Alix is a young woman who seems to have everything going for her. No sooner graduated in Art than she lands herself a job and signs a publishing contract for a graphic novel. In her personal life, too, she is having a smooth ride, living happily with her long-term boyfriend. Yet this happy public image contrasts sharply with a private anguish. Alix suffers terribly every time she makes love. At first, she blames herself, convinced that she must continue to have sex if their relationship is to survive. But before long, the pain becomes unbearable and she must tell Seb the truth.
In this autobiographical story, Alix Garin speaks for thousands of women who suffer as she did but don’t dare admit it—because female sexual desire is still a taboo subject in our society.
It’s with great pleasure that we return to the benches of Belle Épine school and Monsieur Perrault’s class. In the village, while the shop fronts decked out in their finest finery warm the hearts of the pupils, the bitter cold heralds a harsher winter than the last. Never mind, it’s high time to write a letter to Father Christmas! Greta would like her mum to find a boyfriend; Tartarin is fed up with wooden toys and wants lead; Hansel and Bretzelle want their weight in sweets; Narcolette wants unicorn pyjamas… As for Monsieur Perrault, he seems to be in deep thought on the eve of the holidays…
Alongside life at Belle Épine and the many allusions to fairy tales that readers will delight in discovering, in this volume the teacher reveals a new part of his story, the dark and sad story of the war years. In ‘Les racontages de M’sieu Perrault’, the light-hearted scenes of snowball fights and walks in the woods sit alongside more reflective, even difficult sequences, just like the tales from which they are inspired. An ode to friendship and kindness, Volume 2 offers a new interlude that is both poetic and infinitely gentle.
Capucine and Emma seem more fulfilled than ever and continue to make their way in dance. But as the school year draws to a close, the sisters face new challenges.
Emma and Jake both start work placements, she in a shop selling dance equipment, he in a production company. Jake is passionate about his work placement but frustrated that he can’t touch the equipment and show what he can do. So the gang decide to make a new video clip. But Jake isn’t happy with the result, so Emma offers to help him by doing the choreography. Could this be the chance for Emma to discover a new talent?
Capucine is living her dream, dancing at the Opera Bastille with her best friends and the dancers she admires. But her trio is jeopardised by Manon’s departure to New York next year. Capucine is feeling the pinch, but she can count on the support of Maël and her sister, who are ready to do anything to help her.
By trapping Lady Darksee, Raven has shown a daring move. Not only had he already recovered the emeralds, but he also isolated the pirate captain from her crew back at camp.
Unfortunately, for the survivors of the shipwreck, the situation is critical: the Count has been murdered by Drago, Darksee’s second-in-command, and the ‘Capricorn’, which was supposed to enable everyone to escape from this hellish situation, has washed up on the beach.
The threat of the cannibals is more present than ever, and friends and foes from the past will have to pull together to face this deadly menace. But beware of dirty tricks!
It is November 1935 and Fernando Pessoa is dying. At just 47, his body has been ravaged by alcohol and tobacco. A young out-of-work journalist, Simão Cerdeira, is commissioned by Lisbon’s evening paper, the “Diário de Lisboa,” to write Pessoa’s obituary. Knowing nothing about him except that his last work, “Mensagem,” was awarded a prize by the Ministry of Propaganda, Cerdeira throws himself into the task. His meetings with the poet and discussions with those who know him create an intimate account of Pessoa’s last three days. “Fernando Pessoa: The Restless Poet” therefore recalls “Citizen Kane” as it alternates between contrasting but complementary views of Pessoa—public and private—to provide a unique insight into the complex personality of one of the greatest Portuguese poets of the 20th century.
Revolted by the fate reserved for them, Baba suddenly leaves the Black Falcon to live with runaway slaves. It is then that Peet the Bordelais offers a despicable deal to Redbeard: help him find the island where Baba went, and capture the Negmarrons who are there. In exchange, he will free Eric and Concha’s daughter, whom he has just kidnapped, unharmed. Forced to accept, Redbeard and Eric play a particularly risky double game… A story in two volumes based on a triangular business, narrated with talent by Jean-Charles Kraehn and drawn with virtuosity by Stefano Carloni.
Blandine, a young 15-year-old, loves the Auvergne region where she lives with her family in Chaudes-Aigues. Her other passion is video games. That’s exactly why, with the help of her friend Marco, she develops one. In Arven’s World, she imagines the ideal ecological society, very strongly inspired by Greek and Roman antiquity and by the natural beauties of her region. The game is partly managed by an artificial intelligence .
As Blandine starts to explore the game, she notices that her creation seems to have gone out of control. Not only are the NPCs inventing dialogues and acting strangely, but a monster she had invented for certain parts of the game starts spreading chaos… precisely where it shouldn’t be! Blandine, and Marco, will investigate in the real and virtual worlds to understand what is going on. A story which, under the guise of virtual worlds, speaks to us about the threats which weigh on our world, and the need to defend it, especially with renewable energies.
When she rescues a wounded bulldog from the River Thames, Eden Glitter has no idea that this simple act will draw her into an action-packed adventure… Assisted by Kessy and Irwin (two street urchins who are also “stoolies”) and with the solid support of Gareth (her husband, who also happens to be a police officer), Eden confronts a gang of evildoers led by the odious and unscrupulous Flynn Hellwood. Determined to bring him to justice, Eden discovers that Hellwood secretly holds regular contests in which all kinds of animals are made to fight, a shameless activity run for his own pleasure and profit. Even though the practise has been made illegal, Hellwood seems determined to flout the law…
Delving deeper into this sinister case, Eden also uncovers the method Hellwood uses to steal people’s beloved pets—an “underworld” of waifs and orphans who somehow manage to break into their houses in the dead of night…
As the sun sets, reality is erased, and in its place rises the power of imagination. During the day, London’s Kensington Gardens are the territory of humans. At night, they become the kingdom of wonder. Six-year-old Maimie finds herself lost in the park one night. Luckily, Peter Pan is there to help her. As a permanent resident of the gardens, he shows her their many secrets, as well as the art of flying. But Maimie’s desire to go home only grows, much to Peter’s deception. Together, they must solve an unlikely riddle, or Maimie will find herself trapped in the park forever.
Before writing the famous “Peter Pan and Wendy” in 1911, James Matthew Barrie wrote “The Little White Bird” in 1902, in which he first explored the character of Peter Pan. José-Luis Munuera has adapted this forgotten text, creating a character that is both personal and loyal to the original work.
Otama Kiyohara (1861–1939) lived in two very different, and distant, worlds: Japan and Western Europe. She was the first Japanese female artist to paint in the Western style and the first Japanese woman to pose for a Western artist, Vincenzo Ragusa—an Italian sculptor from Palermo who taught at the Tokyo College of Engineering. Otama made a name for herself in Palermo during the “Belle Epoque” of the early 20th century, but was completely forgotten in her native country for more than 50 years. In 1933, six years after the death of her husband, Otama returned to Japan at the age of 73—to find a very different world.
