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The true odyssey of a young child, Alice Cyuzuzo, as she traverses the roads of Zaire to seek refuge from the civil war that has struck her native Rwanda.
Gitarama, the Southern Province of Rwanda, 1994. Five-year-old Alice enjoys a peaceful childhood with her parents and little sisters, but life as she knows it is about to change forever as the genocide of the Tutsis erupts, forcing her to flee her village with her family.
It is on the hot roads of the Democratic Republic of Congo, known then as Zaire, that Alice grows up, bouncing from one refugee camp to another, seeking some semblance of a normal life in between violent attacks, with death always lurking around the corner.
With Alice, Gaspard Talmasse delivers a singular testimony, capturing with painful emotion a relentless world as seen thorough the eyes of an innocent child: one who grew up to become the author's own life partner.

In 1917 the mysterious Aquila, head of a network of German saboteurs, is terrorizing the French nation, and only one man can unmask him. The journalist, turned solider, turned spy, turned detective: Silas Corey. Hero or crook, it all depends on the employer.

1941. In the hushed lounges of a liner on its way to Argentina, the world chess champion faces a final game against a Viennese aristocrat, whose incredible mastery of the game was born in the lair of the tyranny. This poignant and desperate denunciation of Nazi barbarism is the last text written by Stefan Zweig before his suicide.

After an accident in a mine, Hotis wakes up stranded in a different world from which he sets on a journey back home. However, the return might not be possible at all, especially, if it involves crossing galaxies, time and the barrier between life and death.

On April 5th, 1514, a mysterious noblewoman leaves a newborn bearing only an unusual golden necklace at the gates of the Château du Clos Lucé in Amboise, France. Named "Cinq Avril" by the cooks who care for him, and taken under the wing of another resident of the castle, a certain Leonardo da Vinci, the child grows in energy and knowledge as he's instructed in a multitude of secrets. When his mentor dies, the young man discovers a posthumous letter explaining that he has the power to change the course of history if he can unravel the enigma of his birth.

Annoying people beware: there's a new sheriff in town, and her name is Billie Bang Bang! Life isn't always easy when you're 8 years old. But Billie has a new best friend, named Bonkers. (Who isn't even imaginary, by the way!) And a partner in crime means double the trouble... Watch out, world! Billie Bang Bang is a series about our precocious, smart, immature, hilarious, and sometimes tyrannical children. Children who are constantly defying adults' authority, even though all they really want is love and protection, in a world that isn't always as safe as we want it to be. Together, Billie and Bonkers take whatever life throws their way, and find a way to come out the other side... with as little collateral damage as possible.

It's the big comeback for Michel Vaillant, the star racing driver from the greatest international racing circuits. Faced with new sporting and technological challenges, the Vaillant clan must deal with the developments not only within the automotive industry, but also within society itself.

In the late 1920s, Melvin Z. Woodworth is an author with writer's block and a mystery to solve. He takes a vacation to the Swiss Alps to try and kill two birds with one stone - and do some excellent hiking and skiing while he's at it. But the little village, so long slumbering on the wrong side of the Industrial Revolution, is threatened by a force of nature - and, of course, contains secrets of its own. Cosey's masterful graphic novel is presented here in full-color English translation for the first time: an ode to nature, culture, mythology, and a simpler - yet riskier - time.

1830, Black Africa, Atar Gull, a beautiful slave is loaded onto the boat of Captain Benoît, to be sold in the Antilles. His price is high: the son of a king, an athlete, a warrior... His story takes us from the holds of a slave ship to Jamaica, from slave markets to the heart of a plantation; his fate will be a tragic one...
Fabien Nury and Brunö have created an incredible, flamboyant fresco, a staggering adventure of a thousand dramatic turns, a superb album of 88 pages which will continue to haunt you long after you have closed it.

It is clear from the first panel that Loisel has no interest in giving us a white-washed narrative: 'London... cold, hunger and misery merge to set the scene...' It's a Dickensian nightmare. The houses are cramped, the streets are full of cynical, selfish people and all is awash in the ordure of poverty. While it's clear that they all suffer together, there is precious little sense of community. The Londoners prey upon each other like rats in a cobble-stoned coffin. The single factor connecting the adult world and that of the young is a gnawing hunger to escape. So, we come to Peter, a ragged child holding forth to a group of orphans in a tiny yard. When we first meet him, his only magic lies in his words, transporting the children with marvelous stories of far away places and warming their hearts with the 'words of tenderness' he claims his mother whispers to him. (That damned harpy!) His struggle to maintain innocence in a tawdry world is heart-breaking, and renders the book firmly in the arena of adult reading. Loisel does an excellent job of portraying the darkness and terror of the adult world from a prepubescent perspective, in imagery, language and inference - laying down the psychological tracks that lead to Peter's perpetual childhood in Neverland. This is not a world for children.
Although he chooses to root the story in reality, the bulk of the adventure takes place in Neverland - though it's not actually named in the book. If there is one thing that Peter Pan represents, it's the joy of unfettered imagination, and Neverland fits him like a glove. Loisel's artwork is of the very highest quality, but the flames of his creativity burn brightest in Neverland. The island is brought vividly to life, in all its contradictions: blending Greek mythology, fairy tale, stories of the blood-red waves and the wild west. The character design is fabulous throughout: from Hook's haggard and bestubbled face to the Peter's gap-toothed grin, while the Lost Boys have never looked wilder. The pirates' attempts to steal the fairy treasure (and latterly exact revenge on poor Peter) is perhaps the one weak point of the story. It suffers from the same malaise as Barrie's original, with outlandish ploys and schoolboy tactics. That said, Hook is a formidable bully when roused, representing as he does all Adults in his grasping nature and cruel injustices. If this is a 'children's' story, then it's the kind they tell each other when there are no grown-ups around: full of brutality and bloody excess.
This is one of those rare books that gives you more and more each time you read it, whether it's in the spectacular detail of the artwork, fresh insights to story, theme or meaning. The artwork is sumptuous, the drama intense and the emotional punches are near-crippling. How many comics delve into gnaw-knuckle nastiness one minute and move you to tears the next? Precious blooming few, and that's a fact!

The Extraordinary Voyage is a Jules Verne inspired steampunk adventure set in a very different 1920s England.

This story will keep you in suspense without being very original. You'll find yourself wanting to know more and, with every page turned, you'll learn a little bit more of the truth... It's a real thriller! The drawings are of impeccable quality, a lot of work has been put into the landscapes and characters. Dark colors reinforce the idea of dark scenario. Everything is splendid!
T01 The Isle of Brac
An eighteenth-century detective arrives to The Isle of Brac and gets involved in a mystery that borders on supernatural...
T02 Black Virgin
A remote village in Auvergne, a gypsy camp, superstitions, a strange priest, a disfigured woodcutter... and gruesome murders that are committed every Christmas Eve. Will the Marquis sort the facts from fiction and solve the case in an atmosphere of suspicion gradually increasing in intensity?
T03 Providence
Jean-Baptiste Poulain boards a ship bound for Spain, but after crossing the path of a cursed vessel, people start lose their minds... Vehlmann and Bonhomme give us an exceptional story, an album filled with disturbing, almost palpable atmosphere and magnificent artwork...
T04 The Beast
Jean-Baptiste Poulain and his cousin face a beast in the mountains, but soon it becomes something more than just a hunt for both of them...
T05 - The Chamber of Cheops (2008)
Jean-Baptiste Poulain discovers that, like five others, he is the heir of a certain Umberto Leone. Unwilling to accept a part of Leone's fortune without trying to understand his motivation, Jean-Baptiste starts his investigation...

A gigantic megalopolis, Centron, suffers from three troubles: a rise in sea level and pollution due to climate change, a shortage of everything, and chronic overpopulation.
That is why, every year, over 400,000 citizens, selected by the computer ATROPOS, are eliminated during what is called Egalitarian Control. A delicate mission entrusted to a special elite force, nicknamed Weasels.

A Western tale turned on its ear and filled with strange characters and situations that could only have originated from the mind of El Topo Director, and Metabarons author, Alexandro Jodorowsky. Bouncer begins with young Seth's discovery of a skeleton and a pair of guns in a hidden cavern. Before he can discover the origin of these guns, Seth finds himself on the run after his parents are brutally slaughtered. Finding a protector in the form of the town's tough-as-nails one-armed Bouncer, Seth discovers that everything he is involved in is linked together through mysterious family ties. Seth and Bouncer set out to avenge the murder of Seth's family, but is there more going on here than simple revenge?

A rich Sci-Fi saga adapted from the work of Julia Verlanger, one of the most celebrated authors of the French science fiction movement of the 1970s.. PUBLICATION IN 2 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Humans have scattered and occupied the known universe for so long that many worlds have forgotten their true, Earthly origins. The planets which retain the memory of the Formers have allied together, creating a Galactic Federation, whereas the Retros are worlds that have returned to a more archaic, primitive, and isolationist way of life. The Federation entrusts its best agent, Marce, with a delicate, yet vital, mission to help a retro world called Almagiel evolve. But political machinations, brutal living conditions, and deadly creatures may prove to be the agent's undoing.

A teenager desperate to pass his Biology final is visited in the night, Christmas Carol-style, by the spirits of some of the greatest scientists in history. 1 VOLUME RELEASED - INDEPENDENT STORIES. Trevor suffers from an ailment common among high schoolers: apathy. He snoozes through science class, distrusts his teachers, and would rather stay up all night playing video games than studying for his upcoming science quiz. With an "F" in Biology looming ominously in Trevor's near future unless he finds motivation, Trevor's parents take away his video games for a week in an effort to make him buckle down and study. When he opens up his book, however, an epic adventure begins, and the greatest scientists in history become his guides - literally!