Midam has been writing gags featuring Kid Paddle and le Petit Barbare for thirty years. Thirty years that one of them is confronted with his teachers’ calculation questions, while the other is the victim of countless laws of physics. Today, mathematician Daniel Justens is turning his attention to these 30 years of drawings, to find scientific explanations for them. The result? This book, which aims both to study Kid Paddle ‘s gags through the prism of mathematics, and to study mathematics through the prism of Kid Paddle.
Midam – L’art du gag
In a series of interviews, Thierry Tinlot – former editor-in-chief of Spirou – and Midam look back over the latter’s 30 years of comics, and in particular his two flagship series Kid Paddle and Game Over. An opportunity for Midam to talk about his influences, his way of working and, more generally, his relationship with comics.
La Vengeance de Bahamuth
The children have awakened the vengeful titan Bahamuth! Fleeing across the river, they discover Uru, the city of the Gods, a memory of a distant time when they lived among men. But past and present mingle once again, while elsewhere the spirit of the Venerable becomes the blank page on which our future is written. As a new fratricidal war rumbles between the titans and the gods, will the children be able to break the cycle of destruction?
Les aventuriers de l’Urraca
Captain Sherman, the most eloquent and imaginative of pirates, knows how to motivate his troops when morale is low. And unfortunately, it usually is because the captain has a weakness: he rarely finds any treasures. However, he has been exploring a lead for some time now, one that quickly proves to be full of promise. One of his friends, an art dealer, has given him a rare text
that will put him and his crew back on the right track. Pandora, a giant squid, is said to have swallowed a treasure carried by a Spanish ship from the New World. It’s no surprise that the idea of such a treasure arouses a great amount of superstitious excitement and desire. Despite the crew’s enthusiasm, many pitfalls await them in their search for riches. Sherman will also have to be
wary of the underhanded trickery of an old rival: Rostand the Damned! This privateer, a former pirate, is in pursuit of Sherman’s ship, the Urraca. Captain Sherman likes to make his men travel, and not only towards the horizon: he tells them a thousand tales of adventures and sumptuous landscapes. But what is this whimsical man hiding in his quarters among the hundreds of books that surround him?
Les prédateurs climatiques
By presenting a trans-partisan project for action against global warming, Larry Max still hopes to get things moving democratically. But isn’t this a lost cause in an America where extremists are weighing in on the debate with explosives and bullets? Yet he’s not alone in leading the ecological fight. Former Vice President Shore seems determined to return to politics. And he knows exactly how this country works…
La digne héritière de Mû
The hour of trial has come for the Unicorns! The Orcons will do anything to prevent them from reaching the Goddess’ temple. The five young women’s ability to summon unicorns and magical weapons will not go amiss. But some are more heiresses than others: Izandre is no princess. She made her family proud by becoming the first Hericorn in her line. But since then… she’s never been able to summon her unicorn! And that’s about to become obvious…
Le Partage des Mondes
September 1940. At the height of the London Blitz, Isaac, an aging widower, finds a lost child called Mary. Amid the crush and the panic he decides to take her to the safety of the nearest subway station. To distract her, he starts telling her a story he has just made up: about a wonderful princess called Rebecca, who is prepared to do anything to save her people. But will it be enough to make Mary forget the horrors she has witnessed in the streets above? Will Mary ever be reunited with her mother? And what is the terrible secret Isaac is keeping from everyone?
Naissance
Simon is a solitary boy, who has been hiding in his shell ever since his grandfather died. Now he must help Didi—half-human, half-frog and gifted with mysterious powers—to find his family. But Didi bears a strange resemblance to Simon’s grandfather…
Half-human, half-frog, with strange powers, Didi is every boy’s perfect friend.
L’Ile des mers gelées rééd nouvelles couleurs
A few hours before her wedding, finally accepted by the Viking community, Aaricia is kidnapped by three eagles on behalf of a mysterious horseman. Thorgal sets out to find her. Stranded on an iceberg, he is taken in by a Slug, inhabitant of “the island of the frozen seas”, the domain of the magician Slive…
Experience this adventure with a new re-colored editon.
Le roi est mort vive la République !
1793. The Marquis de Valoire has recalled his son Enguerrand from the army to assist him in the counter-revolution brewing in the Vendée. But in the shadows of the back alleys, Célénie and her new ally Mange-Doigts are more alive than ever, and have formed an alliance to bring down the Marquis. As for the new Commissaire Lambert, his loyalties waver between the aristocrat and the king of the underworld. In Nantes, as in the capital, the waltz of alliances is in full swing as the political chaos continues.
