Face à face

Louca has gone from high school nerd to soccer superstar overnight, thanks to leading his team to victory during the last game. Except that he only did that thanks to… a ghost named Nathan! Louca’s the only one who can see and converse with Nathan, a former ace soccer player who has taken to coaching his clueless new friend. Can Louca, as the big game approaches, keep up the act of being a great athlete in front of his family, his classmates, and the love of his life Julie? Will Nathan uncover the tragic secret behind his premature passing? The pressure is on!


Les Phoenix


Cinq branches de coton noir

Philadelphia, 1776: George Washington asks Betsy Ross to design the first flag of the future United States of America. Her housemaid, Angela Brown, adds to it a secret tribute to the black community: a black cotton star that she slips under one of the white stars.

Dover, 1944: A soldier named Lincoln receives a letter that reveals Angela Brown’s memoirs. Does the star that she mentions truly exist? In light of this revelation, three African-American soldiers set out on a dangerous mission, ranging from liberated Paris to the snow-covered Ardennes, seeking answers, and the ultimate prize…

Available in print from Pegasus Books.

1972


Petite carpe

“Before, there were trees and countryside. Man didn’t intervene. Stalin decided to “rectify” that space, and now, instead of trees, there are concrete buildings, everywhere. Stalin had a factory built. Thanks to that, lots of people got jobs, like my dad.”
Born in 1979, Marzi is a 7-year-old Polish girl who looks wide-eyed at the world around her: her parents, her family, her school friends and the crabby women at the grocery store who don’t even smile for a fruit delivery. Marzi lives on a council estate in an industrial town, and is a cheerful, carefree, mischievous and perceptive little girl, bound to run into many adventures!


Portugal

French comic book artist, Simon Muchat, has reached one of life’s dead ends. He drifts through his uneventful day-to-day existence, which has become devoid of color and

flavor, and severely lacking in inspiration. He has no plans, no desires, no projects, and is slowly stagnating in his job as a school art teacher. He seems indifferent to his girlfriend’s reproaches as she tries to shake him from his torpor. Simon is invited to spend a few days in Portugal for a comic book festival. The invitation strikes a chord with him, as his family is originally from there, and he hasn’t been back since his childhood. Perhaps this will at long last lead him out of the maze, and towards a new life of color and feeling and the senses.

This is the story of rebirth, through the rediscovery of a childhood place, shrouded in the haze of memory.

Now available in print from NBM Graphic Novels