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mediatoon septembre 2022
 
The power of a (s)word
 
Can words be more disruptive and harmful than weapons?

In Furieuse, the rewriting of the Excalibur legend, Princess Ysabelle is certainly in favor of weaponry: she wouldn’t be able to escape her tragic destiny and save her reign without the help of her magic sword. Our lonesome cowboy Lucky Luke wouldn’t trade his gun for jest either, since the former is far more useful in a showdown.

But sometimes, a more subtle way than violence is necessary to reach one’s goals. This is the case for Serine, the court jester who unmasks the plot against the Queen using only her own wit and puns in De Cape et de mots.

In the past, the city of Alexandria had built its grandiosity on the power of words. And how to forget all these historical figures that changed the world using nothing else than their ideas, like the philosopher Aristotle?

Whether you choose to fight with swords or with words, we can only advise that you use them wisely.

Compilations & special editions

BEST-SELLERS

 
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Les Aventures de Lucky Luke d'après Morris

L’arche de Rantanplan (10)

By Achdé & Jul, after Morris

Famille & Enfants
Publisher: Lucky Comics
Genres: Humor 

Helped by his faithful mount Jolly Jumper and hindered by Rintincan, the stupidest dog in the West, Lucky Luke spends his time getting people out of trouble. The famous ‘Poor Lonesome Cowboy”s task is not made easier by the villainous Dalton brothers, who have their work cut out trying to thwart Lucky Luke’s plans.The sales of this best-selling Western parody are second only to those of Asterix.


 
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Complainte des landes perdues - Cycle 4

Aylissa (2)

By Paul Teng & Jean Dufaux

BD de genre
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

With this fourth cycle of “La Complainte des Landes perdues,” magnified by Paul Teng’s drawings, Jean Dufaux dives even deeper into the heart of Sioban’s destiny, this legendary woman who has not finished revealing her mysteries…


 
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Le Petit Spirou

On parle pas la bouche pleine ! (19)

By Janry & Tome

Famille & Enfants
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor 

This is the hilarious series about the life of Spirou before he grew up to become the adventurer that we know and love today. Always playing some practical joke or other, either on the long-suffering priest, or poor Father Langélusse or his gym teacher, the highly unpleasant Mr Mégot; little Spirou takes a break from his mischievous pranks only to check out the girls’ showers. And indeed there are girls in his life: his adored Suzette and his captivating math teacher, Claudia Chiffre…

The series has been turned into an animated series, more information here 


Dargaud Benelux
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XIII

Cuba où tout a commencé (28)

By Iouri Jigounov & Yves Sente
Action & Adventure
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Dargaud
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Pico Bogue

Un calme fou (14)

By Alexis Dormal & Dominique Roques
Humor
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Graphic novel

 
 
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Le chant du temps inversé

Le chant du temps inversé (One-shot)

By Galaad

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Drama 

The melancholic and erotic wanderings of a disillusioned woman told through the alternate point of view of two characters suspended in time, who wonder about their relationship to the world, to love, to sex.


 
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Les déboires de Norman Bold

Disparitions au Jazz Club (1)

By Alex Clérisse

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Norman is a professional jazz musician. One evening, in 1966, his girlfriend Emily leaves him. From that moment on, Norman considers himself incapable of playing a single note correctly. He has only one burning desire: to give up music. Problem is, that’s exactly what every one else doesn’t want him to do; he is even hired for a European tour.

Years later, in 1999, Norman has fled to the French countryside, where he leads a quiet life without music. He receives a letter from Emily announcing that she will be coming to visit for the New Year.

The reunion goes beautifully, and that evening, Norman plays for the first time with a group of young people… and before he knows it, he’s kidnapped by a cult, flees, and finds himself lost with Emily in the forest in the middle of a storm. That night, with Emily in his arms, waiting for dawn to arrive and for someone to come find them, Norman finally plays the right notes.


 
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La Synagogue

La Synagogue (One-shot)

By Joann Sfar

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Biographies & Mémoires 

For thirty years, Joann Sfar has sought to invite his reader into the Jewish world. All his stories are desperate calls for brotherhood. « The Synagogue » marks without doubt the beginning of his most intimate epic. This time, he goes less far than the Algeria of « Le chat » or the Ukraine of « Klezmer ». It was necessary for him to be on a hospital bed in 2021 for the artist to finally dare to tell his real adventures of adolescence. It’s a generation that feels guilty for having been born after Hitler and for not being able to fight him. Kids with clenched fists who tell themselves that the sons of bourgeoisie disguised as skinheads who cross their path will not be enemies equal to their grief. This is the story of French Jews who dream of being like everyone else but don’t quite
« The Synagogue » is a story that reminds us of the permanence of political extremism and the need to fight it, even if this fight must be started again in each generation.


 
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Bunker

Bunker (One-shot)

By Camille Poulie

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Drama 

Jessica, a quiet teenager, lives on the banks of the Opal Coast and plays soccer with the local guys. Enough to make the girls mad. What to intrigue the boys, including Antoine, a young vacationer… Gathered in an abandoned German bunker that becomes their headquarters, these individualities will smell each other , fight, and make up… A social chronicle with an astonishing force.


 
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Diabolo Menthe

Diabolo Menthe (One-shot)

By Cathy Karsenty & Diane Kurys

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Drama 

The 1963 summer vacation has just ended and the two sisters Anne and Frederique Weber are beginning their school year at a Parisian high school for girls. Their parents are divorced and they hardly see their father except during vacation. Anne is thirteen years old, rather reserved but also very distracted in her studies, dreaming of a boy she met during vacation. She is a dishonest girl who steals and lies continuously without a care in the world. Frederique is fifteen years old and she’s not a great student either. She plays the rebellious teenager: she has a fling with a boy, who writes her dirty letters, she smokes, and is active in a left-wing group, even though politics is forbidden at school.


 
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Aristote

Aristote (One-shot)

By Alecos Papadatos & Tassos Apostolidis

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Biography & Memoirs, Non-Fiction 

Aristotle, the son of a renowned Macedonian physician, pursues his studies in Athens and becomes one of Plato’s main disciples. A great scholar, he even serves as Alexander the Great’s personal tutor for a while, before going on to found the Lyceum where he transmits his knowledge and passion to any student wishing to embark on an intellectual and philosophical journey.


 
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Furieuse

Furieuse (One-shot)

By Mathieu Burniat & Geoffroy Monde

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

No, Ysabelle will not marry the crusty old man that her father imposes on her! And no, Excalibur will not forever suffer from the drunken mood swings of its owner! Both are under the control of the king—and what a king! King Arthur, who is far from his former glory, has reduced them both to the rank of objects although they are perfectly worthy of words and intelligence. The legendary sword and the princess will bind their fates in an emancipating quest that will lead them into the depths of the Pendragon kingdom.


 
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Terres d’Accueil

Deux familles – Deux parcours – Un espoir (One-shot)

By Samuel Figuière, Valette

Publisher: Petit à Petit BD
Genres: Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoirs 

A fresh look at immigration in this docu-Comic, produced in partnership with university researchers. Discover two journeys, that of Nahja and Hiba, Syrian refugees, illustrated by Valette and that of Demba and Djibril, undocumented Guinean migrants, illustrated by Samuel Figuière. Two journeys and two graphic styles within the same book, completed by precise and fascinating documentary pages.


Mainstream

 
 
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Talento Seven

Talento Seven (1)

By Kalon & Izu

Publisher: Kana
Genres: Action & Adventure, Manga 

How to become a social media influencer when you’re painfully shy? Like the series Bakuman, which took a deep dive into the world of manga publishers in Japan, here we follow the story of Adel, an aspiring influencer who wants to share his passion for video games with the world.


 
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Vanupied

Vanupied – tome 1 (1)

By Malcom Montagnani & Nicolas Holweg

Publisher: Kana
Genres: Manga 

And what if clothes had superpowers?
At Vesmondo, where every item of clothing gives its wearer magical powers, lives Luth Sakristo, a young boy capable of using them all with the slightest of touches. However, activating these powers can leave him close to death, so he must be careful not to use them too much! Setting out on the trail of his grandfather, who’s been abducted by a criminal gang, the Metalo Kiraso, Luth meets new friends and discovers, during his adventure, the vastness and richness of the world of Vesmondo.


 
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Ladies with guns

Ladies with guns (2)

By Anlor & Olivier Bocquet

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Western 

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.


 
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Les Nouvelles aventures de Bruno Brazil

Terreur boréale à Eskimo Point (3)

By Philippe Aymond & Laurent-Frédéric Bollée

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Bruno Brazil and his Commando Caiman have successfully led many perilous missions. But the last of them went seriously wrong, and several members of his team were badly mutilated or killed.
A few months later, Brazil still hasn’t got over the tragedy but there’s a new threat on the scene. An elusive criminal is killing all of Brazil’s old adversaries, and he seems to be preparing a large-scale operation to conquer space.
There have been enough tears, now the time has come for the survivors of Commando Caiman to get back to together and fight once more! 


 
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Mémoires d'Alexandrie

Mémoires d’Alexandrie (One-shot)

By Chiara Raimondi

Publisher: Ankama
Genres: Historical fiction 

The library of Alexandria is a well-known legend: the fantasy of a king to acquire the entire world’s knowledge through books. But there was more to this mythical place than met the eye. In the light and shadows of the city of Alexander the Great, there were men ready to kill for knowledge and power…


Dargaud
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Renaissance

Les Hybrides (5)

By Frédéric Blanchard, EMEM & Fred Duval
Sci-Fi, Action & Adventure
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Le Lombard
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Klaw

Walk (14)

By Joël Jurion & Ozanam
Fantasy & Esoteric
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Children's & family

 
 
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De cape et de mots

De cape et de mots (one-shot)

By Kerascoët & Flore Vesco

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Action & Adventure, Literary adaptation 

Young Serine is determined to become a lady-in-waiting to help provide for her family. But she soon finds herself at the mercy of a thoughtless queen, scheming lords and ladies, and vicious palace fauna. Luckily, this garrulous and down-on-her-luck countess has always been able to count on her wits—and her words!—to survive, and life at court proves no different.


 
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CityZen

CityZen (One-shot)

By Toledano, Robledo, Jain, Perez & Galice

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Sci-Fi 

CityZen: an eco-friendly city that uses its incredible trees to heal a post-apocalyptic Earth. Amal, an ultra-committed high school student, is ready to do her part as soon as she finishes her studies. But she’ll have to contend with her sister, Sana, an activist who’s determined to destroy this ethical city—a bastion of short supply chains and degrowth… Torn between her love for her sister and her environmental beliefs, Amal will have to choose a side!

French singer Jain steps away from the world of music to write this unexpected, entertaining, and uncompromising reflection on environmentalism.


Dupuis
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Petit Poilu

Tout pour moi rien pour tous ! (27)

By Pierre Bailly & Céline Fraipont
Action & Adventure
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Studio Boule et Bill
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Boule & Bill

L’échappée Bill (43)

By Jean Bastide, Christophe Cazenove & Jean Roba
Humor
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Compilations & special editions

COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

 
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Malgré tout

Malgré tout - Black & White Edition (One-shot)

By Jordi Lafebre

Roman Graphique
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Drama, Romance 

Not all love stories are made equally. Some take decades to blossom, seeming almost to go in reverse. Such is the case for Zeno, a 60-year-old PhD student and nomad bookshop owner, and Ana, a freshly retired mayor, mother, and wife. After years of popping in and out of each other’s lives, crossing paths but never quite able to grab hold, their impossible but unshakable love may just have one last chance to flourish, before the final curtain…


 
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Condor

Compilation (2)

By Dominique Rousseau & Jean-Pierre Autheman

BD de genre
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Action & Adventure 

An emblematic series of the 1980s, with a remarkable clear line and stories full of adventures and striking dialogues, trademarks of the late Jean-Pierre Autheman.


 
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Théodore Poussin – Récits complets

Cocos Nucifera Island (7)

By Frank Le Gall

BD de genre
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime & Mystery  

From unknown clerk to famous adventurer. From a child raised among women clad in organdy dresses to an impenitent traveler. From Theodore, naïve and shy, to Poussin, thrown by his strange destiny into the whirlwind of adventure on the high seas. Between Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stephenson, a magical saga that stretches from Dunkirk to Jakarta in the 1920s and touches the depths of the soul.