La femme léopard

The year is 1946, in Brussels, and a relentless heat wave is sweeping the Belgian capital, which is still feeling the effects of the Second World War. Across the roofops, a leopard-woman is running from two ominous robots who look like giant pygmies until she finds refuge in Moustic Hotel, in the attic room of Colonel Van Praag, a bad-tempered old soldier. When he discovers her there, the trigger-happy old man injures the svelte young creature in the shoulder.
It is at this moment that Spirou arrives. An unrecognizable Spirou… who’s been on the booze!
As it turns out, our heroic bellboy, unable to forget the young Audrey, has taken to drowning his sorrows in alcohol.
The sudden entrance of Aniota, the leopard-woman, shocks the life back into Spirou, and soon enough this strange creature takes him on a great African adventure in search of a fetish stolen from her tribe! And, after a short detour down Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Spirou and Fantasio find themselves on the trail of a group of Nazis (oh no, they weren’t all dead) who are in search of uranium for their own dark purposes…

Anton “Witko” Witkowski didn’t pull himself by his bootstraps. He punched his way up out of the projects where he was born, to world renown as middleweight champion. He’s larger-than-life, a force of nature. He gets what he wants. He taunts his opponents. He breaks up with women by leaving them a red Corvette. It’s his way or the highway. With violent colors, dynamic linework, and unflagging narrative drive, Baru delivers a masterful meditation on pride, loyalty, and manhood in a world where the system’s stacked against some people, and all they have is their friends—and their rage.

The political, artistic and sexual effervescence of Mexico in the early 20s is followed by instability and doubt. There seems to be a spreading sense of disillusionment that neither Tina nor her friends will escape. Edward has gone back to the US, and Tina finds herself alone at a pivotal moment in her life. She oscillates between her commitment to the Party, her artistic struggles, her various overlapping love affairs, and her own journey of self-discovery. She seems to be incapable of choosing one path that will close off the others, unlike Edward. The political climate becomes increasingly tense, and opinions and destinies begin to clash. Summer comes to an end, and a long winter approaches.

Once an animator at Disney Studios, Nicolas Keramidas now makes a living as a cartoonist in Grenoble. He’s married to a wonderful woman, Chloé, has two energetic sons, and plays soccer every Sunday with his pals. He was also born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a rare combination of four heart defects that in 1973 made him one of the youngest children ever to undergo open-heart surgery. Forty-three years later, when his congenital condition stops him short during a soccer game, he’ll have to face surgery again, a saga he details in this moving, humorous, and above all, very human memoir.

Meet the children: Airbus, with his barely contained rage, Angel, whose sweet looks belie a mercurial cruelty, and Mongol, who talks to insects and stray animals. They spend their days weaving baskets at Save the Innocents, an outreach foundation. They fantasize about the friendly blonde aid worker Anika, are wary of her blandly affable Belgian boss, and mock her short husband Recto, who speaks their language so poorly. Meanwhile, gunfire thunders daily in the hills just outside town. But when their old friend Black Domino resurfaces full of schemes and swagger, will the looming violence find an echo in the children’s hearts?

In the third installment of Renaud and Dufaux’s classic thriller series, Jessica Blandy finds herself a prisoner in the Florida everglades—at the mercy of a pair of murderous brothers and caught up in a plot to make a man disappear. Do her captors plan to hold her for ransom, or do they have something else in mind? Set to the sounds of the swamp and the haunting voice of Jim Morrison, this might be Jessica’s most dangerous adventure yet.

Who killed Scott Mitchell? To get to the truth about her lover’s murder, Jessica Blandy will have to come face-to-face with the ghosts of his mysterious past. With the help of private eye Gus Bomby and the unsavory Robby—a police detective with a certain disregard for the rules—Jessie’s hunt for answers turns up a string of grisly deaths, a photograph that shouldn’t exist, and a name: Dr. Zack.

Moïse is fourteen years old, the age to become a ship’s boy at last. The year before was heavy with revelations about the secret of his birth, how he was found as a baby in a sloop, drifting towards the shore, and how he was nicknamed “The little miracle”. He learned that he could be the son of either of three men: Anthonin, the rich ship chandler, Séraphin the poet, or Ernest his adoptive father. He embarks with Ernest, captain of the L’Hirondelle for Island, for a rude campaign of several months at sea. Also aboard the L’Hirondelle, we meet Xas, the nephew of the ship chandler. An ignorant brute, he parades a strange tattoo on his right cheek. He will bring misfortune to the ship…