This is the story of a symbol. It’s the symbol of death, and also symbol of a secret association, exclusively female, that extols the benefits of violent punishment for all guilty parties: “mourning for mourning, a child for a child”! Everyone thought that the SHI association had disappeared forever. But it’s just started showing signs of existence again. An assassination will lead us back to the very beginnings of the SHI, halfway through the 19th century, at the heart of London as it prepares for the first World Exhibition. At the beginning, there was anger…

1940, France: the quiet French village of Pontain-l’Écluse is about to see its world turned upside down by the arrival of German soldiers, shortly after the fall of France. Two of its young inhabitants, François and Eusèbe, watch in desperation as the enemy invades their lands. But they don’t intend to take the occupation lying down. With the help of their new friend Lisa, they will engage in a fight for freedom all their own…

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Akbar, eons ago, lived an evil king called Ramor, whose brothers succeeded in imprisoning in a conch shell. Mara, a witch-princess, on reading a book of spells, discovers that only the Time Bird can seal the shell for ever. A knight named Bragon leaves to search for the Time Bird, taking with him Mara’s beautiful daughter, Pelisse. Thus begins this fantastical saga throughout which the characters confront many a danger in their quest for the fabulous Time Bird.

Seth is an aspiring wizard from the Pompo Hills region. Like all wizards, he is one of the “infected,” a select group of living beings who survived their encounter with the Nemeses. Seth’s apparent immunity has led him to go on the offensive and attempt to fight these Nemeses. But more than that, Seth is set to embark on a quest that goes beyond hunting monsters. Alongside his friends and allies, he will travel the world in search of the Radiant—the alleged birthplace of the Nemeses—while trying to stay a step ahead of the dreaded Inquisition.

How did Django become Django Reinhardt?
In 1928, the young and talented gipsy banjo player Django had a severe accident which left his left hand severally burned. No one thought he could play guitar ever again, but he turned out to become the best Jazz guitarist of the 20th century!
Django Reinhardt is a worldwide famous personality, and the first European jazz musician that really contributed and change this music genre, using only two of the fingers of his left hand.

The story of a comics author in search of inspiration. In his tireless quest, he roams the creative universe, going back through history and asking for help from the great painters, and from God himself. This journey to the sources of creation allows the reader to observe Larcenet’s extraordinary graphic talent and the breadth of his artistic range. But it also shows us a glimpse of an artist in pain, banging against the walls of incomprehension and loneliness. With ferocious lucidity, the author pulls no punches and poignantly depicts an artist adrift. Except that this artist, Larcenet, is also the master of self-mockery ! Facing the anxiety of creation with brutal honesty, he lays himself bare in this rich, deep, and surprisingly funny exploration of an often harrowing truth. Not everyone can combine humor and helplessness. With this moving, cultured, and hard-hitting work, Manu Larcenet masterfully does just that.

Every day, John drives from his home in a small town west of Milford, New Jersey to his friend Sam’s bar, where they chat and have a coffee before John’s work day begins. John is a ranger in Passaic County – nothing unusual about that. Except that Clinton Road, 15 km of asphalt that he patrols daily, turns out to be the most haunted road in the United States, plagued by disturbing disappearances and paranormal phenomena… As it just so happens, it’s also the road where his only son, Benjamin, was last seen before he disappeared. But John, who is unable to grieve for his son, takes refuge in an altered reality where fantasies creep their way in… On the morning in question, John and Sam are discussing a strange new disappearance near Clinton Road…

My name is Amadeo. I’m 16 years old. Well, almost. Every morning, I ride my bike up to the top of the hill, where the fig trees grow, to read the daily horoscope to Don Palermo.He’s seen a few things in his time, Don Palermo – over there in Stonefield USA, back in the 1930s. He started out living with a bear. Later, he lived with another one, less hairy but more dangerous: Don Pomodoro, a local Mafia godfather, the kind who kills first, and asks questions later. But Don Palermo has known love, too; the real kind. The kind that still gives you butterflies 70 years later…

Countess Kiki has been kidnapped, and Tif and Tondu are on the case…
Blutch (Christian Hincker) combines the fantasy of Maurice Rosy with the vivacity of Maurice Tillieux.   

In Egypt, Neith, daughter of the pharaoh, is noticed by her father as she prepares to dance in a sacred ritual. One of her sisters warns her: her performance had better be a failure unless she wants to end up in their father’s bed…
But Neith is incapable of appearing clumsy and foolish. When her half-brother informs her that he intends to secretly leave the palace, Neith asks him to take her with him.
Captured by slave merchants, they are brought to the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II. Their social rank is quickly uncovered and the king sees a golden opportunity. A disastrous period has been prophesied by the stars. In order to get around such things in the past, previous kings had devised a ruse, whereby a “straw king” or substitute for the king is placed on the throne during the period of disaster. At the end of the period, the straw king is sacrificed to ward off ill fortune. King Nebuchadnezzar II has just found his substitute…

The story of Martha Jane Cannnary, aka calamity Jane, a young 16 years girl, working in a whorehouse and whose tragic destiny is also to become a prostitue. She works in an extreme environment surrounded by masculin violence.
Her life will change when she meets the bounty hunter Wild Bill, which will change her destiny and teach her how to fight back.

June 13, 1944. One week after Allied forces land in Normandy, a V-1 flying bomb crashes into the northern suburb of London. It destroys some buildings in an industrial zone and claims several civilian lives.
Churchill doesn’t want a second Blitz, so along with his American allies, he opts for a two-pronged approach: the defense of London and the destruction of the V-1 sites.
Louise Simon, a young chemical engineer specializing in nuclear research, and the unsung hero Doug Hunter, a talented fighter pilot with a touchy personality, will combine forces to accomplish a mission that risks upsetting the outcome of an undecided conflict in that summer of 1944.

Lya is a beautiful young woman of 21. She had everything going for her… until she was paralyzed from the waist down the day before her 17th birthday, when she was struck by a hit-and-run driver. Ever since, Lya has been fighting to come to terms with her condition and rebuild her life. But what really drives her is her need to find whoever it was who left her for dead and obtain justice. Helping Lya in her quest is Antoine, her best friend–and maybe more–who’ll do anything for her. But her desire for the truth will lead her down dangerous avenues, and her journey will be full of surprises.

A cataclysmic war against the zombies has tipped the Earth into chaos, reducing the world to ruins and rubble. It’s in this
world faced with nuclear winter that Billy Rockerson, an ex‐Elvis impersonator, is going to have to face the demons of his
past in order to save his beloved from the grasp of Hades.

In the near future, the Earth has become a very different place. An unknown disaster has upended our way of life: cars sit rusting where they stopped, cities have been reduced to no man’s lands, and invertebrates have mutated into giant, deadly beasts. Faced with the threat of these roaming monsters, humanity’s hopes lie with the Sauroktones, small bands of warriors who risk their lives to fight these creatures. Amid it all, three youths are thrown together by circumstance, and will go to great lengths to stay united, help each other, and make their way through the strange, futuro-medieval landscape of a ravaged world.

A young boy traveling through a place that looks like Louisiana falls completely in love with a saxophone. Penniless, Billy will work hard to get it… but playing well turns out to be another thing entirely. Fortunately, he meets a little bird, who is a great musician. Together, the two friends are quickly hired in a prestigious jazz club. But between success, money and freedom, they will have to make choices that may change their lives. Without using any text, the author manages to explore many feelings and enables the reader to follow the fate of the characters with emotion, humour and fluidity.

In a dream world, readers follow the adventures and misfortunes of a colourful group of friends gifted with superpowers. Along the way, there is plenty of suspense, mystery, laughing, and even first loves…

When your old man’s a police captain, it can make for some lonely evenings at home! Tom would know. But when the investigation his father is working on implicates Fabian, one of the hall monitors at his middle school, Tom decides to find out for himself what’s going on. With his best friend Lilia by his side, he sets out to catch the bad guys. They suddenly find themselves trailing suspects, following clues, going undercover, and even getting into high-speed chases! The only thing is they have to do it all in absolute secrecy, so that Tom’s father doesn’t suspect their involvement. To do so, they’ll have to become real-life anonymous informers. But just where will all of this lead?

An endless stream of global conflicts has led humans to delegate the art of war to the machines. The world has now become nothing more than a vast battefield populated only by robots who are hard-wired for war. Fresh out of the assembly line, the robot mechanic Rip-R is coupled with War-hol, a warrior robot: a duo that should be unstoppable! But then why is War-hol, the iron colossus, fleeing combat with his antenna between his legs…?

The Secret Job Society gathers some of the most secret and surprising professions in the world: Lost-sock-detectives, shooting-star-launchers, autumn-leaves-painters. You may not have heard about these incredible workers before but luckily French illustrator Anne Montel has gathered a great deal of intel in order to uncover these fantastic jobs for you.
Maybe your future occupation lies within the pages of this book?

As the flagship series of Spirou mag for about 60 years, ‘Tif et Tondu’ generated some absolute gems, such as ‘L’Ombre sans corps’, an episode published in the famous weekly in 1969. The alchemy between the artist, Willy Maltaite, alias Will, and the writer Maurice Tillieux was at its zenith. Will reproduces the warm torpor of the French lunch hour with lucid poetry, while Tillieux creates an increasingly bewitching atmosphere around his legendary Mr.Choc, the unforgettable masked ‘bad-guy’ constantly causing trouble for our adventurers!