Cicatrices tome 1

A love story between two schoolkids, Kyonosuke and Akira, in a little village in the Japanese countryside. Kyonosuke has had a skin graft to his face, leaving it permanently scarred, and has to put up with constant bullying, while Akira, his classmate, is beaten by her father for saying she wants to be a girl. When they meet and fall in love, they decide to escape their toxic environments. But
are they strong enough to accept each other, and themselves, as they are?

Sven is the son of a Viking navigator. Tanka is the son of a Native American chief. Since the family of one has built its village on the American lands of the other, cultures have collided! But not for Sven and Tanka, who understand each other from the moment they meet. Together, they discover their differences, the wilderness and even the spirits of nature.

What builds an individual? His memories? The memories he has? The good times of the past? The bad? The adults we grew up with?

With total honesty, Gwen de Bonneval sets out to meet Gwen de Bonneval, to rediscover a childhood that wasn’t all that happy. With a moody, violent mother, an absent father and the crushing figure of a grandfather.

But the author of Dernier Atlas and Messire Guillaume is also a man of today and tomorrow, as he explores his present as a young father and the future of the world, which he sees as ecologically bleak.

Yuan is a Chinese truck driver who brings coal to illegal open-pit mines. He then travels far and wide to deliver his coal, hoping each time to get a better price. Yuan works with Wei, his “fixer,” who haggles with potential buyers. But one day Wei decides to kill Yuan in an attempt to steal his truck. Yuan miraculously survives, and now has only goal: to get his truck back. Without it, he has no job and no money, only shame in his wife’s and daughter’s eyes. “Les Âmes Noires” (Dark Souls) is a social thriller with an atmosphere reminiscent of the documentaries of filmmaker Wang Bing .

San Francisco, 1967. Kim, a young detective fresh out of police academy, teams up with Ulysses Ford, a jaded cop at the end of his career, and finds herself investigating a series of brutal murders connected with satanism, as the two of them plunge into a maelstrom of black masses and satanic rites… A thriller loosely based on the story of Anton LaVey, the controversial Frisco citizen who founded the Church of Satan, that reveals the Summer of Love also to have been a “summer of hate.”

The award winning, long-running international hit follows the hilarious adventures of the iconic spies Sam, Clover, and Alex, three Beverly Hills girls who were hired as secret agents by WOOPH (the World Organization of Human Protection). These spies with attitude balance life at school with international espionage, juggling top-secret missions all over the world with school classes. Saving mankind from a dastrardly arch villain and passing that impossible algebra exam… it’s all in a day’s work for the super spies! They confront global rude behaviour wherever they find it and yet still make the prom on time!

Totally Spies has enjoyed global success and been broadcasted in over 190 countries.

London in the early 20th century. Fascinated by history and the natural sciences, teenager Anna persuades her step-father, a famous archeologist, to take her with him on his latest mission—to Belize. As he looks for a lost Mayan temple, she discovers a country with an excitingly different culture; and, with the help of Tikal, a young Belizean, she tries to foil the plans of a group of antiquities traffickers.

In the first great adventure of her life, Anna must search within herself for reserves of courage, resourcefulness, and humility. Is the expedition in fact nothing other than a journey of self-discovery?

Life isn’t all easy in the Kingdom: the blacksmith François has only one goal in life: to marry the pretty tavern maid Anne. But Anne has other ambitions, more social than marital: she wants to succeed in her professional life, and all her energy is focused on running her tavern. But the King is racking up debts and never settles the bill. One day, a charming and generous young man pays for her meal and her night with a magnificent ring… which Anne immediately recognizes as belonging to the King.

A compilation of short stories and gags published in Spirou. It features all the charm, lightness and humor of the series created in 2008 by Benoît Feroumont.

You can learn to be stupid and nasty! There’s even a school for it. A school where all the values we know in our human world are reversed: it’s forbidden to raise your finger in response, to study at home at night or to arrive at school on time. The little monsters who attend this school take full advantage of this situation, except Boloss, an intelligent, delicate and sensitive little monster, who just can’t abide by these rules, which seem a little unnatural to him. He would so much like to be a good boy and learn to read and write…

Emilie, a young Parisian actress, goes to her grandparents’ house for a weekend-long family party. Little does she know that her uncle, convicted of incest a few years earlier, is also invited. Despite the claustrophobic atmosphere, Emilie must confront her family members and force them to make a choice. Who do they want to keep by their side? The victim or the executioner?