In 1943, when copies of “Flash Gordon” could no longer be shipped to countries occuped by the Germans, “Bravo!” magazine asked Edgar P. Jacobs to create a new adventure series to take its place. And so “The U Ray” was born. But Jacobs had the audacity to turn it into a metaphor, with a tyrant controling the bad guys (an obvious allusion) and good guys looking remarkably British, in anticipation of Blake and Mortimer.
The infamous Captain Dagon, a member of the Austrian secret service, infiltrates a mission to the Black Isles led by Norlandia, which aims to get his hands on uradium, a mineral with prodigious properties. Soon, the expedition will experience extraordinary adventures…
The new edition of this 9th art classic benefits from a colouring by Bruno Tatti, in accordance with Jacobs’ original palette.
How to go from a run-of-the-mill teenager to a high school superstar whose BFF is an inept demon… Marcus isn’t smart enough to be a nerd, or athletic enough to be a jock, or cool enough to run with the in-crowd. Marcus is just your average, boring dude… to whom something extraordinary is about to happen! That’s what’s called a recipe for success (just ask JK Rowling), and readers are sure to connect with this unorthodox hero, through his misadventures as well as his victories—against all odds.
Everyone knows Buck Danny! But what do we know about his youth or the birth of his passion? Not to mention his father, whose shameful behaviour during the First World War had a profound influence on his attitude… Between Buck Danny’s adventures as an adult and surprising flashbacks, Yann and De Luca shed surprising light on the personality of a comic book icon!
A complete story, the first diptych of the Origins collection is presented in a splendid black and white album.
Minet, a young kitten abandoned by his owners, gets lost in the forest and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he meets a rabbit and a squirrel who name him Scaredy-Cat before leading him to their village, a community where animals speak, dress and stand on their legs. But Minet is not one of these free-born animals, and despite his desire to go in search of his mistress, he is forced to undergo an ordeal to free himself from the taint of his connection with humans in order to be accepted by the other animals. Deceived, hunted and then trapped, Minet will discover a pitiless animal society that has nothing to envy to the human one…
Paris. Gilles has a really wicked sense of humor and writes absolutely brutal articles. He has left his small-town life and his family behind him long ago, but one day professional difficulties force him to return home to his family. And there, cut off from the media, he is confronted with the realities of his past… why has he put up this wall of dark humor between him and others?
Somewhere between autobiography and fiction, and in the same graphic and narrative style as “The Lost Singer,” Tronchet, through the story of initiation, brings to us his vision of building and learning humor.
The only memories Treasure has of his mother are the stories his father tells him. Well, that, and the beaten-up ship that’s been stuck in the harbor for the past 10 years! With his gang of friends, Dico, Yav, and Nisette, they spend their free time trying to imagine where Treasure’s mother could be on the high seas. His father tells them that she’s a pirate! But when the 8-year-old boy learns that the ship is to be sold to the sinister Gaspard Pivoleurx, he decides to take his gang on a treasure hunt that is far more real than the games they usually play…
Young Turo has spent his peaceful childhood in a secluded village. Blessed with extraordinary strength, he spends his time hunting the giant wild boars that allow his whole community to eat. One day, he crosses the path of a band of tomb raiders whom he saves from certain death. He decides to go along with them, to explore the wide world.Turo will be plunged into an ancient battle… and involved in the kind of story that legends are made of.
This complete set includes the four albums of the series.
A plane full of children on their way to holiday camp crashes in the middle of a forest. Left to their own devices, the survivors try to figure out how to get out of the woods and back to civilization. But strange things happen that they don’t understand. Who are the chicken-children that keep attacking them? Who is the talking fox who seems to be trying to help them? How come there are other plane wrecks in the exact same place if the crash was an accident?
They’ll have to move quickly if they want to survive, because in the place called the “Lozère,” everything is steeped in danger and mystery. A tale full of humor and suspense, accompanied by simple illustrations. Get ready for an adventure!
From 1973 to 1981, in the pages of the ‘Nouvel Obs’, Claire Bretécher wrote a weekly portrait of the Frustrated (Frustrés), which earned her the title of “best sociologist of the year” in 1976 by Roland Barthes. She sketches, certainly with tenderness, but above all with a pitiless lucidity, these French snobs, intellectuals, leftists and, above all, the totally lost.
Nearly 30 years later, these hilarious pages are a joyful testimony of all our shortcomings and they are also the best way to realize that nothing has changed, from Frustrated we have just become bobos, but the symptoms are the same.
Former boxer “Grizzli” seems to owe his nickname to his abundance of hair rather than his size—though quite impressive. He and his friends, Toine and Joe, live a happy life in Paris until, one day, Joe has a problem… An old friend from his wild days that he’d rather forget, Bébert-la-Gambille, has just got out of jail and is causing him trouble. Well, when your friend is having a hard time, what do you do? Grizzli and Toine pull out all the stops to help him by confronting the evil Bébert and assisting the tiresome detective Jean-Pierre Gourme, better known as “The Leech.” But Bébert has a few surprises up his sleeve and Grizzli isn’t out of the ring yet…
First and foremost an evocation of 1960s France—of its atmosphere, style, language—”Grizzli and Friends” is also a heartfelt homage to the literature, cinema, and writers, each of which is recalled with a tinge of nostalgia. While staying true to their major themes and means of expression: friendship, betrayal, ingenuity, mockery, slang, it serves all the ingredients of a classic French thriller!
