Harlem, NYC, at the height of the Great Depression. Stephanie St. Clair, aka “Queenie,” rules the Harlem underworld thanks to her clandestine gambling enterprise. Until the day when mafioso Dutch Schultz, otherwise known as “Dutchman” decides to stick his nose in. Dutchman, who already controls the production and distribution of illegal alcohol, wants to prepare for the end of the prohibition by consolidating his lucrative business. The gangster has one big advantage: the police turns a blind eye to his crimes because he’s white. But Queenie, who Dutchman is targeting with his full artillery of intimidation tactics, is black. Queenie wants to raise public awareness of the numerous injustices inflicted upon the black population of this country, especially in Harlem, an issue utterly neglected by the powers that be. But Queenie is an immigrant and doesn’t have a great level of written English, so she hires a white journalist who writes for The Herald to edit her articles. Robert Bishop is convinced that Queenie’s story could give him the big break he’s been waiting for, but she refuses to let him write about her: that’s the deal. But it’s a deal that the journalist will inevitably break.

Paris, 1991. Two policemen hear a loud cracking noise, the cry of a man, and then a woman yelling: “Murder!” They immediately rush into the building. They break down the bedroom door and discover a corpse with a prehistoric axe embedded in the skull. The problem is that there is no one else in this room, and yet the door was locked from the inside…
A tribute to the crime films and novels of the 30s and 40s by Thierry Smolderen, illustrated by the great Jorge Gonzalez. With its gripping storyline and impressive artwork, this is a must.

Amalia is on the verge of burnout. In her family, where she takes care of her daughter Lili, 4 years old, and puts up with her daughter-in-law Nora, 17 years old, there’s nonstop shouting and slamming of doors. In the company where she is a Team Leader, they talk about nothing but profitability, and she loses the sense of what she is doing. In the surrounding countryside, she sees the earth being destroyed by pollution and on the radio, the world news is far from comforting. So Amalia gets tired and exhausted. She breaks down.

Michel and Pascal’s owners decide to go zero waste. This is not at all to Pascal’s liking, a selfish cat who despises any change to his beloved routine… Never mind! He’s going to put them through hell! His first objective is to get his friend Michel on board, whose only goal in life is to eat as much as possible, no matter where the cat biscuit comes from. Then, to create a Feline League Against the Ecological Human… And too bad if the only other members are rodents and birds… The revolution begins now!

The Wild West is not so kind to women… A runaway slave, an Indian woman separated from her massacred tribe, a bourgeois widow, a prostitute, and an Irish woman in her sixties all brought together by force of circumstance. Men who want to keep them locked up in a cage. Women who decide to fight, and it’s going to get ugly! Ladies with Guns is the story of the unlikely meeting between two extraordinary women who refuse to be victims. An iconoclastic and jubilant western which pulls no punches.

Hoki Province, Japan, 2241. The island is populated by androids who tirelessly reenact the same samurai battles…
The 3rd “Crisis of Man” destroyed nearly all traces of human life. Among the ruins of a feudal Japan rebuilt from scratch, the few machines that survived continue to follow their traditional protocols.
While humanity was thought to be unable to survive on the surface, one of the robots—a Yojimbot—comes face to face with a survivor, a child, threatened by a group of heavily-armed soldiers. The Yojimbot decides to intervene, and is soon joined by other robots who come together to defend the young boy. But they face powerful opponents determined to snuff out all resistance…

It’s been 10 days since the U4 virus wreaked havoc. More than 90% of the world’s population has been decimated. The only survivors are teenagers. Electricity and drinking water are in short supply and all communication networks are shutting down. Four of these teenagers, Jules, Koridwen, Yannis, and Stephane, have received a message inviting them to Paris on December 24 where they will go back in time and attempt to prevent the catastrophe. In this world devastated by a deadly virus, Koridwen, Yannis, Jules, and Stephane all decide to go to the meeting in Paris without even knowing each other. Will they manage to survive, and will they be able to work together to change the course of things?

Adaptation of the novels that sold over 350 000 copies.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Looniland, filled with loonicorns, cyclopes, dodos, and other fantastical creatures! Life is good in Looniville… if you’re a Pretty. Meanwhile, the Uglies do all the work and get teased and ridiculed. Until, one day, a huge storm blows through, bringing with it a mysterious illness that only seems to affect the Pretties. And in the nearby forest, a strange new creature has landed. Her name is Penelope, and no one has seen anything like her before. Where did she come from? Could she be the cause of this nefarious disease?

Conclusive end of the first story arch.

While visiting her in the hospital, Élina discovers 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?

“—As soon as I’m on the mend, you need to get me over that mountain.

The elegant collection “Une vie en dessins” (A Drawn Life) published by Éditions Champaka Brussels dedicates each publication to a different major comics author. Each artbook features a new reference text about the author in addition to a series of commented images drawn from his or her original works. The first book in the collection is dedicated to François Walthéry and presents more than 200 fac-similes of original, scanned panels from Walthéry’s collected works. Natacha, the Smurfs, Benoît Brisefer, and all of Walthéry’s other beloved characters are the stars of this impressive coffee-table book.

Born into a family of Italian farmers at the beginning of the 19th century, Jean Bosco became known for his courage, cheerfulness and Catholic faith. When he became a priest, he launched numerous projects aiming to help poor families and youngsters involved in crime. Against the backdrop of the political upheaval that was rife in Italy at the time, Don Bosco soon gained international fame. He was canonized a few years after his death.