Les âmes noires

Yuan is a Chinese truck driver who brings coal to illegal open-pit mines. He then travels far and wide to deliver his coal, hoping each time to get a better price. Yuan works with Wei, his “fixer,” who haggles with potential buyers. But one day Wei decides to kill Yuan in an attempt to steal his truck. Yuan miraculously survives, and now has only goal: to get his truck back. Without it, he has no job and no money, only shame in his wife’s and daughter’s eyes. “Les Âmes Noires” (Dark Souls) is a social thriller with an atmosphere reminiscent of the documentaries of filmmaker Wang Bing .

San Francisco, 1967. Kim, a young detective fresh out of police academy, teams up with Ulysses Ford, a jaded cop at the end of his career, and finds herself investigating a series of brutal murders connected with satanism, as the two of them plunge into a maelstrom of black masses and satanic rites… A thriller loosely based on the story of Anton LaVey, the controversial Frisco citizen who founded the Church of Satan, that reveals the Summer of Love also to have been a “summer of hate.”

The award winning, long-running international hit follows the hilarious adventures of the iconic spies Sam, Clover, and Alex, three Beverly Hills girls who were hired as secret agents by WOOPH (the World Organization of Human Protection). These spies with attitude balance life at school with international espionage, juggling top-secret missions all over the world with school classes. Saving mankind from a dastrardly arch villain and passing that impossible algebra exam… it’s all in a day’s work for the super spies! They confront global rude behaviour wherever they find it and yet still make the prom on time!

Totally Spies has enjoyed global success and been broadcasted in over 190 countries.

London in the early 20th century. Fascinated by history and the natural sciences, teenager Anna persuades her step-father, a famous archeologist, to take her with him on his latest mission—to Belize. As he looks for a lost Mayan temple, she discovers a country with an excitingly different culture; and, with the help of Tikal, a young Belizean, she tries to foil the plans of a group of antiquities traffickers.

In the first great adventure of her life, Anna must search within herself for reserves of courage, resourcefulness, and humility. Is the expedition in fact nothing other than a journey of self-discovery?

Life isn’t all easy in the Kingdom: the blacksmith François has only one goal in life: to marry the pretty tavern maid Anne. But Anne has other ambitions, more social than marital: she wants to succeed in her professional life, and all her energy is focused on running her tavern. But the King is racking up debts and never settles the bill. One day, a charming and generous young man pays for her meal and her night with a magnificent ring… which Anne immediately recognizes as belonging to the King.

A compilation of short stories and gags published in Spirou. It features all the charm, lightness and humor of the series created in 2008 by Benoît Feroumont.

You can learn to be stupid and nasty! There’s even a school for it. A school where all the values we know in our human world are reversed: it’s forbidden to raise your finger in response, to study at home at night or to arrive at school on time. The little monsters who attend this school take full advantage of this situation, except Boloss, an intelligent, delicate and sensitive little monster, who just can’t abide by these rules, which seem a little unnatural to him. He would so much like to be a good boy and learn to read and write…

Emilie, a young Parisian actress, goes to her grandparents’ house for a weekend-long family party. Little does she know that her uncle, convicted of incest a few years earlier, is also invited. Despite the claustrophobic atmosphere, Emilie must confront her family members and force them to make a choice. Who do they want to keep by their side? The victim or the executioner?

When Pépé came across Cédric and Chen perched behind Nicolas on an electric scooter, he inevitably cringed. But then he remembers that, in his younger days, he was a champion “skater” himself! So he offers to give them a lesson… And that’s just one of the endearing moments of life and fun in the new Cédric, which will bring you back to one of the most famous families in comics for all ages!

All-new gags by Tony Laudec, in the tradition and respect of the universe codified by the late Raoul Cauvin. The finest tribute to a giant of laughter, but without taking itself too seriously!

A Catalan family who fled the Spanish Civil War in 1938 is separated upon arrival in France. The mother and daughter are sent to a camp in Argeles, the father to a camp in Angouleme, from where he is then deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. In 1975, the daughter, Angelita, is urgently summoned to her mother’s bedside in Barcelona, a city where the latter was never supposed to return after the war. Forty years of family life must be rewritten, as Spain witnesses the last days of the dictatorship (General Franco died in November 1975).Inspired by the family story of the illustrator, Eduard Torrents, and narrated by Denis Lapiere (Le Tour de Valse).

The incredible story of Carlitos Moreno Rodriguez, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful men in Barcelona in the 1960s. The prominent owner of a string of bars, the biggest printing works in Catalonia, and the highly influential daily newspaper “El Publico” was secretly involved in drug-trafficking and prostitution.

The backdrop? Barcelona under the repressive dictatorship or General Franco.