Un empire de rouille

“To philosophize is to learn to die,” said Montaigne. But, faced with
the vertiginous immensity of philosophy, sometimes we’d rather die
than learn. In need of help? Trust Catherine Meurisse to illuminate
neon and nothingness and to air out Plato’s cave. The most famous
philosophers flow from her observant pen: Aristotle, Nietzsche,
Cioran, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hegel, Deleuze, Beauvoir, Arendt, Marx…
The cartoonist takes the opportunity to rail against the predominance
of men in the world of ideas. Handling philosophical concepts with
rigor and humor, dispelling myths, Man and Superwoman sketches
out a different way to think and be in the world.

It’s not easy arriving at a new school! Especially when, like Julia, you’re an orphan with strange supernatural powers, memories of times gone by and an entire mansion at your disposal! It’s enough to annoy or seduce her new friends, including a team of girls who are as unfriendly as they are popular, the bubbly Caitlin and her asthma attacks, and the dark Mika, who is drowning a mysterious sorrow by working on ghost-detecting machines… Between mystery, the supernatural, friendship and the quest for self, all these teenagers will cross paths, fight, love and help each other: live!