Spring 2013 Moi, René Tardi, Prisonnier au Stalag 2B Boulevard...ossements by Jacques Tardi By Jacques Tardi & Barral WW2 through the eyes of Tardi’s father Burma the harboiled private detective from Paris is back. With his secretary, Hélène, who is hopelessly infatuated with himr, they Based on his father’s personal notes, Tardi gives us an insight into managed the "Fiat Lux Agency". This time the investigation takes WWII through the eyes of his father. place in the 9th arrondissement, a district in Paris. The cast of characters include Natacha and Sonia, two aristocratic russian ladies owning an underwear shop and Russian crooks running illegal diamond dealings. A classic noir investigation and an excellent piece of work Technical specifications: 19 x 27,7 cm-192 pages Technical specifications: € 24 22.6 x 30.3cm -88 pages 2 volumes € 16 Publication date: May 2013 Haggarth Mécanhumanimal by Victor de la Fuente By E. Bilal In a fantasy world plagued by violence and spells, a fierce warrior killed in battle, Haggarth, is resurrected through the power of a magician and resumes his quest to find in a monastery the skull to the three snakes … A retrospective on Enki Bilal’s work Haggarth first appeared in 1978 in the journal A Suivre. Both stories published by the magazine The Skull Of The Three Snakes and Chess, are published in this full, complemented by two other completely new stories. Technical specifications: Black & white Technical specifications: Hardcover 24.5x32x2 cm Hardcover 28 x 28.5 cm 232 pages 144 pages € 28.00 €25.00 Canicule Cauchemar dans la rue by Baru By R.Cook & D. Sala A plainclothes cop in Paris, Kleber is forty years old and devoted to his young wife, Elenya, a former prostitute whom he rescued from her pimp. He is embittered by twenty-two Jimmy Cobb is a crook on the lam. He is on the run after an years on the streets, and his sleep is haunted by dreams of armored car holdup goes bad. He ends up hiding in a French death. Kleber has many enemies, and only one friend: a farmhouse inhabited by an eccentric family. Everyone wants criminal named Mark. When Kleber is suspended from the the bag of money he grabbed during the holdup. police force for punching a fellow officer, his underworld enemies seize their chance to get even. Based on the novel by Jean Vautrin. Turned into a movie starring Lee Marvin. Based on the novel by Robin Cook: Nigthmare in the street Technical specifications: Technical specifications: 18.5 x 26 cm -104 pages 104 pages- 18.5 x 26 cm € 18 € 18 March 2013 April 2013 Nuit de Noce Le Périple de Baldassare by Kim Dong Hwa Le Périple de Baldassare by Alessandra & Maalouf The plot concerns the journey of a Genoese librarian living in the town of Gibelet (now Jbeil in Lebanon) named Balthasar who seeks a sacred book The Hundredth Name that is said to contain the unknown and sacred name of God, whose knowledge seems to be the answer for the salvation La première nuit chronicles the life of a woman of souls at Doomsday in the apocalyptic year of 1666. In his in rural Korea. The author gives us to analyse trip, Balthasar travels through the Ottaman Empire, to Italy, this woman in two key stages of her life: as a and London, while experiencing a myriad of problems due young wife when she discovers sex and as a to the accursed book. widow in a relationship with a new partner. Rights sold in Turk Technical specifications: 72 pages Technical specifications € 15 64 Pages 223 x 304 mm Colour May 2013 3 volumes € 15 Le curé du diable España la vida By Hugo Bogo By M.Le Roy, E.Vaccaro & AC Thibaut Jouvray Le curé du diable is based on a true case:The Aix-en- Provence possessions were a series of alleged cases España la vida gives us an insigth into the Spanish of demonic possession occurring among the Ursuline civil war throught the eyes of Leo, a young French nuns of Aix-en-Provence (South of France) in 1611. student who enlists with the anarchists. He Father Louis Gaufridi was accused and convicted of actually becomes part of The Durruti Column causing the possession by a pact with the devil, and the largest anarchist column formed during the he was executed by being burned at the stake, atop a Spanish conflict. It is one of the best known pile of bushes because they burned slower and hotter symbols of the anarchist movement in Spain and than logs. its struggle for creating an egalitarian society based on collectivism and individualism. Technical specifications 128 Pages Technical specifications € 25 64 Pages Publication date: March 2013 Colour € 15 A l’Ombre du Convoi Death Mountains by Beroy & Toussaint By Brecht and Bec Death Mountains is based on the Donner Party. It tells us the Based on a true story: Transport 20 (XXth convoy) was a Jewish true story of a group of 87 American pioneers who in 1846 set off prisoner transport in Belgium organized by the Nazi Germany from Missouri in a wagon train headed west for California, only to during WWII. Members of the Belgian Resistance freed Jewish and find themselves trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada. The Gipsy civilians who were being transported by train from the subsequent casualties resulting from starvation, exposure, disease, Dossin Barracks located in Mechelen, Belgium to the Auschwitz and trauma were extremely high, and many of the survivors concentration camp. This rescue of Jews being transported was resorted to cannibalism. Efforts to memorialize the Donner Party unique in the European history of the Holocaust. The reader is to were underway within a few years; historians have described the live this event through the eyes of Olya the deportee, Theo the episode as one of the most spectacular tragedies in California resistant lover, and Whilem the nazi soldier. history and in the record of western migration. Technical specifications: Technical specifications: 2 volumes 48 pages-Colours-22.6x30.3 cm 48 pages each - 22.6x30.3 cm – Hardcover € 12 € 12.95 2 volumes March 2013 Odessa Les cosaques d’Hitler by Peka & Dufranne By Neuray & Lemaire 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 The authors gives an insight into the ODESSA, an monitor German war prisoners. international Nazi network set up toward the end of When they arrive, the two soldiers finally realize that the WWII by a group of SS officers. The purpose of the prisoners aren’t German. The camp is full of Cossacks who ODESSA was to establish and facilitate secret escape were arrested for collaborating with the Nazi regime. During routes, later known as ratlines to allow SS members to his stay, Nicolas meets Macha, the future love of his life and avoid their capture and prosecution for war crimes. mother of his child. The reader is to live this event through the eyes of In a series of flashbacks between the 1940’s and the 1970’s, three brothers who took part in the war with different the author describes the lives of the main characters and how sides. they are brought together and torn apart during this tragic Technical specifications: piece of history. 48 pages- 22.6x30.3 cm – Hardcover € 11,95 Technical specifications 2 volumes released on Februay 2013 64 pages-22.6x30.3 cm – Hardcover € 12.95 Euros May 2013 Rimbaud l’indésirable By X Coste Eve sur la balançoire by N.Ferlut By the same author Of Egon Schiele, Translated into German & Spanish October (Rimbaud 1854-November 1891) was a French poet, known to have been a libertine and restless soul. It is not only the portrait of a haunted poet and his tortured but Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 – January 17, passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine. The author Xavier 1967) was the professional name of Florence Evelyn Coste decides to depict the artist when his relationship with Nesbit, a popular American chorus girl and artists’ Verlaine is over and he opts for a steady,working life. After model whose liaison with renowned architect travelling on the three continents, he settles in Yemen and he Stanford White immortalized her as « The Girl in the starts dealing with weapons. An enthralling narrative and Red Velvet Swing » beautiful strips from the beginning to the end. Technical specifications: Technical specifications 128 pages 66 Pages- 31.4 x 24 Color Color € 20 € 18 June 2013 May 2013 Hotel Particulier Commandant Achab by G.Sorel By Douay & Piatszek A young woman dies in her bath but her ghost remains in her Commandant Achab is a bold policeman even though he is flat. As she wanders in the building she realizes that she is not disabled. This one-leg detective also displays a dark, cynical wit, alone: the building is haunted. The living and the dead live side along with a tendency to bend the rules if it brings a criminal to by side in a place possessed by evil spirits who use secret doors, justice.With his colleague Karim, he will investigateand solve supernatural events and maleficent forces to trap the residents. complex cases. The different scenes depict the vices of mankind throughout very realistic graphics, in a dark and gloomy atmosphere. “Hôtel particulier” is a gripping narrative that leaves you in suspense from cover to cover. Technical specifications 64 pages- 22.6x30.3 cm – Hardcover Technical specifications: 56 pages 22.6x30.3 cm – Hardcover € 15 56 pages May 2013 € 13,95 3 volumes Whaligoe Virginia by V.Augustin &Yann By Blazy and Gauthier During the American civil war a confederate sniper misses At the beginning of the 19th century, two aristocrats an Unionist general and shoots a little girl by mistake.