" division is testing his new weapon: Taillefer, a soldier on which were grafted metal members. Impervious to bullets, tearing like paper barbed wire, the steel soldier seems indestructible ... Until he stops dead in the middle of combat. Its batteries are flat! In 1914, inspired by the work of Pierre and Marie Curie, Gabriel Feraud, young scientist, designed the battery radium. The colonel then Mirreau sees the potential of such energy on her ... But Feraud Taillefer, anti-militarist, refuses ... War is declared, Feraud mobilized. On 8 August 1914, he was hit by a German shell and cut by all its members. Taken to hospital, Mirreau made ​​him an offer: give the battery radium Dr. Kropp, the "creator" of Sentinel, and become the new Taillefer ... On historical reality of background, this album of "retro science fiction" to modern colors and acids gives birth for the first time, a French superhero: Taillefer.

Tessa Intergalactic Agent

Everything was fine in the Tessa life so far: Star gymnastics competitions, physical to rival any boy. Anyway, was it the English course, the world would be perfect. But then one night, Tessa was led by an alien to millions of light years from Earth, where it fought (and defeated) in an arena. Unwittingly, she has successfully passed its Intergalactic Agent exam. She is a teenager, and undisciplined as pretty as spirited and imaginative, more passionate about gymnastics as English classes, dream every night that the worst fighting aliens. There she completes her agent intergalactic training under the tutelage of a gruff alien, who teaches him how to protect the world against the "sidereal killers." 

And if it was not a dream? A new adventure of Nävis, the heroine of Wake ? Lost is Tessa , substitute character created by Morvan and Buchet. Reference a little easier? . Impossible not to think about browsing the back cover. There are some nuances it's true: the Earth as a place of action and find the dream is not one. And it gets worse as a model! And after all, in the western, there are other hero Blueberry, so why not in SF? We can add in passing that the subtitle "intergalactic agent" is reminiscent of Valerian , the "space-time" agent who inspired Morvan to Wake ! To differentiate, Mitric bottom plays the card of humor, but that would make the gags fly, which is not always obvious. Besides the contemporary part is much more successful, mainly due to heroin posturing and dynamism. Scenario: Nicolas Mitric. Design: Louis.

Hercule

Hercule is a powerful MerK. Half-human, half-alien through cell transplantation, he is not afraid of death. A part of him is already dead, haunted by the crime committed against his wife and children, he must atone for accepting orders, even the craziest, Officers. Hercule has no choice, it MUST be aliens stalk crashing on planets colonized by humans. Its primary mission is to kill the Nemean lion, whose ship crashed and protects his wife very badly injured. He needs the blood of humans who live locally to heal. The battle between Hercule and the lion will also wild emotional and to awaken painful memories in the mind of our hero. Scenario: Jean-David Morvan, Artwork: Looky.

Game Over

Game Over is a series of comic humor derived from the series Kid Paddle, created by the famous author Midam he realizes drawings with Adam and scenarios, accompanied in this latter task by a large team of other writers. The series is colorized by Angela. The hero is the "barbaric Little" heroes of the video game of the same name. Its goal is to reach the end of a level (indicated by a sign: EXIT or output in the less recent episodes of Kid Paddle), possibly accompanying the princess, without either being killed. Each mission of the Little Barbarian always ends with a tragic end: the hero, the princess or both are killed or immersed in hopeless traps. The reasons are varied: obvious trap, falsely reassuring indications, misunderstanding of how a magical object, false pride or stupidity of the princess. This cartoon is largely motivated by the taste of Midam for creating many variants of a gag previously used one. This cartoon is silent: apart from an onomatopoeia or another, are not found in text.

The Order of Dragons

Great God! How is this possible ? This is one of the secrets of our history. My dear Ernst. Here is the proof we needed. What we are taught in our books is wrong. It hides the truths of this world. And, it's up to us, my friend to bring light to men. Berlin 1933, the rise of Nazism, a Jewish ethnographer Elijah Strauss is killed, the young Eva Wilson investigation. But she discovered beyond his imagination, slowly, the mysteries of Hitler's power proved him a war going on between an order and a society, an ancient war. 

1919. In the Highlands, Hank meets in dreams the ghost of Madame Darmanson, a psychic belonging to the Order of the Dragons. She reveals the place and time that he could kill him by whom will the Holocaust. Nobody knows his name but with this index, Hank will kill Hitler before he became the Führer. In Munich, at the same time, Daria Fulci and a policeman investigates strange murders, and a visibly different skeleton of a man. Two paths cross that of Hank repudiated a member of the Order of the Dragons who thinks he can prevent the second world war before it happens, and that of Daria fascinated by the darkness in search of immortality. The Order of Dragons. Script: Jean-Luc Istin | Design: Denis Rodier & Elia Bonetti.