FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE FRANKFURT 2014
FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE
SPRING 2015
1 2 Alix Senator Book 3 – La conjuration des rapaces By Martin, Mangin, Démarez
In 12 BC, Alix is back for a new adventure. He is now the new Roman Senator and wants to go back to Egypt in order to take revenge on Enak’s murderer. He meets his friends and allies but also his oldest enemies… The authors give us a very accurate portrait of the customs and practices of the Ancient Rome civilization.
The 2nd cycle starting in 2015 will have 4 books in total.
Rights sold in German, Spanish, Italian
First cycle Technical specifications: completed • Format: 242 x 323 mm • 48 pages each • Colour • Public retail price: 13,50 €
Alix Book 33 - Britannia By Martin, Jailloux, Breda
Alix, the Roman, is a great traveller. He visits the Antique World from Europe to China, passing by Africa or Mesopotamia. Set in Antique Rome, Alix leads an adventurous life: he unravels plots in a world constantly at war.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 225 x 303 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Hardcover • Public retail price: 10, 95 €
Rights sold in Spanish, German, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish 3 Lefranc Book 25 - Cuba Libre By Martin
Technical specifications:
• Format: 226 x 303 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Hardcover • Public retail price: 9.50 € • Release: August 2014
Lefranc is a journalist and an adventurer. He travels a lot for his work and he is often confronted with strange situations. His passion for truth leads him to investigate and unravel all mysteries. Action and suspense guaranteed.
Rights sold in Spanish, Italian, German, Danish
Les aventures de Lois Book 7 – La prisonniere de l’archange By Martin, Pâques, Drion
Technical specifications:
• Format: 226 x 303 mm • 48 pages • Public retail price: 10,95 € • Release: March 2015
Follow the adventures of Lois, the young painter who works for Louis XIV in Versailles. In this seventh book, Marie-Anne of Bourbon is kidnapped by a group of rebels named the « Archange » in 1684. Lois is in charge of bringing her back safe and sound to her father’s court. 4 Revoir Paris Book 1 By Schuiten & Peeters
In the context of a new exhibition at « La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine » in Paris, Schuiten & Peeters give us an overview of the architectural history of the French capital through the lives of futuristic characters in a science-fiction universe.
Technical specifications:
• 64 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 15 € • Release: November 2014
Book 2 – Release 2016
Rights sold in German, Italian and Spanish
5 La couleur de l’air By Enki Bilal
Series completed
Discover Enki Bilal’s latest work. The main characters in Animal’z and Julia & Roem are still exploring their post- apocalyptic universe in quest of a new El Dorado.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 96 Pages • Colour • Public retail price: 18 € • Release: October 2014
6 Rights sold in Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Danish Magasin Général Book 9 – Notre Dame des Lacs By Loisel & Tripp
Series completed
Quebec, in the 20s. The main Character, Marie, is a young widow who inherited the general store (or Magasin Général in French) from her husband. Since this shop is indispensable to the survival of this secluded community, Marie decides to take care of it on her own. However, it is not easy being a single woman breaking traditions in a small community.
Rights sold in Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Croatian
9 Books in total
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• Format: 226 x 303 mm • Hardback • Colour • 128 pages • Public retail price: 15,50 € • Release: October 2014 7 Universal War II Book 2 – La terre promise By Denis Bajram
Denis Bajram is back after Universal War One, the epic military sci-fi. After the war opposing the core planets and outlying planetary settlements, the Earth was wiped out from the Universe. The few human survivors had to leave for another planet in the solar system. After building an entire new society, a massive wormhole threatens the world and intergalactic soldiers are ready to fight. Universal War Two has started.
Rights sold in English, German and Italian
An outstanding sci-fi storyline.
Book 1 – Le temps du désert 6 books in total
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• Format: 240 x 300mm • 48 pages • Hardback • Colour • Public retail price: 12,95€ • Release: September 2014 8 Le printemps humain Book 1 - Combattants By Hugues Micol
The Earth was invaded by Orts aliens several generations ago. Human beings are to live side by side with them. In this first installment, destiny tears apart three brothers: Jaq chooses to cooperate with the Aliens while Teomas decides to stand up against them. He enlists into an underground organization to fight them. Samuel, the youngest of the 3, does not take side with anyone. But are they all acting as they pretend to?
3 Books in total – 1 Book per year
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 56 pages • Public retail price: 14,50 € • Release: March 2015
9 Eternum Book 1 – Le sarcophage By Jaouen & Bec
In this new sci-fi book, Humans have settlements on other planets. A mysterious light beam is approaching the Earth. On the moon, a group of explorers discovers a sarcophagus and immediately loses contact with the Earth. A team is sent on the moon to see what’s going on and discovers the disaster: they are all dead. They bring the sarcophagus back to the Earth and their attention is focused on the woman inside the sarcophagus. In the meantime, the light beam is getting closer… Is there a link between these two events?
3 Books in total
Technical specifications:
• 48 pages • Public retail price: 13,50 € • Release: May 2015
10 Le reste du monde By Chauzy
Summer holidays are coming to an end. A mother and her two teenage sons spent some days off in their cottage in the mountains. The father is enjoying the company of his 20 year old girlfriend. On the night before going back to town, a huge storm breaks out and an earthquake devastates everything. There are very few survivors after the catastrophe. But as the family walks down the mountains, they will find out the situation is even worse down in the valley.
A great science fiction read that will keep you thinking for days.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 104 pages • Public retail price: 18 € • Release: April 2015
11 Transperceneige – Snowpiercer - The Sequel By Lob, Rochette, Legrand
Adapted into Technical specifications: a movie
• 200 pages • Black & white • Release: October 2015
Over 100 000 copies sold
The occupants aboard the Snowpiercer believed themselves to be the last humans alive, yet they soon learn that they are not alone. They brave the relentless cold and come across an underground train station, connected to an underground base housing a small band of people. The underground people have developed their own social model and values; and it clashes with the train people life standard. Because they are obsessed with genetic decline, they are living in a highly medicalised environment. Their first reaction is to confine the train community. They gradually get to know each other and reunite. Yet the reunion will trigger off a series of questions: Is humankind to live artificially underground or should they explore new ways of living? A unique opportunity to publish in your country this fabulous story by great comic artists, belonging to the great classics of graphic novels.
Rights sold in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Korean
Book 4 to be released in October 2015
Requiem Blanc - New edition 2014 By Lob, Rochette, Legrand
Europe and the United States are no longer superpowers. The United States of Africa are experiencing an unprecedented economic and social development and a new wave of white immigrants. But some white activists don’t accept this new world order; they are working on operation Trident to regain power. Through the hero’s interviews of the different characters, the authors draw, with post-apocalyptic undertones, a dark and gloomy portrait of humanity
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• Format: 242 x 321 mm • 104 pages • Colour 12 • Public retail price: 20 € Moi, René Tardi, prisonnier de guerre au Stalag 2B Book 2 By Tardi
Technical specifications:
• Format: 190 x 277 mm • 140 pages • Black & White • Public retail price: 24 € • Second book out of 3
Based on his father’s personal notes, Tardi gives us an insight into WWII through the eyes of his father who spent most of the war in a camp. Rights sold in Spanish, Italian, Catalan, German, Croatian, Korean, Norwegian
Book 3 – Release in 2016
Burma, MicMac Moche au Boul’Mich By Leo Malet, Tardi
Technical specifications:
• Format: 226 x 303 mm • 88 Pages • Colour • Public retail price: 16 € • Release: March 2015
Burma the harboiled private detective from Paris is back
Paris, December 1956. Nestor Burma receives a call from a young girl, Jacqueline Carrier, asking him to investigate the death of her boyfriend, Paul Leverrier. She does not reckon her fiancé commited suicide as the police says. She is convinced Paul was killed. Burma will interview Paul's relatives and friends to get to know the victim better. His investigation will trigger off an array of murders and incidents. It leads the private investigator to uncover a gang of crooks threatening young students to report their indecent behaviour to their family...A cunning way to get money from them. As for Boulevard des ossements the illustrator Barral will take care of the comic adaptation under the supervision of Tardi
Rights sold in Italian, German, Spanish, English, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, English 13
Le cri du peuple by Tardi & Vautrin Chansons contre la guerre by Tardi, Verney, Dominique Grange Le der des ders by Tardi
Technical specifications: A crime novel set in Paris in 1871, in the context of the Paris • Format: 202 x 150 mm Commune. • 80 pages • Black & white • Public retail price: 19 € • Release: August 2014
Adapted from the novel by Jean Vautrin Rights sold in Italian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil)
Technical specifications: Adapted from the novel by • Format: 226 x 303 mm Didier Daeninckx • 80 pages • Black & white Rights sold in German • Public retail price: 14,50 €
A rollicking noir set in Paris, during the anarchic days following World War One
In January 1920, in the aftermath of “the war to end all wars,” private detective René Griffon is hired to investigate the marital infidelities of the wife of a war hero. But what he uncovers is more than shabby behavior, and more than a sex scandal—what he uncovers is a scandal with devastating national implications. And as Griffon’s investigation plunges him into the murky world of blackmail, murder, anarchists, profiteering, and the repercussions of the war’s dark secrets, he discovers that the people who helped France win the war are being made to pay for the peace. Both homage to its American predecessors and critique of the Americanization of French—and global— culture, A Very Profitable War is a tense and evocative book that will linger long after its startling conclusion. “The most controversial of contemporary French crime novelists.” —The Independent
This reedition of Des lendemains Technical specifications: qui saignent , with a CD containing 10 songs in memory • Format: 245 x 304 mm of WWI. • 328 pages • Black & white • Public retail price: 55 € 14 Le sentier des reines By Anthony Pastor
In a secluded village in the mountains, the bells toll. They toll for the deceased, for all the men who gave their life away for their homeland. While the inhabitants are getting ready for the funeral, a group of people is leaving the village. Blanca, an aged woman together with Pauline, her daughter in law and Florentin, an orphan, packed their few belongings. What they don’t know is that a precious gold watch is hidden in their bag. They don’t know either that a former soldier who fought with their husband during the war is tracking them down. Will he manage to get hold of the jewel and pocket the money? Or will Blanca and her companions succeed in bringing it back to its owner’s widow? A thrilling pursuit begins.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 128 pages • Hardback • Public retail price: 20 € • Release: August 2015 • Self-contained story 15
Sauvage Book 2 - Le Spectre de Chapultepec By Yann and Meynet
Series completed
Technical specifications:
• 48 pages each • Colour • Public retail price:13,50 € • Release: May 2015
Sauvage is a French soldier fighting in Mexico during the invasion of the country by the French army during the second Empire. This invasion triggers off raging war between Juarist rebels and soldiers on Maximilians’ side.
The story describes how Sauvage works his way up in the army and the reason why he is really fighting for the Imperial army.
An exciting tale of adventure, revenge and intrigue.
2 Books in total
Rights sold in German and Spanish
16 Le sang des lâches Book 2 – Le boucher By Jean-Yves Delitte
Complete first cycle
By the author of Tanâtos (Glénat) Rights sold in Spanish
April 1641. Sir Oliver Edgar Mc Connan wants to earn money in trade in Java, Indonesia. But soon he gets in trouble with the natives and he is brutally murdered, probably in a ritual murder. In 1673, his old notebook is found and the court decides to send back an expedition to discover the truth on Mc Connan’s death. Major Oliver J. Cromwell leads the investigation. The reader dives into a thrilling investigation with historical backgrounds and very realistic graphics.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 242 x 321 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 13,50 € • Book 2 – May 2015 17 Médée Book 2 – Le couteau dans la plaie By Blandine Le Callet & Nancy Peña
The adventures of Medea continue in this second volume. She continues to maintain the mystery around her person. More enigmatic than ever, the secret of Medea is very difficult to unveil. However this story gives the reader the opportunity to follow her wanderings. The reader witnesses her acts of bravery as well as her crimes of passion. It is up to you to decide whether this antique heroine is a genuinely cruel character.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 225 x 304 mm • 64 pages • Public retail price: 15 € • Release: January 2015
5 books in total 18 Holly Ann Book 1- La chèvre sans cornes By Servain and Toussaint
New Orleans, 1898. Holly Ann is a young woman who has a passion for investigations. She has a thorough knowledge for voodoo witchcraft. She investigates the disappearance of a young boy. When his corpse is found, the evidence seems to point at voodoo rituals.
A dark story filled with mystery
Rights sold in German
3 books in total
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• Format: 242 x 322 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 13,50 € • Release: January 2015 19 Perles et Pirates By Zaoui and Clotka
A typical tale of pirates with one specificity: the pirates on this ship are all women. The famous pirate Grand Mc Kinley has been locked up by the King, and his daughters have decided to take revenge. Only one rule applies: no men aboard!
An entertaining adventure filled with humor.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 190 x 277 mm • 128 pages • Public retail price: 19,95 € • Teenagers • Self-contained story • Release: April 2015
20 Les 5 de Cambridge By Olivier Neuray and Valérie Lemaire
Technical specifications:
• 48 pages • Colour • Release: May 2015 • By the author of « Les cosaques d’Hitler »
This fascinating account gives us an insight into the early life of some young students who were to work as double agents for the British Intelligence and the Soviet Union. They would later be known as The Cambridge Spies.
3 Books in total – 1 Book per year
Les cosaques d’Hitler Book 2 – Kolia By Oliver Neuray and Valérie Lemaire
Series completed
Technical specifications:
• Format: 226 x 303 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Hardcover • Public retail price: 13.50 € • Release: May 2014
This two-volume story mixes true historical facts and fictional events. Nicolas and Edward, two young British officers, are mobilized to their new unit in Austria during WWII to monitor German war prisoners. When they arrive, the two soldiers finally realize that the prisoners aren’t German. The camp is full of Cossacks who were arrested for collaborating with the Nazi regime. During his stay, Nicolas meets Macha, the future love of his life and mother of his child. In a series of flashbacks between the 1940’s and the 1970’s, the author describes the lives of the main characters and how they are brought together and torn apart during this tragic piece of history. 21 NSA – Book 1 By Bleda and Gloris
Apollo is a genius who works for the American National Security Agency. He is the « oracle »; he can predict the future and thus prevent disasters to his nation. But he has Asperger’s syndrome so he is emotionally extremely sensitive. At the sudden death of his mother he is devastated. He quits his job and moves in with his sister Oz but they have absolutely nothing in common. The NSA will do anything to bring the oracle man back.
2 Books in total
Technical specifications:
• Format: 191 x 278 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 13,50 € • Release: January 2015
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Comment faire fortune en juin 40 By Fabien Nury, Xavier Dorison and Laurent Astier
Paris, June 1940. The Germans are approaching the French capital. As a precaution, the Bank of France has decided to transfer all gold reserves in order to avoid looting. However, they have forgotten 2 tons of gold, that must be transferred as soon as possible. They select a team of three conveyors to do the job. In this context of chaos and restriction, will the conveyers resist the temptation and bring the gold to destination?
Technical specifications:
• 120 pages • Self-contained story • Release: 2015
23 Un homme de joie Book 1 By François & Hautière
Sacha, a Ukrainian refugee, arrives in New York after fleeing war and misery in his country. He lives with his cousin’s family and finds a part-time job, untill he meets a mysterious woman.
The fascinating story of a European emigrant to New York in the 20th century.
By the author of De Briques et de Sang
Technical specifications:
• Format: 190 x 277 mm • 56 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 13,95 € • Release: March 2015
Book 2 – Release first semester 2016 24 Bouche d’ombre – Book 2 By Maud Begon Inspired by the novel by Carole Martinez
In this voodoo thriller made of a series of flashbacks between the Middle-Ages and the 1980s, Marie-Rose commits suicide after a spiritism session that goes wrong. Her friend Lou is devastated because she is haunted by Marie-Rose in her nightmares. She will do everything she can to discover what the spirits did to Marie-Rose and why she is still around.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 80 pages • Public retail price: 16,50 € • Release: April 2015 • Second book out of 4
Perkeros Book 2 By Ahonen & Alare
Axel is a member of a heavy metal band called Perkeros. Most critics make fun of their music. Axel’s relatives think he should drop the band and go back to university… But Axel is passionate about music and he will do everything he can to become a superstar. Music has magical and sometimes dangerous powers that get increasingly strong throughout the story.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 215 x 304 mm • 184 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 17 € • Release: End 2015
25 Rights sold in Finnish, English, German, Spanish , Italian
Vor Book 2 – Une place qu soleil By Pierrat and Burmeister
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• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 72 pages • Colour • Hardback • Public retail price: 15,00 € • Release: April 2015
Tariel, a member of the Georgian mafia, is released after 8 years in prison. He has one thing on his mind: to be crowned Vor, an honorific title in the criminal network. A Vor is a thief in law, a former convict that enjoys some authority amongst the organization. A turf war has erupted between Armenians, Chechnyans, Georgians and Russians and it is about time for Tariel to start cleaning up…It is an opportunity for him to become a Vor. Le tueur Book 13 – Lignes de Fuite By Jacamon & Matz
Technical specifications: The killer is a solitary and cold-hearted character, methodical and • Format: 224 x 330 mm unencumbered by guilt. This man is on the lookout for his next target but • 56 pages the longer he stays there, the more he feels he is going crazy. A brutal, • Colour bloody and stylish noir story of a professional murderer lost in the world • Public retail price: 11,50 € without a moral compass. • Release: September 2014 26 Rights sold in Finnish, Portuguese, German, Croatian, Spanish, Turkish, English Kraa Book 3 – La colère blanche de l’orage By Benoît Sokal
Series completed
Sokal closes this three-volume story with a brilliant scenario. In Siberia, Yuma, a young native living in the forest, is torn apart. On the one hand there is Kraa, his eagle who needs Yuma to stop humans from destroying their natural habitat by exploiting their natural resources. On the other hand, Emily, his love, would like to bring him back to reality so they can live in peace. The final duel is approaching…
Rights sold in German and Spanish
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• Format: 214 x 288 mm • 72 pages • Colour • Hardback • Release: May 2014 27 Airborne Book 5 – S’il faut survivre By Philippe Jarbinet
Book 1 – Là où tombent les hommes Book 2 – Demain sera sans nous Book 3 – Omaha Beach Book 4 – Destins croisés Book 5 – S’il faut survivre Book 6 – October 2015
Rights sold in Italian , German, Spanish
Over 120.000 copies sold for the series
In the middle of a vast nazi counter-attack, troops are sent to the Ardennes to support the allies. Tessa, a young American pilot enrolled in the Air Transport Auxiliary Unit, has to do a forced landing near Bastogne, just behind the German lines where the fighting is raging. The only way to save her is to send elite paratroopers Sebastien Leder and Tom de Witt on a rescue mission.
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• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 56 pages each • Colour • Hardback • Public retail price: 17,95 € • Release: May 2014 28 Les poilus d’Alaska Book 2 - Melun By Delbosco, Duhand, Brune
World War One – French soldiers are stuck on the front lines because of the snow and all communication lines are cut off. They suggest using sled dog teams for the supply of ammunition, food, wood and for transport. A team is sent all the way to Alaska to find over 400 sled dogs and bring them back to France. The true and unknown story of the French « Chasseurs Alpins » Unit who fought the Germans in the Vosges Mountains until the end of the War.
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• Format: 242 x 321 mm Rights sold in Spanish • 56 pages • Public retail price: 13,50 € Book 3 – Release 2016 • Release: March 2015 Book 4 – Release 2017 Book 5 – Release 2018
La guerre des lulus
Book 3 By Régis Hautière & Hardoc
Lucas, Lucien, Luigi and Ludwig are orphans. They live in an abbey in Northern France when WWI breaks out. The four boys are left alone with no adult survivors on the battlefront. Will these stranded boys cooperate to survive?
Third book out of 5
Technical specifications
• Format: 226 x 303 mm • 56 pages • Hardcover • Public retail price: € 13.50 29 • Release: May 2015 Whaligoë By Yann and Virginie Augustin
Series Technical specifications: completed
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 13,50 € • Release: January 2014
Lord Dogson and Speranza are stuck in Whaligoë. They are both investigating on the identity of Ellis Bell, the famous hidden writer who is said to be living there. Branwell, a vain so-called writer, claims to be the genuine Ellis Bell but Lord Dogson and Speranza are quite sceptical. The sword duel between Lord Dogson and Branwell might bring the truth to light…
Rights sold in German and Spanish
Virginia Book 3 – Providence By Séverine Gauthier and Benoît Blary
During the American civil war a confederate sniper misses an Unionist general and shoots a little girl by mistake. The sniper will not overcome this tragic mistake. He will become an alcoholic and drug addict. As a result he will lose grip on reality and be forced to work for the Maroons.
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• Format: 241 x 322 mm • 56 pages Series • Colour completed • Public retail price: 14,95 € • Release: June 2015 30 La princesse des glaces (The Ice Princess) By Léonie Bishoff and Olivier Bocquet The psychological thriller of N°1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg
.Book 2 - The Preacher (Le prédicateur)
Camilla Lackberg returns to the Swedish fishing community of Fjallbacka, where life is remote, peaceful-- and for some, tragically short. Police detective Patrik Hedstrom and his girlfriend, writer Erica Falck, are anticipating the arrival of their first child when grim news comes: a boy playing on a perilous outcropping has stumbled across a woman's bloody corpse, a discovery that leads investigators to uncover two skeletons buried beneath her--campers who disappeared decades ago. Superintendent Mellberg gives Patrik the gruesome case, and topping his list of suspects is a local family of criminals and religious fanatics--what dark secrets are they hiding? But no one expects the next blow, when a young girl goes missing. . . .
Coming up soon - The Stonecutter – 2015
Rights sold in Spanish and Italian
Technical specifications:
• Format: 188 x 268 mm • 128 pages • Colour • Hardback 31 • Public retail price: 18 € • Release: April 2015
Every night at 11 pm Based on the novel by Malika Ferdjoukh Illustrated by Camille Benyamina, Eddy Simon
The passionate life of a girl in love. Willa is 17 and she lives between her divorced parents. Her mother’s job consists in recruiting beauty pageant candidates and her father collects 20 year old girlfriends. She spends half her time with her saxophone and the other half hanging with her best friend Fran who lives in a luxury mansion. During a birthday party organised by her friend, she gets acquainted with a boy who invites her to play sax with his little sister who is blind. She gradually discovers a weird family full of Technical specifications secrets and she will understand the reason why she is pursued by strange shadows wanting to kill her. • Format: 228 x 303 mm A cheeky character with a lot of humour. • 88 pages • Public retail price : 18 Euros • Fiction : 12 + • Release date : April 2015 • Self-contained story
Violette Nozière By Camille Benyamina & Eddy Simon
Rights sold in Spanish, German
Technical specifications:
• Format: 228 x 303 mm • 96 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 20 € • Release: January 2014
Violette Nozière is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents. Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings. One night, she tricks them into taking "medicine" that is actually poison, killing her father; her mother, however, survives, and Violette is arrested and charged with murder and she defends herself by alleging that her father had molested her. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die by guillotine, but her sentence was commuted by degrees to the point that she ultimately left prison, married, and had five children. A true-life detective tale set amid the lives of the under-privileged in Paris in the 1930s. 32 Le Petit-fils d’Algérie By Joël Alessandra
Joël Alessandra is of Italian ascent. His family moved from Italy to Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century. He takes the opportunity to visit Algeria to investigate on his family’s past.
A moving personal account
Technical specifications:
• Graphic novel • Format: 214 x 288 mm • 120 pages • Public retail price: 19 € • Release: April 2015
Errance en mer rouge By Joël Alessandra
Technical specifications
• Format: 240 x 322 mm • 120 pages • Colour • Hardcover • Public retail price: 22.50 € • Release: March 2014 • By the author of Le périple de Baldassare
At his wife’s death, Tom, a forty year-old art teacher, decides to move to Djibouti. In this new peaceful setting, he meets Fred, a crazy adventurer who shares his passion for famous writers like Henry de Monfreid. A new friendship arises and Tom is finally feeling better. One day, Tom follows Fred on one of his adventures at sea, and discovers he isn’t there for sightseeing. In his spare time, Fred is involved in some kind of trafficking… An enthralling graphic novel based on modern piracy on the Red Sea. 33
Une Saison en Egypte By Claire Fauvel
Claire Fauvel evokes the atmosphere and intrepid excitement that would surround the Orient for Westerners in the 19th century. Sacha is a Russian man in his thirties. He leads a dull life: he is single, he has no social life and he works as a civil servant without any aspiration. On top of all his health is poor: He suffers from TB. His doctor invites him to spend some time in a warm country to get better. On an impulse Sacha decides to set off for Egypt. When sailing across the Mediterranean sea, Sacha is eager to get to Cairo: the country is seen through his eyes as an exotic backdrop to live adventures. He meets on board a young French couple, Alexandre and Catherine. Alexandre is a young painter , hoping to find inspiration in oriental landscapes with vibrant colors and hues. Even though they have no common interest they start touring the country together. One day they are invited to a private performance. Both Sacha and Alexandre are fatally attracted to Asma, a beautiful belly dancer. They decide to track her down in the desert … Thrilling and romantic with beautiful illustrations.
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• Format: 214 x 288 mm • 176 pages • Colour • Hardcover • Public retail price: 20 € 34 • Release: March 2015 A la dérive By Xavier Coste
Paris, 1910. An American couple decides to leave the US. Eddie plays poker and because of that he is heavy in debt. Moving to Paris means the start of a new life for them. Unfortunately, the couple ends up with money problems again. Agatha has to resort to prostitution. An idea dawns on Eddie to solve all their problems: breaking into the American Express Bank. Will they succeed in this elaborate attempt at larceny? Will their marriage survive this ultimate crisis?
Rights sold in German
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• Format: 314 x 240 mm • 72 pages • Colour • Release: January 2015 • Author of Egon Schiele and Rimbaud l’indésirable 35 Le piano oriental By Zeina Abirached
About the author: Zeira Abirached has won numerous awards including being named an ALA Notable Children’s book and a Yalser Great Graphic Novel for Teens for A Game For Swallows. This latter was also nominated at the Angoulême 2008 selection.
In the oriental piano Zeira Abirached writes and draws about one particular member of her family: her uncle. He worked as a civil servant or at least he pretended to as he spent all his working time on inventing a very special piano. Abirached captures Lebanon in peace in the 60s, before the civil war torn apart the country for two decades. A touching tale, surprisingly poetic.
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• Graphic novel • 200 pages • Black and white • Public retail price: 16 € • Release: August 2015 36 Je ne suis pas un best-seller By Corinne Maier & Aurélia Aurita
Imagine you’re an executive in a big company. Now, imagine you get a little bored and you decide to write a book about how easy it is to stand idly by and do nothing while being at the office. That’s Corinne Maier story, but it could be yours. Like her, you could suddenly find yourself in the middle of huge media hype, talking on the national radio and TV shows. Still, you would end up broke anyway. Hilarious? Read and see.
Technical specifications:
• Graphic novel • Format: 186 x 262 mm • 112 pages • Black & white, red • Public retail price: 17 € • Release: September 2015
37 Le Muret By Fraipont & Bailly
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• Format: 170 x 240 mm • 190 pages • Black and white • Public retail price: 16 € • Release: January 2014 • Self-contained story
Rights sold in Italian, Portuguese (Brazil) and German
An original graphic novel chronicling the daily life of a young girl in her teens disoriented by her parents divorce. Le muret gives us an insight into the world of Rosie who navigates by herself after her parents split up. Her mother left to join her lover in Dubai while her father is constantly travelling around the world for business reasons. In the meantime Rosie is groping for her way. She starts drinking a glass of alcohol in the morning to erase the anxiety to meet people. A glass at night to overcome her fears to be alone in the house. She gradually becomes an alcoholic. She starts skipping school and meeting dropouts. A heartfelt portrayal a young teenage girl gropping her way into adulthood prematurely.
L’effet Durian By Saulne
Technical specifications:
• Format: 272 x 190 mm • 108 pages • Public retail price: 22 € • Release: May 2014 • By the author of Ca ne coûte rien • Self-contained story
Sophie and Jade, two Chinese twins, live with their single mother. Jade is visually impaired and her mother is totally overwhelmed by her daughter’s handicap. Philippe, a friend of the family, takes part in their education and becomes like a father to them. Jade would do anything to see the world around her but she isn’t aware of how dangerous it can be sometimes so her sister Sophie is always around to stop her when necessary. They fight for the protection of the envirnoment but after 20 years of environmental activism they become eco- terrorists A great story of sisterhood, solidarity and complementarity by the author of Ca ne coûte rien. 38
Le monde du dessous By Didier Tronchet
The story of a silver mine exploitation in Peru, with fantastic notes throughout the story.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 64 pages • Release: May 2015
Le fils du yeti By Didier Tronchet
Technical specifications:
• Format: 170 x 240 mm • 200 pages • Black & white • Public retail price: 16 € • Release: March 2014 • By the author of Jean- Claude Tergal. • Self-contained story
Due to a strange set of circumstances the hero is about to face brutal changes in his life. It all starts with a fire in his apartment that makes him go through his old stuff and especially his photo albums. Through a series of flashbacks and memories he tries to know more about his father. But he’s also trying to discover more about himself and what he really wants. The story of an endearing character with a great sense of humour. 39
Comment naissent les araignées By Marion
Marion tells us the four destinies of a set of four characters. The young Alice is desperately looking for the love of her life. Isadora is an alcoholic. Billie is an Afro-American who is in love with a white guy and Dwight is an artist. They are completely lost and trying to give meaning to their existence. They have nothing in common but they will get across each other.
Technical specifications:
• Graphic novel • Format: 190 x 277 mm • 108 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 18,95 € • Self-contained story • Release: March 2015
Carnation By Xavier Mussat
Xavier Mussat depicts his life in Angouleme in the 80’s. In this fictionalized autobiography, he goes through different aspects of his life with great sense of humour and irony: his beginnings in the comic industry, his conflicts with his relatives and overall his impossible love for Sophie.
Rights sold in Korean
Technical specifications:
• Format: 203 x 268 mm • 256 pages • Public retail price: 25 € • Release: May 2014 40 • Self-contained story
Billie Holiday - New edition 2015 By Munoz & Sampayo
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 80 pages • Black & white • Public retail price: 20 € • Release: March 2015 • Self-contained story
Rights sold in Italian and Serbian
On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth, Munoz and Sampayo tell the story of the legendary American jazz singer in the context of racism and the emergence of a blues culture in the US.
Niki – Le jardin des secrets By Dominique Osuch & Sandrine Martin
A biography of Nikki de Saint-Phalle (1930 – 2002), sculptor, painter and film maker. She was famous for her « shooting paintings » in the 1960’s and her « Nanas », illustrations of women’s status in society at the time. A very peculiar personality that caused fascination and contoversy during all her life.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 201 x 263 mm • 200 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 20 € • Release: October 2014 • Self-contained story 41 Modigliani – Prince de la bohême By Laurent Seksik & Fabrice Le Hénanff
In this title, the author Laurent Seksik portrays the life of Amedeo Modigliani. A great scenario with very realistic graphics, in the footsteps of Seksik’s previous success Les Derniers Jours de Stefan Zweig.
Rights sold in English and in Spanish
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 72 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 16 € • Release: October 2014 • Self-contained story
42 Nungesser By Fred Bernard & Aseyn
Charles Nungesser (1892 – 1927) Was a French ace pilot . This famous adventurer, who fought in WW1, disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean during his first flight attempt between Paris and New York in The White Bird. The truth about his death still hasn’t been discovered, it is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of aviation.
Technical specifications:
• Large format • 150 pages • Black & white • Public retail price: 23 € • Release: May 2015 • Self-contained story 43 Femmes en résistance Book 3 – Bertie Albrecht By Hautière, Laboutique, Polack, Wachs
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 320 mm • 56 pages • Public retail price: 13,95 € • Release: February 2015 • 4 books in total
This four-volume story illustrates the lives of 5 women during World War II, 4 of which really existed: Amy Johnson, Sophie Scholl, Bertie Albrecht and Mila Racine. These five stories can be read separately, and they give us an unusual insight into this period of history through the lives of four women who played a central role in the events that took place during World War II but were wiped out from history.
Book 1 – Amy Johnson – The British pilot during WWII Book 2 – Sophie Scholl – The German activist against the Nazi occupation Book 4 – Mila Racine – To be released in 2015
44 Last Man 1st cycle By Vivès, Balak & Sanlaville completed
"Last Man is irresistible. With a loose boldness and flair for fantasy, this series is a winner." Paul Pope, creator of Battling Boy
7 books available Second cycle: 2015-2017 (2 books per year) Lastman is a science fiction graphic novel based on video games codes like Streefighter. Bastien Vivès will also deal with topics like gender relationship and the hardship to be an adult.
The main character is Adrian, a young teen quite shy living by himself with his mother. He is to join a wrestling competition. Unfortunately his team mate fails to come and Adrian is about to drop out from the competition until he comes accross Lastman who agrees to be his team mate.
Bastien Vivès is a graphic novelist and illustrator. He is the author of several highly-acclaimed graphic novels, including The Butcher and Hollywood in January. Chlorine won the 'Essential Revelation' prize at the Angouleme Festival in 2009. He lives in Paris.
Rights sold in German, Spanish, Italian, English, Korean.
Animated TV series in production (September 2016) Video game in development (October 2015)
Angoulême 2015 Best series Awards
Technical specifications:
• Format: 152 x 211 mm • 200 pages 45 • Public retail price: 9,95 €
La main heureuse By Frantz Duchazeau
Frantz and Mike, two French teenagers, are terribly bored in their small town. Frantz draws comic books but he and his friend have in common a passion for the rock band Mano Negra. When they get to know they will be in concert nearby, they decide to jump on Mike’s moped and start their first voodoo road trip. After facing a series of drawbacks on their way, will they finally get to see their favourite band in concert?
Technical specifications:
• Format: 240 x 290 mm • 104 pages • Black & white • Public retail price: 17 € • Release: April 2015 • Self-contained story
Ligne B By Julien Revenu
France, 2005. In the context of social conflicts and riots , the state of emergency is declared in the country. Laurent lives with his family and he’s constantly humiliated: by his boss, his wife and he even gets bullied on the train like when he was a child. But he has decided to change his life…
Technical specifications:
• Format: 191 x 279 mm • 128 pages • Hardback • Public retail price: 17 € • Release: April 2015 • Self-contained story
46 Les experts (en tout) By Anouk Ricard
Technical specifications: • Format: 195 x 195 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 16 € • Release: January 2015 • Self-contained story
In a series of short stories of 9 pages, Pipo and Cano give us pieces of advice on how to be successful: How to get a proper sense of humour, how to behave in society, how to become a sucessful painter…
La renarde By Anouk Ricard
A series of short stories (1 or 2 pages) full of cynism and humour, in line with « les experts » by Anouk Richard.
Technical specifications:
• Format: A4 • Italian format • 56 pages • Release: May 2015 • Self-contained story
Super Rainbow By Lisa Mandel
Two girls become heroes with superpowers when they make love. Small episodes of 4-6 pages.
Technical specifications: • 48 pages • Colour • Release: second semester 2015 47 • Self-contained story Le Teckel Book 2 – October 2015 By Hevé Bourhis
Guy Farkas, alias Le Teckel, is an old-timer working for Duprat medical laboratories who has to team - up with Jeremy, a young unexperimented newcomer. They are trying to sell their new « Marshall 2 » controversial drug but Guy notices that his associate is a little too curious about his methods and his past. He might not be as well-minded and innocent as he pretends to be.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 224 x 290 mm • 80 pages • Colour • Release: September 2014
Rights sold in Spanish
Iba By Pierre Maurel
Elise is heartbroken, she can’t get over her ex-boyfriend. She spends a lot of time alone and has visions: she is being followed by Iba, a young woman coming straight out of a horror movie. The creature has been there since Elise’s childhood but she is becoming agressive towards Elise and her friends. Does Iba really exist or is she simply a product of Elise’s imagination? Iba, a creepy ghost story worthy of a horror movie.
Technical specifications: • Format: 170 x 240 mm • 136 pages • Black & white • Self-contained story 48 Le sourire de Rose By Sacha Goerg
Technical specifications: • Format: 214 x 290 mm • 104 pages • Colour • Release: May 2014 • Self-contained story
Desmond is a loser, his wife has left him for another man and he is struggling to regain custody of his son Theo. One day he meets Rose, a very attractive and mysterious young woman. He ends up fighting against two henchmen because Rose, who is a kleptomaniak, has stolen a precious object from them. Desmond and Theo are stuck in the middle of a settling of accounts between Rose and her bullies. Will they come out of this situation unscathed? An intruguing detective story, full of twists and turns.
Les pénates By Alexandre Franc & Vincent Sorel
Pierre, a history teacher, is completely obsessed with the Roman Empire. He tells his daughter Berenice about the Penates, the household gods of the Romans. Berenice believes that her toys are her personal Penates and she worships them every day. But the Penates are tired of being protective and they are preparing a revolution…
Technical specifications:
• Format: 224 x 290 mm • 96 pages • Colour • Release: September 2014 49 • Self-contained story La chute d’un ange By Daeninckx & Mako
1948 near Paris. The corpse of a 12 year-old runaway orphan is discovered by the police. It seems to be an accident at first sight but the boy has suspicious marks all over his body… A few days later, Philippe Crélard, an influent businessman, is murdered in his appartment in Paris. Commissaire Pasquet and his team start the investigation and apparently the victim has an obscure past…
Technical specifications:
• Format: 225 x 304 mm • 80 pages • Public retail price: 15 € • Release: August 2014 • Self-contained story
Burn Out By Ozanam and Mikkel Sommer
Ethan Karoshi is a good cop who leads an ordinary life. One day he is called on a crime scene where a young woman has been brutally murdered. He knows the victim and during the investigation he realizes that the evidence is against him, he has become the perfect suspect. He searches his memories to find out who is trying to destroy his life.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 191 x 278 mm • 104 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 18 € • Release: April 2014 • By the author of Le Roi Banal 50 Rights sold in German • Self-contained story The perfect woman is a bitch
By Margaux Motin, Anne-Sophie Girard & Marie-Aldine Girard
Based on the French Best seller most politically incorrect
Translated in German, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Spanish, Bulgarian, Korean, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese
The complete guide to :
Recognize and neutralize the perfect woman Choose the right picture for your Facebook profile Figure out if the guy you fancy is gay Find out if a guy is too young for you How to impress a man
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• 104 pages • Public retail price: 16 € • Self-contained story 51 Emilie voit quelqu’un By Anne Rouquette & Théa Rojzman
Emilie is a thirty-year-old school teacher who looks like Mary Poppins. She is leading a dull life: her boyfriend is a TV addict, her parents are a bit nosy and her sister acts despicably. The least you could say is that she does not fully enjoy herself. But Emilie is firmly decided to get things going. How? With the help of a therapist (who could not really be called nice and friendly). Her methods sure seem a little strange if you’re not familiar with Freud, but they do work. A book full of humor, sensitivity and slips of the tongue, that brings back a smile to both Emilie and the reader.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 250 x 188 mm • 104 pages • Public retail price: 16 € • Self-contained story • Release: May 2015 52
Fastefoode By Pluttark & Bernstein
Set in a Fast Food restaurant full of dirty employees and filthy tables, “fastefood” won’t let you starve for junk food anymore. With this album, the authors – Jorge Berstein and Pluttark – manage to make fun of the junk food we eat. Freakishly funny.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 206 x 266 mm • 48 pages • Public retail price: 12 € • Self-contained story • Release: June 2015
53 Rose profond By Pirus & Dionnet
Technical specifications:
• Format: 259 x 334 mm • 96 pages • Hardback • Public retail price: 25 € • Release: April 2015
Malcolm is a cartoon character who looks like Mickey Mouse. But he does not share his ethics and good manners. He has a problem with alcohol and he can be violent. The fun is based on a host of famous cartoon characters depicted in a sarcastic undertone.
Pascal Brutal Book 4 – Le roi des hommes By Riad Sattouf
Follow the adventures of the most virile of all French heroes who has chosen to live freely: this man is no other than Pascal Brutal. With an amusing character and a strong sense of irony, Riad Sattouf makes fun of just about everything you can imagine.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 300 x 224 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 10,80 € • Release: September 2014
Rights sold in Italian and Spanish
Book 1 - Pascal Brutal, la nouvelle virilité Book 2 - Pascal Brutal, le mâle dominant Book 3 - Pascal Brutal cube, plus fort que les plus forts 54 Alexandrine Books 1 & 2 By Priou and Schmitt
In a series of short stories (4-5 pages), follow the adventures of Alexandrine, a girl who only speaks in rhymes. She doesn’t get along with her school mates and prefers to stay with her two peculiar friends: Stokk and Mastokk, who also speak in rhymes.
Technical specifications:
• Format: 226 x 303 mm • 32 pages • Hardback • Public retail price: 9,90 €: • Release: March 2015 • 2 Books in total
Book 2 – September 2015 55 Angélique, the marquise of the angels By Dara, Mihaud
Based on the novels by Anne & Serge Golon, turned into movies starring Michèle Mercier
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• Format: 150 x 211 mm • 184 pages • Black & White • Public retail price: 11 € • Release: April 2015
The series Angélique is historical fiction at its best. The authors succeed in transporting the reader to seventeenth century France by vividly describing the backdrop of our heroine's life from a poverty stricken childhood in Monteloup to triumph at Versailles. Through our heroine, we are introduced to the institutions, intrigue, challenges and joys of the times, including the fabulous court of the Sun King and its many characters.
Book 2 – To be released June 2015
The Sun-King’s Little Angels By Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc & Mayalen Goust
Technical specifications:
• Format: 212 x 307 mm • 68 pages • Colour
Focus on the daily lives of Isabeau, Hortense, Charlotte and Louise, who enter the Royal household of Mrs Maintenon and dream of becoming a member of the Royal court.
Based on the novels by Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc
Book 1 – Les comédiennes de Monsieur Racine
Book 2 – Le secret de Louise 56 Book 3 – Charlotte la Rebelle
Louisette the mole New Omnibus edition 2015 – Book 1 By Bruno Heitz
Louisette the mole lives underground with her friends: three mice and a racoon, a rabbit and a frog. She is wise but a bit short-sighted and has many crazy adventures.
Rights sold in Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), English (Worlwide), Chinese
Technical specifications (single titles): Technical specifications (omnibus edition):
• 12 titles available • Omnibus edition Book 1 containing: Mouton • Format: 180 x 240 mm Circus - Et un raton laveur! – L’Heure du Grimm • 40 pages • Format: 204 x 273 mm • Colour • 104 pages • Public retail price: 8,50 € • Colour • Public retail price: 18,50 € • Release: June 2015
Martine’s Universe – Martine comics By Delahaye & Marlier
Martine’s adventures are a mix of everyday life experiences and every child’s dream. Martine lives surrounded by children: she goes to school, she goes on holidays, she goes for walks, she has wonderful and exciting adventures… and always proves to be wise. In Martine’s universe, relationships between adults and children are based on respect and solidarity. 60 picture books since 1954
Technical specifications: New comic series: • Format: 204 x 252 mm • 22 pages Book 3 – Release August 2015 57 • Public retail price: 5,45 €
La Mythologie en BD – Les aventures d’Ulysse Book 2 – Le retour à Ithaque By Béatrice Bottet and Emilie Harel
Book 1 – Le départ de Troie Book 2 – Le retour à Ithaque Book 3 – La Guerre de Troie – Release September 2015 Book 4 – Les travaux d’Hercule Book 5 – Jason et la toison d’or Book 6 – Isis et Osiris
Béatrice Bottet, expert in Greek mythology, explains the adventures of Ulysses in a series of Technical specifications: books, especially dedicated to young readers.
• Format: 204 x 273 mm • 48 pages • Colour • Public retail price: 12,50 € • Release: January 2015
Odyssée Book 1 – La malédiction des pierres noires By Seiter, Gilbert, Honaker
Follow the adventures of Ulysses from the fall of Troy to his return to the island of Ithaca. Focus on his wife Penelope and his son Telemaque, victims of Cassandra’s predictions…
Technical specifications:
• Format: 310 x 220 mm • Colour • Release: October 2014
Book 2 – Release 2015 58 Obscurcia Book 1 By Boriau & Stedho
A young boy’s cat is run over by a car and the boy is haunted by his spirit. This allows the boy to enter Obscurcia, the imaginary world of dreams and nightmares where his mother is stuck in coma. The boy will have to use his powers to fight monsters and creatures on a quest to save his mother.
3 books in total
Technical specifications:
• Format: 150 x 210 mm • 216 pages • Black and white • Public retail price: 10,50 € • Release: June 2015 59 Les Chevaliers d’Emeraude Book 5 By Robillard & Oger
Book 1 – Les enfants magiques Book 2 – L’épreuve du magicien Book 3 – L’Imposteur Book 4 – Le garçon foudre
Technical specifications:
• Format: 192 x 278 mm • 48 pages A graphic novel that explains how the Emerald knights order • Colour was created. • Hardcover Rights sold in Russian • Public retail price: 12.95 € • Release: September 2015 Buggels Noz Book 1 – Le bois des maîtres Book 2 – La Guerre des Noz By Michaud & Simon
A trilogy set in a magical Celtic universe. In Broceliande forest in the fantastic world of Armorique, Kiriel and Kwill are sent on a mission on the other side of the Channel to make sure the Diddles aren’t preparing an invasion. A fantastic trilogy with a great sense of humour.
Technical specifications:
• Format 224 x 302 mm • Pages • Colour • Public retail price: 11,50 € 60 • 3 books in total
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