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mediatoon October 2022
 
Old faces, new places
 
We live in the age of the reboot, where every few years our favorite heroes are reimagined and given a fresh start. And who knows fresh beginnings better than Scrooge? We all know what his stance on Christmas was, but Munuera wonders if things would’ve been different if he’d been a woman.

We’ve also seen heroes turn into villains, and vice-versa, but what if they were merged together? Sure, Robin Hood is a good guy, but what if he and the sheriff of Nottingham were the same person? Brugeas, Herzet, and Dellac have created a twisted retelling of the popular legend.

Our beloved Marsupilami is back as well, thanks to the incredible imagination of Flix. Speaking of which, if you want to “flex” your muscles, especially the ones in your brain, then Catherine Meurisse’s fresh takes on Socrates, Rousseau, and Deleuze will definitely suit you.

Whatever you choose, you won’t miss, because we all need a fresh start from time-to-time. 

Compilations & special editions

BEST-SELLERS

 
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Blake & Mortimer

Huit heures à Berlin (29)

By Antoine Aubin, José-Louis Bocquet & Jean-Luc Fromental

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Blake Mortimer
Genres: Crime & Mystery, Action & Adventure, Suspense & Thrillers 

A duo of experienced scriptwriters joins forces with Antoine Aubin for a new, very James-Bondian album!

From Berlin to the Urals, from Geneva to London, between neural manipulations and international conspiracy, a complete adventure against the backdrop of the Cold War, espionage and scientific drift.


 
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Les Vieux Fourneaux

Chauds comme le climat (7)

By Paul Cauuet & Wilfrid Lupano

Graphic novel
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Humor 

“The Old Geezers” tells the story of three septuagenarians who have been friends since childhood: Antoine, Emile, and Pierrot. They have each taken different paths in life, made different choices, and started (or not) their own families. The series moves back and forth between the 50s and the present day, telling the tragic-comic tale of our time, with all of its social, political, and cultural upheavals.


 
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Noir burlesque

Noir burlesque (2)

By Enrico Marini

Graphic novel
Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Suspense & Thrillers 

NoirBurlesque is Enrico Marini’s first graphic novel. In a somber atmosphere inspired by film noir of the 1950s, violence, treachery, crime and jealousy are omnipresent. Not to mention femmes fatales and a sensuous atmosphere…


 
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Dad

Papa pop (9)

By Nob

Children's & Family
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor 

Dad is the father of four young girls ranging from ten months to twenty, each from different mothers. Let’s just say everyday life isn’t easy. He’s also an actor, but his family commitments make his life quite unconventional. He never misses an opportunity to take the stage, much to his daughters’ embarrassment…

“Dad” is a series first and foremost about family. You can’t help wondering how much the life of author Nob, himself a father, has inspired the creation of this enchanting series.


 
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Hypericon

Hypericon (One-shot)

By Manuele Fior

Graphic novel
Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Historical fiction 

In 1998, Odile is a young Frenchwoman who has recently arrived in Berlin as part of a university exchange program. A promising archaeology student, she has won a scholarship to prepare an exhibition on the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb by Howard Carter. Her meeting with a young Italian, Ruben, a pseudo-artist who never finished his art studies, marks the beginning of a passionate yet tormented love story.

We follow in parallel the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen by Carter in 1922. Between Egypt and Berlin, through the ages, the story has at its center the hypericum or St. John’s wort, a plant with particular properties…


Dargaud Benelux
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Le Loup en slip

Le Loup en slip s’arrache (7)

By Mayana Itoïz & Wilfrid Lupano
Humor, Action & Adventure
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Dupuis
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Louca

L’histoire de Nathan (10)

By Bruno Dequier
Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Esoteric, Humor
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Graphic novel

 
 
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Humaine trop humaine

Humaine trop humaine (One-shot)

By Catherine Meurisse

Publisher: Dargaud
Genres: Humor, Non-Fiction 

Writing a two-page monthly column for Philosophie magazine, Catherine Meurisse borrows her title from a work by the philosopher Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. It features a philosopher and a young woman, determined to question mainstream universal thought and its masculine influence.

Disconcerting and very virtuous encounters in distant or recent times, looking at the different philosophical perspectives and to give a new, non-didactic and humorous reading of them, inseparable from our time.


 
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Un chant de Noël

Un chant de Noël – Une histoire de fantômes (One-shot))

By José-Luis Munuera

Publisher: Dargaud Benelux
Genres: Literary adaptation 

London, 1843. The whole city is abuzz. Everyone is getting ready for Christmas. Everyone except Elizabeth Scrooge, a hardnosed and heartless businesswoman, who hates the festive season with a passion. Neither her long-suffering employee nor her kindly niece manage to cajole her into the Christmas spirit. But then one night, her late business associate Marley (who she had buried at very little expense) pays her a visit from the afterlife. He tells her that she will be visited by three spirits. These spirits have a difficult mission ahead: to transform the misanthropic Elizabeth Scrooge into a good person. How? By taking her back to her painful past…


 
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Une romance anglaise

Une romance anglaise (One-Shot)

By Miles Hyman & Jean-Luc Fromental

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Historical fiction 

London, 1963, amid the Pop Revolution and the Cold War. The Profumo Affair, a sex scandal, will cause an enormous storm and have severe repercussions. Christine Keeler, a young topless dancer in a cabaret club reveals that at the age of 19 she was the mistress of John Profumo, Minister of War in the Macmillan government. To make matters even worse, at the same time she was apparently having an affair with a Russian diplomat, suspected of being a spy. Since Profumo held strategic secrets, the affair was almost considered treachery. The affair exposed the depraved morals of a part of the British Establishment at that time and turned a lot of the press and the public against them.


 
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Bellem

Bellem (One-shot)

By Jean-Claude Servais

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Fantasy & Esoteric 

Bellem, son of Mélusine, has been taken in by the Marquis of Mauban and brought to the Reinhardstein castle. Old castle chambers are an unusual place for this rebellious child with a disturbingly strange ancestry.

Revisit Reinhardstein, a fierce and sublime Belgian castle in this suspenseful and tense family thriller, filled with legends and magic.


 
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Toutânkhamon – La quête de Howard Carter

Toutânkhamon – La quête de Howard Carter (One-Shot))

By Pierre-Roland Saint-Dizier & Solène Rousseau

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

1922, Sir George Herbert, Count of Carnarvon, has had enough. As substantial as his fortune may be, he is about to cut back on expenses after six years of financing unsuccessful excavations in the hopes of finding a forgotten pharaoh: Tutankhamun. But Howard Carter, the archeologist entrusted with this mission, manages to convince Sir George to give him one last chance: a season of digging in the Valley of the Kings, which has already been thoroughly explored and pillaged since Antiquity! A docu-comic jam-packed with history and adventure, drawing on the expertise of Egyptologist Amandine Marshall.


Petit à Petit BD
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HISTOIRES INCROYABLES DES 24H DU MANS

HISTOIRES INCROYABLES DES 24H DU MANS (2)

By Emmanuel Marie & Collectif
Non-Fiction
Petit à Petit BD
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Histoires incroyables du cinéma

Histoires incroyables du cinéma (2)

By Collectif
Non-Fiction
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Mainstream

 
 
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Nottingham

Robin (3)

By Benoît Dellac, Vincent Brugeas & Emmanuel Herzet

Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

What if the true story of Robin Hood turned out to be different from the one we know and love?

A forest, a sheriff, an outlaw who robs the rich to give to the poor… we all know how it goes. Disney made him popular, Kevin Costner made him sexy and Russell Crowe made him credible. But do we really know the whole story?

What if Robin Hood and the sheriff were one and the same person? What if the sheriff was actually just a normal guy, fed up with the King’s ridiculous new laws? What if he had found a way to keep his land in a good financial state simply by stealing from his own soldiers? Would it be worth the risk?


Zéphyr Editions
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Team Rafale

La guerre de l’hiver (14)

By Olivier Jolivet & Frédéric Zumbiehl
Action & Adventure
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Kana
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Sweet Konkrete

Sweet Konkrete (3)

By Senchiro
Manga, Fantasy & Esoteric, Suspense & Thrillers
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Children's & family

 
 
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Le Marsupilami de Flix

L’animal de Humboldt (One-shot)

By Flix

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Humor, Action & Adventure 

South America, December 1801. The explorer Alexander von Humboldt seizes the Marsupilami and three of its eggs. An exceptional find, which will nevertheless end up in a corner of the Berlin Natural History Museum… It is there, in 1931, that Mimi, a little girl, will meet the Marsupilami. Together they will turn Berlin upside down and try to find the missing eggs!


Illustrated books

 
 
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Les Fleurs du Mal

Recueil de poèmes de Baudelaire (One-shot)

By Yslaire

Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Literary adaptation, Erotica 

After the unmissable “Mademoiselle Baudelaire,” Yslaire goes on an even more intimate journey with the great poet in order to create this breathtakingly illustrated anthology. The encounter of two exceptional artists across the ages, harmoniously bringing together tragedy and the magic of poetry, so that the readers may rediscover Baudelaire in a stunning setting.


Compilations & special editions

COMPILATIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

 
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Jonathan

Compilation (7)

By Cosey

Mainstream Comics
Publisher: Le Lombard
Genres: Action & Adventure 

Neither hero nor anti-hero, a young amnesiac, Jonathan, lets his emotions guide him. From Nepal to the USA, he follows an indistinct dream, crossing paths with others who, like him, are in search of some meaning in their lives. His fundamental values are freedom, love, harmony, and the courage to be himself. Full of mysterious meetings and likeable characters, Jonathan embarks on a poignant internal adventure.


 
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Seuls - Compilation

Cycle (2)

By Bruno Gazzotti & Fabien Vehlmann

Children's & Family
Publisher: Dupuis
Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime & Mystery 

There are five of them… but they are alone! Five children wake up one morning to find that all the city’s inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. What has happened? Where are their parents, their friends? They find themselves left to their own devices in a big empty city and they need to learn how to manage… ALONE!


 
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HISTOIRES INCROYABLES DE LA COUPE DU MONDE

Histoires incroyables de la Coupe du Monde (Edition augmentée – Coupe du Monde 2022)

By Emmanuel Marie & Collectif

Graphic novel
Publisher: Petit à Petit BD
Genres: Non-Fiction 

If sport is your greatest passion, then you can’t miss out on these comics. The complete history of major sports competitions like the World Cup, the Tour de France or the Le Mans 24h finally exists in comic form! Discover legendary moments as well as lesser-known anecdotes about the greatest starts of football, cycling and auto racing.