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It's a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody mystery from award-winning graphic novelists Peter & Maria Hoey. The Afterlife is just as the ancient Greeks imagined: an endless twilight where time stands still in perpetuity and shades have nowhere to go. For Jim, that means long shifts at a gas station, with only crossword puzzles and cigarettes to break the tedium. One day, two criminal shades from...
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"Over the course of a single week in a small English village, a widowed octogenarian who has spent her last years alone, ready to die, discovers an unexpected reason to live. After living abroad for sixty years, Helen Cartwright returns to the English town where she was born. She buys a nondescript suburban house on Westminster Crescent, a nondescript suburban street, and settles into a repetitive, reclusive existence: "Each day was an impersonation...
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For more than 75 years Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead have been one of America's favorite couples. Through war and peace, through boom and bust, through sexual revolution and social upheaval, Blondie has become the most widely read comic strip in syndication-in 35 languages and in 47 countries.Blondie?the comic strip?was born on September 8, 1930. Dagwood was the rich, but awkward, son of millionaire industrialist J. Bolling Bumstead, while Blondie...
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"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
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In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium ― but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading...
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« Imaginez… Imaginez un village des Alpes, serré par les montagnes et l'hiver qui vient. Imaginez… des hommes jusque-là tenus à l'écart d'une guerre qui fut si subite qu'ils n'y prirent pas part. » Ces survivants vont devoir faire face à une nouvelle menace : l'assaut des « verts », ces soldats venus du Nord déterminés à assujettir les montagnards par la force. Résistance, conscience écologique naissante, mélancolie et rencontres...
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« Imaginez… Imaginez un village des Alpes, serré par les montagnes et l'hiver qui vient. Imaginez… des hommes jusque-là tenus à l'écart d'une guerre qui fut si subite qu'ils n'y prirent pas part. » Ces survivants vont devoir faire face à une nouvelle menace: l'assaut des « verts », ces soldats venus du Nord déterminés à assujettir les montagnards par la force. Résistance, conscience écologique naissante, mélancolie et rencontres...
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Ecosse, IIe siècle après J.C. Au-delà du mur d'Antonin, la guerre entre l'envahisseur romain et les peuples gaëls et pictes piétine. Manipulé par une sorcière, le général romain Horatius libère un fléau ancestral sur la terre de ses ennemis: les Ombres de Thulé. Pour faire face à cette menace, le roi des Pictes devra unir des peuples autrefois ennemis et faire appel à des pouvoirs oubliés.
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Go to summer camp with all your favorite ponies in this graphic novel full of hijinks and fun!Welcome, campers, to Camp Bighoof! The Mane 5 have taken over an old camp named after the elusive Bighoof creature ("Bridlesquatch" if you're a unicorn "Yakuti" if you're a Pegasus), to teach fillies and colts about their powers. Plus, arts & crafts with Izzy, singing with Pipp, and obstacle courses with Zipp? What could be better?!Surely nothing could go...
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Un objet d`art disparu. Une jungle pleine d`indices. Un chat détective seul peut-il sauver un trésor national? Inca le matou de Sibérie a hâte d`ajouter le Sri Lanka à la liste de lieux qu`elle a exploré. Mais avant que ses pattes ne touchent les plages sablonneuses, elle apprend qu`un musée local a besoin de ses compétences pour résoudre les affaires criminelles afin de retrouver la trace d`une épée ancienne volée. Son journal avec elle,...
11) Camp Yowie
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In this graphic novel, Theo, Sophie, and Brendan are not exactly excited to be at Camp Yowie during summer vacation. But soon they meet a mysterious ranger who reminds them of a certain big-footed creature similar to the legendary Sasquatch. Will they be able to help the "ranger" protect the forest? This fast-paced, 32-page graphic novel about a fun adventure at summer camp will capture the attention of the most reluctant readers!
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Lily moved to Washington a while ago-making new friends, going to new places, and living an entirely new life. Amy, however, is stuck in California-the same place she'd lived in her entire life. Lily and Amy have been inseparable for the longest time, and regardless of the hours and miles between them, they keep in touch through letters they pour their hearts into. However, like any other friendship, they slowly start to grow apart. As the story unfolds,...
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After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles,...
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Le meilleur de la SF, à retrouver en kiosque, en librairie et par abonnement www.metalhurlant.com.
Chaque année, retrouvez quatre nouveaux numéros consacrés à la science-fiction : deux numéros dédiés à la création, avec des histoires et articles inédits, et deux numéros consacrés à la « première génération Métal ». La rédaction travaille sous la direction de Jerry Frissen et sous l'égide d'un ange tutélaire bien particulier...
15) The Harrowing
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In this YA graphic novel, a psychic teen hunts potential killers until she discovers the boy she loves is her next targetRowan Sterling should be worrying about normal teenage things like attending college and whether her best friend Lucas is maybe more than a friend. . . . Instead, she's having terrifying visions of blood and violence. As the premonitions increase in number and intensity, Rowan seeks her father's help, but instead finds herself drugged,...
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After staying out in the cold for New Years, Nana is gravely ill and alone. Her mother is a part of the police force and is rarely home, so she is left up to her own devices having to take care of herself. But her situation is quite serious and even a house call from a local doctor may not suffice.
It will be up to Kaoru and Tachi to help her in this time of need. But their methods may be a little more "hands on" than what may be considered normal....
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Arcadia ; 7
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Lee Pepper attempts to escape the Boatmen in the real world, and in Arcadia, the Homesteaders discover that Giacomo might have unprecedented control over the simulation.
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Peanuts Kids ; 16
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Everyone's favorite beagle is the star player in this fun, action-packed collection of classic Peanuts comics selected especially for young readers. Join Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and friends as they entertain and delight both on and off the field.
Snoopy is a master of many different activities, from writing a novel on the top of his doghouse to sledding down the ski slopes in his supper dish. He even manages to team up with Charlie...
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"I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me."
This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN--the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan--tells the story of Yozo Oba, a young man growing up in Japan in the immediate aftermath of World War II, who finds himself caught between the disintegration of the traditions of his aristocratic provincial family and the impact of the new postwar world.
Oba...
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Goldie Vance ; 1
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In a timeless story, 16-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. When Charles, the current detective, encounters a case he can't crack, he agrees to mentor Goldie in exchange for her help solving the...
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