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mediatoon avril 2024
 
It's been a busy month
 
For a month that starts with a joke, April did some serious work.

Although we are sure they had fun along the way, our authors worked hard to create some excellent books.

Kokopello went on a year-long journey to discover how the European Union works. Sounds like an impossible task, but with La Tour de Babel he actually managed to paint an accurate portrait of the EU, both instructive and funny!

Meanwhile, Bec & Carlos Puerta did a great job reviving an emblematic character of Bruce J. Hawker. Thanks to them, captain Hawker is ready to set sail for a new adventure.

And we have something very special for those who enjoyed the movie Back to Black. Find out more about Amy Winehouse’s incredible story with the newest docu-comic in Petit à Petit’s Pop Rock en BD collection.

Bonne lecture !

Compilations & special editions

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Les Héricornes

La digne héritière de Mû (2)

By Kid Toussaint & Verónica Álvarez

Famille & Enfants
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

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…


 
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I.R.$

Les prédateurs climatiques (24)

By Stephen Desberg & Vrancken

BD de genre
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime & Mystery 

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…


 
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Petit pays

Petit pays (One-shot)

By Gaël Faye, Marzena Sowa & Sylvain Savoia

Roman Graphique
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Literary adaptation 

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.


 
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Buck Danny Classic

L’ombre rouge (11)

By Frédéric Zumbiehl, Frédéric Marniquet & André Le Bras

BD de genre
Publisher: Zéphyr Editions
Genres: Action & Adventure 

1947. Buck Danny and his friends, working on a Howard Hughes film, are confronted by the CIA. The film’s many incidents are allegedly caused by a Soviet spymaster: the Red Shadow… In pursuit of this elusive enemy, Buck soon realizes that the game is going to be complicated. Very complicated, in fact.

After the Dans les griffes du SMERSH cycle, this album is the first part of the new Buck Danny Classic diptych!


Graphic novel

 
 
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La Tour de Babel

Voyages au coeur du grand bazar européen (One-shot)

By Kokopello

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Non-Fiction 

After Palais Bourbon and Carnets de Campagne, Kokopello set off to Brussels, Strasbourg and nine European countries, to meet journalists, MEPs, European Commissioners and ministers. For a year and a half, since the start of the war in Ukraine, he has criss-crossed Europe, roaming the corridors of the European Commission with the aim of explaining how Europe works and what are the upcoming challenges: climate change, the energy crisis, the EU’s place in the world, foreign interference, and the immigration crisis against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.


 
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Nos rives partagées

Nos rives partagées (One-shot)

By Zabus & Nicoby

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Drama, Romance 

Six people — three women and three men, from three different generations — each face a crucial challenge. The two retirees must assess what options they have left after the lives they have led. The younger woman must suffer the changes to her body caused by breast cancer, the man the consequences of his choice of career. And the teenagers confront the big questions all teenagers ask themselves. Young or old, they are all consumed by decisions that are typical of people everywhere. When chance brings them together they are all able to face the future with a smile.


 
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Constellation

Constellation (One-shot)

By L’Homme Étoilé

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Non-Fiction 

After the success of his first graphic novel, “Je suis au-delà de la mort” (I Am Beyond Death), l’Homme étoilé gives us more of what first made him famous: a collection of tales from a hospital. By sharing intimate moments spent with dying patients and telling us their stories, it is as if he is letting these men and women live on within us.


 
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Le Partage des Mondes

Le Partage des Mondes (One-shot)

By Olivier Grenson

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Historical fiction 

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?


 
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Les aventuriers de l'Urraca

Les aventuriers de l’Urraca (One-shot)

By Rémi Farnos

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

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?


 
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Journal d'une bataille

Journal d’une bataille (One-shot)

By Cyril Pedrosa

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Biography & Memoirs 

This is the story of an inner battle. It’s a diary in which Cyril Pedrosa offers 92 drawings, complemented by texts written over the course of several months, but which do not constitute extensions of the illustrative part. A fragmentary but regular “autobio-graphic” style of writing, which enables one of the most innovative and popular authors of his time to talk about his research into drawing, as well as his observations of the world over a period spanning from June 2022 to December 2023.


 
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Avenir

Avenir (One-shot)

By Pierre-Roland Saint-Dizier, Pierre Benazech & Eliot

Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Sci-Fi 

It is 2030, and AI is already being used to determine young people’s psychological, intellectual, and professional aptitudes, leaving little room for individual aspirations or creative passions. So when young Matt, whose dream is to design holograms, is put through tests at the Future Direction Center, his parents can only cross their fingers… Alas, the system detects a slight behavioral disorder and consigns Matt to an establishment where he will undergo shortterm specialist treatment.

Matt’s plight comes to the attention of Stéphane, an online magazine journalist, who convinces his editor to publish an appeal to readers to defend the boy’s freedom of choice.


 
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Amy Winehouse en BD

Amy Winehouse en BD (One-shot)

By Tony Lourenco & Collectif

Publisher: Petit à Petit BD
Genres: Non-Fiction 

Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” was one of the best-selling albums in rock history. With her raspy voice, her wild hair, and her trademark wisp of eyeliner, she quickly became of the biggest pop icons of her century. And yet, in 2011, after bouts of depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, and bulimia, she joined the famously tragic “27 Club.”

This docu-comic—a combination of biography and graphic novel—retraces the key moments in Winehouse’s short life.


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Le Dieu-Fauve

Le Dieu-Fauve (One-shot)

By Fabien Vehlmann & Roger

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

A heroic fantasy depicting a civilization consumed by privilege and violence whose only hope of survival lies in the humanity of a child and a voiceless monkey…

It starts with a monkey being captured and groomed to become the Wild God, a ferocious fighter and symbol of power, so that he might rescue the Consul Ea, who has been banished from the imperial court and spent several years in exile. But on their return, a tidal wave engulfs not only her troops but also those of the other factions converging on the capital, resulting in a race to occupy the vacant throne.


 
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Six

Une montagne d’or (2)

By Philippe Pelaez & Javier Casado

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Western, Action & Adventure 

Six. Six mismatched characters now form a strange troupe – one that could kindly be described as a “beautiful band of broken arms”. Each of them is the repository of dark secrets. Like western adventurers, our protagonists are driven by a very ordinary motivation: to survive – if possible, while enriching themselves in the process. Their goal is to reach the mine inherited by Kid, the one-eyed boy: a place with an icy reputation, an ancient burial ground for sick or aged Arapaho warriors; a place that has driven mad the miners who have ventured there. But you have to get there…


 
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Les Nouvelles Aventures de Bruce J. Hawker

L’oeil du marais (1)

By Bec & Carlos Puerta

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

The dramatic return of a legendary hero from the Tintin series!

In the year 1307, a strange-looking ship leaves France loaded with treasure obtained by the Knights Templar. Five hundred years later, Bruce J. Hawker is preparing to set sail from the Port of London when his ship is boarded by attackers, who capture Bruce and his crew and take them to Canada to work as slaves in a bid to find the Knights’ treasure. Bruce decides not only to free his companions, but also to bring the legendary hoard back to England!


 
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Because I can’t love you

Because I can’t love you (3)

By Lief

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Drama 

Austin has found himself a girlfriend and Priti feels neglected. But it’s also an opportunity to get closer to Liam. Alas, despite his feelings, Liam refuses any relationship for fear of becoming like his father… Meanwhile, Priti’s brother Cole is finding it increasingly difficult to hide his homosexuality. Between Julian’s suspicions, Lukas urging him to come out, and his feelings for Liam, the situation is becoming untenable.


Ankama
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Darwin

Darwin (3)

By Keto Valero
Manga, Action & Adventure
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Ankama
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DOFUS DOUBLE

Dofus manga double (14)

By Tot & Ancestral Z
Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure
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Children's & family

 
 
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Les Chroniques d'Ona

Ona (1)

By Salva & Yohan Sacré

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

In a world on the verge of destruction, mired in The Great Gloom, Ona, a young magician, embarks on a mission. Using the magical properties of plants and nature, she does everything she can to save her world and to trace the island her people came from. Helping her in her quest is Dini, a tiny albino bat with extraordinary powers…


 
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Petits Dieux

Le Dragon blanc (1)

By Mathieu Salvia & Krystel

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

In an imaginary world, the creatures of the forest are forced to flee by the sudden appearance of a gigantic fire-breathing dragon. But Pabo the rat, Buck the clumsy raccoon, and Cleo the little fairy decide to make the dangerous journey to the edge of the forest, in the hope of finding refuge with their Goddess. On the way, they run into BoumBoum, the famous warrior, who is determined to make the dragon his 105th conquest! But tension soon grows between Pabo, who claims a single great triumph that nobody has ever heard of, and BoumBoum, who believes that only he can save the forest from destruction.


 
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Révolutionnaires !

Le roi est mort vive la République ! (3)

By Régis Hautière & Fourquemin

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Historical fiction 

1793. The Marquis de Valoire has recalled his son Enguerrand from the army to assist him in the counter-revolution brewing in the Vendée. But in the shadows of the back alleys, Célénie and her new ally Mange-Doigts are more alive than ever, and have formed an alliance to bring down the Marquis. As for the new Commissaire Lambert, his loyalties waver between the aristocrat and the king of the underworld. In Nantes, as in the capital, the waltz of alliances is in full swing as the political chaos continues.


 
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Didi

Naissance (1)

By Christian Galli

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

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.


 
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La Forêt du temps

La Vengeance de Bahamuth (4)

By Tristan Roulot & Guerrero

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

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?


 
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Mélie et le Monster Maker Club

Magie monstres et chocolat… (3)

By Carbone, Thitaume & Gorobei

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Mélie and Kréa continue to pass through gateways to worlds in danger, which they save thanks to the Monster Maker Club monsters that Mélie brings to life. Mélie has her work cut out for her, between a wild beast turned aggressive by Fourage, a world deprived of its colors and the rescue of a cat-princess! But perhaps the greatest challenge awaits her in the real world. Because her big brother, Théo, seems to be in a very bad way…


 
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Créatures

Rendez-vous avec le Bogeyman (4)

By Betbeder & Djief

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure 

Just as the entire team of survivors has dropped into the heart of Yog-Sothoth to escape the black deity’s hellish New York, Grandpa and the kids discover they’ve traveled back in time! Now they’re back in the Big Apple… but in 1928! A chance to visit H.P. Lovecraft, the writer who seems to be at the heart of all Chief’s, Vanille’s and the others’ problems… but who could also be the terrible “Bogeyman”…

The 4th and final album of the series!


 
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FRNCK

Apocalypse (9)

By Olivier Bocquet & Brice Cossu

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Humor 

The meteorite that will cause the extinction of the dinosaurs has fallen to Earth. Franck and his friends flee the cataclysm, hoping to return to the 21st century via the underground river beneath the volcano. They almost get trampled by fleeing animals before falling into a huge ditch which is, in fact, a mammoth graveyard.


 
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Gosse et les Berges

Gosse et son ami Taigne (2)

By Lucas Méthé

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

As soon as the war between the two territories is over, Gosse the little Drômois heads for the Ardèche to meet up with his friend Taigne! Together, the two travel to Lyon, where the Comité des Sciences asks them to create an extraordinary invention: a machine to calm the Rhône’s motions! Quite a challenge! All the more so as Taigne’s father, La Myrtille – quite a rascal, that one – is hanging around…


 
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Red

Heureux comme un prince (1)

By Falzar & Antonello Dalena

Publisher: Editions de la Gouttière
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

In the kingdom of Terrelande, young prince Reginald-Edouard finds it increasingly difficult to cope with court protocol… He would like to see the world, to play with other children, and above all not to be alone.

In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past, King Coriander decides to send him to live on the Pilanese coast for a year. Under Barnum’s protection, Reginald will become Red, an ordinary child.


 
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Choupisson

La vie en Ver (1)

By David Périmony

Publisher: Editions de la Gouttière
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Paillasson is a little hedgie. Having had a good night’s sleep and still only half awake, he finds himself in an embarrassing position: he is hungry but doesn’t know what to eat. A snail suggests he go looking for an “earthworn,” but what on earth could that be? Fortunately, Paillasson soon meets a strange creature—long and thin with its legs all worn away—who is happy to help him find what he is looking for. After all, thinks Paillasson, this creature seems pretty “earthworn” itself…


Editions de la Gouttière
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Hagard, Enquêteur de l’Histoire

Les Murmures de la citadelle (4)

By Gilles Prilaux, Mathieu Lavallee, Greg Blondin & Manon
Historical fiction
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Dupuis
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Petit Poilu

Dans la bouche de Profitroll (29)

By Céline Fraipont & Bailly
Action & Adventure
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Compilations & special editions

COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

 
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La Fille de Paname - Intégrale

La Fille de Paname – Intégrale (One-shot)

By Laurent Galandon & Kas

BD de genre
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Historical fiction, Action & Adventure 

Paris 1897, its monuments, walls, lights, popular dance halls… And its Apaches, young thieves, who haunt the streets and frighten honest citizens… The young and beautiful Amélie dreams of a different life from the tedious one her parents lived. She’s ready for adventure! Seduced by Matelot, a sailor, Amélie lives for a few months in sweet idleness, but when her lover starts showing signs of wanting an nice, normal life, Amélie chooses to leave him to follow Belle-Hélène. Both a mentor and a lover, independent and charismatic, Belle-Hélène teaches Amélie her profession: prostitution. And Amélie takes to it wonderfully. But unlike Belle-Hélène, Amélie remains susceptible to men. When she is assaulted by a client, she’s rescued by the gentleman Bouchon. She soon abandons her Madame for the sake of her savior. At first her time with Bouchon is nice, but he soon becomes demanding. Without the intervention of the Apache Manda, perhaps she would have succumbed to his violence. But instead she falls madly in love with this mysterious new character on the scene…


 
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Henri Vaillant - Fan Box

Famille T2/3

By Bourgne & Claudio Stassi

BD de genre
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

The continuation of the exploration of the thousand lives of young Henri Vaillant, as heroic resistance fighter, creator of the first Vaillantes, outstanding racing driver and father of a neck-breaking little “Michou”!


 
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Une vie en dessins

Lambil et Cauvin – Les Tuniques Bleues (9)

By Cauvin & Lambil

Livres Illustrés
Publisher: Champaka Brussels
Genres: Biography & Memoirs 

With over 21 million albums sold, Les Tuniques Bleues is one of the strongest representations of the Western in French-Belgian comics. It deals, among other things, with the absurdity of war and the value of friendship in the most extreme circumstances. Raoul Cauvin and Willy Lambil have remained discreet personalities, largely ignored in academic circles. This first coffee-table book dedicated to their work fills a real gap.

Over 200 original plates, carefully scanned and reproduced, bear witness to the triumph of Lambil’s drawing in the service of Cauvin’s exemplary storytelling!


 
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Kid Paddle - Best Of

Jurassic Paddle (2)

By Midam

BD de genre
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor 

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.


Dupuis
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Midam – L'art du gag

Midam – L’art du gag (One-shot)

By Midam & Thierry Tinlot
Biography & Memoirs
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Dupuis
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Midam – Les modèles mathématiques

Midam – Les modèles mathématiques (One-shot)

By Midam & Daniel Justens
Biography & Memoirs
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