Petit pays

In 2016, Gaël Faye published his first novel, “Petit Pays” (Small Country), which won a number of prizes (including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Prix du roman Fnac). It tells the story of his happy childhood in a well-to-do expatriate enclave in Rwanda before the start of the civil war and Tutsi genocide that forced his family to seek refuge in France in 1995. Marzena Sowa and Sylvain Savoia, who created the moving “Marzi” series, have produced a vibrant adapatation of the story that highlights both its contemporary and its universal relevance.

Between the Paddle house and the school, there’s City Game. A huge arcade, with an infinite number of games, each more insane and developed than the last. A true paradise for Kid, who could spend his days playing with his friends on the terminals… if only the boss weren’t so stubborn.

Kid Paddle returns in a new best of, paying homage to the series’ most iconic location, the arcade, and to Mirador, its patient owner.

Midam has been writing gags featuring Kid Paddle and le Petit Barbare for thirty years. Thirty years that one of them is confronted with his teachers’ calculation questions, while the other is the victim of countless laws of physics. Today, mathematician Daniel Justens is turning his attention to these 30 years of drawings, to find scientific explanations for them. The result? This book, which aims both to study Kid Paddle ‘s gags through the prism of mathematics, and to study mathematics through the prism of Kid Paddle.

In a series of interviews, Thierry Tinlot – former editor-in-chief of Spirou – and Midam look back over the latter’s 30 years of comics, and in particular his two flagship series Kid Paddle and Game Over. An opportunity for Midam to talk about his influences, his way of working and, more generally, his relationship with comics.

The children have awakened the vengeful titan Bahamuth! Fleeing across the river, they discover Uru, the city of the Gods, a memory of a distant time when they lived among men. But past and present mingle once again, while elsewhere the spirit of the Venerable becomes the blank page on which our future is written. As a new fratricidal war rumbles between the titans and the gods, will the children be able to break the cycle of destruction?

Captain Sherman, the most eloquent and imaginative of pirates, knows how to motivate his troops when morale is low. And unfortunately, it usually is because the captain has a weakness: he rarely finds any treasures. However, he has been exploring a lead for some time now, one that quickly proves to be full of promise. One of his friends, an art dealer, has given him a rare text
that will put him and his crew back on the right track. Pandora, a giant squid, is said to have swallowed a treasure carried by a Spanish ship from the New World. It’s no surprise that the idea of such a treasure arouses a great amount of superstitious excitement and desire. Despite the crew’s enthusiasm, many pitfalls await them in their search for riches. Sherman will also have to be
wary of the underhanded trickery of an old rival: Rostand the Damned! This privateer, a former pirate, is in pursuit of Sherman’s ship, the Urraca. Captain Sherman likes to make his men travel, and not only towards the horizon: he tells them a thousand tales of adventures and sumptuous landscapes. But what is this whimsical man hiding in his quarters among the hundreds of books that surround him?

By presenting a trans-partisan project for action against global warming, Larry Max still hopes to get things moving democratically. But isn’t this a lost cause in an America where extremists are weighing in on the debate with explosives and bullets? Yet he’s not alone in leading the ecological fight. Former Vice President Shore seems determined to return to politics. And he knows exactly how this country works…

The hour of trial has come for the Unicorns! The Orcons will do anything to prevent them from reaching the Goddess’ temple. The five young women’s ability to summon unicorns and magical weapons will not go amiss. But some are more heiresses than others: Izandre is no princess. She made her family proud by becoming the first Hericorn in her line. But since then… she’s never been able to summon her unicorn! And that’s about to become obvious…

September 1940. At the height of the London Blitz, Isaac, an aging widower, finds a lost child called Mary. Amid the crush and the panic he decides to take her to the safety of the nearest subway station. To distract her, he starts telling her a story he has just made up: about a wonderful princess called Rebecca, who is prepared to do anything to save her people. But will it be enough to make Mary forget the horrors she has witnessed in the streets above? Will Mary ever be reunited with her mother? And what is the terrible secret Isaac is keeping from everyone?

Simon is a solitary boy, who has been hiding in his shell ever since his grandfather died. Now he must help Didi—half-human, half-frog and gifted with mysterious powers—to find his family. But Didi bears a strange resemblance to Simon’s grandfather…

Half-human, half-frog, with strange powers, Didi is every boy’s perfect friend.