Le Tsunami

The planet Oceania is covered with an ocean of vegetation. Humans navigate the green seas with futuristic ships. Teenagers Jon and Jasper spend most of their days surfing the vast waves of foliage, until one day, without warning, they’re hit by a tsunami. Jon disappears beneath the leafy ocean surface and Jasper is picked up by a ship called the Poseidon. It is said that none return from the depths of this treacherous ocean. But the captain of the Poseidon tells a different story. Will Jon and Jasper ever find each other?

Canterbury, Connecticut, 1832: a charming female boarding school has found success among the locals, with two dozen girls enrolled. Some in town question the purpose of educating young girls—but surely there’s no harm in trying? At least not until the Prudence Crandall School announces its plans to start accepting black students. Thirty years before the abolition of slavery in the United States, in the so-called “free” North, these students will be met by a wave of hostility that puts the future of the school in question, and their very lives in peril. Even in the land of the free, not all of America’s children are welcome.

The year is 1849, and the future state of California is under the control of former soldiers from the Mexican-American War. Their leader, General Gomez, is busy buying up the locals’ land for pennies on the dollar, so that he and his cronies can maximize their profits from the coming gold rush. But he and his men are dogged by a series of masked, would-be avengers all calling themselves Zorro. They are an almost laughable annoyance, simple peasants living out the fantasy of a local legend. Until one man shows up and starts picking off Gomez’s men one by one, as stealthy as a fox. He brandishes a sword which he uses to carve the letter Z into his victims’ cheeks… Could this be the true Zorro?

Certain details surrounding the death of Albert Einstein are so outlandish as to sound like urban legend: namely, the theft of his brain by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the pathologist who performed the eminent physicist’s autopsy. From these historical events, Pierre-Henry Gomont concocts a picaresque road trip of a tale by turns farcical and moving, whimsical and melancholy, sweeping up in its narrative whirlwind the FBI, a sanatorium, neurobiology, hallucinogens, hospital bureaucracy, and romance. In his dissection of friendship and the forging of scientific reputation, the nimble cartoonist serves up a slice of lovingly rendered Americana for the ages.

Not all love stories are made equally. Some take decades to blossom, seeming almost to go in reverse. Such is the case for Zeno, a 60-year-old PhD student and nomad bookshop owner, and Ana, a freshly retired mayor, mother, and wife. After years of popping in and out of each other’s lives, crossing paths but never quite able to grab hold, their impossible but unshakable love may just have one last chance to flourish, before the final curtain…

Drago and Camilla seek vengeance for the assassination of their father, Don Molina, by exterminating those of their species who choose to enslave the human race rather than feed on them. But mankind has become an endangered species, following the great hunts of the southern continents. Should they be saved from extinction? Yes. Humans are ignorant, greedy and selfish, not to mention that stench they give off, but they have an interesting history… And so it is that a new law comes into play; a law protecting the increasingly small human race.

Nero dreamed of it. Lucius Murena did it: burning Rome. However, to atone for his act, the young patrician tries to save as many human lives as he can. Everyone, whether they be rich or poor, is seeking a way out. While some throw themselves into the river Tiber, others manage to get to the Campus Martius, although not without difficulty. One of the few areas spared from the devouring flames is the Christian neighborhood. More man than god, the emperor is consumed with doubt. While Rome’s destruction kindles greed in some, it reveals great kindness in others.

Jazz Maynard is a virtuoso trumpeter and a skilled burglar. As kids, he and his partner-in-crime, Teo, had to learn the laws of the street in El Raval pretty quickly. Jazz tried to get away from it all by going to New York, but his dark past eventually caught up with him. And now his unparalleled skills as a burglar are called for once again, this time by Judas, mafia boss of El Raval and Jazz’s childhood friend. Judas has blackmailed Jazz into accepting the job by threatening his sister’s life. Judas knows full well that Jazz is the only one who’ll be able to get to the rare and highly prized “Double Eagle” coin, currently in the possession of a fearsome Romanian crime boss. But there are strange forces at work, and Jazz comes up against some unexpected competition…

The young Britannicus is dead. Poisoned, just like his father, the Emperor Claudius. The will that could have put an end the Nero’s ever-growing ambitions has been reduced to ashes. Nero remains alone on Rome’s throne. Well, almost alone. Somewhere in the shadows lurks his mother, Agrippina, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get a bite of that rotten fruit we call ‘power.’

Charlie is a solitary white mouse who dreams of someday being able to write.

But despite of yearning, Charlie has a problem: he finds himself staring at a blank sheet of paper.

Frozen with anxiety, he sits as if paralysed before his task. Nothing comes out of his pen… Charlie needs inspiration. That’s when a little bird named Mr. Solitude appears. Solitude will push Charlie, trapped in is own bubble, and urge him to overcome his doubts and fears.

“Bulles et nacelle” is a dream-like fairy tale about that solitude which engenders the desire to create. It is a poetic exploration of dreams and the tumult they create.