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Winner of the coveted Gaiman Award as the No. 1 translated foreign comic book series published in Japan in 2013, this story of perseverance and a young girl's search for love has been translated from it's original French into ten languages. Author and publisher Stephen D. Smith has now translated The Leaning Girl into English and it features an introduction by Karen Green, Graphic Novel Librarian at Columbia University.
After a freak accident on the Star Express roller coaster, 13 year-old Mary Von Rathen begins to lean. Doctors can not help her, so she is sent by her selfish mother and hen-pecked father to a private school in Sodrovni. Mary escapes and joins the Robertson Circus where she remains for several years, until she hears from newspaper editor, Stanislas Sainclair, that a scientist, Axel Wappendorf, might be able to help her. Wappendorf is working on a rocket to reach a planet that could hold the secret to Mary's trouble. Meanwhile an artist, Augustin Desombres, has run away from the busy world and buys an empty building on the High Plains of Aubrac in the French countryside. He begins painting murals of strange globes. Now as a young woman, Mary decides to join Wappendorf in the rocket. On the alien planet, they discover an area with many globes where she has a chance meeting with the artist.
Nominated for two 2015 Eisner Awards: BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL and BEST PENCILER/INKER - François Schuiten.

A TURBULENT TRIBUTE TO ROAD MOVIES AND ITALIAN CINEMA OF THE SIXTIES.
In the early 60s, after the death of their father, two brothers, Fabio and Giovanni, are returning home for the funeral in their Fiat 500. Their journey, punctuated with bitter arguments and long silences, memories and encounters, will take them back to their native Italy, where Fabio has not been for years. We learn, piece by piece, about their father, and about the stormy relationships they had with their family, and how fascism divided them.

The resistance against the French Emperor Napoleon III is led from Guernsey, by the famous writer Victor Hugo. His fellow fighters are infiltrated in the ranks of the Emperor and they have discovered that he wants to throw it on an agreement with the rebel Confederate States of America. They may use the terrible weapon that his men have surfaced at a Mayan Temple. Will Victor Hugo succeed to prevent the Emperor's plans? The parties are gearing up for the ultimate showdown between person.
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Hauteville House v01 (2015)
English | CBR | 95 pages | 192.90 MB

A STEAMPUNK, ESPIONAGE ADVENTURE, COMBINING HISTORY AND THE ESOTERIC!
1864, under an imaginary Second Empire, Napoléon III uses his army and his secret service to study certain phenomena relating to the occult and to popular legends. His goal is quite simple: achieving world supremacy.

Murena is a series of comic books whose story takes place during the reign of Nero. Released in 2001, and an undeniable success. Very successful and very graphically documented Murena plunges us with delight in ancient imperial Rome, its palaces, its manners, its daily life.
The story begins in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius. The Emperor fell in love with a young woman, leaving alone the terrible Agrippina and her adopted son, the future Emperor Nero. After Claude was murdered, Nero ascends the throne and becomes the prey of madness, real or imagined, that consumes him. Through these episodes, we see how Nero, by a combination of circumstances, becomes more and more evil. A game of manipulation and revenge begins...
The authors define their work as being like the novels of Alexandre Dumas, who "took pleasure in following history but kept independent from its sources."
We find ourselves in Ancient Rome. In the intense heat of the centre of one of the most far-reaching empires the world has ever known, gladiators struggle for survival in the arena, cunning merchants strive to outwit each other, sordid love affairs turn sour, and along side it all, the eternal game of power plays out in the shadows...

What is the point of remembering that we have experienced hell?
The police arrest a young girl wandering in the street, covered with blood, a knife in her hand. On her way home, the officers discover with terror a scene of massacre: her entire family was murdered... Six years later, Pierre Grimaud, the only survivor of the "slaughter of the Rue des Corneilles", awakened with a deep coma. The 15-year-old boy he was at the time of the incident is now a 21-year-old man. Disoriented, still paralyzed and suffering from partial amnesia, he is taken care of by Dr. Anna Kieffer, a psychologist specializing in criminology and victimology issues. During their sessions, Anna tries to make him remember the circumstances of the tragedy, despite her memory loss. Pierre reminds him of the mysterious presence of a "man in black" who haunts his dreams, a probable unconscious response to his trauma. After several appointments, Anna discovers in Peter a sensitive and very intelligent being. Affected by her story, she even begins to take him into affection. Gradually, a real complicity is established between them. Anna can't imagine how much this patient will change his life...
After the remark These disappearing days, Timothé Le Boucher returns with a work once again testifying to his exemplary narrative science. In a more realistic vein, The Patient is a psychological thriller that takes and surprisingly, hinting at some of the author's favorite themes: the relationship to the other, the notion of "time," identity, and memory.

Diosamante the queen falls passionately in love with a king. To prove themselves worthy, she began a long journey in search of perfection. The kingdom of Arhas is run by the iron fist of Queen Diosamante. This queen without pity is known as much for her cruelty as for her incredible beauty. This is why mighty warriors do not hesitate to take part in fatal combats whose only aim is to share one night of love with the legendary Diosamante... only to be killed by her very hands at the time of the winter solstice. The reputation of Urbal de Sarabba will one day challenge the pride of the young queen. This king is said to be wiser, more powerful, and loved by his people. Furious, the intrepid beauty will go in search of this man who dares cast a shadow over her. Having barely arrived at the palace of Urbal, their meeting will take an unexpected turn: the two sovereigns will fall madly in love with each other.

Allow us to introduce Olympia, an exquisite young woman living in post-First-World-War Berlin, a time when the town was continually shaken up by internal revolutions and cultural turbulence. Olympia is beautiful. Louise Brooks-style beautiful. She is the archetype of that generation of war-women, the likes of which we'll never see again. Her father, Count Van Den Golzt, sends his daughter to Berlin following the Bolsheviks' establishment in Courlande, a move that he knew was a threat to the safety of his family. She soon becomes a fascinating character, with lovers from all walks of life, from bespectacled Communist intellectuals, to pimps. Alongside her decadent lifestyle, she fights passionately for the Socialist cause. Nihilistic, but driven, she ends up in the arms of the most unlikely suitor.

ZÛRN, UNICA [zyrn ynika]. f. n. - b. 1916; in Berlin-Grunewald - 1. Born to a middleclass family, a young woman in Hiter's Germany. 2. Worked at Universum Film AG as a creator and screenwriter of commercial. - 3. Artist who belong to the Surrealist moveme
A childhood devastated by rape, the absence of an idealized father, a morally strict mother, and a passion for art shaped Unica Zürn. One of the only prominent female figures of the Surrealist movement, Zürn was tormented by inner demons that she shared through her automatic drawings and anagram poems. She longed for and rejected intimacy at once, seeking her so-called Man of Jasmine, an idealized male figure, throughout her life while living as the partner of Hans Bellmer, noted artist and photographer. As her schizophrenia began to overtake her, she longed to make the woman she once was disappear into the nameless pronoun She. In the eyes of Unica Zürn, madness is the only way to be in the world.

The Incal's fan-favorite hero/roguish flirt, Kill Wolfhead, is back in his own story.
Kill Wolfhead has been called many things in his long, storied life - Lover (Galaxy's Greatest), Fighter (Freedom and Otherwise), Entrepreneur (Five Franchises and Counting), and Intergalactic Hero (He saved the universe! Twice! At least!). But you don't live that kind of life without making some enemies... And those enemies are now out for blood.
After a vicious attack, Wolfhead is left in a coma, and his only possible hope for a healthy return is a dangerous, experimental technology in the hands of the children he's abandoned in his Lothario wake. In order to save their wayward father, his children must go into his damaged brain-space, but all is not what it seems.

The Spirou character was created in 1938 and is still hugely successful around the world.

In these times of peace with the treacherous Albion, an incredible event will upset the monotonous routine of the French corsairs. A veritable genie, distant cousin of Aladdin's genie from '1001 Nights', offers them three wishes. These expert pirates fall into a series of adventures which will make them cross the southern seas in the search of The Treasure of Rackham The Cruel. In his direct and bright painting style, Vincent Pompetti brings an epic breath to this story of pirates imagined by Tarek.

Constance, a modern, young illustrator, takes revenge for the thousands of attacks suffered daily by women with a comic of her own, titled The Amazing Camel Toe, celebrating the adventures of an anti-macho vigilante in tight, panther leggings: A hero who battles against sexism, harassment, slut-shaming, and unrealistic standards of beauty. A form of release that could materialize in a publishing deal for Constance... But in order for that to happen, the author, often full of doubt, must dare to assert herself more. Luckily, she's supported by her gang of girlfriends, her boyfriend, her favorite band, and not to mention Camel Toe herself: who says this comic-book bombshell can't exist in real life?
Gently provocative, cheerfully fierce, and borderline punk, Claire Duplan has a style and a tone all her own, overflowing with humor and energy.

The second volume presenting the long-out-print masterpiece Den, by fantasy legend Richard Corben!
Den: Muvovum is the next book in a series of deluxe graphic novels from renowned creator Richard Corben's library to be published by Dark Horse Comics. This special edition also features bonus material, art pages restored by long-time Corben collaborator José Villarrubia, re-lettered by Nate Piekos of Blambot, and an introduction by Walt Simonson, all presented in a gorgeous hardcover with a dust jacket.
Den and Kath's bizarre journey in Neverwhere continues as they leave their floating island home for magical stones that can transport them back to Earth. Along the way, trouble arrives as the evil Queen seeks the stones for her own evil purposes, and Den's friend is kidnapped and imprisoned in the horrific monster country known as Muvovum.

Gomer Goof is a master loafer. He's also a genius, if absent-minded, inventor. His laziness, his gadgets and his sheer bad luck create havoc at Spirou Magazine and drive his colleagues crazy - but he's such a likeable guy!

A humorous cult series about the misadventures of Sergeant Cornelius M. Chesterfield and Corporal Blutch of the Union Army's 22nd Cavalry.

Readers of Spirou already know the Marsupilami - that lovable creature with the nature-defying tail. Here, in his own series, we follow the Marsupilami's life in his natural habitat. And his adventures are as funny as ever!