With the new series “Buck Danny Origins,” discover the past of one of the most iconic heroes of French comics. Each main character from “Buck Danny” will have two volumes dedicated to their personal story, allowing them to reveal the secrets of their past. To ensure the success of the series, we selected a duo of exceptional authors: Yann (“Bear’s Tooth,” “Double 7”) and Giuseppe de Luca.

Captured in Africa, he is sent to Europe to be sold. Locked up in a cage in the holds of a ship, he knows that the only way to escape imprisonment is to disavow his monkey nature and adapt to the world of men. Survival depends on him showing respect, doing as he’s told, and closely watching man so that he can imitate them. He will have to mimic them in every way, right down to the smallest flaws and imperfections… until one day he becomes human.“The absolute rule that I imposed on myself was to renounce all obstinacy: I, a free monkey, imposed this burden on myself. And little by little the outlines of my primitive past faded away.”

Mahi Grand adapts here a short story by Kafka (“A Report to an Academy”) with intelligence and humor, a text that asks us to reflect on our own condition…

Abel is a cosplayer. His parents don’t get it. His brother’s a big, dumb jock. Still, the geek heaven of Comic-Kon is just around the corner, and this year, Abel plans to win the cosplay contest as his hero, Batman. But the convention has other surprises in store. When an intelligence team invades the floor in hot pursuit of a rogue agent, Abel and his friends have a chance to be the heroes they only dress up as. A series of chases and double-crosses ensues that will teach these eager kids what being a true hero really means.

In 1912, Matisse is feeling a little fed up. In Paris, Picasso is hogging the limelight, so Matisse decides it’s time for some fresh air, a little space, and a different kind of light. That’s it, he’ll cross the Mediterranean and start painting a new kind of nature, so bright that it’s sometimes suffocating. He’s going to Tangier. Problem is, when he finally gets there, it’s raining. And it doesn’t stop raining for three months.

In Villa de France, his palatial hotel looking down over Tangier, he has to make do with painting what he can: his bedroom. And so it begins: Room 35 is consigned to canvas, in a series that goes on to become legendary in the annals of art history.

In his early thirties, Pablo is a total loser. He lives the most perfect of love stories with Gudrun, but the only problem is that she is just a fantasy, one which plays out in a rather “hands-on” way. On the business side of things, it’s not going too well either, his sex shop is going bankrupt, and he is forced to move back in with his parents. To try cheer him up, his father recreates his teenage bedroom. And to Pablo’s surprise the room is like a trip back in time and brings back to life all his teenage fantasies. He has found what he wants to do: save the people who dream of finding such places and reconnect them with their most intimate dreams. He will make them. With his friend Emile…

Successful young writer Renée Stone travels to Ethiopia to attend the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I in 1930. There she meets a strange young man: John Malowan, a bungling but passionate archaeologist, who is setting foot for the firs time in the country where his father was murdered. The question is, why? And by whom? Against their better judgement, Stone and Malowan get involved in the matter of a historical stone tablet, which soon transforms into a quest that will take them all over the world.

Karmela Krimm was the most promising young detective on the Marseille police force until she volunteered to take the fall for an operation that went sideways. When Karmela lost her job and became a private investigator, her ideals went up in smoke along with her badge. Perhaps for the better: in the troubled waters she now navigates, ideals are a dangerous luxury.

Against a backdrop of growing instability in 26th-century Paris, Elle, a young woman with a strong sense of justice, and Karel, her android boyfriend, fight to stay together. If they’re going to have a future, they firstly need to resolve Karel’s planned obsolescence—his life expectancy has been mysteriously plummeting ever since he met Elle. They decide to flee the capital and head for Madrid, where they hope to find the scientist who can purportedly fix Karel’s rapidly dwindling battery life. But it promises to be a bumpy ride, with the police and a malicious spare parts dealer hot on their trail, not to mention the enemies they make along the way. A thrilling second entry in the series, marked by class struggle, social justice, and love against all odds.

A Boucq and Juncker album on the Algerian military putsch in April 21st 1961. A humorous and historical story.

The trilogy Maudit sois-tu, mixes real-life and fictional characters with a touch of fantasy. The originality of the series lies in its reverse storytelling: 2016, 1848 and 1816, with each chapter shedding light on the stories coming before.

In 1816, on the shores of Lake Geneva, the young Mary Shelley falls in love with Lord Byron’s doctor, the incredible John Polidori. Together with Lieutenant Joseph Burton and Doctor Robert Darwin, he has succeeded in perfecting Aldini’s experiments: giving life to dead tissue by diffusing an electric current. But when Mary eventually rejects him, Polidori goes mad…

What if the true story of Robin Hood turned out to be different from the one we know and love?
A forest, a sheriff, an outlaw who robs the rich to give to the poor… we all know how it goes. Disney made him popular, Kevin Costner made him sexy and Russell Crowe made him credible. But do we really know the whole story?
What if Robin Hood and the sheriff were one and the same person? What if the sheriff was actually just a normal guy, fed up with the King’s ridiculous new laws? What if he had found a way to keep his land in a good financial state simply by stealing from his own soldiers? Would it be worth the risk?

It is the early 1900s and the three Francœur children are struggling to survive in the slums of Paris. But their lives change forever with the arrival of a mysterious stranger from their father’s past. Countess Aristophania Bolt from the Kingdom of Azur claims she has come to help the trio, but between disturbing phenomena—tricks or sorcery?—and invisible threats, it is hard to know whom to trust…

In 1957, Jean Graton created the legendary race car driver Michel Vaillant, who was featured in a series of short stories published in Tintin magazine. These stories marked the beginning of a long-running adventure saga that continues to this day. This collection includes several early stories that brought Vaillant onto the scene and made him what he is today. A fascinating look into the origins of a classic, with a vibrant retro style.

In a distant time when summer and winter alternate as quickly as night and day, giant insects have replaced most other lifeforms. Wolves have become civilized and switch their gender at every moon. Egg-laying women rule over men. And the half-wizard Tometeu tribe ride around on small caterpillars and beetles.

Amongst this throng are Petrigré, Rum, Angus, and JJJ: heroes in search of love, identity, dreams, freedom, and also a treasure hidden in the heart of the icy mountains…

Will they find it? What will be? Gold and silver? Supreme power? An unstoppable weapon of destruction? And what consequences will it have for all the tribes teetering on the brink of war?

Deep in the heart of an enchanted forest, a small village of children lives unaffected by the passage of time thanks to a powerful stone that protects them from it. But when the stone is shattered and a thief runs off with one of the shards, four of the children must set out at once in search of the missing shard before their village is swallowed up by time and everybody in it dies. Armed with four crystals with special powers, the children bravely make their way through the dangerous forest to hunt down the thief, making friends and enemies along the way and encountering one strange creature after another.

On the small archipelago of Rodaho, a popular belief says that every ten centuries, the egg of a mythical creature with legendary powers, the Dragon-Snake, hatches and chooses as its master the first being it sees. Renard, the devious ninja master, intends to be that one! If he acquired the powers of the Dragon-Snake, he would become the master of the islands instead of the current emperor, the repulsive Raana IV, who rules the archipelago with an iron fist from his powerful steamboat.

Through a series of strange coincidences, Gwen, Lisa, and Mel form a girl-group of super heroes: the Rainbow Girls. But it’s not all fun and games: there are powers to be perfected and missions to carry out!

After having disappeared for many years, the hammer has returned to Hammerdam! The atmosphere of the town is electric as preparations for a huge celebratory festival commence. People from all over the world head to Hammerdam in the hopes of being chosen by the hammer, an event that forever changes the fate of the person in question. But to everyone’s surprise,the hammer sets its sights on six-year-old Melina…

Linette is a little girl who’s a bit clumsy, but never at a loss for ideas. The authors play with that which is at the heart of kids’ imagination: the extraordinary power to transform daily places and activities into a magical world to explore!

Leonardo is a genius.At least that’s what he thinks!A hilarious caricature of the famous Leonardo da Vinci, a man best known for his portraits of ladies with enigmatic smiles…! But he spends most of his life inventing the most incongruous machines which he then tests on his poor Disciple – a young man who dreams only of a peaceful life, but always ends up covered with cuts and bruises…

The series has been turned into an animated series, more information here 

Twenty years before the events that took place in Le Temps des Mitaines, the valley was already the scene of unbelievable events. Celeste, Prosper, Angus and Nocte are four teenagers with nothing in common. They don’t share any interests, have very different personalities and don’t intend to hang out together. Ever. Unfortunately, an unexpected event brings them together: they end up spending a whole Saturday in detention with Caïus, the school bully. Daunting, aggressive, he’s the reason bad days exist.They quickly discover they are stuck in a Time Bubble from which they cannot escape, turning an awful day into a complete nightmare. These four conflicting personalities will have to work together to free themselves from the terrible clutches of Eternal Detention.

Batem is the last comic book artist trained by André Franquin. He was entrusted with the graphic destiny of the Marsupilami by Franquin himself when he stopped Spirou & Fantasio—an incredible challenge! Batem thus benefited from a valuable lesson in illustration and storytelling from a giant of the comic book industry. Franquin had guessed that Batem would become one of the greatest animal illustrators, with a tendency to draw humorously. While creating these albums, Batem had the chance to work with some of the best scriptwriters: Greg, Yann, etc., providing the Marsupilami universe with so many enriching contributions! A formidable illustrator, he has brought the universe of the Palombian diva to life in superb illustrations, both in black and white and in colour. Through a facsimile reproduction, « A Life in Drawings, » Marsupilami by Batem presents the quintessence of his work!

Helped by his faithful mount Jolly Jumper and hindered by Rintincan, the stupidest dog in the West, Lucky Luke spends his time getting people out of trouble. The famous ‘Poor Lonesome Cowboy”s task is not made easier by the villainous Dalton brothers, who have their work cut out trying to thwart Lucky Luke’s plans.