A fragile young girl in the thrall of a manipulative blackmailer, a young man with a complex about his skin problems, an imaginary friend who helps another out of his depression, a coming-out party for the two most popular girls at school… Garance and Linon’s first day at school is definitely not all plain sailing, and it’s about to reveal the full complexity of human relationships.
BeKa, in association with Maya, a young Italian cartoonist, manage to deal with sometimes serious subjects in a simple, gentle and emotional way.
When a friendly group of surfers suddenly arrive to help her, they explain that she is in fact the ‘virtual echo’ of the Sofia of the real world, and that she has a major role to play in saving the digital world from imminent collapse.
This is the latest major children’s series from the talented Italian author Davide Tosello (Blue au pays des songes, Éditions Ventes d’Ouest), featuring a brave and charismatic new heroine who will appeal to young and old alike.
In a future where rising seas have reshaped Europe, the concept of ocean no longer exists: it’s the Nocean. Atari and Tika, the two young activists hunted down by the police of the totalitarian city in which they are trying to survive, are now threatened by the raging waves that relentlessly batter the ageing dykes surrounding the lower parts of the city. Panicked, the inhabitants are trying to climb to the higher ground… But theEUR police refuse. So Atari, Tika and their friends have only two solutions: drown or try their luck by gaining access to the highly protected ‘Cumulus’, which controls all the city’s access systems… But how does Tika know the way to the Cumulus? The truth will soon come out. And it will be terrible…
Efa concludes her thrilling, refined anticipation trilogy, which raises questions about the course of our world. As always, her message is supported by remarkable drawings.
Northern Malawi: when Shania sees two helicopter gunships approaching, she realises that any chance of negotiating the release of the schoolgirls kidnapped by her former friend Simon, now the leader of a terrorist group, is gone. But the two of them will have to come to an agreement. Shania has another deal to offer him: a partnership with the CIA in exchange for access to a deposit of Samarium, a light rare earth coveted by military research. But is Shania this kind of diplomat of chaos? More importantly, does she really have a choice?
Laurent-Frédéric Bollée (La Bombe) and Philippe Aymond lay down the cards of their formidable scriptwriting game in the second part of a diptych on a par with the best spy and action films.
At the end of the previous volume, Héliotrope had lost her pretty blue colour and seemed at last at peace… Until she realises that her tears, the first in a long time, are turning into strange blue crystals! Could this be another twist of fate, or a sign that something disastrous is waiting for her in the woods? Frightened, Granny decides to sort the matter out as quickly as possible and whisks her granddaughter off to the strange icy mountains, where there is an astonishing city populated by worrying creatures…
After 54 albums, it was bound to happen: Basile is having a bit of a meltdown! He’s still serving science, but where’s the joy in that? Fortunately, to save Mozzarella from boredom, Leonardo has come up with a brilliant idea that’s worth all the antidepressants in the world: the circus! Taking pies, getting beaten up, confronting wild animals or entertaining the gallery – all in good fun – that’s what Basile knows how to do. He’s even a genius at it!
At the age of 10, Christine sees her mother die of complications she had during pregnancy. She finds solace in running—a passion that remains with her into adulthood. When she finds out that there is a Paris Marathon, she knows she must take part. What she doesn’t know is that women are not allowed to enter…
Sitting in the front room of her brothel, Madam Anne Bonny, once a pirate of the South Seas, looks back on her life… and the story of her adventures is
rather shocking!
An illegitimate child born in a remote Irish village, Anne escaped her dreary destiny by fleeing to the Caribbean, where she fought with pirates and met the love of her life, Jack Rackham.
Claire Richard plays with the clichés of the pirate genre in this feminist rewrite of a well-known story, whose humor lies in the disconnect between official history and modern reinterpretation.
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 it first appeared in the pages of Journal Tintin, Le Lombard is giving François Craenhals’ series, a veritable jewel of the clear line, the setting it deserves.
Veloce, an anxious and reckless young velociraptor, is on a quest to find answers to the mocking mammals’ claims of the future extinction of his species. The small mammals mock Veloce and his fellow creatures, saying they are too big, too pathetic, too stupid to survive. For them, the dinosaurs are doomed to extinction, and all the better because they eat all the resources of the planet, destroy their habitats, and roam the earth aimlessly. Veloce tries to ignore it, but the predictions still worry him. His parents, too busy with other priorities, tell him that only the wise Troodon and the old Ankylosaurus have in the past already figured out the long journey our heroes will take.
