L’éruption

Poor Frank. It’s hard being a kid in today’s world, but it’s even harder being the only kid from modern times stuck in prehistoric times. He knows everything, but no one ever listens: not even when he’s absolutely sure the volcano they’re living under is going to erupt any day now, dooming them all to a fiery death. And why would anyone listen? Lava is so convenient for cooking meat and providing central heating. Of course, that’s the moment baby Gargoyle decides to go missing. The search turns up old frenemies and new misunderstandings in the conclusion to the first arc of Frank’s adventures.

Three fearless (well, except for one) young boys beyond reproach (well except for one – the same one) share the same goal in life: to have as much fun as possible while getting in as little trouble as possible. To achieve that, they rely on their imagination, their determination… and a fair amount of luck! For no mere mortal could survive the adventures of these three horsemen of the “apocadispe” and the crushing defeats they constantly endure! The mayhem typically starts when they least expect it: in class, on a field trip to a museum, on a walk in the woods or during a ride in the car… and then before they know it, everything is spinning out of control!

Somewhere deep in the blood-stained desert, Jessica Blandy awakes to find herself held by force in a Mexican bordello. It will take all of Jessie’s strength and resilience to escape and bring those responsible to justice, even if it means taking things into her own hands. Under the fierce single eye of Floyd the eagle, the girl from Ipanema goes walking… on a path that will lead her to new friends, old enemies, and revenge.

John Chinaman has hit the road, working as a teamster delivering goods to remote mining towns in the mountains. His path crosses that of two different men dangling from the end of a rope: the happy-go-lucky young gambler Zed Ashe, strung up by people he bilked, and the taciturn cowboy Horace Curry, strung up by his own hand. Curry doesn’t want to talk about it, but Zed won’t stop talking. As the unlikely trio make their way to Tucano, hot on their heels is a fearsome gang of bank robbers, and the mystery man who’s been picking them off one by one.

Manu always embraced his role as a strong, protective man, until one day his world is turned upside down. In quick succession, his girlfriend walks out on him, and he’s passed over for a position at work in the name of gender parity. In an effort to regain his bearings, he clings to a family of seven troubled children, determined to rescue them from their social misfortunes. Thus begins a long descent into the heart of his fears…

This is the story of an invisible man. He’s a man that no one ever notices. He is transparent, whatever he does. This is rather a difficult cross to bear! One night, the man who so wants to be seen loses it. He’s had enough. He wants to feel things too! His outburst costs him an ankle injury, which in turn leads him to Berenice, the lovely young physiotherapist. She soon sets him straight: we are all victims in one way or another! Gregory Mardon develops a narrative based on the infernal spiral of human relationships, in which love is manipulation, kindness is selfishness and cruelty is an art.

François’s father falls victim to the Time Master, who tyrannizes him into compulsively burying himself in work at the expense of everything else—even the basic needs and happiness of his son. But the Time Master wasn’t counting on François’s courage, or his resolve to stop at nothing to defeat the enemy nestled inside his father’s soul.

In the second half of the 19th century, a Chinese man wanders the plains of the American West. In the first volume, John Chinaman lands in San Francisco, tasked by the Elders of Canton with disciplining the local Triads. But this mission will be his last. From now on, his fate will be irrevocably tied to America’s westward expansion.

Juniper Univails is only on a quest for peace when she decides to leave her family to work on her new novel. But, blocked by snow, it is impossible for her to reach the chalet that her mother left her in her will. She is forced to stay in the quiet little city of Mize, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado. There she soon meets Tallulah, a young local beauty, unstable and shameless. Soon, affection will grow between the two women who have nothing in common. And bit by bit, this affection will grow into friendship, as if they had met before…

As they do every year, the fishermen leave to catch the cod off the coast of Island, a far away and phantasmagorical land to the children that have to stay at the port. One of them is Moïse, or “the little miracle” as his father lovingly calls him. By accident, he will learn the origins of his nickname: his mother is not his real mother. She found him one day on the floor of a sloop that was washed up by the waves. His natural mother is thought to be a prostitute who frequented some men in the village… But then, who is his real father? Séraphin, the stranger who is always there like a guardian angel when the boy needs him? Anthonin Worris, the rich ship-owner who would very much like to send him over to Lille to study? Or Ernest, his foster father who loves him unconditionally? Moïse will have to choose between the three of them… or leave.