Sur le bout des doigts

Blue Sky is one of many skyscrapers in a development where people lead peaceful lives… until someone throws himself from a 17th-floor balcony. His suicide sends shock waves through the tower as people wonder what could possibly have led to it.

Just as residents are slowly putting the incident behind them and getting their lives back to normal, the apartment’s new occupiers move in and start to disrupt everything again.

At the Tockburger circus, Teddy, a child of the ball, meets donkey Pom and horsewoman Maggy. Together, they leave the circus and embark on countless adventures and investigations – often with the help of the colossal Tarrass Boulba, their protector. 70 years after its first appearance in the pages of Journal Tintin, Le Lombard gives François Craenhals’ series an edition it deserves.

A collector’s edition of previously unpublished work by artist Turk and writer Bob de Groot. One to savor.

• Book folds out into an impressive room-length illustration.
• Small print run for this unique collector’s item.
• Two very well known authors.

The story of a friendship formed in a hospital, a bond between two men who might otherwise never have met: Jean, a young rocker whose dreams of success have been dashed by illness, and the strange and secretive Franck, a 60-something Sinatra fan (like his father before him), who never takes his hat off, believing it once belonged to the late great singer.

After an initial shouting match, Franck and Jean become friends and allies in their joint battle against illness, and their friendship enables them to reveal their aborted dreams and fears, as well as their hopes, with both candor and humor as their worlds collapse.

A tale through which a precious memory of Norway is relived in honor of a beloved friend. The story also explores the suffering caused by incurable illness and the resilience that comes with every loss, in an attempt to preserve the feeling of being “alive”!

The Dyatlov Pass Mystery is the true story of one of the few remaining unsolved mysteries of the last century. In 1959, a group of experienced mountaineers set out to climb a Russian mountain. None of them came back alive. What’s even worse, they all died in strange and terrible circumstances: some are naked, others not. Some are beaten, others not. Some are missing their eyes and tongues, others not. Some have traces of uranium on them, others not… What happened that night?

Lev Ivanov, one of the best investigators in the Soviet Union, is sent to the mountains to lead the investigation. A sort of KGB-trained Sherlock Holmes, Ivanov works through each and every theory as to what happened. An avalanche? Impossible, the weather was good that night and there wasn’t much snow. A bear attack? Secret nuclear tests?

We follow the investigator as he slowly tries to make sense of what happened on that fateful night (everything is true, the story is based on his notebooks). But also, interspersed in flashbacks, we get to see what really happened, because the mystery was finally solved in 2020.

Lento the tactician, Sutura the flamboyant. In the Ravenna arena, the “Furious Brothers” are true celebrities. And their future looks bright as they compete in the Colosseum games. Rome: a chance to make a name for themselves. Despite this, Lento has no intention of giving up his little sidelines and still hopes to make a fortune on the bangs of the legal circuit. Alas, in the underworld, violence is nothing to sneeze at.