THE JUNGLE SURVIVOR GUIDE - by HAO SHUO

Bologna Ragazzi Award 2021 – Mention – Opera Prima

A book falls out of a yellow-tracksuit-wearing hiker’s bag. A strange creature, a yeti-like blob, quickly picks it up. Fantastic! A jungle survival guide!

The creature immediately begins reading and interpreting this manual of tips and tricks for lost hikers. Using its skills and intelligence, the creature creates a series of poetic inventions, that far surpass the model. The poor snake that bit the strange creature is the first to suffer; what a wonderful plaster its skin makes! Then, the sunlight hurts the blob’s eyes; what could it use to make sunglasses? Ice and an octopus, of course! With a great deal of imagination and poetry, the strange creature takes possession of its environment and transforms it.

These funny little scenes will delight young and old alike, and inspire children to become, like the strange creature, little versatile geniuses!

40 pp / 26 x 32 cm / full colors 

Rights already sold : Simplified Chinese (Tianjin Zizhe Wanjuan Culture) - Korean (Bookmentor Books)

Adventure - Illustration - Kids - Textless

FIREBALL - by ANOUK RICARD & ÉTIENNE CHAIZE

Times are dire, and Mage Pueblo knows it well: the Fireball that sustains their magic barrier grows weak, losing more of its power every day. The terrible Maruflans are on the prowl, and soon the village will be at their mercy! Only Patrix the Sage can save them, but he was exiled long ago, sent to the distant world of humans. Braving the dangers of a portal between worlds, faithful Fernando sets out in search of the Sage. Can Didier, with his mustache and his little dog Rocky, aid him in his quest?

Rights already sold : Russian (Komilfo)

72 pp / 25 x 34 cm / full colors 

HEROIC FANTASY - HUMOUR

HEARTBREAK VALLEY - by SIMON ROUSSIN

Official Selection : Festival d'Angouleme 2013

The longest solar eclipse in human history, a private eye looking for the mysterious Jenny Moore, an epic journey through endless darkness and human madness… New leading artist Simon Roussin signs here a great story reminiscent of classic Hollywood noir.

80 pp / 24,7 x 31,6 cm / B&W 

INVESTIGATION - ROAD-TRIP - SHADOW

THE JOURNEY - BY CLEMENT PAURD

Official Selection : Festival d'Angouleme 2019

"War makes mincemeat of heroes and do-gooders."

Firmin the soldier and his Captain are marching along the line of an endless horizon. While the Captain, pompous and sure of himself, soliloquizes about their struggle with the Enemy, Firmin waxes ironic about their vagabond situation: separated from their regiment, they are attempting to make their way back to the front. But no signs point the way, and the battle always seems to be happening a bit farther off …

Rights already sold : Egyptian Arabic (Mahrousa)

250 pp / 18 x 23 cm / full color

TULIPE - by SOPHIE GUERRIVE

Official Selection : Festival d'Angouleme 2017

Tulip the Bear, leaning back against his tree, watches his companions bustle about in vain… Sophie Guerrive creates charming characters that each represent some aspect of human fragility. Tulip is the reflection of our neuroses, our ridiculousness, and our grandeur, as depicted in words both sublime and absurd !

160 pp / 17,5 x 23,5 cm / full color / Already 4 volumes 

Rights already sold : Simplified Chinese (Citic Press), Korean (RH Korea)

CARTOONS - WISDOM - HUMOUR

HELIOS - by ETIENNE CHAIZE

One distant night, the sun stands still and stops on the horizon.
A cohort of characters, confronting its thousand and one dangers, go to the Sun,intending to convince it to resume its cycle…

Helios is a world teeming with life that enchants and astonishes on every page!

40 pp / 28,6 x 38 cm / full color

Rights already sold : Spanish (Fulgencio Pimentel)

ASTONISHING GRAPHISM - SEARCH & FIND - SCI-FI

CAPITAINE MULET - by SOPHIE GUERRIVE

A long journey through a madcap Middle Ages, with a naïve yet enthusiastic hero ! Braving seas and storms, Mulet and his friends are living epic adventures, from the King’s dungeon to the palace of an Oriental pasha…

232 pp / 17,5 x 24,7 cm / B&W 

ADVENTURE - MIDDLE-AGE - HUMOUR

CANNE DE FER ET LUCIFER - by LÉON MARET

Gaston Martin is a somewhat naïve orphan wandering the world of Revolutionary France (a country shaken by upheavals) with his dog Ledraoulec: a total innocent, but exceptionally and inexplicably gifted for fighting. A surprising, amusing, and reinvigorating graphic novel !

288 pp / 17,5 x 24,7 cm / B&W

ADVENTURE - FRENCH REVOLUTION - HUMOUR

LEMON JEFFERSON - by SIMON ROUSSIN

Official Selection : Festival d'Angoulême 2012

In this headlong tale where every turn of the plot is more outrageous than the last, creator Simon Roussin embarks on a quest to rediscover the breathless joy he felt when reading as a child, well-served by astonishing art.

72 pp / 24,5 x 31,5 cm / full color

POST-APOCALYPTIC ADVENTURE - GRAPHIC NOVEL

PRISONNIER DES GLACES - by SIMON ROUSSIN

The celebrated aviator Ferdinand Pépin relentlessly surveys the endless icefields of the Great North. Braving the elements, he searches for traces of Charles Robinson’s vanished dirigible…

Broken Wings - Prisoner of the Ice is a genuine adventure yarn, equally suited to pure-hearted youngsters and older readers nostalgic for serials.

48 pp / 28,5 x 32 cm / full color 

ADVENTURE - AVIATIONS PIONNEERS - NORTH POLE

BOB & SALLY SONT DES COPAINS - by MATTHIAS ARÉGUI

Fowl, fish, sun, vines, and earthworms fill an idyllic island.
Here, in the original paradise, Bob and Sally are the first two friends in all the world.

120 pp / 21 x 30 cm / B&W with greyscales

GRAPHIC NOVEL - FRIENDSHIP - NATURE

IL SE PASSE DES CHOSES - by GUILLAUME CHAUCHAT

Things Are Afoot is a stylish and sensitive triptych about the weight of family, fate, and tradition. Endearing characters, hilarious situations, and fleeting moments of poetry make up the delicate and comical universe of Guillaume Chauchat.

112 pp / 21 x 29,6 cm / B&W / 3 VOLUMES AVAILABLES

GRAPHIC NOVEL - HUMOUR - POETRY

VU, LU ! - collectif

Picturing Letters is a celebration of hand-lettering. From the Middle Ages to today, typographers and illustrators have produced chic, astonishing, odd, and sometimes even monstrous alphabets. With calligrams, pangrams, and other typographical delights, Picturing Letters is an invitation to rediscover the pictorial qualities of letters.

96 pp / 21,3 x 28,6 cm / full color 

TYPOGRAPHY - ARCHIVAL BOOK - ABC-BOOK

HISTOIRE DE LA SAINTE RUSSIE - by GUSTAVE DORÉ

Official Selection : Festival d'Angoulême 2014

Far more than an artifact of mere historical interest, this work displays an inventiveness and freedom of expression every bit as experimental as the most avant-garde contemporary comics.

112 pp / 23 x 30,5 cm / B&W

Rights already sold : Italian (Eris Edizioni)

ARCHIVAL BOOK - HISTORY - HUMOUR

LES DERNIERS DINOSAURES - by DONATIEN MARY & DIDIER DE CALAN

Comet? Ice Age? Volcanic eruption? POPPYCOCK! Find out, at long last, THE truth about our ancestors the dinosaurs…

A clever mix of humor and poetry whose analytic acumen is equaled only by its scientific accuracy!

64 pp / 25 x 34,5 cm / full color

ILLUSTRATED BOOK - DINOSAURS - PARODY

LE VOYAGE CÉLESTE EXTATIQUE - by CLÉMENT VUILLIER

Jean and Cosmiel have been touched freed from the contingencies of their physical forms, and they're going to a silent and contemplative journey, punctuated now and then by lessons in metaphysical trivia… Through strange perspectives, sumptuous backdrops, and his pair of enlightened cranks, Clément Vuillier surprises, astonishes, and even better—inspires wonder.

120 pp / 15,8 x 21,7 cm / B&W with greyscales

ILLUSTRATED BOOK- PHILOSOPHY - ABSURD JOURNEY