Les Boucles de Celadön

The start of a new cycle in the Renaissance series!

Earth has just joined “The Complex,” becoming the 24th member of the federation of planets founded thousands of years ago by the rulers of planets Thorgons, Köbalt, and Skuälls. Over the centuries, The Complex has experienced a number of conflicts, including the interstellar war that is the focus of the new cycle. In this first album, The Complex must defend itself against the growing Ouröbörös civilization, which will do anything to get its hands on The Complex’s valuable resources.

Sara is approaching fifty, and she’s not excited about it. Hot flashes, insomnia, and weight gain are now a part of her reality as a perimenopausal mother. When she is unceremoniously fired from her mediocre job, she decides to put her unobtrusiveness to use and become a private investigator. This new pursuit gives her the opportunity to travel to New York, but also to meet her true self and recognize who she really is: Marcie!

Far from being a militant or an intellectual, Ersin Karabulut is above all a cartoonist driven by his passion to create. With all his complexes and doubts, he just wants to do what he loves: draw. He and his friends then launched ‘Uykusuz’, a satirical magazine that met with immediate success, particularly among young people. But in a changing Turkey, political realities upset his daily life.

Through funny, touching and sometimes painful moments, this book plunges us into the daily life of a creator swept up despite himself by the turmoil of his times, in a country where society is becoming increasingly conservative and freedoms are on the wane.

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Following “Ideal Standard” and “Amalia,” Aude Picault continues her celebrated autobiographical series with an unashamed exposé of the life of a forty-something on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Picault’s piercing, tragi-comic style has lost none of its edge, its simple yet uniqely unique supple lines revealing all our worries and sufferings, our compromises, and our secret joys.

For Picault, our forties are an age of rebellion—against the ravages of day-to-day life, the dulling of relationships, and the unavoidable demands of parenting and work—as we all battle with increasing anxiety over the global political and environmental situation. But they are also the age at which we learn to aceept who we are and finally find our way.

What will happen when the Antarctic ice sheet, which is as old as the Earth, melts? And what will happen if two graphic novel writers living on it run out of food?

Romuald and Marie are living the story they are writing, but, like the Antarctic, Marie is gradually losing her memory.

Following “Capital” and “Ideology,” Benjamin Adam returns to the theme of the future of our planet, which he explored in “Soon,” in order to tackle the questions he is most concerned with: How should we live together (and love each other) while the Earth is being ravaged by climate change? And how and why should we create anything when everything is about to disintegrate?

In an unnamed city of the near future or past, Joshua has turned the salon where he once made women beautiful into a hospice for gay men dying of a mysterious contagion. As friends and lovers slowly succumb to the disease, which covers them in shimmering fish scales, Joshua does what he can to ease their final moments… and even finds beauty in the strange and melancholy world created by Mexican author Mario Bellatin, dazzlingly re-imagined by Quentin Zuttion.