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mediatoon October 2019
On our way to Frankfurt…

 
Frankfurt Book Fair!
 
Once again, we are on our way to the largest book fair in the world. Come find us in hall 5.1 at booth number C.79. The MFR Team will be on hand to help you rediscover your favorite characters and meet some new heroes.

Learn more about Spirou’s classic adventures in our tribute editions created by French and international artists. Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Boule et Bill by retracing the career of one of the greatest authors of Franco-Belgian comics in Boule et Bill, l’art de Roba. Then travel to the year 2151, where the future of humanity is at stake, for one last road-trip between Youri and his mother Simone in Soon. You could also get to know Awinita and her friends as they try to understand the inequality between girls and boys.

We will see you in Frankfurt with many more stories to discover!

The MFR Team

Compilations & special editions

BEST-SELLERS

 
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Le Spirou de Flix

Spirou à Berlin (one-shot)

By Flix

Children's & Family
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor, Action & Adventure 

Spirou and Fantasio are caught up in another amazing adventure, set in a real historical context. It’s summer 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the evil Zantafio is trying to take over East Germany. When he kidnaps the Count of Champignac, our two heroes find out and try to rescue him. But to do that, they have to cross Europe’s most heavily guarded border. East Germany’s notorious Secret Police, the Stasi, are soon hot on their trail, and Fantasio is arrested. So Spirou now has to free his friend as well as foil Zantafio’s diabolical scheme.


 
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Boule & Bill

L’art de Roba (one-shot)

By Jean Roba & Christelle et Bertrand Pissavy-Yvernault

Children's & Family
Publisher: Studio Boule et Bill
Genres: Special Editions 

When Jean Roba created Boule et Bill in 1959, no one could have imagined that 60 years later this little boy in a yellow t-shirt and overalls and his cocker spaniel would still be in our hearts and that their adventures would continue to make people of all ages laugh.
For the 60th anniversary of Boule et Bill, Christelle and Bertrand Pissavy-Yvernault retrace the career of one of the greatest authors of Franco-Belgian comics. This book will contain beautiful illustrations from sketches to watercolour paintings, highlighting Jean Roba’s incredibly rich and poetic universe.


 
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Moscou année zéro

Moscou année zéro (one-shot)

By Thierry Robin & Fabien Nury

Graphic novel
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Historical Fiction 

Moscou année zéro is the renewed version of Mort au tsar.
The diptych Mort au tsar bring us in Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century to shows us the story of Governor Sergei Alexandrovich’s murder, both from the perspective of the victim (in volume 1) and of his murderer (in volume 2). In this new version, the authors have “reassembled” the stories of these two characters in one volume with parallel narratives: the result is a powerful and intimate political thriller.


 
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MUTAFUKAZ’ LOBA LOCA

Mutafukaz’ Loba Loca (1)

By Run & Guillaume Singelin

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Action & Adventure 

In the wake of Puta Madre, the first Mutafukaz spin-off, Loba Loca tells the turbulent tale of Guadalupe, an endearing high school student with one problem: she has a hard time controlling her anger… Brought up by a single mom and trying to find her way, Guada’s frustration builds until she finally decides to take off and try her luck in the grimy streets of Dark Meat City, seven years after the events of the first Mutafukaz cycle. An extraordinary road trip that will lead Guada toward her future even as she retraces her past, meeting a whole host of unusual and notorious characters along the way.


Dupuis
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Le Spirou d’Emile Bravo

Spirou l’espoir malgré tout (2)

By Emile Bravo
Action & Adventure, Historical fiction
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Le Lombard
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Hubert Reeves nous explique

Les Océans (3)

By Daniel Casanave, Hubert Reeves & Vandermeulen
Non-Fiction
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Dupuis
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Dad

Père à tout faire (6)

By Nob
Humor
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Dupuis
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Louca

Foutu pour foutu (7)

By Bruno Dequier
Action & Adventure, Humor
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Dargaud
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Le Chat du Rabbin

La Reine de Shabbat (9)

By Joann Sfar
Fantasy & Esoteric, Humor
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Le Lombard
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Yakari

L’Esprit des chevaux (40)

By Job, Derib & Joris Chamblain
Action & Adventure
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Graphic novel

 
 
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Le Detection Club

Le Detection Club (one-shot)

By Jean Harambat

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Crime & Mystery 

Scottish countryside, 1930s. The great British writers from the golden age of murder mystery novels, such as Agatha Christie, are a part of a secret society, the Detection Club. The billionaire Roderick Ghyll invites the members of the club to a gathering at his enormous mansion on an island. They’ve been invited to watch a demonstration of a new kind of robot, one that could make the work of detectives and policeman obsolete. After being given all the information on a crime, the robot is capable of solving it instantly, producing the name or names of all guilty parties.
But their host is mysteriously killed… A smart and gripping story within a story, which invites the reader to solve the murder, but also think about the implications of artificial intelligence, and the question of creation… 


 
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Les étoiles de l’histoire

Charlie Chaplin (1)

By Bazile & Bernard Swysen

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Biography & Memoirs 

London, April 1889, birth of Charles Chaplin. He will live his childhood with his mother and brother, they were very poor but happy until his mother was sent to a psychiatric asylum. With his brother they will decide to make every effort possible to make it to the stage, Mime, Dancing, acting, singing, they did it all. At the age of 19 a talent scout notices him and sends him to the US, country he will move to for good in 1914 for a burlesque character. There he will create his persona and become one of the biggest comedians in the world for over 65 years and 80 movies. His private life was a bit complicated with break ups and legal proceedings with his lovers, he was as well thought to be a Communist in the US at one point which forced him to move to Switzerland.
A fascinating biography of and incredibly talented man and artist!


 
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Une année sans Cthulhu

Une année sans Cthulhu (one-shot)

By Alexandre Clérisse & Thierry Smolderen

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

As with Souvenirs de l’empire de l’atome and L’Été Diabolik, the authors have gone back in time to revisit the imaginary worlds of a certain period, this time it’s the 1980s. It’s a heady mix of visual styles, reminiscent of Twin Peaks, David Cronenberg, Stephen King, Tron, and illustrations from the works of H.P. Lovecraft!
Under the light of a full moon, a group of teens have got together at a creepy cemetery to play the call of Chtulhu, a game that drives you crazy! So crazy, in fact, that after the game is suddenly interrupted by the cemetery’s janitor, it continues to play out in the teens’ everyday lives, and may just lead them to a bloody end!
But first, let’s meet the characters of this crazy story: Samuel, the games master and our hero; Marie, his childhood friend who’s scared of her dad; Oriane, has a glass eye and likes to think of herself as a witch; Melusine, her dad’s a druid and she’s got his talents; Dani, a computer genius and childhood friend of Samuel’s, they haven’t seen each other for two years… 


 
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Dans le secret des labos

Visitez les plus grands sites scientifiques et techniques de France et alentours (one-shot)

By Jean-Yves Duhoo

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Non-Fiction 

Have you ever visited a nuclear waste treatment plant?
Have you observed the Big Bang in a gigantic particle accelerator?
Have you ever explored the restoration of a historic monument?
No? That’s normal, the general public isn’t allowed into these places, some are even classified as top-secret.
Jean-Yves Duhoo takes us to all these extraordinary places, accompanied by specialists who let you in on the secrets of their trades. Forty-four chronicles for an exciting overview of science today, in and around France.


 
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Soon

Soon (one-shot)

By Benjamin Adam & Thomas Cadène

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Sci-Fi 

2150. The world has changed significantly. Damage caused by climate change, and the resurgence of certain deadly diseases, has drastically reduced the world’s population. Nature has taken back control and the survivors spread out over different urban zones. Simone, 50, is an astronaut who has been training several years for a controversial one-way space mission. Simone will have to leave her son Youri forever, and he see this as abandonment. Simone asks him to travel with her to the seven urban zones before they say goodbye.


 
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Cézembre

Cézembre (2)

By Nicolas Malfin

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Historical Fiction 

In occupied Saint-Malo, the young Ewan longs to avenge his family. Having witnessed the deaths of his father and uncle, killed by German soldiers, he dreams of joining the Resistance while the struggle to liberate the town smoulders on. But, in the chaos of the brewing battle looms the spectre of betrayal…


Mainstream

 
 
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Harden

Harden (one-shot)

By Joaquim Diaz

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Ismaël, former member of a street gang in Los Angeles, one day decides to clean up his act and enlist in the Marines. In order to pay for the medical treatment his sister needs, he volunteers to take part in a research and development project. That’s how he ends up spending several months inside “the Boiler,” a classified military location, where he undergoes experiments of which he retains only the vaguest memories. Two years later, Ismaël, now demobilized, lives peacefully in L.A. – up until the day his sister and her son are shot down by his old gang members who are out for his blood. Plunging into a fugue state close to madness, out of his mind with fury, Ismaël begins to scour the streets of Los Angeles ‐ which now look to him just like the streets of Baghdad…


 
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Les As du Pacifique

Le Jugement des Salomon (1)

By Alberto Lingua & Pierre Veys

Publisher: Zéphyr Editions
Genres: Historical Fiction 

Five American soldiers and friends are reunited for their first mission against Japan during World War II.
They will face a very rough start, against Japanese soldiers way more experienced that they were. They will all look up to their friend Faust, genie of mathematics capable to calculate at light speed his target and thus be a very special pilot.


 
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THE KONG CREW

The Kong Crew (1)

By Eric Hérenguel

Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Action & Adventure 

1947, fourteen years after Kong’s victory, Manhattan has been evacuated and the island is now a restricted area guarded by the Kong Crew, a squadron of pilots among whom is the young and impetuous Virgil! When a scientist and a journalist illegally enter Manhattan, the pilots are dispatched in order to find the two intruders…


 
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Air America

L’Offensive du Têt (2)

By Julien Lepelletier, Wallace & Patrice Buendia

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Historical Fiction 

The Vietnam War is going strong, and Peter Hopper, sick of bombing civilians, decides to desert his post in the United States Air Force. Sent to Laos, he is soon riddled with debt and forced to work unofficially for the CIA. His comrade-in-arms, Bob Janssen, on the other hand, remains faithful to the war effort. When on a mission to show two journalists around the military base, Bob discovers that a warehouse clerk has been murdered under suspicious circumstances. He then teams up with the journalists on an investigation that soon overwhelms them…


 
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The Regiment – L’Histoire vraie du SAS

Livre 3 (3)

By Thomas Legrain & Vincent Brugeas

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure 

1941. Almost all of Europe is under the Nazis’ heel. Great Britain continues to hold out, but the situation worsens with every passing day. And in North Africa, gateway to the Middle East and its immense oil reserves, Rommel now threatens Egypt, keystone of the British defenses. In those desperate times, three men (David Stirling, Blair Mayne and “Jock” Lewes), three unconventional officers, band together to create a small, elite unit that will become a military legend: the SAS.


Children's & family

 
 
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La boîte à musique

À la recherche des origines (3)

By Gijé & Carbone

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

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…!


Dupuis
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Télémaque

La Cité des hommes (3)

By Kenny Ruiz & Kid Toussaint
Humor, Action & Adventure
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Dupuis
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Petit Poilu

Duel de bulles (23)

By Bailly & Céline Fraipont
Action & Adventure
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Illustrated books

 
 
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Awinita

Petit rêve deviendra grand (1)

By Marie Voyelle & Marie Pavlenko

Publisher: Little Urban
Genres: Novels & Story Books 

Awinita lives in an Indian tribe with her tight-knit group of friends. She only has one dream, to become a healer. But her hopes are squashed when she is told by an elderly only men can become healers in her tribe. With a little encouragement from her grandma and her own talent, can she shake up traditions?


 
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Alfred, Quentin & Pedro sont sur un plateau

Alfred, Quentin & Pedro sont sur un plateau (one-shot)

By Alexandre Clérisse

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Non-Fiction 

12 directors hidden in their films! Find them if you can!
Alfred, Quentin and Pedro are on a film set… but Tim, Wes, Stanley, Michel, Steven, Joel & Ethan, David and Martin are there too!
Through bustling images depicting the imaginary landscapes of great filmmakers, Alexandre Clérisse plays hide-and-go-seek—in the style of Where’s Waldo?—with cult film directors.
Put your skills of observation to the test and awaken your inner child! 


 
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Le Roi Dagobert

Le Roi Dagobert et le Dragon gascon (1)

By Héloïse Solt & Christophe Loupy

Publisher: Little Urban
Genres: Novels & Story Books 

King Dagobert is back from the war. All he wants right now is to be home. But it looks like his castle has been taken over by a terrible dragon!
Little Urban presents a brand new medival series where King Dagobert writes his own page of History! And to fire it off, what better than epic battles and a dragon with a temper!


Champaka Brussels
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Une vie en dessins

Yves Chaland (3)

By Yves Chaland
Biography & Memoirs
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Little Urban
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Les Petits Marsus

Les Petits Marsus et la drôle de créature (4)

By Benjamin Chaud
Picture Books
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Compilations & special editions

COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

 
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Apocalypse Mania – Compilation

Apocalypse Mania – Compilation (1)

By Philippe Aymond & Laurent-Frédéric Bollée

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

It’s 2009 and four strange rays of light hit planet Earth. Are they a threat or a message? Do they give cause for hope or despair? There is only one man who can get to the bottom of it: Jacob Kandahar. But at what price?


 
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Tif et Tondu – Compilation

Tif et Tondu – Compilation (3)

By Marcel Denis & Rosy

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Ten years on from its initial release, the Tif et Tondu compilation has had a makeover: new layout, new historical introduction, new editorial approach, and all episodes in chronological order.