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What is cinema? What is its effect on us? Why do we love it so much? These are all questions to which Blutch seeks the answers in his considered and humble way, drawing on his prodigious cultural knowledge and his gift for the comic book form. He references Burt Lancaster, Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Luchino Visconti, Claudia Cardinale, Tarzan, Psychose, and many more. As much comic book as graphic essay, this reverie on the narrative art of image marks the advent of one of today's masters of the 9th art.

Just outside Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a vast forest and one of the most beautiful wildernesses in Japan… which is also the most famous suicide spot in the entire world. Legend has it that the spirits of the suicide victims are still roaming—haunting those ancient woods. This series, from the creators of the acclaimed “The Veil,” examines the lives of Alan, an average-joe from Tokyo, his girlfriend Masami, and Ryoko, a forest ranger who recovers the suicide victims’ bodies from the woods, hoping to find his father. After their experiences with the Suicide Forest, their lives will never be the same again.

This series follows the paths of two different women, in two different eras. One is the exquisite Kim Nelson, a young English woman on a quest for a treasure she believes is rightfully hers. The other is her legendary ancestor, Jade, a djinn of the utmost expertise in the art of love, who, through the power of her body, holds the whole world in the palm of her hand. Her quest? To make her mark on the memory of the world through passing into legend. But both women must withstand many trials, and many rights of passage, in order to attain their goals. This is a series constantly in movement, migrating from Turkey and the harems of the Ottoman Empire, to Africa and the magic of ritual, to India and the glittering Pavilion of Pleasures. A captivating tribute to the power of desire, sensuality and the instinct to love.

The story takes place in a near future (more or less). The world is a huge factory, and the factory is the world. This world is presided over by “The Orifice,” the company which revolutionized the working method. You put your hands inside two holes, and you work, without you (or anybody) actually knowing what you’re working on… In the midst of all this is Lantz. Lantz is a comic book author. He’s the one who came up with the New New Testament, the bestseller that the entire economy depends on. Problem is: he’s got writer’s block. Riddled with doubt, he doesn’t know what he wants anymore, and his various frustrations are making him miserable. Lantz reflects the daily life of many among us. Will he be able to find an honorable way out of his psychological battles?

They were born on the battlefields of 14-18, amongst the clouds of gas and the fire of x-ray weapons.
They have taken control of the great European capitals. Beyond good and evil.
Serial writers have made icons of them. Scientists are fascinated by their powers. However, at the heart of the old continent, a threat looms which may erase even the memory of their existence...
THE END OF THE EUROPEAN SUPERHERO
This album, the first in a series of six, contains:
Prologue: "Mechanoid Curie".
September 1938. At the invitation of Doctor Mabuse, dozens of superhumans assemble in the secret city of Metropolis. Among them, Irène Joliot-Curie, hidden behind the mask of a Soviet android. What Mabuse is about to reveal could destabilise the fragile equilibrium of the European powers. But a nightmarish intruder has invited himself to this meeting.
Episode 1: "The Final Mission of The Passer-Through-Walls".
Six months later, in Paris. While The Nyctalope, all-powerful protector of The City of Lights, searches for a biographer amongst the Surrealists, Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric investigate the consequences of the meeting in Metropolis. An old friend of the Radium Institute has agreed to help them.
Episode 2: "Cagliostro".
Did the dying Marie Curie really designate the Nyctalope as the protector of Paris in 1934? His biographer, the beautiful George Spad, goes to the American hospital in Neuilly to question Jean Séverac, a former military doctor who may have been present. The hypnotist Cagliostro, the sorceress Palmyre and a monstruous extradimensional entity disrupt their meeting.
Episode 3: "The Burning Chamber".
Troubled by George Spad's revelations about his links to the Chimerical Brigade - one of the most mysterious groups of superheroes of the interwar years -, Jean Séverac returns to the Radium Institute to demand answers from the Joliot-Curie couple. The intrusion of an enemy of VERY GRAND STATURE confronts him with the impossible truth.
Episode 4: "The Broken Man".
Who are the Chimeras? The symbols of the Séverac dynasty made flesh? Mythical entities from the depths of the ages? At the Radium Institute, the discovery of the Burning Chamber allows Irène Joliot-Curie to open this metaphysical investigation while, in Paris' sewers and cellars, a gang of Vampyres make a remarkable return.
Episode 5: "Happy Birthday Doctor Séverac!"
Invited by George Spad to a private dinner at the Royal Monceau, Jean Séverac learns of the existence of a mysterious "club" that closely watches the balance of superscientific power in Europe. The reappearance of the Xenobiota, an extra-terrestrial creature which terrorised the capital once before in 1930, will give him the opportunity to once and for all accept his double nature and draw his birthday to a breathtaking conclusion.
Episode 6: "International Politics".
The Nyctalope has left Paris. At the Radium institute, Irène Joliot-Curie plans to take advantage of his absence to infiltrate the Chimerical Brigade into the CID. But George Spad's graphomania poses serious problems, and meanwhile, Félifax the tiger-man conducts a reconnaissance mission to the edge of horror.
Episode 7: "H-A-V-russe".
Just like in the glory days of the M gang, Doctor Mabuse, the Werewolf and the Blue Angel are united in their efforts to welcome a mysterious guest to Metropolis. They do not suspect that at the same moment, Jean Séverac and George Spad are carrying out a lightning raid beneath Montmartre. A monstrosity from the depths of the ages thwarts their progress.

Marcel Rayman is executed by firing squad on 21st February 1944 at Fort Mont-Valérien. He is 21 years old.
‘The Red Poster’ tells the story of this young, Jewish pacifist from Poland who took up arms against the heinous Nazi regime, alongside Missak Manouchian and other resistants in the FTP-MOI: a communist section of the French Resistance composed entirely of foreigners, fighting for France and ‘liberté, egalité, fraternité’ until their network was dismantled.
Far from the glorious clichés, this innocent young man gradually becomes a seasoned warrior and a skilled strategist. Over the course of two gruelling years, during which his family are deported, Marcel Rayman becomes versed in underground resistance fighting, armed warfare, assaults, urban guerilla tactics, death, fear… and betrayal.
It is his face which appears on the flaming red poster, a piece of propaganda spread by the occupying authorities, intended to discredit the actions of the Parisian Resistance.

An original Sci-Fi adventure of rebellion against a totalitarian and oppressive world, as only imagined by master storyteller Alexandro Jodorowsky. On Megalex, the city-planet, the laws of nature are prohibited. The tyrannical order reigns over a renewed population controlled by genetic manipulation. Due to the repeated attacks of the neighboring forest, primitive and impenetrable, the urbanized system in command allowed an 'anomaly,' a clone policeman nearly 10 ft tall, to escape. Guided by Adama, one of the rebels fighting for their freedom, the gentle giant manages to join the camp of the 'objectors' and help them go up against the evil powers of Megalex. Straight from the untamed minds of Alexandro Jodorowsky ( The Incal, The Metabarons ) and Fred Beltran ( Pin-Up Girls From Around the World ).
A Masterpiece story from Alejandro Jodorowski and a state of art from Fred Beltran. On Megalex, a gigantic planet-industrial city, every nature is banished. It Man and woman reproduces by cloning itself, people are preprogrammed from birth until death, regimented in classes with unequal privileges. The most spectacular life. The police only has live in 400 days, for citezen they are 40 years, but for the queen 4000 years. Everything would be fine in the Brave New World if only a few remaining 'anomalies': a forest irreducible and aggressive, rebels buried and, from time to time, there always a malfunction in the system.

Before the Metabarons there were the Castakas, a clan of lawless pirates - this is their story. The Metabarons recounted the extraordinary saga of the genealogy of the galaxy's ultimate warrior. But his ancestors also had ancestors. And far from being noble warriors with an inflexible code, one will discover they were in fact disloyal, vengeful pirates born out of brutality and war. From legendary creator Alexandro Jodorowsky and artist Das Pastoras, and for all of those who dreamt of a sequel to The Metabarons, comes instead the origin tale of their first ancestor, Dayal de Castaka.

The seminal series' spin-off story recounting how the mightiest warrior in the universe built his arsenal of war. The creative trio of Jodorowsky, Charest, and Janjetov shows us how the Metabaron assembled the galaxy’s most powerful and destructive weapons in an effort to secure his position as the universe’s ultimate warrior. Travis Charest's (Artist of Wildcats, WildC. A. T. s/X-Men: The Golden Age, and Star Wars comics Cover Artist) interpretation of 'The Metabarons' mythology.