La Mouette Rieuse Catalogue

by Bart Beaty / September'98

That the comics production originating from Europe is currently outpacing that of the United States in terms of inventiveness and innovation seems difficult to dispute. New formats, techniques and approaches to the medium have combined with new artists and publishers to create an atmosphere in which the boundaries of comics can be expanded as never before.

 

When I began to write about European comics for the Comics Journal, I decided to limit my writings to the best of contemporary European creation. This was the case not simply because a survey of all of European comics would be impossible for a monthly column, but also because I hoped to direct non-European readers to the most exciting work from the continent.

 

To that end, I am tremendously excited about this catalogue from La Mouette Rieuse. Flipping through these pages one finds only the best comics from Europe. Selections range from innovative, young talent at L'Association, Amok and Égo comme X to the standard-beares of previous generations of cartooning talent. From Tardi to Trondheim, Alagbé to Juillard virtually every selection in this catalogue should find appreciative new readers and fans.

 

In the years I have been shopping at La Mouette Rieuse it has become obvious to me that they are the best source for European comics in North America. Now that they have expanded their operations beyond Montréal, I am positive that you will come to the same conclusion.

 

La Mouette Rieuse has placed best comics in the world at your fingertips. All you have to do now is choose.

 

Bart Beaty

Euro-Comics for beginners

ALAIN BEAULET EDITION

 

CAFÉ-BAR by Avril

This book by François Avril is made with the drawings from the Zinc sur cuivre little box, with 8 additionnal drawings. Foreword by Tardi.

 

40 pages, Softcover, B/W, limited edition, signed. $64.95 code: MAK29

 

DUEL by Gotting

In this sumptuous story Gotting takes us into the world of music-hall and theatre of the 30s. With elegance and sensitivity he shows all the feelings of that time. His passion for art-deco shines as an hommage to the rich decor of this first part of the century.

 

44 pages, Softcover, B/W, limited edition $80.00 code: MAK12

 

RUE DES REBUTS by Tardi

Tardi's first novel. Two veterans back from the first world war relive their past during the siege of the country.

 

96 pages, Softcover, B/W $48.95 code: TAR00

 

ALBIN MICHEL

 

L'HOMME À LA FENÊTRE by Mattotti

There is no real story in this book, just a fine line that ties together fragments of life. A story of a sculptor, a story of love, a man who is the spectator of his own life. A self-reflexive story about creation and time that passes. Mattotti, well known for his work with color, works here with line and shadows to give a piece where lights collide with black, where reading becomes an abstraction.

 

156 pages, Softcover, B/W $40.95 code50000415500

 

VENIN DE FEMMES by Prado

Times that pass and the weight of society that kills all passions. Eight short stories, elegant and cruel demonstrate this very sad state.

 

44 pages, Hardcover, color $26.95 code: 2226075631

 

ALPEN

 

LES AVENTURES DE VICTOR LEVALLOIS by Rullier and Stanislas

Victor Levallois had no desire to be an adventurer. An accountant in a small business, he finds himself caught in an adventure in Indochina. The 50s in Viet-nam and in France are rendered in the great ligne claire style of Stanislas. A fine story with a strange non-hero.

 

48 pages, Hardcover

 

1. Trafic en Indochine $17.95 code: H1024

2. La route de Cao Bang $17.95 code: H1025

3. Le manchot de la butte rouge $17.95 code: H1335

 

AUTREMENT

 

HISTOIRES GRAPHIQUES

Here is a collection of anthologies with theme. Each book compiles four or five stories by different artists from around the world. Social criticism is mixed freely with imagination.

 

L'ARGENT ROI by Beaudoin, Ott, Del Barrio and F'murr.

 

Softcover, B/W $33.95 code: 003-00497

 

AVOIR 20 ANS EN L'AN 2000 by Baru, Aristophane, Denis, Puchol and Ricci & De Pierpont.

 

Softcover, B/W $43.95 code: 003-00532

 

NOIRE EST LA TERRE by Emerson, Montellier, Béziam, Trondheim and Bluth & Menu.

 

Softcover, B/W $43.95 code: 003-00579

 

LE RETOUR DE DIEU by David B., Ayroles, Menu, Mattotti and Mathieu.

 

Softcover, B/W $33.95 code: 003-00496

 

LE RÉVEIL DES NATIONS by Rabaté, Troyas and Garrique.

 

Softcover, B/W $39.95 code: 003-0067

 

CASTERMAN

 

L'AUTOROUTE DU SOEIL by Baru

It is a road-comic, a crazy race against revenge. Karim and Alexandre are chased all around France by a psycho who wants revenge after discovering that Karim had slept with his wife. Throught out this breathtaking adventure we come across right wing facists, racism, drugs and sex. All those ingredients build a strong story of friendship. Baru presents it all with incredible art work.

 

430 pages, Softcover, B/W $18.95 code: 680-37206

 

LE CAHIER BLEU by André Juillard

Louise, a Quebecker who lives in Paris, is torn between Victor and Armand. A great narrative exercise conduct by a diary and the celebration of the capital of France. For his first solo piece, André Juillard show to everybody that he is not only a great artist, but also a superb storyteller. A masterpiece.

 

48 pages, Hardcover, color $19.95 code: 680-38867

 

C'ÉTAIT LA GUERRE DES TRANCHÉES by Tardi

The greatest work by Tardi. He has been exploring the same theme for over 20 years in his work. The first world war explodes in this book with all its horror. Fixing the reader with intensity, this comic shakes you with a great sense of tragedy.

 

126 pages, Hardcover, B/W $21.95 code: 680-35905

 

LES CITÉS OBSCURES by Schuiten et Peeters

Each album of this series takes place in an imaginary city. Throughout the storyline, a utopia is building a world parallel to our own, different but not quite the same, that could be visited by the chosen... in which are included the authors. Heir of Jules Verne and Borges, Schuiten and Peeters are confronting humanity with their greatest dreams, questioning the relationship between urbanism and politics.

 

1. Les murailles de Samaris -Hardcover -color $24.95 code: 680-34304

2. La fièvre d'Urbicande -Softcover -B/W $16.95 code: 680-33423

3. La tour -Softcover -B/W $21.95 code: 680-33433

4. La route d'Armelia -Hardcover -color $24.95 code: 680-34303

5. Brüsel -Softcover -B/W $15.95 code: 680-334666

L'archiviste -Hardcover -color $43.95 code: 680-34901

7. L'écho des cités - Hardcover -color $39.95 code: 680-34903

8. Le guide des cités -Hardcover -color $32.95 code: 680-38026

9. L'enfant penchée -Hardcover -color $30.95 code: 680-34311

 

COLLIN-MAILLARD by Cabanes

This album could have been entitled stories about my childhood from 1956 to 1966 First moon, first cigarette, country festivals and girl's underwear, those holidays at the sea with Mariette and her cousins, later the twist years and Marie-Ange in the nostalgic garden... A sensible book full of anecdotes in the nostalgic style of Cabanes.

88 pages, Hardcover, color $23.50 code:680-33824

 

LE CYCLE DE CYANN by Bourgeon et Lacroix

The daughter of one of the most important leaders of the Ordre de la sonde, the young and beautiful Cyann lives a luxurius life. At the same time a mysterious epidemic is taking over the whole planet... In this full and very though-out universe, Bourgeon is working with a definitive joy.

 

Hardcover, color

 

1. La source et la sonde $26.95 code: 680-38857

2. Six saisons sur l'îlo $26.95 code: 680-38894

2a. La cle des confins (explicative guide) $20.95 code: 680-38030

 

FACE DE LUNE by Boucq et Jodorowsky

An island governed by a dictator, once an egg merchant is devastated by frequents tidal waves. Each catastrophe some pariahs washes out of society. A mysterious man, with a flat and smiling face, seems able to calm those waves. Its invincibility presents a danger for the dictator. Chased by the army, Face de lune hides in an underworld with all the people thrown out of society. He gives them hope in the effort to rebuild the cathedral destroyed by the dictator. In this dictatorial world Boucq introduces his touch with poetry.

 

Hardcover, color

 

1. La cathédrale invisible $21.95 code: 680-38848

2. La pierre de faîte $21.95 code: 680-38878

 

LA FEMME DU MAGICIEN by Boucq and Charyn

On the theme of difficult chidhood, it's a game of changing identities that falls into the kitsch or bizzare but there are also moments of spectacle and true poetry. A great collaboration with Jerome Charyn, American writer and Boucq, who is getting out of humour for the first time.

 

85 pages, hardover, color $20.95 code: 680-38806

 

GRIFFU by Tardi and Manchette

Griffu is a jurist, a guy who is there when they are problems. He is very cynical, just to be sympathetic and he jumps right in the action without really looking around. The story finished on a bad note for him. It is a very hard story and one of the first contemporary works of Tardi.

 

50 pages, Hardcover, B/W $14.95 code: 680-39902

 

L'HOMME QUI MARCHE by Taniguchi

About this forty year old man, we don't know his name or his job. It seems that his only occupation is to walk day and night in the city and the suburbs. This way of life is taking over the social order and seems to be a contemplative and peaceful philosophy. A touching work, very different from most manga production.

 

144 pages, Softcover, B/W $9.95 code: 680-37202

 

ICI MÊME by Tardi et Forest

Of all the Mornemont estate, divided into parcels of land, Arthur Même posseses only the walls that divide the whole land. He lives right on the walls, moving only to open the gates and waiting for the reversal of the lawsuit that had him disposessed of the land. His life changes upside down when he meets the indecent Julie Maillard. This book is simply delirious and impossible to describe, it is full of surprises. A masterpiece by two giants of bande dessinée.

 

163 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: 680-33401

 

JONAS FINK by Giardino

Well structured plot, an efficient and classic style, a great sense of drama and detail are all proof of the enormous talent of Giardino. This series tells of the difficulty to learn a man's life in Prague in the middle of Stalin's totalitarian reign. A modern classic.

 

Hardcover, color

 

1. L'enfance $14.95 code: 680-38869

2. L'apprentissage $26.95 code: 680-38890

 

LÉON LA CAME by Chauzy and DeCrécy

This story is strong satir. It takes place in the business world, in the marketing and communications area. A family saga where the grand father is the hero and Leon a loser. A masterful book by two young and promising artists. Everything in this series is a success.

 

Softcover, color

 

1. Leon la came $27.95 code: 680-35910

2. Laid, pauvre et malade $27.95 code: 680-35914

 

NESTOR BURMA by Tardi and Malet

The detective Nestor Burma is searching the streets of Paris. Tardi knows how to work in Leo Malet's universe to expose the urban poetry. An example of efficiency by one of the greatest author of modern bande dessinée.

 

1. Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac -Softcover -B/W $16.95 code: 680-33413

2. 120 Rue de la gare -Hardcover -B/W $34.95 code: 680-39905

3. Une gueule de bois en plomb -Softcover -color $10.95 code: 680-34802

4. Casse-pipe a la Nation -Hardcover -B/W $17.95 code: 680-39903

 

PARANO by Chauzy

Hypochondriac, not feeling to well with himself, the days and nights of Chauzy are full of nightmares, dreams of himself as an everyday hero confronting human stupidity. The violence in this book is shown through the use of blue and red color that dominate.

 

1. Parano -Softcover -color $17.95 code: 680-35911

2. Béton armé -Hardcover -color $19.95 code: 680-38886

 

LES PASSAGERS DU VENT by Bourgeon

This is the series that started the whole historical genre in French bande dessinée. Set in the slavera, featuring two women in the 18th century. Very feminine, the French and the English may make the difficult choice to live in a free way. A flamboyant tale in which Bourgeon also celebrates the life of the sea.

 

Hardcover, color

 

1. Le sortilège du bois des brumes $14.95 code: 680-38861

2. Les yeux d'étain de la ville glauque $14.95 code: 680-38862

3. Le dernier chant des Malaterre $14.95 code: 680-38863

4. L'heure du serpent $14.95 code: 680-38864

5. Bois d'ebene $14.95 code: 680-38865

 

QUI A TUÉ L'IDIOT? by Dumontheuil

Winner of Alph'art for Best Album in 1997, Qui a tué l'idiot is a story about a strange guy who comes from a strange village...

 

94 pages, Softcover, color $18.95 code: 680-35913

 

 

TOKYO EST MON JARDIN by Boilet and Peeters

In Japan, a Frenchman working for a cognac company and in love with a Japanese woman has some apprehension on the eve of a visit from his boss. An intimate and superb story that is very well structured.

 

150 pages, Softcover, B/W $26.95 code: 680-33460

 

TRAIE DE CRAIE by Prado

An island, a lighthouse, a man and two women: those are all the ingredients to this story with silent violence which comes out of deep emotion. Prado works on mystery and his artwork is truly magnificient.

 

86 pages, Hardcover, color $20.95 code: 680-38855

 

AMOK

 

LE CHEVAL SANS TÊTE ANTHOLOGIES

 

LE CHEVAL SANS TETE vol.1 WOYZECK (January 1996) Vincent Fortemps, Caroline Rennequin, Stefano Ricci, Alain Corbel, Monique Brouillard, Anne Baraon, Corinne Chalmeau, David Mazzucchelli, Sylvain Victor, Yvan Alagbé, Olivier Marboeuf, Filipe Abranches, Debbie Dreschler, Anke Feuchtenberger, Emmanuel Kermer, Martin Tim Dieck, M.S. Bastian.

 

120 pages, Softcover, B/W. $23.95 code: AMOK9

 

LE CHEVAL SANS TETE vol.2 ATTEINDRE MARSEILLE (Septembre 1996) Taul, Silvestre, Daniau, Ferrer, Alagbé, Marboeuf, Tom Dieck, Andreotti, Monnet, Jeanmoujin, Picard, Corbel, Poincelet, Bramanti, Boïra, Cotrim, Burgos, Atak, Lambé, Sommer, Noyau, Draisey.

 

120 pages, Softcover, B/W $23.95 code: AMOK7

 

LE CHEVAL SANS TETE vol.3 LE DOUBLE (April 1997) Marboeuf, D. Deprez & Ol Deprez, Jacques, Alagbé, Bézian, Sulbestre, Toccafondo, Galvin, Messina & Derouet, Andrecott, Ricci, Mattotti, Bruno, Diandelli.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $23.95 code: AMOK8

 

LE CHEVAL SANS TÊTE vol. 4 UN HÉRITAGE (coming soon)

 

LE CHEVAL SANS TÊTE vol. 5 NOUS SOMMES LES MAURES (coming soon)

 

FEU! COLLECTION

 

First collection

 

BALBUBA by M.S. Bastian

This book is the work of one of the most acclaimed artists in Europe. Composed of short stories, this obsessive book is a strange visit to modern city. His inventive look and violent line are combined with insomnia tests, some of wich are from Bukowski.

 

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $13.95 code: AMOK10

 

ESCALE A KERBARBO by Alain Corbel

When we begin our life in the country, we always dream of trips, seashores and roads. Marcel and his grandmother tell strange stories to a child. When he takes back the cows from the fields, the young boy will hear the calling of the far and away. Alain Corbel invites us to a fantastic travel through Europe, between a fairy tale of les mille et une nuit and a wild breeze.

 

52 pages, Softcover, B/W $15.95 code: AMOK4

 

FAUNE by Aristophane

In the deepest forest, Faune, a cruel demon with no morals, tortures humans and animals. But the world changes and Faune is no longer in his domain. The time comes to settle and Faune has to pay for his crimes. With this figure, ambiguous between Satan and Jesus, Aristophane gives a philosophical fable on the ending of great myths.

 

52 pages, Softcover, B/W $15.95 code: AMOK11

 

LES JOURS OUVRABLES by Eric Lambé

Five comics rooted in nature, five strange stories where obsessions becomes the bizzare and where the most boring day becomes very absurb.

 

52 pages, Softcover, B/W $ 16,95 code: AMOK05

 

NÈGRES JAUNES by Yvan Alagbé

Mario, an ex-policeman from Algeria, desperate and suicidal, enters into the life of two immigrants. He tries to win their confidence with papers and work. In this socially-minded story, Yvan Alagbé depicts the drama of loss of communication and draws a portrait of a society in crisis.

 

52 pages, Softcover, B/W $15.95 code: AMOK6

 

RELATIONS by Silvestre

Silvestre plays with all the codes of comics. From the white page, he builds a theatre and brings to life small characters in a grotesque world. Then we discover a philosophical game that is both funny and has a touching sense. Behind the pseudonym Silvestre is hidden Frederico Del Barrio, one of the biggest names in Spain.

 

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $13.95 code: AMOK12

 

New collection

 

L'ARBRE DU PENSEUR by Lorenzo Mattotti

Nobody knows why this pensive man is always going to rest under a tree, looking at the sky and the rocks. The best thing is to go ourselves and lie down under that tree and let our spirit pass with the clouds. Mattotti strikes again with this masterful book.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $11.95 code: AMOK34

 

AUTOMNE ET PRINTEMPS by Munoz and Sampayo

The son of señora Humberto and the girl of Don Negrita has just married in Europe. Between the two parents back in Argentina will be a match of deep friendship and maybe even of love.

 

Coming out soon

 

DYAA by Yvan Alagbé

Since his path crossed Martine's, a young and lonely French girl, Ibrahima can't sleep anymore. He is reliving all the great moments with her and mostly he thinks of his wife and little girl that he left alone back in Mali. After Negres jaunes, Alagbé is continuing his African immigrant's wandering tale in France.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/ W $11.95 code: AMOK35

 

OCTAVE COLLECTION

 

DES CHIENS DANS LE CIEL DE BERLIN by Atak

A young boy finds a dog in the kitchen's garbage. The animal is the devil, just down on earth to destroy and install chaos. A surreal universe by a German author.

 

Coming out soon

 

FENETRES SUR L'OCCIDENT by Raul and Felipe H. Cava

In the Moscow of Perestroïka, Llia, Sergueï, Boris and Larissa eat, drink and tell stories. In those tales we discover the Russian soul. Those two authors are majors artists in Spain.

 

78 pages, Softcover, B/W $26.95 code: AMOK 33

 

TUFO by Ricci and Philippe De Pierpont

In a village in the south of Italy an ancient opera singer is sculpting strange forms in rock in a lost temple. Nicolas, a young shepherd, tries to help her. This book is just pure magic, a big revelation.

 

78 pages, Softcover, B/W $20.95 code: AMOK03

 

L'ASSOCIATION

 

CIBOULETTE COLLECTION

 

LES 7 VIES DU DEVOREUR D'OMBRES by Jean-Pierre Duffour

After Gare centrale and diverse works for children books here is a long story by Duffour. The metaphysical universe of dévoreur d'ombres is only soft in its look. We are left shaken.

 

Softcover, B/W Coming out in May 1998

 

LE CHEVAL BLEME by David B

A compilation of nightmares created over ten years and put down in comic form. This book is a series of dark and fantastic tales so deep into our unconscious.

80 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: A9025

 

CIBOIRE DE CRISS! by Julie Doucet

This is an anthology of all the best short stories taken from Dirty Plotte and other works. Strangly this is her first album in French. Doucet is a bizzare girl who has weird dreams: she wakes up with a penis or she's pregnant by a cat.

 

120 pages, Softcover, B/W $34.95 code: A9032

 

COURTS-CIRCUITS GEOGRAPHIQUES by Jochen Gerner

First bande dessinée work of Gerner, court circuits géographiques is an imposing compilation of travels and bits of life. All the memories of Brittany, trips to Iran and excursions to Tchequy succeed as does a long diary of a complete year living in New York. There is a whole world in these beautiful pages full of minimalist form.

 

124 pages, Softcover, B/W $34.95 code:A9460

 

LE GALERIEN by Stanislas

In a very different spirit than his adventure series Victor Levallois, Stanislas has drawn several stories of the Galerien throughout many different anthologies. Poetic, falsly retro, this is the first solo album from Stanislas since la grande course. Probably his most personnal one.

 

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: A9027

 

JOURNAL D'UN ALBUM by Dupuy and Berberian

A real happening in the autobiography genre, this journal depicts the making of an album (Monsieur Jean 3) by Dupuy-Berberian. An important turn in the career of these 2 authors. In this book both of them are doing their own drawings in a more free style, more direct and relaxed than what we know from them.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $34.95 code: A9028

 

LAPINOT ET LES CAROTTES DE PATAGONIE by Lewis Trondheim

One of Trondheim's first crazy projects: to improvise over 500 pages, to learn how to draw... and also to prove his impressive easygoing style when it comes to write and be funny. Trondheim reaches a high level of comedy in an experiment with a rabbit!

 

512 pages, Softcover, B/W $59.95 code: A9030

 

LIVRET DE PHAMILLE by J.C.Menu

In this imposing compilation, Menu has assembled the essentials of his autobiographical work from 1991 to 1994 on the theme of family. From Helsinki to Normandy, from Paris to the US, paternity and creation are taken from a tragic-comical angle. In this book the creation of bande dessinée meets a litterary approach.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $34.95 code: A9031

 

LE PETIT MONDE DU GOLEM by Joann Sfar

First solo work of Sfar who since his debut at l'Association has produced a lot of work for many other editors. (Pétrus Barbygère - Delcourt, La fille du professeur - Dupuis). Le Petit monde du Golem compiles all the pages published in Lapin in 1994-1995

 

Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

MONDEVILLE by Thomas Ott et David B.

A very anticipated collaboration of two of the most important authors at this moment. David B. writes a story about the end of the world for the scratch boards of Ott.

 

Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

PRINTEMPS, AUTOMNES by Mattt Konture

This album compiles the totality of Mattt Konture's smaller works published from 1988 to 1992 in the underground comics krokrodile, miettes de poche and galopu.

 

96 pages, Softcover, B/W $34.95 code: A9026

 

RELATIONS by Julie Doucet

This is a longer story than ciboire de criss with a definite autobiographical sense to it. Features adventures in Montréal and New York.

 

Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

REMUE-MENAGE by Anna Sommer

The first album from this young Swiss-German artist, Sommer's remue-ménage is a comic with a rare sensibility, without text and panel borders. Different wives provide the lead role in many little funny and terribles scenes.

 

64 pages, Softcover, B/W $22.95 code: A9034

 

SIMPLISMUS by Vincent Vanoli

First album from Vanoli after le kontroleur de vérité (Lapin #5), simplismus takes us in the vosges where we meet Dwarfs and Nymphs and where we practice the transfer of anguish. All set in an atmosphere of avant-guerre in Russia. A grand expressionist book.

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: A9029

 

LE VOYAGE by Baudoin

Le voyage is a book with a particular destiny: drawn by a French artist for the Japanese editor Kodansha, it had to be translated, re-written and flipped backword to be published in French. The interior quest and initiating trip of le voyage doesn't fit in the manga style. Baudoin keep his touch to tell a magnificient story.

 

232 pages, Softcover, B/W $44,95 code: A9033

 

LAPIN ANTHOLOGIES

 

LE PATÉ DE LAPIN (Best of Lapin n.1 to 5 and Logique de Guerre Comix)

Here are compiled the best works of the first five Lapin (January 1992-January 1994) and Logique de Guerre Comix (November 1990) wich have been out of print for a long time. There is original work by: David B., Killoffer, Lewis Trondheim, Mattt Konture, J.C. Menu & Stanislas, ainsi que de Blutch, J.L. Coudray, J.P. Duffour, Fabio, Joëlle Jolivet, Mokeït, Pierre La Police, Thiriet and Vincent Vanoli.

 

148 pages, Softcover, B/W $29.95 code: A9101

 

LAPIN n.6 (october 1994) Ayroles, Blutch, David B, Dupuy, Killoffer, Joëlle Jolivet, Jochen Gerner, Lewis Trondheim, Mattt Konture, J.-C. Menu, Joann Sfar, and Vincent Vanoli.

 

68 pages, Softcover, B/W $16.95 code: A9106

 

LAPIN n.7 (January 1995) Blutch, David B, M.S. Bastien, Matthieu Blanchin, Marc Daniau, Jean-Yves Duhoo, Killoffer, Jochen Gerner, Mattt Konture, J.-C. Menu, Thomas Ott, Joann Sfar, Vincent Vanoli and a complete 45 pages story by Lewis Trondheim Le Crabar de Mammouth.

 

116 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9107

 

LAPIN n.8 (May 1995) Aristophane, Ayroles, David B, Matthieu Blanchin, Jean-Pierre Duffour, Anke Feuchtengerger, Jochen Gerner, Dominique Goblet, Goossens, Killoffer, Mattt Konture & Stéphane Blanquet, Kati Kovacs, J.-C. Menu, Vincent Sardon, Joann Sfar, Stanislas & Baraou, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli & Frédéric Serra.

 

100 pages, Softcover, B/W $22.95 code: A9108

 

LAPIN n.9 (October 1995) Aristophane, Ayroles, Stéphane Blanquet, David B, Gus Bofa, Denis Bourdaud, Jean-Luc Coudray & Lewis Trondheim, Guy Delisle, Jean-Pierre Duffour, Jochen Gerner, Yves Got, Emmanuel Guibert, Olivier Josso, Killoffer, J.-C. Menu, Vincent Sardon, Joann Sfar, Stanislas & Baraou, Vincent Vanoli.

 

108 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9109

 

LAPIN n.10 (January 1996 -Spécial Lapin) Christophe Blain, Stéphane Blanquet, Jochen Gerner, Dominique Goblet, Joëlle Jolivet, Killoffer, Mattt Konture, J.-C. Menu, Thomas Ott, Stanislas, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli. All scripts by David B.

 

92 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9110

 

LAPIN n.11 (April 1996) Aristophane, Ayroles, David B, Denis Bourdaud, Guy Delisle, Jean-Pierre Duffour & David B., Jochen Gerner, Yves Got, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Mattt Konture, Vincent Sardon, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli and a complete 48 pages story by Matthieu Blanchin Accident de travail .

 

116 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9111

 

LAPIN n.12 (July 1996) Ayroles, David B, Christophe Blain & David B., Denis Bourdaud, Guy Delisle, Jean-Pierre Duffour, Jochen Gerner, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Olivier Josso, Mattt Konture, Vincent Sardon, Joann Sfar, Stanilas & Baraou, Tom Tirabosco, Martin Tom Dieck, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli and Bienvenue en enfer a story by Max.

 

116 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9112

 

LAPIN n.13 (October 1996) Ayroles, David B, Matthieu Blanchin, Christophe Blain & David B., Denis Bourdaud, Guy Delisle, Jean-Yves Duhoo, Jochen Gerner, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Emmanuel Guibert & Takeomi Yamamoto, Mattt Konture, J.-C. Menu, Joël Naber, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli and Washing Day a 16 pages story by Thomas Ott.

 

112 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9113

 

LAPIN n.14 (January 1997) Ayroles, Christophe Blain & David B., Denis Bourdaud, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, J.P. Duffour & J.-C. Menu, Jochen Gerner, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Killoffer, Mattt Konture, J.-C. Menu, Vincent Sardon, Joann Sfar, Stanislas & Baraou, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli and six Scandinavian authors: Max Andersson, Matti Hegelberg, Gunnar Lundkvist, Pentti Otsamo, Joakim Pirinen and Riita Uusitalo.

 

115 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9114

 

LAPIN n.15 (April 1997) Ayroles, David B, Anne Baraou & Corinne Chalmeau, Blutch, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Olivier Josso, Killoffer, Mattt Konture, Etienne Lécroart, J.-C. Menu, Placid, Vincent Sardon, Joann Sfar, Anna Sommer, Thiriet, Martin Tom Dieck, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli.

 

107 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9115

 

LAPIN n.16 (July 1997) Ayroles, David B, Guy Delisle, J.-P. Duffour, Jochen Gerner, Emmanuel Guibert, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Mattt Konture, J.-C. Menu, Placid, Vincent Sardon, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli & Frédéric Serra.

 

107 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9116

 

LAPIN n.17 (October 1997) Max Andersson, Ayroles, David B, Denis Bourdaud, Guy Delisle, Jean-Yves Duhoo, Fabio, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Ulf K, Killoffer, Mattt Konture, Tanitoc, Lewis Trondheim, Vincent Vanoli, and two 16 pages story of: Mune n.6 by J.-C. Menu and Quête by Placid.

 

116 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9117

 

LAPIN n.18 (January 1998) Ayroles, David B, Matthieu Blanchin, Blutch, Guy Delisle, Fabio, Emmanuel Guibert & Alan I.Cope, Olivier Josso, Étienne Leocrart, Killoffer, Gunnar Lundkvist, Mattt Konture, Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim and Vincent Vanoli.

 

108 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9118

 

LAPIN n.19 (April 1998) Coming out in May 1998

 

LAPIN n.20 (July 1998) Coming out in August 1998

 

LAPIN n.21(October 1998) Coming out in November 1998

 

EPERLUETTE COLLECTION

 

ADIEU MÉLANCOLIE by Goossens

This book is a compilation of short stories never published before. Those 6 short funny stories are a must to anybody who recognises that Goossens is one of the greatest humor authors in the history of bande dessinée.

 

32 pages, Softcover, B/W $16.95 code: A9013

 

L'ASCENSION DU HAUT-MAL (vol.1) by David B

With this book David B. begins an autobiographical work about his childhood with his epileptic brother. He plays with oneiric visions and reports on the time period (70s). First volume of many, this will surely be David B's most important work.

 

56 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: A9019

 

L'ASCENSION DU HAUT-MAL (vol.2) by David B

The second volume in this family history of David B takes place in the heart of the 70s with macrobiotics and their utopic community. David B. still disgresses to talk about the first world war of his grandfather and the Algerian war.

 

64 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: A9020

 

L'ASCENSION DU HAUT-MAL (vol.3) by David B

 

Coming out in 1998

 

L'ASSOCIATION EN EGYPTE by Golo, Baudoin, Davis B. and J.C. Menu

Artist becomes reporter. Golo goes to Cairo, Baudoin to Alexandra, David B. to the oasis of Siwa and Menu in a louxor traumatise by the destruction of a temple.

 

Coming out in 1998

 

BILLET SVP by Killoffer

With his first album, Killoffer shapes his style with tainted humor and light headed writing. The train controllers are depicted in so many ways. This book proves also to be romantic in a metaphisic way.

 

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: A9015

 

LE BON ENDROIT By Vincent Vanoli

Le bon endroit is a chinese tale set deep in war time, that tells us about the meditation of Tchang-Pou, an old wise man. The shifts that Vanoli applies to the historic context makes it more zen.

 

64 pages, Softcover, B/W $15.95 code: A9035

 

CONTE DÉMONIAQUE by Aristophane

An impressive work of 300 pages, Conte démoniaque is a book where the demons struggle and the poverty of the damned souls speak for the universal mythology of the good and evil. Conte démoniaque is the first part of a profond series that continues with Faune (Amok) and Les soeurs zabîmes (Ego comme x).

 

304 pages, Softcover, B/W $78,95 code: A9017

 

ÉLOGE DE LA POUSSIÈRE by Baudoin

The book follows Couma aco. While working on the portrait of his amnesiac mother Baudoin falls deeply into his memory. Where there are mixed up reflexions and recollections of different time periods.

 

64 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: A9014

 

LES HEROS NE MEURENT JAMAIS by Dupuy and Berberian

A glance at the best short stories done by Dupuy and Berberian at their beginnings (83-90). Published in PLG, Lynx and also in Fluide glacial with an interview as introduction where they talk about this period.

 

Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

IVAN MORVE by Mattt Konture

These are the complete pages of the adventures of Ivan Morve. The ultimate anti-hero and super loser. He's probably the most underground incarnation of the para-autobiography movement.

 

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $23.50 code: LAS57

 

MOINS D'UN QUART DE SECONDE POUR VIVRE by Lewis Trondheim and J.C. Menu

A bizarre universe is depicted in a 100 strips written by Trondheim based on 8 drawings by Menu. A brilliant exercise where experiment rhymes with laughter.

 

32 pages, Softcover, B/W $16.95 code: A9011

 

LE PAYS DES TROIS SOURIRES by Lewis Trondheim

Le pays des trois sourires is a series of 100 strips where Trondheim returns to his metaphysical spirit. God has the appearance of a spaghetti and we all ask what the hell is happening. But we still laugh.

 

40 pages, Softcover, B/W 19,95$ code: A9024

 

PIXY by Max Andersson

Andersson's universe is full of aborted foetuses who call back to their mothers from the grave, living money and a human condom who wants to conquer the world of tomorrow. Pixy is a dark tale that makes you laugh out loud.

 

72 pages, Softcover, B/W $28.95 code: A9021

 

LAMORT ET CIE by Max Andersson

Reprints pages from a Swedish book vakulumneger and zero-zero from fantagraphics in the US. We discover the adventures of La mort and other great characters.

 

Coming out in 1998

 

LE PORTRAIT by Baudoin

This is a reprint of a classic of Baudoin. It is a magnificient tale about an artist and his model.

 

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $19.95 code: A9023

 

SUNNY MOON, TU ES MALADE by Blutch

Blutch's world evolves here to a dimension well beyond plain and simple humor. Between staccato and peplum, mademoiselle sunnymoon is the cornerstone of a mostly sentimental production.

 

48 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: A9012

 

TERRAINS VAGUES by Baudoin

Baudoin's second album from L'association. Terrains Vagues continues Baudoin's reflection on his life and the world that surronds him. In love Baudoin knows better than anyone what our terra incognita looks like.

 

64 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: A9016

 

VERTE CAMPAGNE by Thiriet

Well known by Fluide Glacial magazine readers, Thiriet is a close friend of L'association. Verte Campagne is an anthology of his latest works published in Fluide Glacial.

 

64 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: A9018

 

HORS FORMAT

 

LA GRANDE FAMIGLIA by Thomas Ott

This project comes from an exposition that presented all Ott's German works. It was presented in the style of a pizzeria.

 

Coming out in 1998

 

OUPUS 1

Oubapo is a group of artists who present their first book of experimental work (Thierry Groensteen, Etienne Lécroart, J.C Menu, Killoffer, François Ayroles, Gilles Ciment, Anne Baraou and Lewis Trondheim). If you like to see the form of the comics medium evolve and change, this book is for you.

 

104 pages, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: A9001

 

PÉRIPHÉRIES by David B, Jean-Pierre Duffour, Jochen Gerner, Joëlle Jolivet, Olivier Josso, Killoffer, Marc-Antoine Mathieu, J.C Menu, Rabaté and Vincent Vanoli.

An anthology hors série on the theme of the suburb, Périphéries is the result of the exhibition quartiers sensibles that took place in May 1994. Everyone explores the suburb in his own way.

 

52 pages, Softcover, B/W $11.95 code: LAS61

 

PATTE DE MOUCHE COLLECTION

 

1. IMBROGLIO by Lewis Trondheim

Already the fifth reprint and the second drawn version of this legendary conversation behind closed doors.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9201

 

2. LA MUTATION by Marc-Antoine Mathieu

Parallel to the universe of Julius Corentin Acquefacques (Delcourt), this is a short bureaucracy story of Monsieur Albert who forgot what was on the file number 8746685253.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9202

 

3. PERVENCHE ET VICTOR by Etienne Lécroart

A comic book can hide another comic book. This is the principle of this surprising album where the second story appears after some folding.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9203

 

4. ÇA DEMENAGE by Matthieu Blanchin

First album from a promising author, Ca déménage relates a moving story drawn with talent and dynamism.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9204

 

5. JEAN QUI RIT ET JEAN QUI PLEURE by François Ayroles

A subtile graphic exercise about the parallel destiny of two twins, one is lucky, the other not. An old subject revisited with talent.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9205

 

6. INVENTIONS by Denis Bourdaud

Inventions is full of strange stories and visionary work.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9206

 

7. NOUS SOMMES TOUS MORTS By Jean-Luc Coudray & Lewis Trondheim

Jean-Luc Coudray wrote here an attractive tale about life and death nicely drawn by Trondheim.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9207

 

8. L'ARBRE VENGEUR by Vincent Vanoli

Second Patte de Mouche by Vanoli, L'arbre Vengeur is a tale about soldiers, a woodcutter, a painter, love and irrationality.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9208

 

 

9. LA SPIRALE INFERNALE by Jean-Pierre Duffour

Cats are condemned by a jury to live in the strangest underworld.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9209

 

10. AU COEUR DU MONDE by Fabio

The center of the world for Fabio is a cat who goes from garbage can to garbage can. This character who continues his adventures in l'oeil du Chat (Seuil) and Du plomb dans l'aile (Seuil) visits a hostile world similar to our own.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9210

 

11. DIABLOTUS by Lewis Trondheim

Diablotus lifts stones and if he finds the skull of a skeleton he puts it in a fire. Diablotus is the first book of the Enfer et Damnation series.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9211

 

12. MADE IN US by Baudoin

In Coma Acò, Baudoin drew his maternal grandfather. Here he talks about his paternal grandfather who met Buffalo Bill in the wild west.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9212

 

13. OMELETTE by J.-C. Menu

Nobody will ever know if Omelette is the name of the bird character. Anyway, there are a lot of broken eggs in there.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9213

 

14. LE BORGNE GAUCHET AU CENTRE DE LA TERRE by Joann Sfar

Joann Sfar has a strange metaphysical universe. People die when they learn to fly and we regret the death of the death. The rest of the story can be found in Lapin n.12 to 14.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9214

 

15. BOITE DE VITESSES ET VIANDES EN BOITE by Jochen Gerner

Brilliant and minimalist, this thriller shows us all the vicissitudes of the life of crime. By one of the most published authors now in Europe.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9215

 

16. LES AVENTURES DE LA FIN DE L'EPISODE by Lewis Tondheim & Frank Le Gall

The meeting of the humour of Trondheim and the elegant style of the artist of Théodore Poussin (Dargaud).

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9216

 

17. GLOFUNE TRIBLONTO by Mattt Konture

Reprint of this classic Mattt Konture mystico-psychedelic experience that proves that it is naked in nature where we can receive the divine lightning.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9217

 

18. LA LUNE, LA BOUCHE D'EGOUT ET LA FLAQUE D'EAU by José Parrondo

Parrondo tells stories boyh naive and complicated, but they are simply told.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9218

 

19. L'OUD SILENCIEUX by Martin Tom Dieck

Dieck knows how to translate into drawings things like music, smell, feeling or influences between a distant instrument and an occidental man watching tv.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9219

 

20. LA DOUANE by Thomas Ott

Ott often travels between Switzerland and France. His customs officer friend inspired this short story. Black, terrifying and masterful, like always.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9220

 

21. LA PETITE DAME by Anke Feuchtenberger & Katrin de Vries

The Klein dame lost her hair. A false story for children sublimated by the drawing loaded with the expression and sensibility of Feuchtenberger and the very melancholic atmosphere of Vries' text.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9221

 

22. LA VALISE ENVOLEE by Vincent Sardon & Anne Baraou

The meticulous drawing of Sardon (see also Nénéref , Ego comme X) allied to the vision of Baraou. Twenty ways to explain to the inn keeper why we are not sleeping home tonight.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9222

 

23. DINOZOR APOKALIPS by J.-C. Menu

Reprint of a Patte de Mouche made in 1991, Dinozor Apokalips evokes a hypothesis about the end of the reptile era. With this question: Who is going to eat who?

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9223

 

24. LES ABYSSES PHENOMENAUX by Jean-Pierre Duffour

Those Abysses are in fact the cosmos, or could it be the heart of the earth, or our own? Well there is a naked woman falling from the sky. The traumdeuting is not so far.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9224

 

25. LA BÊTE A CINQ DOIGTS by Thomas Ottt

Twenty two pages and twenty drawings about things with 5 fingers. Hands which tell a story. A sad story which we can ask if men deserve the things they have at the end of an arm.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9225

 

26. REFLEXION by Guy Delisle

A lonely guy in a sitting room, what's there to tell? You will never again believe that you are really alone after reading this story.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9226

 

27. LA BOMBE FAMILIALE by David B.

When we receive our own bomb at home, the end could not be closer.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9227

 

28. LE CERCUEIL DE COURSE by David B.

A race with death, nothing less.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9228

 

29. LA CLEF DES CHAMPS by Killoffer

A superb metaphysical tale where Killoffer is having fun creating many universe.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9229

 

30. VIANDE FROIDE ET CIE by Stéphane Blanquet

Blanquet shows the truth about the dead in the closet.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9230

 

31. NON, NON, NON by Lewis Trondheim

The very sad story of a guy who says no with less conviction that it was clear he was not saying no.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9231

 

32. LES CERISIERS by Pascal Rabaté

A countryside full of mud with that particular smell. Rabaté returns with this story where you need to walk with high boots.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9232

 

33. NOYE LE POISSON bu Joann Sfar

A lonely fish in his bowl. Sfar attains new heights in the metaphysical genre.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9233

 

34. L'HOMME-AUTRUCHE by Stanislas

A book where we learn that making it to the top as a crazy scientist, is easier than working for an insurance company.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9234

 

35. NAM by Baudoin

Baudoin tells the story of a family member of Nelson Mandela, touching as always.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9235

 

36. LA BALLADE DU PETIT PENDU by Tanquerelle

The wordless adventures of a cut-out head

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9236

 

37. LES VOISINS by Denis Bourdaud

The story of the planet voisins and the planet touristes. Interplanetary humor from this author.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9237

 

38. CREVAISON by Sardon

This is merely the story of a break down on the side of a road, it's a tight thriller in the efficient Sardon style.

 

24 pages, Softcover, BW $7.95 code: A9238

 

39. LE COEUR DES OMBRES by Marc-Antoine Mathieu

An oppressed city is slowly finding hope and redemption.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9239

 

40. A L'INTÉRIEUR DES TETES by Blanquet

This book gives you the urge to kill some acariens. So you have to read it.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $7.95 code: A9240

 

DARGAUD

 

LES AVENTURES DE L'UNIVERS by Lewis Trondheim

The strips from Les inrockuptibles are collected in a very funny album. Trondheim goes with autobiographical satire and invents a little world where everything ends with an explosion of laughter.

 

48 pages, Hardcover, color $13.95 code: D13174

 

BLAKE ET MORTIMER by Jacobs

A series full of England and a great seriousness with a lot of drama and also some visionary science a fascinating work. There is a literary density to Blake and Mortimer, brought out to the surface by the narration.

 

64 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. Le secret de l'Espadon 1 $19.95 code: D70100

2. Le secret de l'Espadon 2 $19.95 code: D70101

3. Le secret de l'Espadon 3 $19.95 code: D70102

4. Le mystère de la grande pyramide 1 $19.95 code: D70104

5. Le mystère de la grande pyramide 2 $19.95 code: D70105

6. La marque jaune $19.95 code: D70107

7. L'énigme de l'Atlantide $19.95 code: D70106

8. SOS Météores $19.95 code: D70109

9. Le piège diabolique $19.95 code: D70103

10. L'affaire du collier $19.95 code: D70110

11. Les 3 formules du professeur Sato 1 $19.95 code: D20008

12. Les 3 formules du professeur Sato 2 $19.95 code: D20009

13. L'affaire Francis Blake $19.95 code: D20010

 

L'HISTOIRE DU CONTEUR ÉLECTRIQUE by Fred

The owner of the tv channel canal moi finds out that the moon tells more intriguing stories than all the junk that plays on his channel. Fred takes on the money and power of television owners and the dictatorship of spectators.

 

60 pages, Hardcover, color $19.95 code: D11936

 

L'HISTOIRE DU CORBAC AUX BASKETS by Fred

One morning upon a waking, Armand discovers that he has grown some feathers. He is changed into a crow with basketball shoes. Thrown out of bars and public gardens he thinks the whole world is crashing down on him. With a grand hunter, an eccentric countess, angels and psycho creatures Fred takes us to a magical and poetic field of dreams.

60 pages, Hardcover, color $19.95 code: D20003

 

LES EXTRAORDINAIRES AVENTURES DE LAPINOT by Lewis Trondheim

Lapinot is a neutral character featured in different universes. He explores the west, the middle-ages, the 20s and modern times. This incredible series shows the enormous talent of Lewis Trondheim. The great storytelling is highlighted by his use of colors. What makes this series a can't-miss is the masterful sense of dialogue and punchlines. Usagi Yojimbo meets Woody Allen.

 

48 pages, Hardcover

 

0. Slaloms $13.95 code: D13173

1. Blacktown $13.95 code: D13170

2. Pichenettes $13.95 code: D13171

3. Walter $13.95 code: D13172

4. Amour et intérim $13.95 code: D13174

5. Vacances de printemps (tentative title) coming out in late 1998

 

PIN UP by Berthet and Yann

This trilogy gives an hommage to Milton Caniff, Betty Page and the pin-ups of the second world war. Magnificient art by Berthet while Yann gives us a strong story filled with mythic images.

 

46 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. Pin up T.1 $19.95 code: D80035

2. Pin up T.2 $19.95 code: D80036

3. Pin up T.3 $19.95 code: D80037

 

PLUME AUX VENTS by Juillard

Sequel to the series 7 vies de l'épervier. Arianne goes to Nouvelle-France, searching for her father.

 

48 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. La folle et l'assassin $15.95 code: D11495

2. L'oiseau-tonnerre $15.95 code: D11496

 

LA RÉVOLTE D'HOP-FROG by Blain and David B.

This could be a western. It's got indians, horses, cowboys and guns. The action takes place in a saloon in the wild west. But when you take a closer look, you discover that a group of objects are revolting against the humans! This strange tale is beautifully drawn by Blain, with a great sense of line and an advanced use of color. This book invites you to a shot of whiskey.

 

48 pages, Hardcover $13.95 code: D18260

 

LA SAISON DES ANGUILLES by Bailly and Lapière

The action takes place in a swamp where a familly is destroyed by violent and hidden passions. An old baron, cynical and full of hatred is terrorising a mute boy. With a tranquil look he spends his days running in the forest and fishing eels. A good story, well drawn by Bailly in which the colors explode.

 

79 pages, Hardcover, color $26.95 code: D20014

 

XIII by Vance and Van Hamme

A great and efficient thriller where surprises come one after the other. An amnesiac is on a double quest: stay alive and find out who he is. In the first part, the hero is implicated in a plot against the most important political force in the US. What a best-seller really is.

 

48 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1, Le jour du soleil noir $15.95 code: D18700

2. Là où va l'indien $15.95 code: D18701

3. Toutes les larmes de l'enfer $15.95 code: D18702

4. Spads $15.95 code: D18703

5. Rouge total $15.95 code: D18704

6. Le dossier Jason Fly $15.95 code: D18705

7. La nuit du 3 août $15.95 code: D18706

8. Treize contre un $15.95 code: D18707

9. Pour Maria $15.95 code: D18709

10. El Cascador $15.95 code: D18710

11. Trois montres d'argent $15.95 code: D18711

12. Le jugement $15.95 code: D18712

 

DELCOURT

 

CATASTROPHES AU PAYS DU PÈRE NOEL by Legall

Following a strike at the post office a pile of gift lists arrives at the last moment for Santa Claus. How are the elves going to pull it of? Can we ask the troll who is not that dangerous? A joyful story full of Christmas magic for the children and humor for the parents.

 

56 pages, Hardcover, color $26.00 code: FF62207

 

DONJON by Trondheim and Joann Sfar

To go on a dangerous quest a magician ask for help from an invisible barbarian. But in fact, this barbarian is a duck: a big problem. Trust Trondheim and Sfar to deliver one very funny story.

 

1. Coeur de canard Coming out in 1998

2. Tome 2 Coming out in 1998

 

JULIEN BOISVERT by Plessix and Dieter

Rich in action and in psychological themes, this series follows Julien Boisvert, a young man growing up set in the story. Childhood and the search for his father are the main themes. The first book is in Africa, the second in Guernesey, the third in Mexico and the last one in the US. Beautifly drawn with great color work.

48 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. Neêkibo $23.95 code: FF62011

2. Grisnoir $23.95 code: FF62012

3. Jikuri $23.95 code: FF62100

4. Charles $23.95 code: FF62156

 

JULIUS CORENTIN ACQUEFACQUES by Marc-Antoine Mathieu

Julius Corentin Acquefacques is a prisoner of his dreams. His universe is similar to those of Kafka and Borges. Mathieu works also with the form of the album: a cutaway page, a spiral pop-up, photos... All of this gives us a surprising book, with a superb use of the black and white and a humorous way of telling those grim and fevered tales. The most important and extraordinary series of the 90s. A must read series.

 

48 pages, Hardcover, B/W

 

1. L'origine $23.95 code: FF62036

2. La qu... $23.95 code: FF62037

3. Le processus $23.95 code: FF62111

4. L'épaisseur du miroir $23.95 code: FF62160

 

ENCRAGES COLLECTION

 

LA DIGUE by Corbeyran and Alfred

Who has build this unfinishable dam? Does it have a beginning or end? If so, where does it lead? What are the laws that suide it?

 

Coming out in 1998

 

EXIT by Thomas Ott

A suitcase full of money that seems to bring death, an African hotel room very suffocating, the Vietnam war in its full horror. A killer with a strange look... Throughout the short stories collected here, from Washing Day to Dix façons de tuer votre mari, Thomas Ott shows us all his obsessions: his loss of power in the face of death. Dark stories taking us by the throat.

 

136 pages, Softcover, B/W $19.95 code: FF62249

 

GOUDRON PLUME by Baladi

In an improbable far west at the beginning of this century, Malpoilu , a cow-boy tormented and passionate, just before his lynching tells of his crazy pursuit of selle-de-cheval-qui-sent-mauvais, an enigmatic crook who has kidnapped his love, the beautiful Elizabeth. During the chase, he crosses the path of a community of very bizzare monsters, a strange and sensual indian woman, Henriette and Maureen, a quick shooter.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $19.50 code: FF62257

 

KISSING CAMELS by Frédéric Garcès

Frédéric Garcès lives in the US and tells us a nice American story: a crook just out of prison who, with the help of his girlfriend and a crazy guy, wish to get one million dollars with a kidnapping.

 

Coming out in 1998

 

LES MANGEURS DE CAILLOUX by Jean-Luc Loyer

When you're 8 years old and you've lived all your childhood near a mine in Pas-de-Calais you have surely heard some horrible tales from down there. A fascinated young boy who has lost his dog one night is going to imagine a lot of bad things...

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $19.50 code: FF92278

 

MISS MISSY by Jean-Michel Meyer

Under this cute name hides a nice creature who is the only one who knows the secret of the battle between Doctor Wu and Governor Ona of the lost heart colony.

 

Coming out in 1998

 

QUELQUES JOURS AVEC UN MENTEUR by Etienne Davodeau

For Victor, Charlie, Duml, Jean Jean and Phil, five old friends who all take off their jobs for 8 days of fresh air in a remote place far away from the city, each day brings out discoveries and surprise encounters. From inner questioning to morning racing, from cooking to a trip to the super market, the only constant thing in this week is: white paint bombs exploding everywhere...

 

176 pages, Softcover, B/W $23.95 code: FF62248

 

RAILS by Chauvel and Simon

United States, in a near future, hired to infiltrate a black gang racing through the country aboard an armored train Pearse, a cop, has to choose his side. Police and racist militia against pirates whose elimination is the main goal of this race to power.

 

192 pages, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: FF62256

 

TOILE CIREE by Jouvray and Roland

J.P.B., a famous journalist and Parisian writer, has to do a report on the manufacture of toile cirée (table cloths). As he meets with two young men he discovers a killing and he runs after the murderer who is hiding in the factory. Is the strange boss of the factory implicated? JPB is going after the truth.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $19.95 code: FF62286

 

TROIS ALLUMETTES by Chauvel and Boivin

Two very respectable women leave on wild trip. An old cop finds them...

 

Coming out in 1998

 

MOSQUITO

 

AVANT LE CRÉPUSCULE by Jans

Something surreal, something with a tender touch in the loss of love. Something violent in the words, some cold poetics stories which simply tells us that we have that chance to live.

 

60 pages, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code: V2052

 

CONTE MAISON by Baladi

Six little stories, two dwarves find a home far from giant killer, barbarians are killed by a temple door, some thieves are lost in their childhood house. Baladi plays with images in talented ways. A philosophical bit in a book made by a romantic young artist.

 

64 pages, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code: V2071

 

CHRONIQUES ROMAINES by Jans

Italy fascinates Jans and in this book it's obvious. The architecture of Rome is shown with passion troughout the story in which we follow Gelasio Balsimelli without ever becoming disoriented. There is a mysterious taste to this B&W city tale.

 

72 pages, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code: V2051

 

LE DOSSIER KOKOMBO by Toppi

Nature gives the rhythm to the deaths of lonesome souls. The moral is safe and the bad guys are those who we think they are. We speak here of the stupid nature of humanity. Toppi brings to his tales a tortured sense and a twisted rhythm.

 

80 pages, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code: V2061

 

EGO COMME X

 

JOURNAL (I) by Fabrice Néaud

Fabrice Néaud is the first French artist to put his diary into comic form. He relates his destructive love life with men and his solitary day to day walks in a small town. A bitter book with very sensitive touch, both in the story and in the art. Recommended.

 

116 pages, Softcover, B/W $25.95 code: EGO06

 

JOURNAL (II) by Fabrice Néaud

Second book in this author's diary.

 

72 pages, Softcover, B/W $17.95 code: EGO08

 

NÉNÉREF by Sardon

A small book where humor sits at the same table as Beaudelaire, Bukowski, Vian, Sartre, Freud,... In a word: Funny.

 

24 pages, Softcover, B/W $6.95 code: EGO05

 

LES SOEURS ZABIMES by Aristophane

Three young and fierce sisters chase adventures in the country. A boy falls in love with one of them and must defend his honor against the village bully. A naive tale with the rich art of Aristophane.

 

88 pages, Softcover, B/W $26.95 code: EGO07

 

EGO COMME X ANTHOLOGIES

 

EGO COMME X n.1 Aristophane, Baudoin, Hérody, Hinriksson, Hubert, Koo Sin Lin, Lefébure, Leprévost, Lorenzo, Mussat, Néaud, Néhou, Pitounet, Remy, Rouger, Sardon, Schipper.

 

68 pages, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code: EGO01

 

EGO COMME X n.2 Aristophane, Merced, Mussat, Néaud, Néhou, Hiko, Remy, Rip Off, Roju, Sardon, Schipper.

 

68 page, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code EGO02

 

EGO COMME X n.3 Aristophane, Del pino, Josso, Leprévost, Merced, Mussat, Néaud, Néhou, Sardon, Poot, Sommerville, Thivillon.

 

84 pages, Softcover, B/W $13.95 code: EGO03

 

EGO COMME X n.4 Aristophane, Del pino, Josso, Mussat, Néaud, Parrondo, Remy, Sardon, Sommerville, Sterpin, Thivillon.

 

84 pages, Softcover, B/W $13.95 code: EGO04

 

EGO COMME X n.5 Aristophane, Blanchin, Josso, Kallio Kaltsu, Kovacs, Morvandiau, Mussat, Neaud, Parrondo, Poincelet

 

115 pages, Softcover, B/W $14. 95 code: EGO09

 

VENT D'OUEST

 

PETER PAN by Loisel

Inspired by the J.M. Barrie novel, Loisel offers a great homage to childhood with his own luxuriuos and sensual touch. All the Disney characters are there, but this is close to the reality of Victorian London with emotion and crude cruelty.

 

62 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. Londres $27.95 code: 7355811

2. Opikanoba $27.95 code: 7355829

3. Tempête $27.95 code: 7355837

4. Mains rouges $27.95 code: 7398365

 

QU'ELLE CRÈVE LA CHAROGNE by Moynot and Dieter

Denis is the singer in a small music group who have toured for many years, but this time, luck seems to be on his side. Luck comes in the form of dead body and everything will start going wrong. This is a strong cop story, written well.

 

48 pages, Hardcover, color $26.95 code: 7392988

 

UN VER DANS LE FRUIT by Rabaté

A strong story where secret revelations comes to interrupt the peaceful life in a small village in the center of France. We follow a young priest in the village who has his first church. He rapidly discovers that family secrets are sometimes better left unknown. With his sense of storytelling and humoruos situations Rabaté is an author to be watched.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $36,95 code: 7357445

 

DUPUIS

 

JEREMIAH by Hermann

Even if the apocalypse brought on by a nuclear war turns around the whole planet, humans remains human: battles between races of gangs, religious fanatism, false medicine, power over money... Wandering on destroyed lands, Jeremiah and Kurdy are always landing in bad places at bad times. In this distorted world the main rule is surviving among violence. A strong series which is getting deeper in beauty.

 

46 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. La nuit des rapaces $12.95 code: P1482

2. Du sable plein les dents $12.95 code: P2034

3. Les héritiers sauvages $12.95 code: P1484

4. Les yeux de fer rouge $12.95 code: P2035

5. Un cobaye pour l'éternité $12.95 code: P2036

6. La secte $12.95 code: P1310

7. Afromerica $12.95 code: P2037

8. Les eaux de colère $12.95 code: P1489

9. Un hiver de clown $12.95 code: P1490

10. Boomerang $12.95 code: P2033

11. Delta $12.95 code: P1311

12. Julius et Roméa $12.95 code: P1312

13. Strike $12.95 code: P1313

14. Simon est de retour $12.95 code: P1314

15. Alex $12.95 code: P1315

16. La ligne rouge $12.95 code: P1316

17. Trois motos ou quatre $12.95 code: P2030

18. Ave césar $12.95 code: P2508

19. Zone frontière $12.95 code: P2509

20. Mercenaire $12.95 code: P2510

 

LARGO WINCH by Francq and Van Hamme

At 26, Largo Winch is the heir of a financial cartel of 10 billion dollars. Anti-Establishment, seducer, fighter, he is called the blue jean billionaire. But can he keep his hands clean with that kind of power? Caught between women and corrupt bankers, between legitimate and suspect business, Winch answers back everytime, even if it falls into illegality.

 

48 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. L'héritier $12.95 code: P1378

2. Le groupe W $12.95 code: P1379

3. O.P.A $12.95 code: P1380

4. Business Blues $12.95 code: P2007

5. H $12.95 code: P2400

6. Dutch connection $12.95 code: P2401

7. La forteresse de Makiling $12.95 code: P2402

8. L'heure du tigre $12.95 code: P2403

 

SARAJEVO TANGO by Hermann

An album in reaction of the Bosnian war. A strong denunciation by Hermann facing the international situation and a charge on anti-militarism. Not enough albums are like this. Necessary and magnificent.

 

56 pages, Hardcover, color $17.95 code: P2414

 

THÉODORE POUSSIN by Frank Le Gall

Clerk for a shipping company at Dunkerque, Théodore Poussin is a young dreamer. On a sunny day in 1928, answering the adventure calling, he decides to go away in a search of his lost father. A beautiful series of adventures exotic and intimate, that seem to recall the literary tradition of Conrad, Melville, Stevenson. The ingredients: a lot of atmosphere, a bit of irony and a zest of fantasy.

 

46 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. Capitaine Steene $12.95 code: P1560

2. Le mangeur d'archipels $12.95 code: P1561

3. Marie vérité $12.95 code: P1562

4. Secrets $12.95 code: P1563

5. Le trésor du Rajah blanc $12.95 code: P1564

6. Un passager porté disparu $12.95 code: P1565

7. La vallée des roses $12.95 code: P1566

8. La maison dans l'île $12.95 code: P2025

9. La terrasse des audiences tome 1 $12.95 code: P2520

10. La terrasse des audiences tome 2 $12.95 code: P2521

 

FREON

 

FRIGOBOX ANTHOLOGIES

 

FRIGOBOX n.1 (December 1994) Boïra, Godermiaux, Long, Lamy, D Deprez, Goblet, Van Hasselt, Blésin, O. Deprez, Fortemps, Swenne, Poppe.

 

80 pages, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code: AMOK13

 

FRIGOBOX n.2 (Febuary 1995) Van Hasselt, Gobblet, O. Deprez, Poppe, D. Deprez, Swenne, Fortemps.

 

80 pages, Softcover, B/W $12.95 code: AMOK14

 

FRIGOBOX n.3 (April 1995) Poppe, Swenne, D. Deprez, Fortemps, Negrelli, Van Hasselt, Long, O. Depres, Lamy, Meurant.

 

100 pages, Softcover, B/W $13.95 code: AMOK15

 

FRIGOBOX n.4 (October 1995) Boïra, Breccia, O. Deprez, D. Deprez, Fortemps, Gobblet, Goderniaux, Lefevre, Long, Negrelli, Swenne, Van Hasselt.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $18.95 code: AMOK16

 

FRIGOBOX n.5 (December 1995) O. Deprez, D. Deprez, Van Hasselt, Baetens, Poppe, Fortemps, Long.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $15.95 code: AMOK17

 

FRIGOBOX n.6 (January 1996) D. Deprez, O. Deprez, Fortemps, Castells, Poppe, Gobblet, A. Breccia, H. Breccia, Osterheld, Van Hasselt, Long.

 

116 pages, Softcover, B/W $15.95 code: AMOK18

 

FRIGOBOX n.7 (June 1996) Beatens, Fortemps, Van Hasselt, Long, Gastout, Poppe, Boïra, Sardon, A. Breccia, H. Breccia, Osterheld, O. Deprez.

 

114 pages, Softcover, B/W $19.95 code: AMOK19

 

FRIGOBOX n.8 (December 1996) Van Hasselt, Long, Fortemps, Huymen, A. Breccia, F. Breccia, H. Oesterheld, Lamy, Umbreit, D. Deprez, Messadié, Lambé, Poppe, Barbier. Barbier.

 

180 pages, Softcover, B/W $26.95 code: AMOK20

 

FRIGOBOX n.9 (January 1998) Poppe, E. and A. Breccia, Oesterheld, Coché, Vanderwalle, Schoof's, Lens, Debaene, Lamiroy, Ysenbaert, Van Hasselt, Long, O. Deprez, Boira, Goblet, D. Deprez, Svetic, Meurant, Fortemps, Lambé

 

244 pages, Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

 

AMPHIGOURI COLLECTION

 

CIMES by Vincent Fortemps

This is a completly silent book. Only the title enters in to break the silence. In a setting of mountains we are brought to a village. Here there is no hero, no central character, only anonymous people. One is at a mass, while others are just drunk. Drunkeness is the main theme running throughout pages full of dark, scratched and destroyed paper.

 

84 pages, Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

LES NÉBULAIRES by Denis Deprez

Deep intrigue, the search for the truth, Les Nébulaires is the story of a long investigation. Deprez is re-inventing the way to tell a story in comics. A feeling of loss in this work leads you to a strange mood. Godard-like, this book is great new wave approach and an amazing new work.

 

162 pages, Softcover, B/W $43.95 code: AMOK27

 

PORTRAITS CRACHES by Dominique Goblet

Portraits crachés is a book with no defined limits, just as if the author was ignorant of the laws of the genre. Some may think it is well crafted catalog and others more sensitive to the structure will believe it is closer to an art book with a narrative touch. What is sure is that it won't leave you without any emotions.

 

100 pages, Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

SALUT DELEUZE by Bazler and Martin Tom Dieck

Gilles Deleuze died on November 5th 1997. This philosopher of eternal repetition takes an ultimate trip to Lethe. He can, he thinks, stop thinking. But he is asked by the crossman to explain and justify his thoughts. Nor is this his last. He will be taken 5 times to hell, where awaiting him are his old friends Foucault, Barthes, Lacan. Five times he has to redo this trip. Deleuze and the crossman cannot arrive at an understanding of what is the reality of thinking and dying.

 

52 pages, Softcover, B/W Coming out in 1998

 

GLÉNAT

 

SAMBRE by Yslaire

A grand romantic story on the theme of constrained love. This genre book is drawn with passion, perfectionism and sensuality. Bernard, heir of a rich and famous family, loves Julie the poacher but she is the daughter of a prostitute and she is falsely accused of the murder of Bernard's mother. All the revolutionnary events of 1848 live in the background of this book set in a beautiful and historic Paris.

 

53 pages, Softcover, color

 

1. Plus ne m'est rien $22.95 code: 7375413

2. Je sais que tu viendras $22.95 code: 7375421

3. Révolution, révolution $22.95 code: 7375439

4. Faut-il que nous mourrions? $22.95 code: 7387426

 

LES SEPT VIES DE L'ÉPERVIER by Juillard et Cothias

Les sept vies de l'Épervier plays with the historical period of Henri IV and Louis XIII and with Ariane's destiny, a young rich girl who becomes a masked avenger. A great story by Cothias and the classical line of the great Juillard.

 

48 pages, Softcover, color

 

1. La blanche morte $22.95 code: 2723415619

2. Le temps des chiens $22.95 code: 2723415627

3. L'arbre de mai $22.95 code: 2723415635

4. Hyronimus $22.95 code: 2723415643

5. Le maître des oiseaux $22.95 code: 2723415651

6. La part du diable $22.95 code: 272341566X

7. La marque du condor $22.95 code: 2723415678

 

LES TOURS DE BOIS-MAURY by Hermann

The quest of the chevalier Aymar of Bois-Maury, trying to reconquer his land, is the main thread of this series where each book portrays a different character. Hermann draws like a master of the historical story. Very violent and spiritual.

 

62 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. Babette $16.95 code: 2723404757

2. Eloïse de Montgri $16.95 code: 2723405338

3. Germain $16.95 code: 272340661X

4. Reinhardt $16.95 code: 2723408574

5. Alda $16.95 code: 7378821

6. Sigurd $16.95 code: 7378839

7. William $16.95 code: 7378847

8. Le seldjouki $16.95 code: 7378854

9. Khaled $16.95 code: 7378862

10. Olivier $16.95 code: 2723417832

 

HUMANOÏDES ASSOCIÉS

 

CHALAND INTÉGRAL by Yves Chaland

This is the greatest honnor that Les Humanoïdes Associés could pay to the fans and this medium. It contains all of the adventure of Freddy Lombard. Surely one of the most inventive series ever. It also contains Bob Fish, Adolphus Claar and some never published material. But the most awaited story is his Spirou story. Could we say that Chaland had the same impact on this medium that Hitchcock had on cinema.

 

Hardcover, color

 

1. Intégrale Chaland 1 $59.95 code: H1389

2. Intégrale Chaland 2 $59.95 code: H1391

3. Intégrale Chaland 3 $59.95 code: H1405

4. Intégrale Chaland 4 $59.95 code: H1440

 

LE JEUNE ALBERT by Yves Chaland

This is the most personal work of Chaland. Small sketches where Albert, a young boy, terrorizes everyone in Bruxels during the second world war. The cruelity of Albert reminds one of Quick and Flupke (Hergé). This character comes from the album Bob Fish and after that he had a great career in metal hurlant magazine. A dark and satirical album by one if not, the greatest comics artists of his generation. A classic.

 

78 pages, Hardcover, color $33.95 code: H1111

 

MONSIEUR JEAN by Dupuy and Berberian

Monsieur Jean is a writer who lives in Paris. He is single, he loves jazz and cinema. The story is inspired by the life of the two authors and their generation. These little tales are full of sensitivity and humor. Two New Yorker artists with great drawings and beautiful colors. Some stories were published in few of the Drawn and Quarterly anthologies.

 

52 pages, Hardcover, color

 

1. Monsieur Jean, l'amour, la concierge $17.95 code: H1140

2. Les nuits les plus blanches $17.95 code: H1141

3. Les femmes et les enfants d'abord $17.95 code: H1375

4. Vivons heureux sans en avoir l'air $17.95 code: H1376

 

SOIRS DE PARIS by Avril and Petit-Roulet

From night club to private party, from theatre to restaurant, from the bed of a beautiful woman to the balcony of another, the overnight adventures of two guys are told without a word. The characters' expressions are shown through pictograms. An original work to savour on a summer night.

 

64 pages, Hardcover, color $23.95 code: H1047

 

LA TRILOGIE NIKOPOL by Bilal

Bilal mixes sports, love, political-fiction, animal fantasies and Egyptian mythology in an anticipated story, with Bilal's touch especially for the use of color. Three books made over 12 years and a style which hasn't stopped progressing in power and definition. We will never forget the images of Alcide Nikopol fighting the god Horus who takes possession of his body.

 

56 pages. Hardcover, color

1. La foire aux immortels $25.95 code: H1069

2. La femme piège $25.95 code: H1070

3. Froid équateur $25.95 code: H1071

 

SEUIL

 

1. MILDIOU by Lewis Trondheim

An adventure with the same Lapinot from the series by Dargaud. This is in black and white and highlights the great line drawing. With the same humor and great dialogue, this book is another great work by Trondheim.

 

144 pages, Softcover, B/W $16.95 code: 000-21333

 

2. L'OEIL DU CHAT by Fabio

This cat is formed only by lines like every detail in the drawing of Fabio. A vagabond who has all sorts of adventures. A story with no dialogue, the characters speak through ideograms. A naive adventure story with a funny look.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: 000-24959

 

3. BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE by Bruno Heitz

The revolution built by farm animals results in a war between humans and animals. The animals win and begin living like humans. Finally they destroy themselves. There is a child-like look to this small but sincere work by Heitz.

 

128 pages, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: 000-24747

 

4. MOROVACHE by Virginie Broquet

A family caught in a web of crime. A stong style from a great artist. Virginie Broquet presents a simple story with a very original touch.

 

112 pages, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: 000-23551

 

5. MONSIEUR FRUIT by Nicolas De Crécy

Clarke Quinte, a detective-journalist, is obsessed and crazy about any kind of food. He obtains super powers and transforms himself in Super Monsieur Fruit, the masked avenger of the fruits. He saves the day and beats the bad guys. A minimalist story by the artist who drew Leon La Came. A spoof of Superman.

 

160 pages, Softcover, B/WTome 1 $21.95 code: 000-23701

 

6. LA MOUCHE by Lewis Trondheim

Did you know that Trondheim is a great writer? Well in this book, there is no text at all, only a small and ugly fly who flies around a house where it meets another fly and a giant spider. A super funny book with a hypnotic feel to it. Bzzzzzz!

 

112 page, Softcover, B/W $21.95 code: 000-23728

 

7. DU PLOMB DANS L'AILE by Fabio

Same ambiance: sad and minimalist. Same basic preoccupations: eating, sleeping, heat. Same hostile world. But our hero is no longer alone, he has a friend, a crow.

 

160 pages, Softcover, B/W $20.95 code: 000-28987

 

8. UN PRIVÉ À LA CAMBROUSSE by Bruno Heitz

In the countryside, a villager becomes some kind of a detective to solve little mysteries. A cute way noir story in the great style of Heitz.

 

160 pages, Softcover, B/W $20.95 code: 000-29087

 

9. MAT by Baudoin

The young Mat lives between city the landscape and highway. He finds peace with his friend Élodie (a bird that he finds) and in his dreams. But it is his relationship with his father that shakes this touching story. The great line of Baudoin is touched deeply by his liberty.

 

120 pages, Softcover, B/W $20.95 code: 000-29363

 

10. MONSIEUR FRUIT II by Nicolas de Crécy

The second volume in the adventures of Super Monsieur Fruit.

 

160 pages, Softcover, B/W $20.95 code: 000-29670

 

11. L'INNOCENT PASSAGER by Martin Tom Dieck

On a strange ship, everyone searches for the captain. Really it is the search for the personality of the main character. Dieck plays a lot with subjective points of view in an absurd world. His great work puts this book in the class among the best black and white comic books.

 

200 pages, Softcover, B/W $23.95 code: 000-28797

 

12. UNE MAGOUILLE PAS ORDINAIRE by Bruno Heitz

The same character from Un privé à la cambrousse returns in a longer story. The detective is involved in a missing persons case. His search takes him through the country and the city. Heitz strikes again.

 

120 pages, Softcover, B/W $18.95 code: 000-32052

 

13. VIES BLANCHES by Gabriella Giandelli

Giandelli creates a strong story where illness and emptiness collide. The main characters are empty people looking for answers, but not always in the best way. A slow pace sensible tale where human nature paces death.

 

80 pages, Softcover, B/W $18.95 code: 000-31441

 

FEUX by Mattotti

When this book came out in France it was considered a landmark. Long known in Italy, the debut of this important artist changed the way color is used in this medium. Lieutenant Absinthe is progressively possessed by the attraction of a strange island. His battleship will fall to strange forces. This book is a spectacle on every page. The paintings wash away our minds and this book emerges as an important work of art.

 

64 pages, Hardcover, color $29.95 code: 000-32217

 

DARGAUD COMIC NOVELL

 

L'ENFER DU JOUR by Moynot

A great dark tale with deep storytelling and strong violence, both in the art and in the style.

 

160 pages, Softcover, B/W $24.95 code: D41053

 

EXOTISSIMO by Autheman

For a solo mission, inspector Merlin lands in Puerto Madrina. As he lands, everything begins to twist. With the charm of all Autheman's work he delivers the exotic feel of the south.

 

172 pages, Softcover, B/W $26.95 code: D41055

 

LA PASSE DU MANCHOT by Autheman

After the fall of the Berlin wall, an ex-member of the political police tries to go west. Autheman is a specialist in the noir style with great dialogue. The great work of Autheman can be seen in his touch with the grey tones.

 

170 pages, Softcover, B/W $26.95 code: D41052

 

LE PET DU DIABLE by Autheman

A slow paced police thriller set on a solitary island in the Indian ocean. The chief looks for answers in the middle of a group of natives. Love, hate and all the human characters can be found in this great story by Autheman.

 

170 pages, Softcover, B/W $17.95 code: D41050

 

LE TENGU CARRÉ by David B.

Who are those two men from nowhere who trouble order down here on our world? The renarde and the Champignon are two Japenese demons, every 100 years they are coming back to destroy everything. David B. gives us a surprising story inspired by Japanese myth.

 

144 pages, Softcover, B/W $26.95 code: D41501

 

PMJ EDITIONS

 

ARCHIPELS by Bezian - foreword by Lewis Trondheim

Two crooks wait for a call in a deep hole. The two play mind games with life and death. As for the call, let's say they are hoping against hope. The art is beautiful, similar to Dave McKean. A black and white Greek tragedy.

 

38 pages, Hardcover, B/W $16.95 code: MAK61

 

TOUTINOX by Stanislas

Toutinox tells stories about a century of mechanical inventions: Bugatti, Citroën, Bathyscaphe, Spoutnik, Concorde. It's presented in an informative way in the naive and touching style of Stanislas.

 

30 pages, Hardcover, color $23.95 code: STA01

 

CORNÉLIUS

 

LES 4 SAVANTS 1 by David B.

The big A was abducted by the intestine's demon. Doctor Yox and his friends are doing everything to save him, even if they have to fight their deams.

 

30 pages, Softcover, B/W $14.95 code: A9406

 

LES 4 SAVANTS 2 by David B.

30 pages, Softcover, B/W $14.95 code: A9407

 

APPROXIMATIVEMENT by Lewis Trondheim

Trade collection of six comics published by Cornelius, this book is an autobiography of one of the most funny and inventive author of recent years. From his drawing board to his inner crise, and including a trip to the USA, our interest grows along and Trondheim does well in depicting his circle of friends. Can be read in parallel with Livret de phamille by J.C. Menu.

 

152 pages, Softcover, B/W $40.95 code: A9421

 

CARNETS DE NEW YORK by Dupuy & Berberian

44 pages, Softcover, B/W $40.95 code: A9454

 

LA GÉOMÉTRIE DE L'OBSESSION by David Mazzuchelli

Three stories taken from Rubber Blanket.

 

44 pages, Softcover, B/W $40.95 code: A9432

 

LETTRE AMÉRICAINE by Blutch

Blutch has come to New York so here are all of his drawings from the Big Apple and letters written to his girlfriend. A magnificent statement on jazz and human condition.

 

30 pages, Softcover, B/W $38,95 code: A9431

 

MITCHUM T1 by Blutch

A series with many different stories. It's full of the deep art of the New Yorker Blutch. He plays with different styles and forms. It illustrates the deep search of an artist with reality and history. The third volume features Robert Michum fighting evil in a karate duel.

 

30 pages, Softcover, B/W $14.95 code: A9401

 

MITCHUM T2 by Blutch

30 pages, Softcover, B/W $14.95 code: A9402

 

MITHCUM T3 by Blutch

30 pages, Softcover, B/W $14.95 code: A9403

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY

 

IT'S A GOOD LIFE IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN (Palookaville n.4 to 9) by Seth

160 pages, Softcover $16.95 code: DQ29

160 pages, Hardcover $39.95 code: DQ07

 

PALOOKA-VILLE by Seth

Softcover, 2 colors

 

PALOOKA-VILLE n.1 $2.95 code: DQ12

PALOOKA-VILLE n.2 $3.50 code: DQ13

PALOOKA-VILLE n.3 $3.50 code: DQ14

PALOOKA-VILLE n.10 $3.50 code: DQ15

 

DADDY'S GIRL by Debbie Drechsler

96 pages, Softcover $12.95 code: DQ71

 

NOWHERE by Debbie Drechsler

Softcover, 2 colors

 

NOWHERE n.1 $4.50 code: DQ11

NOWHERE n.2 $4.50 code: DQ31

NOWHERE n.3 $4.50 code: DQ67

 

32 STORIES by Adrian Tomine

100 pages, Softcover $12.95 code: DQ68

100 pages, Hardcover $39.95 code: DQ03

 

OPTIC NERVE by Adrian Tomine

Softcover, B/W

 

OPTIC NERVE n.1 $3.50 code: DQ19

OPTIC NERVE n.2 $3.50 code: DQ20

OPTIC NERVE n.3 $2,50 code: DQ21

OPTIC NERVE n.4 $3.50 code: DQ22

 

SLEEPWALK AND OTHER STORIES by Adrian Tomine

Hardcover, signed coming out in December 98

 

DEEP GIRL by Ariel Bordeaux

Sorftcover

 

DEEP GIRL n.5 $3,25 code: DQ69

 

NO LOVE LOST by Ariel Bordeaux

56 pages, Softcover $7.95 code: DQ08

 

MY MOST SECRET DESIRE by Julie Doucet

100 pages, Softcover $14.95 code: DQ02

100 pages, Hardcover $44,95 code: DQ72

 

LIFT YOUR LEG MY FISH IS DEAD by Julie Doucet

96 pages, Softcover $12.95 code: DQ01

96 pages, hsrdcover $32,00 code: DQ70

 

DIRTY PLOTTE by Julie Doucet

Softcover

 

DIRTY PLOTTE n.1 $2.95 code: DQ34

DIRTY PLOTTE n.2 $2.95 code: DQ35

DIRTY PLOTTE n.3 $2.95 code: DQ36

DIRTY PLOTTE n.4 $2.95 code: DQ37

DIRTY PLOTTE n.5 $2.95 code: DQ38

DIRTY PLOTTE n.6 $2.95 code: DQ39

DIRTY PLOTTE n.7 $3.50 code: DQ40

DIRTY PLOTTE n.8 $3.50 code: DQ41

DIRTY PLOTTE n.9 $3.50 code: DQ17

DIRTY PLOTTE n.10 $3.50 code: DQ18

DIRTY PLOTTE n.11 $4.25 code: DQ62

 

I NEVER LIKED YOU by Chester Brown

192 pages, Softcover $14.95 code: DQ09

192 pages, Hardcover $33.00 code: DQ10

 

THE PLAYBOY by Chester Brown

176 pages, Softcover $14.95 code: DQ05

 

UNDERWATER by Chester Brown

Softcover

 

UNDERWATER n.1 $3.50 code: DQ23

UNDERWATER n.2 $3.50 code: DQ24

UNDERWATER n.3 $3.50 code: DQ25

UNDERWATER n.4 $3.50 code: DQ26

UNDERWATER n.5 $4.25 code: DQ27

UNDERWATER n.6 $4.25 code: DQ28

UNDERWATER n.7 $4.25 code: DQ30

UNDERWATER n.8 $4.25 code: DQ58

UNDERWATER n.9 $3,95 code: DQ59

UNDERWATER n.10 $3,95 code: DQ60

 

ED THE HAPPY CLOWN by Chester Brown

212 pages, Softcover $14.95 code: DQ04

 

THE LITTLE MAN AND OTHER STRIPS by Chester Brown

coming out in spring 1998

 

THE POOR BASTARD by Joe Matt

160 pages, Softcover $16.95 code: DQ33

160 pages, Hardcover, signed and numbered $39.95 code: DQ61

 

PEEPSHOW by Joe Matt

Softcover

 

PEEPSHOW n.1 $3.50 code: DQ48

PEEPSHOW n.2 $2.95 code: DQ49

PEEPSHOW n.3 $2.95 code: DQ50

PEEPSHOW n.4 $2.95 code: DQ51

PEEPSHOW n.5 $3.50 code: DQ52

PEEPSHOW n.6 $3.50 code: DQ53

PEEPSHOW n.7 $3.50 code: DQ54

PEEPSHOW n.8 $3.50 code: DQ55

PEEPSHOW n.9 $4.25 code: DQ56

PEEPSHOW n.10 $4.25 code: DQ57

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY ANTHOLOGIES

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY vol.1 $6.95 code: DQ42

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY vol.2 $6.95 code: DQ43

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY vol.3 $6.95 code: DQ44

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY vol.4 Baru, Carol Tyler, Seth, Archer Prewitt, Maurice Vellekoop, Dupuy & Berberian and Josh Gosfield.

39 pages, Softcover $7.95 code: DQ45

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY vol.5 $7.95 code: DQ46

 

DRAWN AND QUARTERLY vol.6 Max, Dupuy & Berberian, Jason Lutes and Baru.

39 pages, Softcover $7.95 code: DQ47

 

THE BEST OF DRAWN AND QUARTERLY by Seth, David Mazzucchelli, Carol Tyler, Joe Matt, Julie Doucet and Debbie Drechsler.

Softcover $12.95 code: DQ06

 

VELLEVISION A COCKTAIL OF COMICS & ILLUSTRATIONS by Maurice Vellekoop

80 pages, Softcover, full-color $24.95 code: DQ72

 

SOBA by Joe Sacco

coming out in Febuary 1998

 

PALESTINE by Joe Sacco

141 pages, Softcover, B/W

 

1. Book One. A Nation Occupied $23.95 code: DQ64

2. Book Two. In the Gaza Strip $23.95 code: DQ65

 

THE REVIVAL by James Sturm

coming out in Spring 1998

 

THE ENVELOPE MANUFACTURER by Chris Oliveros

coming out in November 1997

 

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