Les nerfs à vif

Dad, unemployed actor and full-time father, is back, and he’s going to have to get used to having another woman around the house! He already has his hands full dealing with the totally reasonable demands of his eldest, Pandora, the swarms of boys hovering around teen Ondine, the wall-shaking energy of Roxanne, and all the walks to the park with Baby Bella. Having his ex-wife come to crash on the couch could be the final straw, as Rose, the fabulous actress, is hardly an ideal house guest… One thing’s for sure, Dad’s going to need a vacation!

At the age of twenty-six, Largo Winch inherits a financial cartel worth ten billion dollars. Rebel, womanizer, hoodlum, and anti-conformist, he is called “the blue-jeaned billionaire.” But can you keep your hands clean at the head of such an emporium? From women with deadly charms to conspiring bank managers, from financial transactions to illegitimate trafficking, Largo Winch gives blow for blow. And not always within the bounds of the law. This re-edition of the now classic series contains the first two volumes.

The touching story of a child getting to know his grandfather, an Italian immigrant living in Belgium. 11-year-old Romeo thinks of his grandfather as nothing but an “old pain-in-the-butt.” So when he finds out that he’s going to have to spend a few days with him at his crumbling old house, without even a TV to keep him entertained… well, it’s his idea of hell. But there are some surprises in store for Romeo during his visit. He changes his mind about a few things, perhaps thanks to his grandfather’s neighbor, Lucy, who tells him about her own “nonno,” and shows him how a spoil tip can be a thing of beauty. Or perhaps it’s thanks to Romeo’s dad, who speaks for the first time about his childhood relationship with his father. But it’s mostly thanks to Ottavio who, beneath his old, grouchy exterior, conceals the hard life he has led, full of suffering and sacrifice. It is a life the 11-year-old Romeo finds hard to comprehend, but which gives him a deeper understanding of someone from another century. It started off as just a short holiday to a grey Belgian town. But this holiday turns into an opportunity for three generations of men to lift the silence that surrounds them. A touching story about Italian immigration, coal mining, communication between the generations and the difficultly of opening up when you’ve spent your whole life in silence. 

The dark days of war are not getting any brighter in occupied Brussels. Spirou and Fantasio are on the brink of hunger and homelessness, but their ingenuity and gumption allow them to survive. While our two heroes are bringing what joy they can to the children of Belgium, the iron fist of the Nazis is tightening its grip on the country. The villainy of the oppressor hits close to home as Spirou’s friends start becoming its direct victims. We know how the war ends; unfortunately for Spirou, he does not, and in its midst, his virtue and good intentions might lead him straight to the worst of its horrors.

Private detective Jerome K. Jerome Bloche is hired by his friend Father Arthur, a former boxer turned Catholic priest, to look into a series of blackmail letters extorting money from his parishioners that share one odd detail: the money is to be donated to the church to repair its famous organ! Meanwhile Jerome’s girlfriend Babette gets a shocking surprise when her father, whom she believed to have died when she was a child, shows up on her doorstep. Jerome tries to solve the crime while juggling prickly questions about charity, justice, and mercy.

A monkey-faced man named Kid Noize who has a 1977 Mustang, a talking dog, and dreams of being a famous DJ, travels between worlds to deliver mysterious packages to people. Unfortunately, he has lost the package of his next recipient, a young boy named Sam who is having a hard time in life, grieving the loss of his mother while trying to adapt to a tough new town and school. Neither Sam nor Kid Noize has any idea what awaits them as they join forces to find the package that will help shape Sam’s destiny…

The lives of a handful of Parisian characters trying to connect with themselves, their bodies, and each other intertwine in this insightful snapshot of modern society: mothers and daughters, sons and parents, lovers, friends, and neighbors interact and experience each other in ways both simple and profound.

Jack is a typical grade school kid… except that he never speaks a word, is followed everywhere he goes by a flying bug, and can turn into any animal he wants, usually to come to the rescue of his family and classmates. Not everybody appreciates his strange behavior, however. When the town’s children start disappearing into the forest, though, Jack’s special ability is their only hope. Will Jack ever be understood and accepted by those around him? And will the townsfolk come to see the forest as anything besides a danger and a nuisance?

At Kinney Trading Post, John Chinaman gets accosted by a pair of bounty hunters when a good deed from his past returns to haunt him. But soon, all three of them have bigger troubles on their hands: the Yagger brothers have waylaid a would-be schoolmarm and her wagon driver in the woods. When the trunk they believed full of gold turns out to be full of books, Chinaman leaps in to save the schoolmarm’s life. Their perilous escape through Paiute territory involves running rapids on a raft, dodging vengeful bandits, and hardest of all—learning to trust each other.

Before he grew up to become the adventurer that we all know, Spirou was a child. And that was not a sad thing either. Always ready to pull the priest’s leg, or to play tricks on Father Langélusse or on his gym teacher, the revolting Mr. Mégot, little Spirou stops his mischievous pranks only to check out the girl’s showers. And then there are the girls in his life: his adored Suzette and his math teacher Claudia Chiffre who make his head spin… This is the comics version of the Little Spirou movie, which is hitting theatres in September 2017.