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Recommended Reading List: European Some of the best and brightest of European comics literature is represented here. If you've a fondness for French or Italian films, you're a closet Anglophile, or you already know the term Bande Dessinee, then check out these comics from across the Atlantic. www.sequentialtart.com The Hunting Party The TechnoPriests by Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin by Alexandro Jodorowsky, Zoran Janjetov, Fred Beltran Humanoids Publishing (www.humanoids-publishing.com) Humanoids Publishing (www.humanoids-publishing.com) You'll enjoy this if you like: political drama, murder http://read.sequentialtart.com/?thetechnopriests mysteries, Eastern European political history You'll enjoy this if you like: Dune At a country estate, ten members of the Soviet Politburo Albino, the Supreme TechnoPriest, re-lives his memories assemble to take part in a weekend of hunting and and struggles that would lead him from being the bastard shooting. However, things are not what they seem, and son of a cruel woman to being the leader of a mystical, the hunting party find themselves in the middle of a far technology-wielding order. deadlier game of murder, power and political intrigue. Louis: Red Letter Day The Nimrod by Metaphrog by Lewis Trondheim Metaphrog (www.metaphrog.com) Fantagraphics (www.fantagraphics.com) http://read.sequentialtart.com/?redletterday http://read.sequentialtart.com/?nimrod You'll enjoy this if you like: The Prisoner You'll enjoy this if you like: Bipolar Louis is a decent person, but he finds himself oppressed An anthology of different stories by French creator Lewis by society around him. Something isn't right, but he's not Trondheim, The Nimrod is an eclectic serving of sure what he can do about it. In this fractured fairy tale, a everything from science fiction to history to autobiography. surface appearance of cuteness gives way to a darker, more disturbing reality. La Mouche by Lewis Trondheim From Cloud 99 Sevil by Yslaire http://read.sequentialtart.com/?lamouche Humanoids Publishing (www.humanoidspublishing.com) You'll enjoy this if you like: Aesop's Fables, Grimm's Fairy Tales http://read.sequentialtart.com/?fromcloud99 The wordless adventures of a little fly with big shoes, La You’ll enjoy this if you like: The Kingdom miniseries Mouche always wins in the end, even if the enemy is a Eva Stern was born at the turn of the century and expects Spider diabolical enough to use a shoe as bait. to die with it. But now an anonymous stranger is emailing her photos of the 20th century that have been traced back Violent Cases to her brother, a war photographer who died in 1916. by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean Titan Books ([email protected]) The Nikopol Trilogy You'll enjoy this if you like: Untouchables, James Cagney movies by Enki Bilal Centered on a half-remembered childhood memory, the meeting Humanoids Publishing (www.humanoids-publishing.com) of Al Capone's osteopath is told from an adult's perspective. You'll enjoy this if you like: American Gods Sentenced to freeze in space for 20 years, Alcide Nikopol The Adventures of Tintin returns to earth after his sentence as an amputee who by Herge has lost most of his memory in a world that he doesn't Little, Brown (www.tintin.com) recognize. Nikopol's body is seized by the Egyptian God http://read.sequentialtart.com/?tintin Horus to be used as a vessel in his own secret plans. You'll enjoy this if you like: Encyclopedia Brown, classic children and young adult literature White Death Tintin is a crime-solving little boy who gets to travel to by Robbie Morrison and Charles Adlard exotic places all over the world. AiT/PlanetLar (www.astronautsintrouble.com) UK Publisher: Les Cartoonistes Dangereux Cities of the Fantastic: The Great Walls of Samaris http://read.sequentialtart.com/?whitedeath by Benoit Peeters, Francois Schuiten You'll enjoy this if you like: Band of Brothers NBM (www.nbmpub.com) Set on the Italian Front of the First World War in 1916, You'll enjoy this if you like: retro sci-fi this is the story of Italian soldier, Pietro Aquasanta. In the Samaris … a city that people have journeyed to, but mountains, no weapon of war is more feared by the have never returned. Franz is sent on a mission by the soldiers than the man-made avalanche - the White Death. Great Council to try and discover its secrets. YOU CAN FIND THESE GREAT BOOKS AT: Emerald City Comics 2475-L McMullen Booth Road Mars Import Clearwater, FL 33759 www.marsimport.com (727) 797-0664 www.emeraldcitycomics.com.