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mediatoon April 2022
 
Be creative and save the planet!
 
Our impact on the environment is an increasingly important subject. In our catalogs, you’ll find many books that teach us to be more considerate towards our one and only planet.

With this new collection by Dargaud Mâtin, you can read about the challenges of being eco-friendly in the 21st century in the inhibition-freeing Procrastination écologique, or learn more about the overproduction of plastic in Plastic Tac Tic Tac.

What is pollination? What is the plastisphere? If you need all the facts now, Zeropedia will give you the answer to your tricky scientific question in just one page!

Finally, because saving the planet can also be fun, Héloïse Solt will show you how to use your imagination to invent your own games instead of wasting money on plastic toys, in La Choucroute!

Read, learn, and play! Every eco-friendly decision is a step towards saving our planet.

The MFR Team

Compilations & special editions

BEST-SELLERS

 
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Elles

Universelle(s) (2)

By Aveline Stokart & Kid Toussaint

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 

Elle is just another teenage girl… most of the time. Bubbly and good-natured, she wastes no time making friends on her first day at her new school. But Elle has a secret: she hasn’t come alone. She’s brought with her a colorful mix of personalities, which come out when she least expects it… Who is Elle, really? And will her new friends stand by her when they find out the truth?


 
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Animal Jack

Face à la meute (6)

By Miss Prickly & Kid Toussaint

Children's & Family
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric 

Jack is a typical grade school kid… except that he never speaks a word, is followed everywhere he goes by a flying bug, and can turn into any animal he wants, usually to come to the rescue of his family and classmates. Not everybody appreciates his strange behavior, though. Will Jack ever be understood and accepted by those around him?


Dupuis
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FRNCK

Exode (8)

By Cossu & Bocquet
Action & Adventure, Humor
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Ankama
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RADIANT

Radiant (16)

By Tony Valente
Fantasy & Esoteric, Action & Adventure, Humor
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Graphic novel

 
 
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Procrastination écologique

Procrastination écologique (one-shot)

By Maïté Robert

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Non-Fiction 

It’s hard trying to be eco-friendly when there’s Netflix and McDonald’s, isn’t it?
Quitting fast-fashion and plane travel, reducing waste and meat eating without putting too much pressure on yourself or feeling guilty along the way: these are challenges that Maïté Robert takes up every day, with varying degrees of success… It’s a process that she explains with humor in this new, inhibition-freeing graphic novel.


 
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Mythes et Meufs

Mythes et Meufs (one-shot)

By Blanche Sabbah

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Non-Fiction 

Blanche Sabbah is a feminist activist with degrees in art history and sociology.
In Fables and Females, she unravels myths, fairy tales, biblical texts, and cartoons, questioning the role of women and the way these stories have evolved over the centuries, contributing to our patriarchal society. With her militant eye, she deconstructs the stories that we know so well and whose hidden meaning we sometimes ignore.


 
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Plastic Tac Tic Tac

Plastic Tac Tic Tac (one-shot)

By Terreur Graphique & Capucine Dupuy

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Non-Fiction 

We ingest more than 100,000 particles per year, the equivalent of a coat hanger (21 g) per month. Plastic on our plate, plastic on the beach, plastic on the farm, plastic in the sea, plastic in the soil… these days, plastic is everywhere, like the air we breathe, and as such, it is well worth writing a book about! This is a project supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.


 
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Pigalle, 1950

Pigalle, 1950 (one-shot)

By Jean-Michel Arroyo & Pierre Christin

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Drama 

Paris, the 1980s. Alone in the funicular that ascends the Montmartre hill, a man reminisces. He remembers himself at age 18, a country bumpkin who left his hometown in search of the gleaming Paris of the 1950s. The capital, with its magical lights, its incomparable nightlife, its girls, its gangsters, its rackets and its various kinds of trafficking… The boss of a famous nightclub takes Antoine under his wing, and the young man meets a panoply of colorful characters: Pretty Beb, Windshield, Thickfist… He also discovers love and lives it all with intensity, until the day when, unannounced, his life changes radically.
In Montmartre, the funicular always makes the trip back down…


 
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Les Frères Michelin

Une aventure industrielle (one-shot)

By Fabien Nappey & Cédric Mayen

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Biography & Memoirs 

Michelin is one of France’s industrial flagships that still shines throughout the world today. At its origin, two visionary brothers: André and Édouard Michelin. If Michelin’s rise is very much down to the automobile, the latter’s tremendous expansion owes much to the tire. But it is not their only invention. Road maps, milestones, gastronomic guides… their lives have been punctuated by small revolutions.
The story begins in June 1940. The Germans have arrived in Clermont-Ferrand, the Michelin family’s hometown. In the cemetery where his brother André is buried, Édouard is afraid and confides in them. The Germans might take everything or destroy it all. Their whole life, everything they created together. This is an opportunity to retrace their memories and a life of creation that revolutionized their era.


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Sweet Konkrete

Sweet Konkrete (1)

By Senchiro

Publisher: Kana
Genres: Manga, Fantasy & Esoteric, Suspense & Thrillers 

Sometimes our curiosity leads us on a journey we never could have imagined…
Asa, an intrepid police officer, takes advantage of her recent suspension to clean up some of her father’s old things. A police officer like her, he died on duty when she was still just a child. At least that’s what she thought until she comes across an old police file and her father’s service pistol. Her investigation leads her from the Blue-Sky ghetto to the Citadel, an area that was apparently abandoned after an industrial accident. But the truth is stranger than it seems.
The Citadel is in fact home to people who possess unusual powers, and one of them may know what really happened to Asa’s father. Could it be that he’s still alive?! Asa’s thirst for the truth might end up changing all their lives.


 
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L'Or des Belges

L’Or des Belges (1)

By Stéphane Brangier, Pierre Boisserie & Philippe Guillaume

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Seeing as we are in a conquered country, we might as well help ourselves to their resources! This is what the Nazis think when they occupy Belgium, and they have an enormous need for funds to finance the occupation of the whole of Europe and the Eastern front which is dragging on. But the Belgians can see the Nazis coming and decide to entrust their reserves to France for safekeeping. France loads the gold onto a cargo ship bound for Africa. The gold finally arrives in Dakar but is then intercepted by the Germans, and the treasure is sent back to Germany by train.


Dargaud
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Tramp

Traquenard en mer (12)

By Roberto Zaghi & Jean-Charles Kraehn
Action & Adventure, Crime & Mystery
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Ankama
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DOFUS

Mourir ne peut plus attendre (28)

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

 
 
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Derrière le rideau

Derrière le rideau (one-shot)

By Sara del Giudice

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Drama 

At the end of the 1930s, in a small Provencal village, Yael and her little sister Emilie are living life to the fullest, surrounded by their loving family. Even though the adult world is of no interest to them, they do notice when they hear their maternal grandfather call their father a “goy” or when their paternal grandparents refuse to see them because their son has married a Jewish woman.
Unfortunately, their lives are turned upside down when their mother dies and their father remarries Ophelie a few months later. For the two children, this silly woman could never replace their beloved mother.


 
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Les sauveurs d'esprits

Louise (1)

By Julien Monier & Carbone

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Having just lost her father, Sam accidentally discovers she has the gift of seeing and talking to the spirits at the cemetery. They call out to her for help and won’t move on. With the help of her older brother Tim, Sam has no choice but to free the tormented spirits so that they can find peace… and so that both her and her brother can mourn. It’s up to the spirit savers to help these poor souls transition to the spirit world.


 
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Au-delà des étoiles

Plus qu’un quartier ! (3)

By Lesdeuxpareilles & Cee Cee Mia

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Drama 

We follow a group of teenagers with different passions: Eli and her best friend Marwa dream of hip-hop, Kub hopes to become a professional soccer player, Finley lives and breathes basketball and Sami fluctuates between dance and getting into trouble. They all grew up together and will form a bond around hip-hop. We’ll follow their story in each new album.


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La Choucroute

La Choucroute (one-shot)

By Héloïse Solt

Publisher: Little Urban
Genres: Picture Books 

Héloïse Solt brings us a rich homage to her childhood: an original recipe to fight boredom… not forgetting that it doesn’t take much to feed a child’s imagination! A feast of poetry and fun.
Everyone is bored stiff today. It’s plain to see. The adults watch the kids and the kids watch the adults. I watch everybody and decide it’s high time to do something about it. In order to save this afternoon from disaster, I announce: “Oh bother! Dinner isn’t ready yet and our guests will be arriving any minute. We must make them the most delicious dish the world has ever seen.” I’m met with stunned looks. What? I don’t want to have to explain the whole darn thing. The key is to express yourself. Shall I continue?


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COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

 
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Sybil la Fée cartable - Compilation

Sybil la Fée cartable - Compilation (1)

By Dalena & Rodrigue

Children's & Family
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Nina’s life is not much different from the lives of most of the 15-year-old girls… That is, until the day she discovers a tiny fairy living in her schoolbag ! Sybil, the fairy, explains to Nina that she’s come to help her in her everyday life. Chores, homework — everything’s easier when you’ve got a fairy for a friend. But, alas, reality turns out not to be so simple. With the arrival of a wicked fairy, a giant monster, a pharaoh who’s escaped from the past and four masked strangers with mysterious powers, Nina’s life is about to get a lot more complicated…


Le Lombard
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Miss Octobre - Compilation

Miss Octobre - Compilation (one-shot)

By Alain Queireix & Stephen Desberg
Suspense & Thrillers
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Dupuis
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Marzi - Compilation

Une enfance polonaise (1989-1996) (2)

By Sylvain Savoia & Sowa
Drama, Historical fiction
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