La Lecture des ruines
Is every man killed in combat reborn in the sky in the form of a star?
Is seeing a bus in your dreams really a sign of impending death? In 1917, Jan Van Meer, an operative with the Allies’ intelligence services and a renowned expert on folklore, travels across Europe in search of an engineer named Hellequin, inventor of the dream cannon and barbed plant-wire now obsessed with reading the ruins of war. Van Meer’s mission: not to find Hellequin at all costs. With his trademark wit, original drawing style, and wild animation, David B. takes viewers deep into the torment of the Great War, where beliefs and superstitions inextricably mix with the horror of reality.
“Following an absurd dream logic, Reading the Ruins hardly keeps to a rational path, and David B. is as creative and imaginative as ever. His extraordinary detailed panels blend symbols with drawings that look like illustrations from medieval texts, blending folklore and mythology into the dark brutality and nightmarish quality of total war, finding a way to get beyond the surface to try and touch on the underlying insanity, and the insanity of seeking some kind of meaning or order within it.” The Digital Fix
La Grande Odalisque
Carole and Alex are two unabashed, attractive, highly skilled art thieves, able to steal any painting in any museum. While looking for a driver, they meet Sam, a female motorcycle champion with many skills. The newly-born trio is destined to become a legend…
Soon available in print from Fantagraphics.
Jonas
Jonas and Jason are twin brothers gifted with extraordinary parapsychic powers. The pair of them are employed by a secret organization to locate certain people around the planet. Jonas, the more trusting of the two, is convinced that they’re working for the benefit of these people, but Jason knows things his brother doesn’t. Will he manage to keep his secret from a twin who can read his mind…?
”Series creator Pierre-Paul Renders has gone deep for this story, and between you and me I’d love to get a look at his notebook. How he and co-writer Denis Lapiere are able to tell such detailed stories, each lining up next to and often intertwined with the five other books, is nothing short of a miracle” The Pullbox
Noah
Can power make you happy?
Noah’s got everything going for him: he’s good-looking, smart, wealthy, arrogant and cynical. And he has every reason to be: he’s the son of the most powerful man on the planet, the President of the United States. But right now, he’s in a critical condition between life and death, following an attempt to take his own life. How did it get to this point? What’s his connection to this pretty young woman that a psychic tells him is the love of his life?
”Series creator Pierre-Paul Renders has gone deep for this story, and between you and me I’d love to get a look at his notebook. How he and co-writer Denis Lapiere are able to tell such detailed stories, each lining up next to and often intertwined with the five other books, is nothing short of a miracle” The Pullbox
Buck Danny – L’intégrale – Tome 11
Cartier-Bresson Allemagne 1945
In 1940, Cartier-Bresson buried his equipment to prevent the Nazis getting their hands on it. He was taken prisoner, made three escape attempts in the time he was held, and was present at the liberation of the concentration camps in April 1945. He was a pre-war humanist photographer who bore witness to some of the biggest events of the 20th century. This photo was taken in Dessau in 1945 and shows the moment where a former prisoner identifies a Gestapo informer.
L’incendie
In 1812, in order to keep his stranglehold on Europe, Napoleon had no choice but to declare war on the Russian emperor, Alexander. After three months of marching, his men, starved and exhausted, finally made it to Moscow… only to discover that the city had been deserted. Thus Napoleon and his army took up residence in the Russian capital without even the slightest resistance. But by nightfall, Moscow was on fire. Houses, churches and even the Kremlin were ablaze, and the entire French army risked being reduced to ashes. Caught in the trap, Napoleon was forced to leave the city and get back on the road to face his enemy.
Aïna
A young woman, who doesn’t speak a word of English, shows up in Father Arthur’s church seeking refuge. Father Arthur takes her under his wing, but things soon take a turn for the worse when her pursuers show up on his doorstep. It’s not long before the padre, concerned for his kidnapped protegée’s well-being, calls on his friend Jerome Bloche. Together, they seek out the mysterious Aina and her captors, but they soon realize that not only are they up against a rather intimidating security guard, but some difficult moral questions.
Phil Defer
Phil Defer is the eighth album in the Lucky Luke series, released in 1956, the title character of which was inspired by the American actor Jack Palance.
This is one of the rare Lucky Luke albums to be censored. In the original, at the end of the story Phil Defer is shot down by Lucky Luke. However, the scenario was adapted so that the character is merely injured and rendered forevermore incapable of using a weapon. Well you can now discover the original story, exactly as Morris initially imagined it! This legendary album is a synthesis of everything that Morris developed since the creation of his hero: the brilliant illustration, the narration of action, the immaculate settings… At Bottleneck Gulch, the owner of the only saloon, O’Sullivan, is doing great business. But when O’Hara brings in the competition by opening a new saloon, O’Sullivan decides to call on the services of professional killer, Phil Defer. Nonetheless, it won’t be long before Mr. Defer crosses paths with O’Hara’s friend Lucky Luke.
