Thierry Smolderen

Alexandre Clérisse

Un agent secret sorti de nulle part, un accident dramatique, une fille troublante et la disparition de son père, le tout en deux jours... Pour Antoine, 15 ans, l'été 1967 sera celui de toutes les découvertes. Après Souvenirs de l'empire de l'Atome, les auteurs proposent un nouveau cocktail détonant et jouissif : un scénario particulièrement haletant, entre espionnage et littérature, passé au mixeur graphique de Clérisse qui, cette fois, mélange les références des fumetti à David Hockney.
Espionnage, policier, années 1960, relations père-fils…

L'Été Diabolik

Dans Souvenirs de l’empire de l’Atome, Paul raconte son histoire : en contact avec des représentants de l’empire, au 722e siècle de notre ère, il est, dans le présent, manipulé sous hypnose par un certain Zelbub, auquel il doit fournir des secrets scientifiques de cet empire ! Zelbub, un ancien publicitaire, travaille pour le Pentagone sur les armes du futur. Mais son vrai plan est de prendre le pouvoir sur la Terre grâce à l’hypnose et à une machine de son invention. Paul, scientifique de haut vol en lien avec le futur, est donc un des rouages essentiels du complot fomenté par Zelbub.

Souvenirs de l'empire de l'atome

Bart Beaty

Nick Nguyen

From William Hogarth to Winsor Mccay

Origins of Comics

Jean-Phillipe Bramanti

McCay

Enrico Marini

Le jour du Tsar

The Fires of Siberia (Gipsy)

Gipsy

Tomorrow... is just 121,000 years away! An astonishing and captivating original graphic novel inspired by a real psychological case, Atomic Empire is both a psychiatric enigma and a space opera immersed in the fluid and aerodynamic imagery of 1950s sci-fi. 1953: The world has entered the age of the Atom, but one man wonders what it means for civilization. His name is Paul--a government research specialist who, since childhood, has been in telepathic contact with a hero from the distant future. But when a mysterious consultant begins to take an interest in him, "the man who communicates with the future" will commit an unforgivable sin and break an oath to his friend Zarth Arn, hero of the Galactic Empire.

Atomic Empire

A groovy spy thriller and coming-of-age tale set in the Go-go days of the 1960s, done in a chic, retro style sure to charm readers. For 15-year old Antoine, the summer of 1967 will prove to be an unforgettable one full of new discoveries: a secret agent from nowhere, a mysterious troubled girl, and the disappearance of his father--all happening within two days! These events and more conspire to turn his life upside down and into something he could never have imagined. The creators of Atomic Empire turn their vintage-inspired style to the spy-thriller genre that harkens back to a time when James Bond was the biggest action-hero in the world.

Diabolical Summer

In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States. Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Töpffer, Gustave Doré, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form.

From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay

The Origins of Comics

Philippe Marcelé

A visit to the supermarket goes horribly wrong when masked robbers open fire and murder unsuspecting customers. After witnessing the deaths of their respective loved ones, Marielle and Stella join together to seek vengeance at any cost.

For Justice, for Revenge, for Each Other

Colère Noire

Revisit the action-packed adventures of Gypsy with this one-of-a-kind omnibus edition! Set in the not-too-distant future, the world of Gypsy has it all: planetary highways, the coronation of a young Russian Tsar, the resurrection of a Mongol army on the trail of Gengis Khan, an all-powerful multinational corporation that controls all earthly transport—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! In the middle of all this, we have a Gypsy truck driver who, fortunately, knows how to look after himself. Now, for the first time ever, the works of award-winning creators Thierry Smolderen and Enrico Marini are collected in this deluxe omnibus edition. Complete with a stylistic slipcase featuring exclusive new art from Enrico Marini, this collection breathes new life into the world of Gypsy—a must-have for any comics reader!

Gypsy Omnibus

An astonishing and captivating original graphic novel by Thierry Smolderen and Alexandre Clérisse. Inspired by a real psychological case, Atomic Empire is both a psychiatric enigma and a space opera. 1953: The world has entered the age of the Atom, but one man wonders what it means for civilization. His name is Paul—a sci-fi writer who, since childhood, has been in telepathic contact with a hero from the distant future. But when a well-known Pentagon consultant begins to take an interest in him, ”the man who communicates with the future" will commit an unforgivable sin and break an oath to his friend Zarth Arn, hero of the Galactic Empire. Smolderen and Clérisse deliver a beautiful and contemporary tale, immersed in the fluid and aerodynamic imagery of 1950s sci-fi.

Das Imperium des Atoms

Un padre dalla carriera misteriosa, l'inconfondibile sagoma di un uomo in calzamaglia nera che si aggira intorno a casa, e intanto i primi turbamenti, una donna misteriosa e lasciva che forse scappa da un passato ingombrante. Sullo sfondo, la Riviera francese, gli anni Sessanta, la guerra fredda. Un magistrale thriller internazionale e psicologico, creato dagli autori di Souvenir dell'Impero dell'atomo, e con la partecipazione straordinaria del Re del terrore in persona, Diabolik. Un volume che vi inquieterà e vi emozionerà, in una veste curatissima, con verniciatura UV in rilievo su copertina in carta non plastificata.

L'Estate Diabolika

Two young women lose their families in a grisly holdup. Heartbroken and vengeful, they decide to take matters into their own hands. Together they track down the murderers and make them pay (a high price) for the wreckage they left behind. A violent and thrilling feminist tale, freely inspired by the affair of the mad killers of Walloon Brabant, which hit the Belgian crime chronicles of the early 1980s.

Dark Rage

It's the year 2020. Lindsey finds herself in the midst of a panicking crowd following a bomb attack on a protest against the newly elected 'neocon' party. Just as she's about to be crushed, an elegant hand stretches down and saves her from her fate. The hand belongs to Chamza, an elusive and beautiful young billionaire who soon whisks Lindsey into her world of jet-setting from country to country, frequenting the trendiest parties and the most talked-about exhibitions. But there's a lot that remains unsaid about this mysterious young woman, starting with where her money comes from. Kendricks, a veteran of the war on terror of the 2000s, thinks he's found out. This is a secret that could take international politics into a whole new playing field. It also makes Chamza a key component in the American government's surveillance and intelligence schemes. But what they don't know yet is that 'the lady from Dubai' has the means to defend herself. Or if not, to fight back.

Ghost Money - Volume 1 - The Lady from Dubai

Dominique Bertail

Londres, fin des années 2020. Le chemin de Lindsley vient de croiser par hasard celui de la dame de Dubaï, l'une des femmes les plus riches de la planète. Mais l'immense fortune de Chamza a une histoire dont les pages les plus secrètes sont écrites dans un langage informatique impénétrable. Persuadée que cet agent fantôme est lié au 11 septembre et présente une menace pour l'Amérique, la nouvelle administration US lance contre elle une opération d'un genre inédit. Les coups seront joués à la vitesse d'un hors-bord bondissant, ou d'un bolide fonçant sur la voie rapide de Shanghai. Et personne ne sera épargné...

La dame de Dubaï

Intriguing characters and plotlines intertwine in a near-future political thriller drawing on contemporary world events and actual growing technology contributing to a cyberwar in both reality and virtual reality. When Lindsey, a young student in London, is rescued from a riot by Chamza, a young woman from the Arab world, they begin a relationship based on both fascination and convenience. Before she knows it, Lindsey is drawn into a world of vast wealth and intrigue; her new friend seems to have ties to political movements and revolutionaries throughout the Islamic world, but it is not clear what their agenda might be, or where her great wealth comes from. Could it be the fabled legendary lost treasure of Al-Qaeda, supposedly amassed through insider trading prior to 9/11? Unbeknownst to either Lindsey or Chamza, a set of US contractors, all veterans of war in Iraq and the CIA's rendition program, are focusing their sites on Chamza, believing her wealth is indeed the key to a larger threat to the entire world economy. The series looks at surveillance, clandestine military action, and class warfare in the twilight of the current War on Terror, all within the context of a thriller that ultimately seeks to find out what controls the global economy.

Death in Dubai

Ghost Money Vol. 1

A groovy spy thriller and coming-of-age tale set in the Go-go days of the 1960s, done in a chic, retro style sure to charm readers. For 15-year-old Antoine, the summer of 1967 will prove to be an unforgettable one full of new discoveries: a secret agent from nowhere, a mysterious troubled girl, and the disappearance of his father--all happening within two days! These events and more conspire to turn his life upside down and into something he could never have imagined.

Condamné à l’exil lunaire comme tous les criminels condamnés depuis deux cents ans, Jâ Benal est en réalité un atomiste de génie envoyé par la Haute Cour terrestre pour infiltrer les hautes sphères d'une colonie soupçonnée de projets de rébellion. Au cours d'une aventure tenant à la fois du roman d'espionnage et de la SF pulp la plus débridée, Jâ Benal et sa complice vont déjouer les pièges de la Lune, et provoquer, bien malgré eux, une catastrophe d'ampleur cosmique qui remettra tous les compteurs à zéro...

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