(W) Jean-Marrie Omont, Charlotte Girard (A/CA) Golo Zhao
1937. In the chaos of the invasion of Shanghai by Japanese troops, a well bred little girl is separated from her parents and is left alone but for the help of a boy from the streets. Together, these unlikely and opposite children set off to find her parents and survive adventures across war torn China.
Lost and alone, with little memory of how she wound up in the winter wilderness, young Yaya must survive the cold on her own while Tuduo sets out to find her before the wicked gangster Zhu does.
From the co-creator and artist of the internationally celebrated Last Man series!The first rule of the Sioule: There are no rules. Of all the international disciplines, the Sioule is the most violent and most dangerous?but also the most media-friendly. This brutal cocktail of rugby and dodgeball attracts millions of viewers to each match, and social networks go wild for the players who become international celebrities. From the far reaches of her countryside, H?l?na is far from interested in any of this madness. When she is not helping her father on the family farm, she goes camping by the sea with her friends. Life is peaceful. But her father dreams of another destiny for her, a better life than cleaning up dung! One day, when a stray leather ball catches her eye and triggers something new in her . . . what if her future was at the Superior School of Sioule? Nothing is certain. To make a place for yourself in this ultra-testosterone-fueled environment, you?ll have to use your elbows and your knuckles!
(W/A/CA) Dav
Winter has thawed and Spring has sprung! The forest is turning green again and no one is more excited to experience it than Mr Warthog and his brand new baby boy who gets to experience the great big outdoors for the very first time!
(W/A/CA) Sergio Toppi
Presenting the second in a seven-volume library of works by master illustrator Sergio Toppi. This second volume collects eleven short tales of North American folklore, from the Canadian Goldrush to the American West and the Deep South, previously collected as Colt Frontier, Naugatuck 1757, and Blues.
When a young mother disappears without a trace from an upscale resort on the remote Reunion Island, all suspicions lead to her husband. But when he himself disappears with their daughter in tow, the chase begins to save the girl and solve the mystery. Based on the bestselling novel by Michel Bussi.
(W/A/CA) Merwan
Young Man? is full of envy and strength, two essential qualities for someone who wishes to engage in Pankat, a brutal martial art and philosophy for those who practice it. Wandering the greatest Pankat schools in Irap, Man? will quickly prove himself with the advice of E?am, one of the greatest masters of all time. But will he be able to resist the lure of F?ssat, a former student who will try to lead the young man into a life of crime? The rules of life are not always as straightforward as those of a Pankat fight...
(W) Lewis Trondheim, Emmanual Guibert (A/CA) Franck Biancarelli
Officer Leila Sharad and historian Bert Numal are sent out to discover the source of the mysterious massive graveyard floating in space, only to discover a device that allows them to communicate with the dead! And considering the wealth of knowledge stored in the millions of corpses surrounding them, the value of the device could prove beyond measure! Part six in the eight-part pulp-sci-fi space opera!
(W) Lewis Trondheim (A/CA) Killoffer
The mystery finally unfolds as the true conspirator is revealed to be... the Captain of the Infinity 8! Ageless grudges boil to the surface and only one man can save every lifeform in the universe: Lieutenant Reffo!
(W) Jean-David Morvan, Severine Trefouel (A) David Evrard
Irena Book One: Wartime Ghetto is a 136-page full color biography that chronicles the life of Irena Sendlerowa. Carefully researched by the creators, this book is truly a work of love. Irena was a member of the Citizen Center for Social Aid during World War II, joined the resistance, and saved over 2500 children from the hell of Nazi-Occupied Warsaw Ghetto. The artwork by David Evrard invokes an innocence and charm that serves as a stark juxtaposition to the tense and perilous moments the story provides. This book is a must have for admirers of Irena Sendlerowa's extraordinary life and those looking to learn more about the Jewish experience during World War II. Irena Sendlerowa was born in 1910 in Otwock, a small town in central Poland. Irena was 29 years old when the Germans invaded Poland. The Germans soon gathered all the Jews in Warsaw into a small portion of the city that became known as the Warsaw Ghetto. The ghetto's prison-like conditions led to thousands of deaths every month from starvation and disease. As a non-Jew
(W) Jean-David Morvan, Severine Trefouel (A/CA) David Evrard
The second volume in the trilogy telling the true story of Irena Sendlerowa, a member of the Citizen Center for Social Aid during the Second World War who saved 2,500 children from the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto. This volume focuses on her mission to reunite the rescued children with their families who had been sent to concentration camps across the country.
(W) Ozanam (A/CA) Joel Jurion, Yoan Guille
In the wake of the Were-War, all of the powerful animal totems have disappeared. Now, the human former-hosts must unravel the mysteries and deal with the ongoing rivalries without their previous abilities, facing new threats and supernatural dangers. Can they re-awaken the sleeping Were-spirits and save the world?
(W) Frederic Brremaud (A/CA) Federico Bertolucci
Chipper and Squizzo are a precocious puppy and squirrel who love to explore new and exciting environments, flying their cardboard box airplane to wondrous worlds full of fascinating animals and creatures. In each volume of this fun, educational series, they tour a different location, encountering the real-world animals found there in beautiful illustration and fun cartoon strip antics. This first volume takes them into the Forest, where they discover bugs, birds, bears, and more! A fun, lusciously illustrated series of wildlife discovery books for children of all ages.
A precocious puppy and an adventure-seeking squirrel set out to explore new and interesting environments full of fascinating animals and curious creatures! Follow them to the plains of Africa on a safari full of wild beasts of all shapes and sizes!
(W) Frederic Brremaud (A/CA) Federico Bertolucci
Dive into an underwater world of strange and fascinating creatures with the adorable adventure?seeking duo, Chipper and Squizzo!
(W) Frédéric Brrémaud (A/CA) Federico Bertolucci
It's not easy being one of the smaller predators in the woods, competing with an entire woodland population for scraps along the food chain. But when nature throws cataclysmic weather into the mix, it becomes a race for survival - and love. Follow an agile, intrepid fox through a day's journey through the woods in this beautiful all-ages title that explores genuine natural behavior through the dramatic lens of Disney-esque storytelling, like a nature documentary in lavish, wordless illustration.
A loyal Australian hunting dog finds himself alone in the outback when his master is bitten by a poisonous snake. He must venture across the dangerous outback to find his way home alone.
The fifth volume in the lavishly illustrated, award-winning series of wordless wildlife graphic novels, each depicting a day in the life of different wild animals, told through the dramatic lens of Disney-esque storytelling, like a nature documentary in illustration.
Meka is the tale of two pilots in the far future whose vehicle, a giant walking war-machine designed to defend inhabited planets from alien threats, is disabled in combat, leaving them stranded and left to their own talents and judgment to survive the ruined urban warzone they themselves inadvertently created. This sci-fi story is as much about the politics of warfare as it is about the two characters relationship during the trials faced during their escape.
(W/A/CA) Guillaume Run Renard
Based on the Netflix film of the same name! This award-winning comic book series has taken the US by storm! Angelino is a young loser like thousands of others in DMC. His monotonous days drag between TV, Mexican wrestling matches, crappy odd jobs, and metaphysical discussions under the stars with his buddy Vinz. A stupid scooter accident plunges him into a hurricane of unimaginable troubles, with the fate of humanity on the hook. Heavily armed men in black, gangs of all kinds, and a troop of Mexican wrestlers all collide to face off against vicious cosmic entities determined to invade the planet!
(W) Guillaume Run Renard (A/CA) Guillaume Run Renard
Based on the Netflix film of the same name! This award-winning comic book series has taken the US by storm! Angelino and Vinz have left the simmering neighborhood of Palm Hill and are being pursued by men in black willing to risk it all to catch them. This time they can?t take things lightly: there?s a price on their heads. And then there are those monsters. . . . The world is going crazy, or are they the ones losing their grip on reality? It?s often rather confusing when you have to face the rampant absurdity of an improbable invasion . . .
(W/A/CA) Gregory Panaccione
Toby is a simple dog living in a seaside country village, indulging in the joys of nature with his freedom-loving artist master. Almost always hungry, nothing matters more to Toby than his master whom he consoles, exasperates, and sometimes inspires. Toby is happy living his life of carelessness, and yet thoughts and memories start to haunt him, tormenting him with questions...
(W) Hubert (A/CA) Bertrand Gatignol
Petit is the littlest giant in a hierarchy of giants, merely the size of a human, whom the rest of the clan consider simple food and labor. Torn between his savage family instincts and his human empathy, he must discover his place in the world and the kingdom's future . . .
(W) Pierre Paquet (A/CA) Jesus Alonso
A young man struggles to build a publishing company, find love, and discover who he really is, with his one true trusted companion being the dog who truly seems to understand him. In the end, he realizes that for far too long he has been a self-absorbed piece of sh*t. A touching autobiographical story by Swiss BD publisher Pierre Paquet, the spiritual sequel to Paquet's Eisner-nominated A Glance Backward, which recounted his experience dealing with the death of his father at age 11.
(W) Jean-David Morvan (A/CA) Toru Terada
In a fashion-focused future, rich kids enjoy trips to "Small World", a virtual visit to the slums of the lower city. Piedro is their guide, a lowland local who few ever meet in real life. But young Kumiko and her brothers get the rare surprise when he shows up in their garage fleeing from the evil Captain Gancho and his band of thugs. Suddenly their virtual adventure becomes real!
(W) Yaan (A/CA) Didier Cassegrain
It is the third millennium, and gender definitions are gone, references practically banned. Larry and Marcel are two Earth agents sent to the lush and threatening jungles of the planet Zarkass forced to collaborate for an ultra-secret mission. Their official cover is to study the fauna, flora, and the unique customs of the native Zarkassian people. But really they are there to find and examine the mysterious wreckage of an alien vessel that has the government concerned. But the two young agents start to suspect that each of them might be hiding the real reasons for their presence on Zarkass? reasons that are much more personal?
(W/A/CA) Daniel Lieske
In the second volume of The Wormworld Saga, Jonas discovers there's just as much danger as there is beauty in this fantasy world. When Jonas begins to realize his arrival in the Wormworld might be no accident at all, will he be able to face his own destiny to meet the sinister fire god Unurtha?
