After twenty-two albums, Christin and Mézières decided to bring the Valérian series to a close. But since true heroes never die, new authors, carefully selected, with the blessing of the two artists, write their own Valerian and Laureline adventures.

The story of a comics author in search of inspiration. In his tireless quest, he roams the creative universe, going back through history and asking for help from the great painters, and from God himself. With ferocious lucidity, the author pulls no punches and poignantly depicts an artist adrift. Not everyone can combine humor and helplessness. With this moving, cultured, and hard-hitting work, Manu Larcenet masterfully does just that.

The true story of Ersin Karabulut, a famous comic artist, and his journey from the underprivileged suburbs of Istanbul to the heights of publishing and the satirical press. This is how he lived, sometimes on the front line, dealing with the upheavals and political turmoil of his country, while Turkey slowly transitioned from a democracy to an authoritarian regime. Ersin Karabulut paints a portrait of Turkey torn by deep political and societal differences, whose recent history is made up of coups d’états, hopes, disillusionment, and dramas. How are the basic freedoms that were thought to be fundamental human rights being slowly attacked, denied,and eroded? This autobiographical account also shows how Karabulut became a famous and recognized cartoonist, and how without any embellishment or complacency, he learned to tell a story, design a cover, and finally, how he is faced with Erdogan after a cartoon published in his newspaper…

Summer, 1997. In her suburban house, a mother is baking cookies and listening to the news on the radio. She would like her husband to take care of her a little more, but he’s such a busy man, slumped on the couch, engrossed by an F1 race on television. Upstairs, her teenage daughter is secretly smoking at her bedroom window. With her backpack at the ready, she is about to slip out of the window and go take on the world.In the meantime, her brother has other concerns: everyone knows that to wake a princess up, you have to give her a kiss. But what should a young boy who is not a princess do, when he feels the burning desire to kiss his neighbor?
Through the innocence of childhood games, Quentin Zuttion questions our impulses to love, homosexuality, and desire, in a breathtaking and dreamlike tale.

Ancient Greece, Athens. Following an unfortunate act, the famous architect Daedalus causes the death of his nephew and must flee to Crete. When he arrives on the island, witnesses Minos becoming king after conjuring a bull from the ocean. But Minos does not keep his promise to sacrifice the bull once he is on the throne. In revenge, the god of the oceans has the queen and the bull mate. From this unnatural union is born a child, half-man, half-beast, the Minotaur! Devastated, Minos entrusts him to Daedalus and his companion, a slave named Naupacte, with the help of Ariane… but the murderous impulses of the Minotaur, now an adult, push the architect to hide him in a mysterious dwelling at the bottom of a labyrinth… Until Theseus ends up killing the creature alias… Asterion…

Merel likes soccer, ducks, and parties with friends. But Merel also loves her life as a single woman. Unfortunately, an innocent prank puts the forty-year-old at the center of a rumor: she sleeps with every man in the village. The small Flemish town gangs up against her, making her a scapegoat against whom all forms of violence become legitimate…

Vesper, the Amazon of the Knights of Nyx, is a formidable warrior versed in the practice of Etheric magic. She uses her talents in the service of Prince Crimson Nyx, with whom she shares the dream of a kingdom where people of all races can live together. But in the midst of celebrating an important victory for their kingdom, the two heroes are ambushed by the Ekklesia, a religious order that sees in them the manifestation of dark forces that must be stamped out. A richly detailed fantasy series not to be missed.

In a devastated cityscape, a lone man fights off creatures of fearsome power: white, winged, serenely impassive, and capable of terrifying transformations… Decades later, in a desolate American southwest, a meager colony of human survivors ekes out a precarious existence between dwindling water supplies and magnetic shields that screen them from roving bands of aerial attackers. An ancestral upper class presides, while in the lower city, laborers do the hazardous work of keeping everyone alive. But all that may be about to change when the mysterious Joshua comes of age…

Set against the backdrop of a dystopian future, Elle and Karel fall in love. The problem is, one of them is human and the other a robot. In a world where humans deny robots all humanity, can there be any future for a mixed couple? Will there one day be a robot revolution? In this strange society, the word “robot” is considered an insult and androids have no rights, not even free access to their updates. Crammed into ghettos, the oppressed robot community lives in the shadow of their programmed obsolescence. Among them is Karel, a comfort-bot whose batteries are recharged by the love he receives. When Elle and Karel’s paths cross, it’s love at first sight. But Karel’s life expectancy is running out… fast.

This is the story of a runaway. Kristina, a 16-year-old human orphan, escapes from a Brazilian military high school where she was placed with her brother after the death of their parents. The year is 2280 and she flees the Earth, hoping to rebuild her life within the immense Confederation: hundreds of solar systems where justice, peace, and solidarity are supposed to reign.

On an island in the middle of the ocean called Volibia, lives a little girl called Rosamee and her parents. Life is peaceful enough and Rosamee spends much of her time playing with Gaspy, a majestic bird that can speak, and her best (and only) friend! But Rosamee is intrigued by another island where it is forbidden to go. Gaspy offers to go there alone and then to take her there when he returns if there is no danger. Rosamee reluctantly accepts. Worried that her friend will not come back, she decides to go there in a makeshift boat and discovers that the inhabited island is rather dangerous…

Louna likes to play. She plays with the wind, she plays with notes, she plays her flute. Many miles away, Fatou likes to dance. She dances with colors, she dances with her dreams, she dances with joy. The two girls are about to meet,and once they do, they will be united for life.

After her father’s death, Sixtine lives alone with her mother and three pirate ghosts who take care of her. This leads to some complicated – and funny – situations. Torn between the desire to find out where she comes from and her fear of hurting her mother’s feelings, Sixtine decides to adopt a risky plan in order to solve the family’s money problems. Fortunately, she has hilarious friends – plus a lot of humor of her own – to help her through the adventure.

Five high school girls who have problems fitting in decide to join forces and form their own club, which they feel will empower them to better face the world and their own individual problems. This five-volume series, served by a subtle artwork and sensitive colors, addresses with accuracy the themes of difficult adolescence and family dysfunction.

The Couzines have gathered at Granny Mamoush’s house, Crooked Manor, to celebrate Christmas. But a strange letter is about to turn the jolly season upside down: to limit overproduction, each child will receive only one gift this year. The Couzines will have none of it! A funny and heart-warming new picture book series that shows how sticking together is what a family’s all about.

The C160 Transall is a legendary aircraft which will be retired in 2022, after 59 years of service, having participated in all the military and humanitarian operations of the French Air Force! This is well worth a beautiful book written by the aeronautical journalist Frédéric Lert, with many photos by Alexandre Paringaux, founder of the Zephyr label.

We’re right in the middle of World War I, deep in the trenches. The soldiers are confronted by unimaginable suffering and violent death on a daily basis. Considered as nothing more than cannon fodder by their superiors, they try desperately to survive. Partly as an act of defiance in the face of hardship, partly as the ultimate irony, the soldiers nickname their regiment after the famous Parisian cabaret club ‘Folies Bergère’. They laugh and joke, they write, they draw, they fight, they die in appalling circumstances, they kill themselves, they lose their minds. And then one of their number is sentenced to death by firing squad… and miraculously survives…