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mediatoon juin 2021
 
Bodies in all shapes and forms
 
The human body has always been crucial to art, whether it is in paintings, movies, or… comics! Every art school teaches students to draw the human body and to depict its proportions and movements. Some say that the body is a complex, wonderful work of art in itself.

In this month’s new comics releases, each artist portrays the body differently, and for different reasons. For Ana Miralles in Djinn, it’s a fantastical, supremely sensuous way. For Aude Mermilliod in Le Choeur des femmes, it’s in order to show the way women’s bodies are treated in modern gynecological medicine. For Yslaire in Mademoiselle Baudelaire, it’s to show the mental and physical suffering of one woman in particular, and, finally, it’s an eccentric, playful approach for Benjamin Adam in the graphic novel Fluide.

We invite you to appreciate them all!

The MFR Team

Compilations & special editions

BEST-SELLERS

 
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Wanted, Lucky Luke !

Wanted, Lucky Luke ! (one-shot)

By Matthieu Bonhomme

Roman Graphique
Publisher: Lucky Comics
Genres: Western 

After the success of The Man Who Shot Lucky Luke, Mathieu Bonhomme is back with a new edition devoted to the most legendary cowboy in Franco-Belgian comic history!
While moseying around with his faithful steed Jolly Jumper, Lucky Luke is attacked by a bounty hunter. Barely escaping with his life, he learns that he’s wanted for murder and there’s a price on his head! He doesn’t have time to take in the news: three orphan girls have fled the family farm with a herd of cattle, hoping to start a new life, and now Lucky Luke has to come rescue them from a tricky situation.


 
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Imbattable

Le Cauchemar des malfrats (3)

By Pascal Jousselin

Famille & Enfants
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor, Action & Adventure 

Invincible to the rescue! The one and only true comic book hero is here, there, and everywhere! But this is no normal caped crusader. He has the power to traverse time, space… and page, a power he uses to foil the devious plans of evildoers the world over! And as if fighting crime wasn’t enough, there are cats to be saved and corrupt politicians to take on! How will Invincible manage?! Especially with more heinous villains lurking on the horizon…
11 awards including a Bologna Ragazzi Award (Best Middle Grade Comic) and 2 selections for the Eisner Awards.
Translated in 15 languages. 150,000 copies sold.


 
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La Jeunesse de Thorgal

Les Larmes de Hel (9)

By Roman Surzhenko & Yann

BD de genre
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure 

The series tells the story of Thorgal’s adventures from when he was 15 to 20 years old, showing us how the adolescent we left at the end of “Aaricia” became the young man we later meet as he is being chained up by his father-in-law in the main series.
Translated in 9 languages.


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Mademoiselle Baudelaire

Mademoiselle Baudelaire (one-shot)

By Yslaire

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Biography & Memoirs 

Yslaire delves into the scandalous autobiographical material at the heart of Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, reincarnating the figure of Jeanne Duval, the poet’s muse, and illuminating the myth of the cursed artist from a feminist perspective.


 
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Le Choeur des femmes

Le Choeur des femmes (one-shot)

By Aude Mermilliod & Martin Winckler

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Drama 

Jean Atwood, a brilliant young doctor specializing in gynecological surgery, has her sights on the coveted position of chief resident. But instead of being appointed to the role which she deserves more than anyone, she’s forced to spend her last semester as a student in a unit of the hospital dedicated to women’s medicine.
Jean wants to be a surgeon, not waste her time listening to women moan about their problems. And she certainly doesn’t want to have to endure the head of this unit, the controversial Dr. Karma. The self-assured Jean has little doubt of her own skills and talents, and conflict between these two strong personalities at first seems inevitable. But after a few days of working closely together, the situation evolves in a way Jean hadn’t expected.
Le Chœur des femmes tells the story of confident doctors who, faced with a reality that they were previously unfamiliar with, must learn to re-evaluate their ideas and prejudices. Because here, it’s not their superiors who will teach them to become better doctors, but the patients.


 
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MARQUES

Marqués (1)

By Javier & Damian

Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Drama 
A family drama centered on a brother and sister. After the death of their father, Pablo and Iria’s mother turns to drugs. One day, in a fit of anger, their mother’s new boyfriend tattoos the seven-year-old Pablo’s back. When ten-year-old Iria tries to intervene, he hits her, leaving her disfigured.
Ten years later, having been raised by their maternal grandfather, Pablo and Iria have cut off all contact with their mother, now in prison. But the horrific incident from their childhood continues to leave its mark on them both physically and psychologically. Pablo works in a supermarket and practices martial arts to try to channel his anger. Iria is an embalmer who remains beautiful and proud despite her facial scar. But Pablo’s choices will drag them into the unsavory world of underground fighting, and their mother’s release from prison will awaken the pain of past events.

 
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Fluide

Fluide (one-shot)

By Benjamin Adam, Joseph Safieddine & Thomas Cadène

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Drama, Humor 

“I don’t belong to you, you don’t belong to me”: In theory, everyone agrees, but in practice, things often get more complicated!
Sacha and Hector are friends and comic creators; one is single, the other’s in a relationship. When Jeanne, Hector’s girlfriend, decides to explore new aspects of her sexuality (and her bisexuality) without him, the couple is put to the test. Totally thrown for a loop, Hector confides in Sacha, who finds the idea fascinating. They come to the realization that they’re both useless: the one who’s single is unable to make the slightest move; the other, devoid of curiosity and devoured by jealousy, now finds himself in an open relationship.
By combining the power of their imaginations the way they do when working on a comic, they hope to find the strength to act and embark on a shared adventure. This arrangement gives rise to “William”, a fictional persona that one or the other adopts for each new experience–until the day when everything goes wrong….
Both funny and tormented, this tragicomedy explores the new mores of sexual identity. Published in conjunction with Arte, broadcaster of the eponymous web series of which the comic is a variation, not an adaptation.


 
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Couacs au mont Vérité

Couacs au mont Vérité (one-shot)

By Jean-Christophe Menu

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Humor 

In a monastery at the top of a mountain, seven drunken monks spend their time quarrelling and obsessing about the end of the world, while an all-knowing, all-seeing Sphynge looks on and the omniscient Mune reigns the skies. Sometimes, a few visitors come along too, such as a pregnant woman who’s been taken prisoner, escorted by the police.
Author Jean-Christophe Menu once again puts his imagination to the test as he dives back into the cult world of Mount-Truth.


Dargaud
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Une histoire du nationalisme corse

Une histoire du nationalisme corse (one-shot)

By Benjamin Adès & Hélène Constanty
Non-Fiction
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Petit à Petit BD
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Jeanne d'Arc

De Domrémy au bûcher (one-shot)

By Léo Chérel & Céka
Biography & Memoirs
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Petit à Petit BD
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Les Audaces de Sophie Germain

Les Audaces de Sophie Germain (one-shot)

By Elena Tartaglini & Adriana Fillipini
Biography & Memoirs
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Petit à Petit BD
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Les Oscillations de Joseph Fourier

Les Oscillations de Joseph Fourier (one-shot)

By Emmanuel Marie & Emmanuel Cerisier
Biography & Memoirs
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Mainstream

 
 
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Contrapaso

Les Enfants des autres (1)

By Teresa Valero

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Suspense & Thrillers 

Léon Lenoir and Emilio Sanz are crime journalists. One is a young French writer and the other is a Spanish press veteran. Although they might share a profession, they couldn’t be more different. Nevertheless, both are doing everything they can to exercise their profession freely under the Franco dictatorship. Along with their artist friend Paloma, the duo tries to solve unpunished crimes, revealing the reality of a police state where citizens are deprived of their most basic rights along the way.


 
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L'Homme qui inventait le monde

L’Homme qui inventait le monde (one-shot)

By Bertrand Marchal & Rodolphe

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Sci-Fi 

The Earth is threatened by aliens and humanity seems to be fighting a losing battle.
Captain John Bowman is a skilled navigator specializing in space exploration missions. During a routine operation that quickly turns into a disaster, he comes across some mysterious dark matter. When he is repatriated and placed in quarantine in a golden “cell”, he befriends his neighbor, Lieutenant Charlene Barrymore. Exhausted by recurring nightmares and constant surveillance, he decides to escape. With Charlene, he recklessly embarks on a trip, unaware that he is still being monitored. It soon transpires that the dark matter he came across in space endowed him with strange powers that could well change the course of the war and save humanity.
If one man had the power to change reality, what would be the world of tomorrow?


 
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DOGGYBAGS - D.O.G.

Dirty Old Glory (one-shot)

By Prozeet & Mud

Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Dirty old glory is a project of foretelling. The story unfolds in 2034, in the heart of an America moving towards a new global conflict and embroiled in civil war.
The country’s history between 2019 and 2034, which is based on the template of Germany between World Wars, only intensifies the crises and the political and ideological shifts emerging on American soil today.


 
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Green Class

Chaos rampant (3)

By David Tako & Jérôme Hamon

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Sci-Fi, Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 

Just back from a school trip to the marshes of Louisiana, a class of young Canadian students suddenly faces a nightmare scenario: a mysterious virus is spreading among them, transforming them all bit by bit into horrific plant-like monsters. The army has taken control of the territory, and quarantined the sick. Five of them decide to rebel, however. Armageddon or not, they will remain in control of their destiny until the bitter end.


 
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Non-Retour

Algérie, Juillet 1962 (one-shot)

By Olivier Mangin, Patrick Jusseaume & Jean-Laurent Truc

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Historical fiction, Action & Adventure 

Algeria, 1962. The country is declared independent. There is a mass exodus as people across the country flee the ensuing violence. On a plane heading for France, things get heated between passengers and crew.

The passengers include an angry OAS colonel, a fugitive spy, an undercover policeman, a former brothel-owner in mourning, a mother and her children, including little Laurent, who is only 10 years old. As they fly over Oran, the authorities order the pilot to land. But the pilot is not sure he should obey. The city is on fire and he fears that he will be forced to offload some of the passengers… What would happen to them?

Interspersed with character flashbacks, No Return smoothly weaves the stories of individuals into the bigger picture of Algerian independence. An additional twenty-page notebook dedicated to Patrick Jusseaume’s originals is included, along with an afterword by Jean-Laurent Truc, retracing the genesis of the project.


 
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MUTAFUKAZ 1886

Mutafukaz 1886 (3)

By Hutt & RUN

Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Action & Adventure 

What if Mutafukaz had taken place in 1886, after the West was won? Enter Mutafukaz 1886, the re-writing of Vinz and Angelino’s adventures à la western. In this alternate history drawn with the warm colors so typical of westerns, Vinz and Angelino are prey to the Machos, cosmic beings born out of the world’s dark matter, and who have just seized the mining companies recently sprung up in California.


Le Lombard
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Les Nouvelles Enquêtes de Ric Hochet

Commissaire Griot (5)

By Simon Van Liemt & Zidrou
Suspense & Thrillers, Action & Adventure
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Ankama
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DOFUS

Arakné Kid (27)

By Ancestral Z & Tot
Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure
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Children's & family

 
 
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Hématite

Sérénade (1)

By Victoria Maderna & Federico Piatti

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Drama 

This story explores the nature of love and relationships, taking a deeper look at the idealized versions of them that we see portrayed in popular culture. The figure of the classical vampire, a seductive manipulator, powerful and immortal, is turned on its head when a teenage girl steps into the mix. This is a supernatural coming-of-age story in a Victorian fantasy setting.


 
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La sentinelle du Petit Peuple

La Pommade de fée (1)

By Charline Forns, Carbone & Véronique Barrau

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 

When Élina is visiting her grandmother in the hospital, she finds out that her grandmother is the Keeper of the Little Folk, protecting fairies, nymphs, naiads, and other fantastical creatures! And now, her grandmother is ready to pass her responsibilities on to Élina. It’s not a moment too soon—Llyam and Nelvyna, creatures of the Little Folk, have sent up a distress signal, because a naiad has gone missing from Bird Lake. Will Élina be able to figure out how to see the fairy creatures in time to help them in their search?


 
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Les Bonshommes de pluie

Les Bonshommes de pluie (one-shot)

By François Duprat

Publisher: Editions de la Gouttière
Genres: Drama 

Summer is the time for fun, romance, relaxing and adventure. However, for Heloïse, summer promises to be rainy and gloomy. Overcome with worry at the idea of moving house at the beginning of the school year, she goes camping by the sea with her uncle, aunt and cousin. A group of teenagers dares Héloïse and her cousin to go and retrieve an object in the old house on the beach… This year, ghosts have decided to take up residence there.


 
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Happy End

La Grand panne (1)

By Benjamin Jurdic & Olivier Jouvray

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Mollie is passionate about the impending end of our civilization. She knows that the planet is warming, that the animals are disappearing, and that there will soon be no more natural resources to fuel our everyday activities. Those close to her prefer not to think about it. Until the day it all happens. No more oil. Everybody turns to Mollie but she doesn’t know how to save them. Just then, Oscar, an old castle owner, family friend and neighbor, intervenes. In his castle, there’s plenty of room, food and water, and they are welcome to join him. But the question still remains: now what do we do?


 
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Rainbow Girls

Sauvons Lulu ! (1)

By Hélène Canac & Carbone

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Through a series of strange coincidences, Gwen, Lisa and Mel form a girl-group of super heroes: the Rainbow Girls. But it’s not all fun and games! There are powers to be perfected and missions to carry out!


 
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LES MÔMES

A l'unisson (4)

By Dawid & Delphine Cuveele

Publisher: Editions de la Gouttière
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure 

Through the sensitive writing of Delphine Cuveele and the delicate colours and drawings of Dawid, these magical stories transport the reader to a world full of tenderness, humour and poetry. Poetic and poignant comics, with loads of details to catch!


Compilations & special editions

COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

Dargaud Benelux
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Djinn

La Favorite (1)

By Ana Miralles & Jean Dufaux
Action & Adventure, Erotica, Historical fiction
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Djinn

Les 30 clochettes (2)

By Ana Miralles & Jean Dufaux
Action & Adventure, Erotica, Historical fiction
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Djinn

Le Tatouage (3)

By Ana Miralles & Jean Dufaux
Action & Adventure, Erotica, Historical fiction
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Djinn

Le Trésor (4)

By Ana Miralles & Jean Dufaux
Action & Adventure, Erotica, Historical fiction
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