Five children wake up one morning to find that all the city’s inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. What’s happened? Where are their parents, their friends? They find themselves left to their own devices in a big empty city and are going to have to learn how to manage… ALONE!

Van Hamme and Vance managed to create an entire gallery of characters each as captivating, intriguing, and endearing as the next. The XIII Mystery collection allows us a glimpse of their past, their secrets and the path they took to get to where they are today. These albums are sure to win over readers yet to be initiated to this cult series.

From the bloody episodes of WWII in the Pacific to the most modern developments in aviation, the aviator Buck Danny and his colleagues cross a half-century of American and world history. Uniting an extraordinary sense of detail to the action of great epics, the adventures of Buck Danny not only keep us on the edge of our seats, but they also reveal the hidden side of global geopolitics. The adventures of Buck Danny are a creation of Georges Troisfontaines, Victor Hubinon and Jean-Michel Charlier.

Larry B. Max is one of the rare specialists of the special department of the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service), the all-powerful tax agency in the United States. Reading the complex methods to evade taxes and to launder money like a virtuoso pianist would read the scores of Mozart, he has all the means to prove the links between the world of high finance and the top criminals. Peeling back the accounts of billionaires, of the giant financial groups and of many branched multi-nationals, Larry tries to find the dangerous route back to the nebulous origins of their colossal fortunes…

Tosca and Rinaldo are orphans. Ever since their parents died, they have been living hidden in the forest. Lucilla is the only daughter of the Duc di Castelguelfo, famous for his exploits defending the Republic of Siena. Lucilla’s parents are too busy to pay much attention to their daughter, who still feels lonely despite being surrounded by an army of maids and servants. But everything changes when she meets Tosca – a mini Robin Hood living a life so different to her own – and their adventures through 14th century Tuscany begin!

Aubépine likes her life just fine in the city. So when her parents announce a move to the mountains in the middle of nowhere, it’s safe to say she isn’t thrilled! There’s nothing to do and no one to talk to, except for an odd old shepherdess and her woolly dogs… and a treacherous genie? Perhaps Aubépine won’t be so bored here after all, as she faces mounting magical threats with each passing month! A series that’s set to shake up children’s comics with its mix of pop culture humor and an avalanche of twists and turns.

On the day of her eighth birthday, Martin gives his mischievous little daughter Nola the music box that belonged to her late mother, Annah. The box acts as a kind of symbol for the little girl, and she soon starts to believe there’s something living inside it. That’s when Nola shrinks, goes inside the box, and discovers Pandorient, a magical world beyond the paper door. But time is short: Mathilda, mother of Andrea and Igor, has fallen seriously ill. What’s wrong with her? Could she have been poisoned? Perhaps the water is contaminated? Their fears soon turn out to be true. The children have to cure Mathilda and track down the pollutant before Nola goes back to her father in her own world. But maybe it was all just a dream…!

One day, Ulysses and Méditérannée meet by chance at the gynecologist’s office. She has an appointment, and he’s waiting for his son, the doctor. The two sixty‐somethings feel an immediate connection. But is love still possible at such an age? Working together for the first time, the legendary Zidrou and the young Dutch artist Aimée De Jongh (“The Return of the Honey Buzzard”) offer up an ode to life as they present the touching rebirth of two people who thought their lives were winding down… only to discover that they were only just beginning!

Behind this title is a brand‐new edition of Yann’s “Sales Petits Contes” (Nasty Little Stories), published in two installments as part of the former “Humour Libre” collection. Now in Dupuis’ celebrated “Aire Libre” collection, these stories recreate famous tales and characters, giving them a twist. Authors such as Juillard, Zep, Wendling, and Jean‐Claude Denis have put their personal, irreverent spin on these re-tellings of classics.

The year is 1999. Two French cinema fans, François Renard and Christophe Lemaire are preparing for an exciting adventure: they are headed for Italy to interview the filmmaker Marco Corvo, who has been in hiding for the past 25 years since his last, unfinished film. At first intimidated by Corvo, the two Frenchman will quickly fall under his spell. Thoughout the interview — which lasts several days — they will be witness to the unfurling of a time in cinema history that is no longer. And at the same time, they will be witness to a series of strange, bloody murders. A dizzying investigation ensues that feels like it’s straight out of 1960s Italian detective cinema.

The year is 797, and William the Hebrew, known as “Hooknose,” is one of Charlemagne’s vassals. And it is to this valiant warrior, victor of a thousand battles, that the emperor entrusts the most delicate of missions: to bring him back Witgar, wife of the proud and untameable King of Burgundy, who has fled to Moorish lands… Hooknose sets off to find her, and punish her for running away, but soon finds his heart stirred by this special woman. She is not fit for such an age, where others determine her life and destiny for her — whom to marry, and when to give birth. In the end, Hooknose will decide to take up her cause and defend her before Charlemagne himself.

A lively, truthful look at the meanest figures of times past, perfect for fans of history and for those who realize that the stories of the evil are often more rich and complex than one might think. This first volume presents an instructive, humorous vision of Dracula — that is, of Vlad III Basarab “the Impaler,” Prince of Wallachia, upon whom Bram Stoker based his famous Count.

A lively, truthful look at the meanest figures of times past, perfect for fans of history and for those who realize that the stories of the evil are often more rich and complex than one might think. This second volume presents Caius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known as Caligula, Roman emperor from the years 12 to 41. His reputation is that of an insane, criminal leader, but was he really all that crazy and mean as we’ve made him out to be all these years?