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mediatoon mars 2023
 
The wait is over
 
It’s been said that good things come to those who wait. Luckily, that wait just may be over, because some of our favorite titles are back on the shelves!

After 80 years, Jean Van Hamme continues the story of Edgar P. Jacobs’ U Ray in La Flèche ardente. And in case you are not familiar with the comic that paved the way for Jacobs’ famous duo of detectives ⎯  Blake & Mortimer ⎯  a re-release of the original Rayon U has hit the stores as well.

Ana Ana‘s fans are also rewarded for their patience this month. Pico Bogue’s little sister is never short of ideas, so she and her cuddly toys promise a fun and, as always, tender new adventure.

In some other, fantastical universe, young Turo is back in a special collection that gathers all four volumes of the series.

Now wasn’t that worth the wait?

Compilations & special editions

BEST-SELLERS

 
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Avant Blake et Mortimer

Le Rayon U (1)

By Edgar P. Jacobs

BD de genre
Publisher: Blake Mortimer
Genres: Action & Adventure 

In 1943, when copies of “Flash Gordon” could no longer be shipped to countries occuped by the Germans, “Bravo!” magazine asked Edgar P. Jacobs to create a new adventure series to take its place. And so “Le Rayon U” was born. But Jacobs had the audacity to turn it into a metaphor, with a tyrant controling the bad guys (an obvious allusion) and good guys looking remarkably British, in anticipation of Blake and Mortimer.

The infamous Captain Dagon, a member of the Austrian secret service, infiltrates a mission to the Black Isles led by Norlandia, which aims to get his hands on uradium, a mineral with prodigious properties. Soon, the expedition will experience extraordinary adventures…

The new edition of this 9th art classic benefits from a colouring by Bruno Tatti, in accordance with Jacobs’ original palette.


 
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Avant Blake et Mortimer

La Flèche ardente (2)

By Jean Van Hamme, Christian Cailleaux & Étienne Schréder

BD de genre
Publisher: Blake Mortimer
Genres: Action & Adventure 

In “La Flèche ardente” Jean Van Hamme takes up the story precisely where Jacobs left it in “Le Rayon U”, in order to give us the conclusion we’ve been lacking for 80 years.

The Emperor of Austradie, a paranoid megalomaniac, wants to invade the Black Islands in order to get his hands on their reserves of uradium and puts General Robioff in charge of the murderous mission. Meanwhile, in Norlandie, Professor Marduk is demonstrating the powerful new U Ray to the members of the Great Council. But none of them are aware that the islands belong to Puncha Taloc, the fearsome God of Fire, whose ancestors have put a deadly curse on anyone who sets foot on them. The Black Islands will become the scene of death and destruction…


 
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Ana Ana

Comment bien dormir avec six doudous ? (21)

By Dominique Roques & Alexis Dormal

Famille & Enfants
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Humor 

Six cuddly toys is a lot! And when it’s time to go to bed, it’s not easy to find a free spot. Especially as all the cuddly toys would like to sleep next to Ana Ana. But between Baleineau’s restless sleep, Zigzag’s big ears, and Pingpong’s icy paws… How do you keep everyone happy, while still allowing them to sleep well? Ana Ana never lacks ideas and with the help of all the cuddly toys, they will find their balance together and have a lovely night.


Dargaud Benelux
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Complainte des landes perdues - Cycle 3

Regina obscura (3)

By Jean Dufaux & Béatrice Tillier
Fantasy & Esoteric
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Dupuis
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Buck Danny - Origines

Le Fils du Viking noir 2/2 (2)

By Yann & Giuseppe De Luca
Action & Adventure
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Graphic novel

 
 
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Le prof qui a sauvé sa vie

Le prof qui a sauvé sa vie (One-shot)

By Albert Algoud & Florence Cestac

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Humor, Biography & Memoirs 

Albert Algoud tells Florence Cestac about his crazy years when, as a young teacher with a fresh diploma, in the early 1980s, he landed in the world’s asshole: a village in Haute-Savoie. A non-conformist who ignores the old educational lunatics, Algoud is the crazy counterpart of the teacher Daniel Pennac (Chagrin d’école). A good teacher can really change lives, starting with his own!


 
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Lozère apocalypse

Livre premier (1)

By Stan Silas

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Humor, Action & Adventure 

A plane full of children on their way to holiday camp crashes in the middle of a forest. Left to their own devices, the survivors try to figure out how to get out of the woods and back to civilization. But strange things happen that they don’t understand. Who are the chicken-children that keep attacking them? Who is the talking fox who seems to be trying to help them? How come there are other plane wrecks in the exact same place if the crash was an accident?

They’ll have to move quickly if they want to survive, because in the place called the “Lozère,” everything is steeped in danger and mystery. A tale full of humor and suspense, accompanied by simple illustrations. Get ready for an adventure!


 
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L'année fantôme

L’année fantôme (One-shot)

By Didier Tronchet

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor 

Paris. Gilles has a really wicked sense of humor and writes absolutely brutal articles. He has left his small-town life and his family behind him long ago, but one day professional difficulties force him to return home to his family. And there, cut off from the media, he is confronted with the realities of his past… why has he put up this wall of dark humor between him and others?

Somewhere between autobiography and fiction, and in the same graphic and narrative style as “The Lost Singer,” Tronchet, through the story of initiation, brings to us his vision of building and learning humor.


Mainstream

 
 
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Le Grizzli

Le Grizzli (1)

By Fred Simon & Matz

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Crime & Mystery 

Former boxer “Grizzli” seems to owe his nickname to his abundance of hair rather than his size—though quite impressive. He and his friends, Toine and Joe, live a happy life in Paris until, one day, Joe has a problem… An old friend from his wild days that he’d rather forget, Bébert-la-Gambille, has just got out of jail and is causing him trouble. Well, when your friend is having a hard time, what do you do? Grizzli and Toine pull out all the stops to help him by confronting the evil Bébert and assisting the tiresome detective Jean-Pierre Gourme, better known as “The Leech.” But Bébert has a few surprises up his sleeve and Grizzli isn’t out of the ring yet…

First and foremost an evocation of 1960s France—of its atmosphere, style, language— ”Grizzli and Friends” is also a heartfelt homage to the literature, cinema, and writers, each of which is recalled with a tinge of nostalgia. While staying true to their major themes and means of expression: friendship, betrayal, ingenuity, mockery, slang, it serves all the ingredients of a classic French thriller!


 
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Cosaques

Dans la gueule du loup (2)

By Vincent Brugeas, Ronan Toulhoat & Yoann Guillo

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Historical fiction, Action & Adventure 

With his new brothers in arms, the Cossacks, Karlis defeated the winged hussars. No one is ignorant of the decisive role that the young deserter played in this battle. This makes him a hero as well as a prime target. He doesn’t care. A life without god or master is at this price. But there are powers to which all respond, Cossacks or not: feelings, frustration and jealousy. Karlis will understand that the battlefields are endless, and all of them call for blood.


Children's & family

 
 
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Monsieur Blaireau et Madame Renarde

Le Porte-bonheur (7)

By Brigitte Luciani & Eve Tharlet

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Action & Adventure 

– I want a good luck charm like Martis.

– What? Don’t tell me you believe in that stuff?

Badgers and foxes are definitely not the same. And when it comes to beliefs, of course, they never agree. When their friend Martis arrives with a lucky charm, Scoutbadger scoffs and decides to prove to everyone that there is nothing magical about these wooden ornaments. But the case is not a simple one, the experiment goes wrong and doubts start to grow. If it’s all a matter of chance, why is it that some people seem to be more fortunate than others? What does luck have to do with it?


 
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Le coeur en braille

Le coeur en braille (One-shot)

By Joris Chamblain, Pascal Ruter & Anne-Lise Nalin

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Literary adaptation 

So far, for Victor, a school year is like bungee jumping without the cord. Painful. What would he prefer to be doing? Listening to the Rolling Stones, stuffing his face with Turkish delight with his friend Haïçam, talking about mechanics with his weird father… When he’s not having fun hiding the toilet paper from the girls’ toilets, he’s trying to get out of all the punishments that are constantly coming his way.

But when Marie-Jose, an absolute genius, comes into his life during a math test, his whole world turns upside down… Why is this talented cellist, who is top of her class, suddenly interested in him? A strange friendship is born betweeen these two teenagers who are total opposites… Will they be able to keep Marie-Jose’s big secret under wraps until the very end?


 
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Witch club

Witch Club (One-shot)

By Cédric Mayen & Sandra Cardona

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

The Witch Club is shaking on its foundations! La Bruja, the oldest and most powerful witch on the Council, wants to cast, against the warnings of her sisters, “a revolutionary spell that will bring magic into a new era”! But just as she is about to perform this new spell, she disappears under strange circumstances. To make matters worse, her unsupervised pet demon, Barbouillard, accidentally summons the Devil himself!

Sorority, fantasy and humor are on the menu of this “Witch Club”, a story that will delight young fans of the genre! Sandra Cardona (art) and Cédric Mayen (script) had a lot of fun coming up with this story of magical initiation. Welcome to the Witch Club !


 
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Passe-moi l'ciel

Juste ciel ! (8)

By Janry & Stuf

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor 

Everyone dies at some point and ends up on the other side. For more than twenty-five years, Stuf and Janry have been telling us what happens after death. And the reception in heaven (or in hell) is not sad: there are single socks, dinosaurs (a big influx 65 million years ago), Sneezy, Prof. and Shy (that was the time Snow White decided to make an apple pie…). As for the charm singers and other charming princes, they are likely to end up in hell, since Saint Peter can’t stand the competition of these handsome men…

In short, while waiting for your last hour to come, « Passe-moi l’ciel » is a healthy and funny read, highly recommended!


 
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Trésor

La vague rouge (1)

By Jean-Baptiste Saurel & Pauline De La Provôté

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

The only memories Treasure has of his mother are the stories his father tells him. Well, that, and the beaten-up ship that’s been stuck in the harbor for the past 10 years! With his gang of friends, Dico, Yav, and Nisette, they spend their free time trying to imagine where Treasure’s mother could be on the high seas. His father tells them that she’s a pirate! But when the 8-year-old boy learns that the ship is to be sold to the sinister Gaspard Pivoleurx, he decides to take his gang on a treasure hunt that is far more real than the games they usually play…


 
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Poltron Minet

La voie romane (1)

By Cédric Mayen & Madd

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Minet, a young kitten abandoned by his owners, gets lost in the forest and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he meets a rabbit and a squirrel who name him Scaredy-Cat before leading him to their village, a community where animals speak, dress and stand on their legs. But Minet is not one of these free-born animals, and despite his desire to go in search of his mistress, he is forced to undergo an ordeal to free himself from the taint of his connection with humans in order to be accepted by the other animals. Deceived, hunted and then trapped, Minet will discover a pitiless animal society that has nothing to envy to the human one…


 
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Les sauveurs d'esprits

Guy (2)

By Carbone & Julien Monier

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Little Sam has a gift: she can talk to ghosts. This complicates the life of Tim, her older brother who has been taking care of her since their father died… Especially when Sam skips school in order to follow Malo, a ghost cat who takes her to his dead master, Guy, a spirit in transit! Guy wants to finish a task before leaving for the afterlife: to give the museum curator his findings about a mysterious treasure. The problem is that the old man’s file has disappeared. And his death may not be all that natural…

The second volume of Carbone’s new series (La Boîte à musique, Dans les yeux de Lya, La Sentinelle du Petit Peuple), still accompanied by Julien Monier. A youth saga that is inventive, thrilling, touching and full of humour!


 
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Wishlist

Mon démon favori (1)

By Ced & Stivo

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric, Humor 

How to go from a run-of-the-mill teenager to a high school superstar whose BFF is an inept demon… Marcus isn’t smart enough to be a nerd, or athletic enough to be a jock, or cool enough to run with the in-crowd. Marcus is just your average, boring dude… to whom something extraordinary is about to happen! That’s what’s called a recipe for success (just ask JK Rowling), and readers are sure to connect with this unorthodox hero, through his misadventures as well as his victories—against all odds.


Dupuis
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Le Royaume

La meilleure pâtissière (7)

By Benoît Feroumont
Humor
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Dupuis
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Petit Poilu

T’inquiète Suzette ! (28)

By Céline Fraipont & Bailly
Action & Adventure
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Illustrated books

 
 
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Super Simone

Super Simone sauve les oiseaux (1)

By Thibault Guichon-Laurier & Jess Pauwels

Publisher: Little Urban
Genres: Picture Books 

Meet Super Simone, the budgie with extraordinary powers! Her plan? Quite simply to save the planet! Trouble is, people don’t make things simple. They’re always creating threats and dangers that are destroying the planet a little more every day.


 
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Elisabeth sous les toits

Elisabeth sous les toits (One-shot)

By Vincent Cuvellier & Guillaume Bianco

Publisher: Little Urban
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 

Paris, 1920, a young orphan Elisabeth arrives in the French capital carrying only a photo of her parents and a meager bundle. She finds shelter on the top floor of a small maid’s room. There, under the rooftops of Paris, she dreams of finding her parents. But she doesn’t know that the building is overrun with Schmolls! Luckily, Elisabeth is not a coward.


Compilations & special editions

COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

 
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Les Frustrés

Best of Les Frustrés (One-shot)

By Claire Bretecher

BD de genre
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Humor 

From 1973 to 1981, in the pages of the ‘Nouvel Obs’, Claire Bretécher wrote a weekly portrait of the Frustrated (Frustrés), which earned her the title of “best sociologist of the year” in 1976 by Roland Barthes. She sketches, certainly with tenderness, but above all with a pitiless lucidity, these French snobs, intellectuals, leftists and, above all, the totally lost.

Nearly 30 years later, these hilarious pages are a joyful testimony of all our shortcomings and they are also the best way to realize that nothing has changed, from Frustrated we have just become bobos, but the symptoms are the same.


Le Lombard
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Intégrale Turo

Intégrale Turo (0)

By Guerrero
Fantasy & Esoteric
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Dupuis
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Buck Danny - Origines - Récit complet

L’Honneur d’un pilote (1)

By Yann & Giuseppe De Luca
Action & Adventure
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