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Once an animator at Disney Studios, Nicolas Keramidas now makes a living as a cartoonist in Grenoble. He's married to a wonderful woman, Chloé, has two energetic sons, and plays soccer every Sunday with his pals. He was also born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a rare combination of four heart defects that in 1973 made him one of the youngest children ever to undergo open-heart surgery. Forty-three years later, when his congenital condition stops him short during a soccer game, he'll have to face surgery again, a saga he details in this moving, humorous, and above all, very human memoir.

A small exploratory vessel crashes onto an unknown ocean planet after its crew is seized by a sudden madness. After escaping their sinking ship, the five survivors are helped to the surface by giant squid-like creatures who guide them to what appears to be the planet's only island. To their surprise, they are greeted on the shore by primitive humans, who prove to be welcoming despite their cannibalistic rituals. But their fixed smiles and total docility suggest that something more sinister is going on. Are the castaways doomed to join them in submitting to the will of the mysterious Great One?

Canterbury, Connecticut, 1832: a charming female boarding school has found success among the locals, with two dozen girls enrolled. Some in town question the purpose of educating young girls - but surely there's no harm in trying? At least not until the Prudence Crandall School announces its plans to start accepting black students. Thirty years before the abolition of slavery in the United States, in the so-called "free" North, these students will be met by a wave of hostility that puts the future of the school in question, and their very lives in peril. Even in the land of the free, not all of America's children are welcome.

The seemingly idyllic town of Mitaines has been beset by a wave of kidnappings. Strange prints have been spotted in the woods, but there's no sign of foul play. With the authorities baffled, will young Arthur and the rest of the Mitaines Gang be able to solve the crime? More importantly, will they be able to stay out of trouble themselves?

This is the true story of William Alexander Morgan, the Yankee Comandante, an idealistic young American who found fame fighting in the Cuban Revolution. The blond American didn't speak a word of Spanish, but he felt his rightful place was among the guerilleros of the Escambray Mountains, fighting to bring down dictator Fulgencio Batista. Morgan was among Havana's liberators in 1959, an act that led FBI director Edgar Hoover to strip him of his American citizenship. There was a time when Morgan was international front-page news, on a level with Che Guevara. Yet

Wayne Shelton, a Vietnam veteran in his fifties, specialises in "odd jobs''. Specializing in delicate missions, it sells very expensive services. The billionaire Horace T. Quayle, president of the Texas Investment Trust, is about to sign the contract of the century with the Khalakjistan - FSU - which owns the richest deposit of germanium metal coveted by all major powers. Unfortunately, a grain of sand has jammed the machine: Rene Loiret, a truck driver. This moron had an accident that caused the death of General Selmjov, Minister of Defence Khalakjistan. He was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment, and the severity of the sentence has forced France to retaliate by an embargo. Negotiations are blocked, and the only solution is to remove the cause of the embargo: Loiret must be released and repatriated to France.
Shelton is in charge of the mission, and he has only seventy days to escape Zaporitzka of Loiret, the high security prison, and leave the country.
To achieve this spectacular escape - supposed to be conducted discreetly - Shelton recruits, around the world, a few faithful friends temporarily busy doing other things, an authentic English baronet, a Spanish stuntman and an entertainer very gironde with whom he shares some privacy. It also loads a comedian originally from Khalakjistan needy, and a former seedy Parisian lawyer who seems to have his personal reasons for joining Zaporitzka.

It all starts in the capital. To be closer to his subjects, the Tsar, dressed in peasant clothes, strolls through the streets of St. Petersburg. Disaster strikes! The Tsar is captured by a group of conspirators wishing to use his uncanny "resemblance" to the Tsar (himself) for sinister ends. What fate awaits the true Tsar, now a simple peasant, in the hands of his enemies? And most importantly, what do they have in store for him next?
Originally published in France in three volumes, The Adventures of the Mad Tsar is now collected in one 146-page color graphic novel in English by Tarek & Lionel Chouin.

Bombay, 1831. Freshly arrived from London, Alexander Martin reports to his new boss at the Indian Political Service - a government agency whose function is little more than helping the East India Company expand its grasp upon the Indian subcontinent. From the start, the enthusiastic and idealistic young man displeases the British establishment, and is shunned by Bombay's polite society. Until, that is, until several of its members begin disappearing, forcing Alexander to investigate...

The year is 1849, and the future state of California is under the control of former soldiers from the Mexican-American War. Their leader, General Gomez, is busy buying up the locals' land for pennies on the dollar, so that he and his cronies can maximize their profits from the coming gold rush. But he and his men are dogged by a series of masked, would-be avengers all calling themselves Zorro. They are an almost laughable annoyance, simple peasants living out the fantasy of a local legend. Until one man shows up and starts picking off Gomez's men one by one, as stealthy as a fox. He brandishes a sword which he uses to carve the letter Z into his victims' cheeks... Could this be the true Zorro?

New York, 1946. Joshua, a former soldier and recipient of the prestigious Purple Heart, works as an investigator for a legal practice, alongside his old unit commander. Between them, a father-son bond is created, based on respect and duty. In the first volume of the series, Joshua is put in charge of finding out who is blackmailing a real estate magnate, eighty-year-old businessman Roland Husler. His wife - the daughter of an English diplomat, born in Hong Kong - has had a troubled past, and now someone's trying to cash in on it. Josh meets the couple and discovers very quickly that their glamorous exterior hides some dark secrets...
Joshua quit law school to go fight the Nazis in Europe. He was awarded the Purple Heart after he and his buddy were victims of a landmine. No medal on Earth, however, can assuage the trauma of being unable to save your brother-in-arms. Back home in the States, Joshua tries to make up for lost time, with one romantic conquest after another. Working as a private eye in New York, he's been assigned to a blackmail case that leads him to a world of love nests, Nazi thugs, stolen art, and a whole slew of other dirty deeds. The fighting in Europe may be finished, but for those who survived, the war continues to fester at the core of the Big Apple.

Her name's Rebecca, she's six, almost six and a half. Her immune system is a little weak, but she's not going to let it stop her. She's going to prove to the world that she's not a flea. Rebecca went out hunting frogs in the rain and finally caught Ernest, a strange outspoken microbe. The kind of friend that comes in handy when parents get lost in their grown-up fights. A new and original youth album that combines modern graphics with a very sensitive script.

During the depths of the Great Depression, an orphan reinvents himself as Al Chrysler and strives to win the heart of the local grocer's daughter. In doing so, he falls in with a newly arrived petty criminal who soon has him and his friends working for the local mafia. As the stakes get higher, Al soon realizes he's gotten in too deep, and is caught up in a chain of events beyond his control.

After Shangri-La (official selection at the 2017 Angoulême International Comics Festival), here comes Mathieu Bablet's new sci-fi project on the theme of artificial intelligence!
2046
Carbone & Silicium - the latest creations of the Tomorrow Foundation labs - are prototypes of a new generation of robots designed to take care of the aging human population.
Raised in protective cocoons and keen to discover the outside world, they end up getting separated while trying to escape. Each of them then goes on to lead their own life and fight a centuries-long battle to find their place on a planet that's gasping for air, plagued with successive political and human upheavals and climate disasters...

Marilyn Monroe, a name known to every generation! Whether sublime, touching, or pathetic, she personified the fantasies of the secret world of Hollywood. But behind the glittering myth was a woman whose life was anything but charmed. It is this singular life, from her turbulent childhood, via her tumultuous love life and her proximity to the highest spheres of society, to her tragic final days, that the authors have retraced here in vivid detail. Full of humor, the "Stars of History" collection offers a fresh new look at the legends of cinema.

At the end of an arduous journey, refugee 214 finally gets his chance to enter the Other World. But to see his wish granted, the boy must first tell the story of how he and his sister were forced to flee their homeland. Frightened and helpless, they crossed forests, deserts, and seas, encountering creatures each more mysterious and frightening than the last: the capitalist ogre, the smuggler-snake, and the ever-present shadows from the great beyond... The boy's story must be told in every detail - but will the truth save him, or condemn him? This is the odyssey of a brother and sister who are forced to fight for their freedom and survival at every turn, all while trying not to forget about where they've come from, and what they've left behind. A subtle and captivating tale about exile and refugees today.

Germany, April 1957. Uli has a dream: to become a famous Broadway dancer. But as a modern dance student at the prestigious Folkwang school, Uli's energetic and outgoing personality stands out in sharp contrast to the melancholy of post-war Europe. During a trip to Berlin, he meets Anthony, a young American dancer. The attraction is immediate. Anthony convinces Uli to come to New York and try his luck on Broadway. The young men part ways, but Uli will pack his bags and embark on an adventure that will take him to a new life overflowing with life, color, and movement -- but also disappointment, harsh reality, and a good dose of heartbreak.

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.

Jeremy is the n° 1 Dutch-language children's comic series in Belgium, with over 1 million copies sold every year. Jeremy is a young boy who lives in a village called Sunnytown. With his parrot Phil, his best friend Frankie, and his many other friends, he has incredible adventures all over the world. Whereas Frankie can be a bit of a rogue, Jeremy is a real hero. Together, united by their unconditional friendship, they can take on anything that comes their way. Wonderful family fun!