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A post-apocalyptic series, Hombre is set on Earth after the collapse of the technological civilization. The protagonist moves through the scenery in the manner of a desillusioned solitary survivor, with hidden traces of humanity despite the widespread loss of humanity in most people he encounters, and always with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. Though the plot is compared with that of Jeremiah, Hombre does not share the underlying motif of hope and survival of mankind of the former.

The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators - Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation.
Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents; his mother, a bookish French student, is as modest as his father is flamboyant. Venturing first to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State and then joining the family tribe in Homs, Syria, they hold fast to the vision of the paradise that always lies just around the corner. And hold they do, though food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and with locks banned, the Sattoufs come home one day to discover another family occupying their apartment. The ultimate outsider, Riad, with his flowing blond hair, is called the ultimate insult... Jewish. And in no time at all, his father has come up with yet another grand plan, moving from building a new people to building his own great palace.
Brimming with life and dark humor, The Arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East, and also introduces a master cartoonist in a work destined to stand alongside Maus and Persepolis.

Certain details surrounding the death of Albert Einstein are so outlandish as to sound like urban legend: namely, the theft of his brain by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the pathologist who
performed the eminent physicist's autopsy. From these historical events, Pierre-Henry Gomont concocts a picaresque road trip of a tale by turns farcical and moving, whimsical and melancholy, sweeping up in its narrative whirlwind the FBI, a sanatorium, neurobiology, hallucinogens, hospital bureaucracy, and romance. In his dissection of friendship and the forging of scientific reputation, the nimble cartoonist serves up a slice of lovingly rendered Americana for the ages.

Once an animator at Disney Studios, Nicolas Keramidas now makes a living as a cartoonist in Grenoble. He's married to a wonderful woman, Chloé, has two energetic sons, and plays soccer every Sunday with his pals. He was also born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a rare combination of four heart defects that in 1973 made him one of the youngest children ever to undergo open-heart surgery. Forty-three years later, when his congenital condition stops him short during a soccer game, he'll have to face surgery again, a saga he details in this moving, humorous, and above all, very human memoir.

A small exploratory vessel crashes onto an unknown ocean planet after its crew is seized by a sudden madness. After escaping their sinking ship, the five survivors are helped to the surface by giant squid-like creatures who guide them to what appears to be the planet's only island. To their surprise, they are greeted on the shore by primitive humans, who prove to be welcoming despite their cannibalistic rituals. But their fixed smiles and total docility suggest that something more sinister is going on. Are the castaways doomed to join them in submitting to the will of the mysterious Great One?

Canterbury, Connecticut, 1832: a charming female boarding school has found success among the locals, with two dozen girls enrolled. Some in town question the purpose of educating young girls - but surely there's no harm in trying? At least not until the Prudence Crandall School announces its plans to start accepting black students. Thirty years before the abolition of slavery in the United States, in the so-called "free" North, these students will be met by a wave of hostility that puts the future of the school in question, and their very lives in peril. Even in the land of the free, not all of America's children are welcome.

The seemingly idyllic town of Mitaines has been beset by a wave of kidnappings. Strange prints have been spotted in the woods, but there's no sign of foul play. With the authorities baffled, will young Arthur and the rest of the Mitaines Gang be able to solve the crime? More importantly, will they be able to stay out of trouble themselves?

This is the true story of William Alexander Morgan, the Yankee Comandante, an idealistic young American who found fame fighting in the Cuban Revolution. The blond American didn't speak a word of Spanish, but he felt his rightful place was among the guerilleros of the Escambray Mountains, fighting to bring down dictator Fulgencio Batista. Morgan was among Havana's liberators in 1959, an act that led FBI director Edgar Hoover to strip him of his American citizenship. There was a time when Morgan was international front-page news, on a level with Che Guevara. Yet

Wayne Shelton, a Vietnam veteran in his fifties, specialises in "odd jobs''. Specializing in delicate missions, it sells very expensive services. The billionaire Horace T. Quayle, president of the Texas Investment Trust, is about to sign the contract of the century with the Khalakjistan - FSU - which owns the richest deposit of germanium metal coveted by all major powers. Unfortunately, a grain of sand has jammed the machine: Rene Loiret, a truck driver. This moron had an accident that caused the death of General Selmjov, Minister of Defence Khalakjistan. He was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment, and the severity of the sentence has forced France to retaliate by an embargo. Negotiations are blocked, and the only solution is to remove the cause of the embargo: Loiret must be released and repatriated to France.
Shelton is in charge of the mission, and he has only seventy days to escape Zaporitzka of Loiret, the high security prison, and leave the country.
To achieve this spectacular escape - supposed to be conducted discreetly - Shelton recruits, around the world, a few faithful friends temporarily busy doing other things, an authentic English baronet, a Spanish stuntman and an entertainer very gironde with whom he shares some privacy. It also loads a comedian originally from Khalakjistan needy, and a former seedy Parisian lawyer who seems to have his personal reasons for joining Zaporitzka.

Bombay, 1831. Freshly arrived from London, Alexander Martin reports to his new boss at the Indian Political Service - a government agency whose function is little more than helping the East India Company expand its grasp upon the Indian subcontinent. From the start, the enthusiastic and idealistic young man displeases the British establishment, and is shunned by Bombay's polite society. Until, that is, until several of its members begin disappearing, forcing Alexander to investigate...

The year is 1849, and the future state of California is under the control of former soldiers from the Mexican-American War. Their leader, General Gomez, is busy buying up the locals' land for pennies on the dollar, so that he and his cronies can maximize their profits from the coming gold rush. But he and his men are dogged by a series of masked, would-be avengers all calling themselves Zorro. They are an almost laughable annoyance, simple peasants living out the fantasy of a local legend. Until one man shows up and starts picking off Gomez's men one by one, as stealthy as a fox. He brandishes a sword which he uses to carve the letter Z into his victims' cheeks... Could this be the true Zorro?

New York, 1946. Joshua, a former soldier and recipient of the prestigious Purple Heart, works as an investigator for a legal practice, alongside his old unit commander. Between them, a father-son bond is created, based on respect and duty. In the first volume of the series, Joshua is put in charge of finding out who is blackmailing a real estate magnate, eighty-year-old businessman Roland Husler. His wife - the daughter of an English diplomat, born in Hong Kong - has had a troubled past, and now someone's trying to cash in on it. Josh meets the couple and discovers very quickly that their glamorous exterior hides some dark secrets...
Joshua quit law school to go fight the Nazis in Europe. He was awarded the Purple Heart after he and his buddy were victims of a landmine. No medal on Earth, however, can assuage the trauma of being unable to save your brother-in-arms. Back home in the States, Joshua tries to make up for lost time, with one romantic conquest after another. Working as a private eye in New York, he's been assigned to a blackmail case that leads him to a world of love nests, Nazi thugs, stolen art, and a whole slew of other dirty deeds. The fighting in Europe may be finished, but for those who survived, the war continues to fester at the core of the Big Apple.

Her name's Rebecca, she's six, almost six and a half. Her immune system is a little weak, but she's not going to let it stop her. She's going to prove to the world that she's not a flea. Rebecca went out hunting frogs in the rain and finally caught Ernest, a strange outspoken microbe. The kind of friend that comes in handy when parents get lost in their grown-up fights. A new and original youth album that combines modern graphics with a very sensitive script.

During the depths of the Great Depression, an orphan reinvents himself as Al Chrysler and strives to win the heart of the local grocer's daughter. In doing so, he falls in with a newly arrived petty criminal who soon has him and his friends working for the local mafia. As the stakes get higher, Al soon realizes he's gotten in too deep, and is caught up in a chain of events beyond his control.

After Shangri-La (official selection at the 2017 Angoulême International Comics Festival), here comes Mathieu Bablet's new sci-fi project on the theme of artificial intelligence!
2046
Carbone & Silicium - the latest creations of the Tomorrow Foundation labs - are prototypes of a new generation of robots designed to take care of the aging human population.
Raised in protective cocoons and keen to discover the outside world, they end up getting separated while trying to escape. Each of them then goes on to lead their own life and fight a centuries-long battle to find their place on a planet that's gasping for air, plagued with successive political and human upheavals and climate disasters...

Marilyn Monroe, a name known to every generation! Whether sublime, touching, or pathetic, she personified the fantasies of the secret world of Hollywood. But behind the glittering myth was a woman whose life was anything but charmed. It is this singular life, from her turbulent childhood, via her tumultuous love life and her proximity to the highest spheres of society, to her tragic final days, that the authors have retraced here in vivid detail. Full of humor, the "Stars of History" collection offers a fresh new look at the legends of cinema.