Having recently discovered the world of Pandorient, Nola can’t resist the temptation to go back. Unfortunately, she didn’t choose the best day! The streets of Pandorient are packed with people. Today, they’re celebrating the 350th birthday of King Hectorian the First! It’s not easy for her to blend in. Luckily, Anton the great Merlinian is there to give her camouflage powder. But it’s no time for festivities! Nola, Igor, and Andrea have a mystery to solve: will they learn the secret of Cyprian, Anton’s son? And will they be able to thwart the terrible plot brewing in the shadows?
La Masia l’école des rêves
Joaquim, a boy from Barcelona, and Manu, whose family is from Guinea, seem to have nothing in common, except for one thing: a passion for football. At age twelve, they both join the FC Barcelona youth team at “La Masia,” the club’s football academy. But not just anyone can make it with Barça. Together, Joaquim and Manu will face immense challenges as they try to turn their dreams into reality. An adventure of friendship at the heart of a legendary club.
Spirou à Berlin
Spirou and Fantasio are caught up in another amazing adventure, set in a real historical context. It’s summer 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the evil Zantafio is trying to take over East Germany. When he kidnaps the Count of Champignac, our two heroes find out and try to rescue him. But to do that, they have to cross Europe’s most heavily guarded border. East Germany’s notorious Secret Police, the Stasi, are soon hot on their trail, and Fantasio is arrested. So Spirou now has to free his friend as well as foil Zantafio’s diabolical scheme.
“The cartooning is outstanding. The time period setting adds to the tale and, for those among us who remember the end of Cold War, creates an extra bit of nostalgia.
If you’ve never read a Spirou book before, you won’t be lost starting here.” Pipeline Comics
La Belle et l’Affreux
Raowl is not a hero for the faint of heart: he slices, dices, and decapitates anyone standing between him and a kiss from a princess. Unfortunately for Raowl, the first princess he encounters doesn’t find him to her liking. So when Raowl rescues a second princess, he doesn’t take no for an answer—and as it turns out, the two have a lot in common! Raowl’s rage is all the greater when the princess is kidnapped and taken to a castle full of cannibals, and he doesn’t waste any time leaping into the mouth of the beast! A rollicking rewrite of classic fairy tales, filled with guts, quips, and colorful characters.
“The stories play well on the established tropes of the genre, and the cartooning and timing sells the gags well.” Pipeline Comics
Moonshine tome 3
Il était 2 fois Arthur
A Tale of Two Arthurs is an impressionistic chronicle of two very different men: Jack Arthur Johnson, the black American boxer, and Arthur Cravan, the white French poet and provocateur. These two men fought an improbable boxing match in Barcelona in 1916 which acts as the pivot point of this double-portrait which is also a kind of mirror: for despite their differences they were both fiercely independent individuals who in their own ways defied the mores of their time with a mixture of bravado, intelligence, and brute strength. Accompanying both men on their journeys is a celebrity chimpanzee named Consul who serves as the uniting thread — as well as the unlikely narrator — of this adventurous and ambitious comic.
Je ne voulais pas que ça finisse comme ça
The London rain is lashing down as usual, but the good news is, detective Maggy has new mysteries to solve, ranging from a funeral company doing dodgy dealings in gold teeth, to a bookshop assistant lifting cash from the till. But these petty crimes pale by comparison to the mess that Maggy and her new man have got themselves into. Things take a turn for the worse when the vengeful Sheena shows up on Maggy’s doorstep…
Now available in print from SelfMadeHero
Les rêves de Milton tome 2
The Cry family left Carolina for a new start, but their hard times only continue as they press on westward. From sudden storms to auto accidents, misfortune and misadventure seem to dog their every step. Meanwhile, the trail of bludgeoned bodies behind them only grows. But who’s to blame: gentle giant Milton, tormented by grisly nightmares, or his older brother Billy, whose resentment festers with every new person he meets? The pressure intensifies when two federal agents Washington to investigate. This painterly period piece and finely wrought family drama comes to a poetic conclusion.
L’or noir
Nino is busy… with an Easter egg hunt! No sooner does he find one than he wants to eat it… But if he does that, Ariane warns, he pretty soon won’t have any left… and that’s what’s happening with oil. We’re consuming it so fast, supplies could run out by the end of this century. So why is everyone in pursuit of this “black gold”? Ariane explains what it’s used for, how the “oil rush” started, and who the key players were in its history—a relatively short history that rapidly changed the world!
La guerre des tranchées
Ariane and Nino make their way down into the trenches of the First World War. Alongside the “poilus” (hairy ones, literally) they find out why these French infantrymen fought in these mazes and they learn about the terrible consequences — both material and psychological — of the disastrous, destructive event of 1914 to 1918.
