Anaïs Nin , the fury for life of the American artist told brilliantly
Designer Léonie Bischoff highlights the metamorphosis of a woman who used a myriad of lies to satisfy her quest for freedom. Fascinated by her diary since her adolescence, the author, aged 39, offers a tasty and prodigious adaptation of the early years of the artist in the making. The album takes us to the beginning of the 1930s. Anaïs Nin lives in Louveciennes, torn between her social obligations and the desire to escape the shackles of her world. Feeling trapped, she finds a loophole in her journal entry.
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The hunting accident, in the dantesque hell of an American prison
This copious 466-page comic book features young Charlie Rizzo who, upon his mother’s death, moves in with his father Matt, a writer who claims to have lost his sight in a “hunting accident”. As he prepares to fall into delinquency, Charlie pushes his father to sit down to dinner … On May 21, 1924 in Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 19 and 18, kidnap and murder a 14-year-old teenager. years. Twelve years later, a certain Matt Rizzo, a small gangster struck with blindness, becomes Nathan Leopold’s fellow prisoner … The rest is written in letters of blood.
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The Last Atlas, volume 2, or proof that giant robots have a soul
Since the first volume, the history of Last Atlas is located in the heart of a dystopian France, where in the 1950s and 1960s General de Gaulle launched the construction of atomic robots (the Atlas) intended to rebuild France and Algeria. While an extraterrestrial threat has arisen on Algerian soil in Tassili Park in the form of a mysterious seismic phenomenon that upsets the balance of the world, a Nantes gangster named Ismaël Taïeb seems touched by grace. This fable marvelously combines mafia thriller, science fiction, geopolitics, with the most unbridled uchronia, without forgetting the essential historical background of the wounds never really healed from the Algerian war.
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Human skin or love without straitjacket, no barriers
In Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is promised to Giovanni, the son of a wealthy merchant. The young girl would like to know her promise before the wedding day. Sent to her aunt’s house, she will discover the incredible secret of the women of the family. The latter have a man’s skin that allows them to transform into Lorenzo, a young ephebe with copper skin. Transvestite in Lorenzo, Bianca will then take a liking to this masculine world. The city looks so different outside the shackles of the status of women. This fable is an ode to tolerance. Sublimated by the enchanting trait of Zanzim, the last album of the screenwriter Hubert, who died at the age of 49 last February, strikes the reader with its accuracy and sensitivity.
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Aldobrando , initiatory story and picaresque fable
The Italian authors Gipi and Luigi Critone offer the tasty epic of an innocent young boy, alone in the face of the cruelty of a medieval society plagued by the abuse of power. The young Aldobrando, son of a rich lord entrusted from an early age to an old mage who will educate him in an old house cut off from everything, until he is old enough to discover the world. When the hour has come, the master sends the adolescent under a false pretext to explore humanity. His first meeting will not be without consequences. Colorful characters, intrigues where violence and drama rub shoulders with humor and lightness, Aldobrando immerses the reader in a breathtaking story from the first to the last page.
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Unbelievable! , unconfined childhood
Jean-Loup, 11, has locked himself in his world and tries to avoid his classmates at all costs. A world of manias, tics and tocs, imaginary friends or a tin can serving as a funeral urn. He is alone and spends the time recording all kinds of information on small cards. Oxygenation of the heart, the circulation of air in an astronaut suit, the fins of whales … The little boy has more than 1,500 files on all subjects. Methodical, Jean-Loup lives a life regulated like music paper. Until the day when he discovers a talent for storytelling, which will turn his entire confined universe upside down. A moving and poetic story about the suffering of a child. He finds the light here, aided by a delicate design.
Black-out , immersed in the mysteries of American cinema
The dark rooms have closed their doors but fans of the seventh art can console themselves with Black-out, plunged into the mysteries of American cinema from the 30s to the 50s. Its protagonist? A mixed-race actor of African, Chinese and Amerindian descent, capable of playing all “ethnic” roles! These jobs which respond to the racist prejudices of the big Hollywood productions. And if this Maximus Wyld is an invention, all the films in which he participated have indeed existed! Written by Loo Hui Phang and drawn by Hugues Micol, sometimes realistic, sometimes phantasmagorical, Black-out questions the power of images, as well as the ideologies and mythologies of Hollywood. These issues resonate with current thinking on the representation of minorities. A major work.
Space Brothers , volume 31, slice of life and space conquest
Japan, summer 2006. Mutta and his little brother Hibito see a UFO heading for the moon. They then promise to go to space one day. In 2025, Hibito became an astronaut and is preparing to take off for the moon. Mutta, on the other hand, just lost his job as a car designer. Thanks to his brother, the flame of space is rekindled. But at 31, when life has done its work, is that really reasonable? Chûya Koyama tenderly tells the story of these grown-up children who pursue their dreams, far from the clichés of science fiction. The dynamic of the duo never runs out of steam, even after 31 volumes and the reader develops a particular empathy for the sincere slice of life of these two brothers.
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