No sex in New York

Riad Sattouf is approached by Libération for their “summer adventure” column. That’s how he ends up in New York with his buddy Mollet, who came to work for Spielberg but ended up as a trained cassoulet waiter in a French restaurant. There’s also Lucie, a bad-tempered “kind of friend” who is only interested in our hero when she’s drunk enough to find him attractive or when he picks up the tab at Michael Jordan’s steak house: steak and spaghetti at a thousand bucks plus the Chardonnay… So why “No Sex in New York”? Well, because “sex” sells, even with the “no” in front of it. Although they do spend a lot of time thinking about it…

We know the brilliant writer of the Rougon-Macquart series and the committed author of the open letter “J’accuse…!” but what do we know about his private life? Who were the women in his life? How did they help him to accomplish his work? At what sacrifice? A remarkable fresco that takes us back to the end of the 19th century, to the heart of an ever-changing France and the city of Paris, full of artists and workers.

Tom Thomson, whose grandiose landscapes of Ontario’s wilderness marked the entry of Canadian art into the modern era, died at a young age under troubling circumstances. His career as a painter was as brief as it was fundamental, in that it inspired the next great generation of Canadian painters, the iconic Group of Seven. Returning to the circumstances of the painter’s sudden disappearance just as he was beginning to attain recognition, Sandrine Revel retraces his journey, sketching a subtle portrait of the artist while questioning nostalgia in art as it attaches itself to artists. This is a book about memory and the past: troubling, beautiful, and melancholic, like the passage of time.

Any resemblance to persons living or dead or actual events would be strangely coincidental… In a town in the east of France, Sylvestre Ruppert-Levansky, a president of the circuit court, begins his last trial, in the same place his career began. Everything here reminds him of Rachel, his first love, and most of all, Mathilde, a manipulative, diabolic serial killer. The old magistrate has a spotless reputation. He is considered tolerant and fair. But then a police officer from his past asks to see him. Perhaps the legend of Sylvestre, the eminent judge, isn’t so cut and dry… In a gripping tale full of surprises, Denis Robert and Franck Biancarelli reinvent the thriller.

After a horrific battle in a mythical Asian land, a peasant soldier with a mysterious past encounters a young woman who has come to find the body of her dead fiancé. She is determined to travel to Takedo Castle and get her hands on the Mask of a Thousand Tears, a golden mask which will allow her to travel to the underworld and bring her fiancé back to the land of the living. The peasant, Masamura, accompanies Sadakyo on her quest. She discourages him but soon learns that she has no chance of surviving without his help. They are both determined, for different reasons, to see this mission through to the end, no matter what the cost. A story in two volumes.

Extra, extra! Read all about it! Pick up a copy of “What’s News” for a behind-the-scenes look at the next volume of “Blacksad,” coming this fall. With revelations from the authors, a slew of investigative reporting, and a sneak peek of volume six, this special edition offers a can’t-miss preview of one of the most hotly anticipated titles of the year.

The year is 1998. In the merciless world of the stock exchange, Alexandre, a brilliant young trader, finds himself caught in the middle of a game of scheming and manipulation.
An employee of the BGCI, he is duped into covering up several risky transactions by his colleague and so-called friend. The losses begin to snowball, becoming ever harder to hide. Facing an audit and with a journalist hovering around, Alexandre’s fall from grace takes a deadly turn. This first volume brings us forward 12 years in the future, when Christopher Dantes, a businessman as rich as he is mysterious, makes his first public appearance at the Millennium Financial Ball, coming face to face with the people involved in the plot of that sordid drama of the past.

Who hasn’t dreamed of traveling through space, on the hunt for knowledge? In the distant future, that’s the mission statement of the Academy of Universal Historical Sciences. Onboard the Thucydides, a group of students and their dean are on a mission to explore the edges of Alpha Cygna when their ship is mysteriously absorbed by a galactic phenomenon into the unknown. Shipwrecked, but curious and determined, Oot-Jah, Mark, Qsi, Polly, and Adya explore a mysterious planet in order to understand the phenomenon they fell victim to. As they explore the temple of an ancient civilization, they make a discovery of the highest importance that risks changing their understanding of the entire universe…

Despite her inexperience, Oxana will be able to fulfill her dream of dancing Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty! But she doesn’t realize that this casting choice is just part of Mr. Aster’s scheme to make the whole company hate her. To make matters worse, he has her medallion and source of the “sleeping beauty’s” vital energy in his possession, the key to reviving the malediction that once plunged her into sleep. Isolated, weak, and with the threat of the ancient curse looming over her, Oxana’s future seems uncertain in this final act. But Léonide is watching over her…

After their last adventure, the Mitaines Gang should be more close-knit than ever as they venture into the professional world! As part of their work experience, they’ll learn how to grow flowers, bake cakes, and deliver mail—as well as pick up some major life lessons. But with saboteurs in their midst, not to mention major tensions within the group, the Mitaines Gang are finding their internships more eventful than expected. Can they band together once more?