Once upon a time, there was a Princess, a Fairy and a Mermaid… What ??? Again??? No, no, it’s not quite that… Our three heroines take us on an adventure as absurd as it is sororal, a story of friendship and emancipation.
Princess, Fée and Sirène are faced with a few problems when we meet them: Princess can’t stand her big dress any more, Sirèneurgently needs to find some water, and Fée is fed up with having to use her magic at the drop of a hat to do everyone a favour. What they have in common is a desire to be free, a desire to discover the wide world, a keen awareness that unity and support will make them strong… and an immoderate taste for the absurd and the bizarre. That’s all it takes to decide to set up a shared flat that looks like an ideal micro-republic: flat-shore
Horse Badorties spends his nights in his pad on the Lower East Side and his days on the streets of the Bronx, Chinatown, or up in Brooklyn Heights. With his huge umbrella over one shoulder and his amazing fan in his hand—to keep him cool at all times—Horse scours the famous streets of ’60s New York in search of recruits for his great obsession: a Love Choir. Despite his oddball hobo look, Horse is a young man with heart. His frail health and lofty ambitions have something of the heroic grandeur of John Kennedy Toole’s Ignatius J. Reilly, while his “soft” drug-soaked language and zany coolness recall the Dude from the Coen Brothers’ Big Lebowski.
Lina a dix ans et deux maisons. Chez sa mère et chez son père. L’une de nos jours et l’autre en 1910. Elle va d’un temps à l’autre, d’une vie à l’autre grâce à une passerelle cachée en plein cœur de Paris. Un secret qui n’est pas simple à garder pour la jeune fille… Inquiète pour la librairie de son papa, menacée par la grande crue de la Seine, Lina commet plusieurs imprudences et éveille, dans le présent, les soupçons de Gus, son nouveau camarade de classe, mais aussi, dans le passé, ceux de deux malfrats.
Life is good in the kingdom of Six-Ponts, where King Serge reigns. And everyone is getting ready to celebrate Princess Cécile’s wedding in style. Anne, the tavernkeeper, is looking forward to the event, not only because she was raised with Cecile, but also because the wedding will enable her to revive her tavern.
But Anne is also a protégé of the king, who can refuse her nothing. This arouses the jealousy of the queen, who hates Anne, plots against her and won’t be satisfied until this “little schemer” has been eliminated.
“Le complot de la Reine” is the reissue of the first part of the Kingdom of Blanche-Fleur, a large album released in August 2019.
Fauve is an exorcist, but not just any exorcist. She is an exorcist of fine art and works for the largest museum in the world, the Louvre. Paintings, sculptures and even the smallest pieces of decorative art require her attention. Whether it’s a masterpiece in distress, or a painting that just wants to hang out in the garden, Fauve and her colleagues in the mimetic security department ensure the museum’s safety, both for the artworks and for the people, while gradually getting to know each other.
Pirates they be, the damned and the outcast, sworn never to set foot on dry land again, endlessly sailing the seas toward the unknown, certain death their only release. But man proposes, fate disposes. These jaded souls stumble across an amazing find: a mysterious marine creature who, against all expectations and much to the captain’s displeasure, sets crewmembers against one another. For the Carcoma, a dread wind is about to blow…
In the present day, a young boy plays in the forest and falls asleep under a tree. Protected by the fox god, his dreams take him far back in time, to discover his past lives. Once a samurai, the dream gods confront him with the massacres he has committed. Later, as a tattoo artist, he will experience the post-World War II omerta and the banning of this subtle art.
Little by little, the reader is introduced to the history and culture of Japan, through a number of references that will delight the more experienced without puzzling the average reader, such as the game with the shogi coins.
For the first time ever, Hannah, a little girl from the big city, is spending the summer with her grandfather. As it just so happens, he’s the Guardian of an astonishing forest, where trees go for a walk when they get bored, animals can speak, pigs magically regenerate, and 120-year-old gnomes are in the throes of teenage angst… Once she gets over her initial surprise, Hannah is delighted to discover this fantastical place.
