Let's get ready for a new year with MFR!
2019 is almost over. We are getting ready to put up the Christmas decorations and to celebrate the new year! We have an exciting one ahead of us and plenty of intriguing titles. If you did not manage to catch us in Frankfurt or if you just need a reminder, here is a LINK to see all of the presentation PDFs for 2020 releases.
However, before the year finishes, we still have plenty of titles to show you! As usual, if one of the titles below strikes your eye, do not hesitate to let us know.
The MFR Team
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BEST-SELLERS
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Amertume Apache (1)
By Christophe Blain, Joann Sfar, Jean Giraud & Jean-Michel Charlier
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Amertume Apache (1)
By Christophe Blain, Joann Sfar, Jean Giraud & Jean-Michel Charlier
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres:
Action & Adventure
While patrolling around a Native American reservation, Lieutenant Blueberry witnesses the murder of two women from the Apache tribe. Killed by three young White men, the two victims are the daughter and the wife of a warrior: Amertume. This double murder threatens the peace in the area and risks causing a new war. A both fascinating and crepuscular story, written as an homage to the cult western saga.
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Comme des Bêtes (2)
By Goum & Lapuss’
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Comme des Bêtes (2)
By Goum & Lapuss’
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres:
Movie & TV adaptation
Ever wonder what our pets get up to when we go to work or school and leave them alone in the house?
Max lives a pampered life in a Manhattan apartment, but his world is turned upside down when his owner brings home a mongrel called Duke. They must set aside their differences, however, when they discover that a cute white bunny is recruiting an army of abandoned pets to wage war against all the happy people—themselves included.
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50 nuances de Grecs (2)
By Jul & Charles Pépin
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50 nuances de Grecs (2)
By Jul & Charles Pépin
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres:
Non-Fiction, Humor
“50 Shades of Greece” restages some of the most famous myths from Ancient Greece in the present‐day world: Zeus goes to see his lawyer to negotiate his child support payments, Icarus launches his own low‐cost airline, and Pan is investigated for his connections with a pimp… Rediscover Olympus under a new light, through our common heritage. With their clever eye and mischievous humor, Jul and Pépin bring our mythological legacy to life in a sharp and funny encyclopedia that reveals just as much about our present as our past!
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Dargaud Benelux
Le Loup en slip n’en fiche pas une (4)
By Mayana Itoïz, Paul Cauuet & Wilfrid Lupano
Humor, Action & Adventure
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Lucky Comics
Kid ou double (5)
By Achdé
Action & Adventure, Western
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Dargaud Benelux
Le Mauvais Augure (12)
By Enrico Marini & Stephen Desberg
Action & Adventure
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Dupuis
La Vérité sur tout ! (18)
By Janry & Tome
Humor
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Dupuis
Les voiles écarlates (22)
By Philippe Francq & Eric Giacometti
Action & Adventure
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Le Lombard
L’Ermite de Skellingar (37)
By Fred Vignaux, Yann & Grzegorz Rosinski
Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure
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Delacroix (one-shot)
By Catherine Meurisse
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Delacroix (one-shot)
By Catherine Meurisse
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres:
Non-Fiction
December 10th, 1864, Paris. Three hundred paintings from Eugene Delacroix, deceased only a year before, are exhibited. Alexandre Dumas, who praises himself to be a “brother of the painters”, is asked to give a speech honoring the deceased. He renders the memories that paved his friendship with Delacroix.
Catherine Meurisse, who thinks the paintings of the famous romantic painter shine with modernism and a sense of future, gives us a personal version of Delacroix’s works and Dumas’s storytelling. Weaved between two giants of the 19th century, she invites her readers to look at them in a different way, with a joy intensified in her drawings, sometimes grotesque, sometimes lyrical. Sharing Delacroix’s spirit and Dumas’s eloquence is a delight for the eyes and for the mind.
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Ma maman (one-shot)
By Li Kunwu
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Ma maman (one-shot)
By Li Kunwu
Publisher: Kana
Genres:
Biography & Memoirs
Prequel to A Chinese Life.
In this one-shot graphic novel, Li-Kunwu offers a new and upsetting testimony of the history of China. Set before the Peasant Revolution and Mao’s accession to power, this story focuses on the life of Li-Kunwu’s mother.
The story of one woman to talk about women in China at that time, once again magnified by the artist’s atypical and powerful illustrations!
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S.O.S. Bonheur Saison 2 (2)
By Griffo & Stephen Desberg
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S.O.S. Bonheur Saison 2 (2)
By Griffo & Stephen Desberg
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres:
Action & Adventure
In 1984, Griffo and Jean Van Hamme exposed the failures of a society infringing frighteningly upon individual freedoms. More than 30 years later, the same Griffo, accompanied by Stephen Desberg on the script, claims that Western society has adopted a justice system and passed laws that are bringing it ever closer to a strict totalitarian regime. The three-volume saga tells the fate of characters facing 21st-century repression, and explores their thirst for freedom.
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Mutafukaz’ Loba Loca (2)
By RUN & Guillaume Singelin
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Mutafukaz’ Loba Loca (2)
By RUN & Guillaume Singelin
Publisher: Ankama
Genres:
Action & Adventure
In the wake of Puta Madre, the first Mutafukaz spin-off, Loba Loca tells the turbulent tale of Guadalupe, an endearing high
school student with one problem: she has a hard time controlling her anger… Brought up by a single mom and trying to
find her way, Guada’s frustration builds until she finally decides to take off and try her luck in the grimy streets of Dark
Meat City, seven years after the events of the first Mutafukaz cycle. An extraordinary road trip that will lead Guada toward
her future even as she retraces her past, meeting a whole host of unusual and notorious characters along the way.
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Dies Irae (5)
By Mathieu Reynès
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Dies Irae (5)
By Mathieu Reynès
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres:
Fantasy & Esoteric
One day, Harmony wakes up in an unfamiliar basement having completely lost her memory. All she now knows of the world is the name of her “host,” the mysterious voices in her head and a newly discovered talent for telekinesis. She’s going to have to get her memory back pretty quickly in order to face the dangers that await her. There are so many unanswered questions, and the fight has only just begun…
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Dargaud
Un sixième jour au musée avec les Bidochon (6)
By Christian Binet, Patrick Ramade & Pierre Lacôte
Non-Fiction, Humor
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Zéphyr Editions
Sous les griffes de la SS (13)
By Gerardo Balsa & Mark Jennison
Historical fiction, Action & Adventure
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Gaffes en réclame (7)
By André Franquin & Jidéhem
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Gaffes en réclame (7)
By André Franquin & Jidéhem
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres:
Humor
Is there even any need to introduce Gaston Lagaffe? This dreamy and inventive character, who has brainwaves as unexpected as they are catastrophic, is one of the most famous Belgian comic characters ever. Whether he is meddling in improving office life, looking after a cat or a seagull, inventing musical instruments or tampering with his car, Gaston’s activities always seem to end in explosions, fires and disasters!
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La cuisine du Père Noël
By Anne Montel & Loïc Clément
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La cuisine du Père Noël
By Anne Montel & Loïc Clément
Publisher: Little Urban
Genres:
Magazines & Activity Books
Will you be able to reassemble Santa’s kitchen? Once you have successfully put together this wonderful 200-piece puzzle designed by Anne Montel and Loïc Clément, will you be able to find where Santa and his friends are hiding?
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Le Cheval de Troie
By Sébastien Telleschi
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Le Cheval de Troie
By Sébastien Telleschi
Publisher: Little Urban
Genres:
Magazines & Activity Books, Magazines & Activity Books
Will you be able to reassemble the Trojan horse revisited by Sébastien Telleschi?
Once you have successfully put together this wonderful 200-piece puzzle, will you be able to find where the blue carrot is hiding?
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COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS
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Tanguy & Laverdure – Une aventure du journal Pilote (one-shot)
By Albert Uderzo & Jean-Michel Charlier
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Tanguy & Laverdure – Une aventure du journal Pilote (one-shot)
By Albert Uderzo & Jean-Michel Charlier
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres:
Action & Adventure
“Tanguy and Laverdure”, like “Barbe-Rouge” and “Asterix”, came to life in the first issue of Pilote magazine and their adventure continues to this day. To celebrate the 60th birthday of the heroes created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo, this album compiles the 84 plates of “L’Ecole des Aigles”, as they were first published in the magazine. A wonderful throwback for fans of the most famous duo of pilots in Franco-Belgian comic history!
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Le Dictateur et le Champignon (23)
By André Franquin
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Le Dictateur et le Champignon (23)
By André Franquin
Publisher: Marsu Productions
Genres:
Humor
The “Version Originale” collection presents the storyboards by Franquin, reproduced and published in the format in which they were designed. The work of a duo (the right hands of Franquin and Jidéhem), one can thus detect the virtuosity of the trait, the construction of the outlined features, remorse carved with a razor blade or features erased with strokes of gouache. One way of immersing oneself in the creator’s work
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Gipsy – Compilation (one-shot)
By Enrico Marini & Thierry Smolderen
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Gipsy – Compilation (one-shot)
By Enrico Marini & Thierry Smolderen
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres:
Action & Adventure
One of the wildest series of the decade! Set in the world of the not too distant future, it’s all going on… planetary highways, global cooling, the coronation of a young Russian Tsar, the resurrection of a Mongol army on the trail of Gengis Khan, an all-powerful multinational that controls earthly transport… and much more! And in the middle of this, we have a long-distance gypsy truck driver who, fortunately, knows how to look after himself!
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Le Lombard
Saga Valta - Compilation (one-shot)
By Aouamri & Jean Dufaux
Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure
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Le Lombard
I.R.$ All Watcher - Compilation (2)
By Marc Bourgne, Andréa Mutti, Daniel Koller, Alain Queireix & Stephen Desberg
Action & Adventure, Crime & Mystery
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Dupuis
Dent d’ours - Compilation (2)
By Henriet & Yann
Action & Adventure
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Dargaud
Blueberry – Compilation (9)
By Jean Giraud & Jean-Michel Charlier
Western
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