Account settling in Milan. – “Aldo was from the island. Ciro from the land of melody. » The inevitable meeting between these two will be the culmination of a dry story like a cudgel by Igortall in impressions and suggestions, magnified by the boxes and boards of Serio, genuine invitations to meditation and introspection. Each board is contemplated, each box is detailed. A madly elegant album that takes its time. And smells of cold ashes. Necessarily.
Gauloises / Andrea Serio and Igort – Futuropolis – August 17, 2022
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Anglo-Scottish cuisine. – “Cuisine, terroir and tragedy! » : the back cover, announces the color and there is no deception on the goods! This second album by Scottish illustrator James Albon is a pure black and green graphic novel, fascinating, and with multiple entries: a hymn to nature? Family history? Splendors and miseries of ambition? All this at the same time, with one main ingredient: suspense! This true-false crime comics is a real page turner.
“Starting to be a great graphic novel in the register of the slice of life, “Recipe de famille” suddenly switches into a psychological thriller. In this album, the tasty alliance between gastronomy, family adventures and social drama, subtly sprinkled with mystery, keeps us spellbound from start to finish”. Kelian Nguyen
Family recipe / James Albon – Glénat – August 24, 2022
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Nightmare at the City of Angels. – “Short Story is not just another police investigation, but a detailed return to the itinerary of a young woman who leaves her native Massachusetts to try her luck in the city of all dreams, of all hopes. Los Angeles! After countless press articles, several film adaptations (including that of Brian de Palma) or in literature (with the book of James Elroy), it is a new version of the black Dahlia what we offer Run and Maudoux. An album that combines the qualities of the graphic novel and those of the documentary file. » Patrice Gentleman
A short story / Run and Maudou – Rue se sèvres – August 31, 2022
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Spiritism in Edinburgh. – “I have a question Mrs. Ducan. Do ghosts ever materialize during seances? ». Devil ! Strange things are happening in the capital of Scotland in this Victorian era. Inspector McRae investigates suspicious deaths that quickly lead him to a common double track: women victims of violent husbands, who all called on the same medium after their barbaric acts. What for ? A mystery that Conan Doyle himself tries to figure it out… This clever one-shot born from the fertile imagination of Roger Seiter and mixing occult sciences, feminism and revenge is superbly put in images – and colors – by Jean Louis Thouard : disturbing characters, desolate landscapes, rainy streets, houses with dark rooms. A real trip to the land of fear!
The Thanatos Dossier / Jean-Louis Thouard and Roger Seiter – Robinson – August 31, 2022
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Conversation between serial killers. – ” Terry Moore returns with one of its emblematic heroines: the not so young Zoe, serial killer eternally 10 years old… apparently. After 50 years of perfecting her art of murder, Zoe will have to put her skills to work to eliminate another Serial Killer. The author’s graphics juggle with the cartoonish in Zoé’s dreams, and a realistic and sober line throughout the story. A feast for the eyes of readers, where the desire for more darkness is not satisfied. But never mind, here is material to make you want to discover Zoe even more, this killer who loves animals as much as blood, making her endearing despite her misdeeds. » Marc Vandermeer
Serial / Terry Moore – Delcourt – August 31, 2022
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Espionage and esotericism from Berlin to Prague. – “For the first time in my life, I would like that inexplicable things stop happening to me”. Ah, is our deep-sea sailor tired? He has no interest because here he is plunged, in the middle of the Weimar Republic, into the heart of a dark affair involving “the oldest tarot in the world and the mysterious leader of a hermetic society”. All this to find out why his old friend Steiner was found murdered in the street. What to become as crazy as that of the map after everyone runs… unless it is a secret file, much more political? Diaz Canales and Pellejero continue to support the adventurer ofHugo Pratt with brilliance, elegance and spirit.
Corto Maltese 16 – Berlin Nocturnes / Juan Diaz Canalès and Ruben Pellejero – Casterman – September 7, 2022
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Road-trip in the Seventies of Uncle Sam. – “And then, a guy who drinks a milkshake with a burger, he respects nothing. We can’t trust him.” However, trust is at the heart of this story of a repentant mafia: “The plot is clear as a desert under the sun: the federal office does not yet know very well how to protect its flock and the mafia are testing the device. This is not done without a few blunders to which our hero, who is far from being a lamb for the slaughterhouse, responds with… uh… virility. The beautiful design of Phillip Xavierwith a classic Franco-Belgian style, beautifully highlighted by the colors of Jerome Maffresuits this relentless narrative perfectly. Matz here confirms his status as a leading screenwriter. They sign together one of the outstanding thrillers of this season. Didier Pasamonik
The Serpent and the Coyote / Xavier and Matz – Le Lombard – September 9, 2022
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Manhunt in Colorado. – “Maybe that moron just went for a walk in the woods… and got eaten by the Wendigo!” “. The small group of four teenagers – three guys, one girl – pretends to be ironic about the disappearance of a schoolboy, but in reality, they are just as intrigued as the local population about this volatilization of this kid of their age. Not really a friend, but the attraction of the mystery will push them to carry out their investigation, and to dig even more when the press announces a macabre discovery near the railway line… Alex Inker sign with this new adaptation one of his best albums, always in his characteristic black and white: black history, initiatory story, to the rhythm of a soundtrack of twenty titles punk-hardcore-rock of the best taste which are as many hard-hitting chapters .
colorado train / Alex W. Inker, based on the novel by Thibault Vermot – Sarbacane – September 7, 2022
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Plumbing, adultery and barbouzeries.
“So you want me to follow your husband. What is he doing in life ?
He is a priest
I think we’re starting off on the wrong footing.”
This Brenda hides her game well, but not too much her welcoming chest, and the brave Barney is not at the end of his troubles. Private detective of many things, and especially of work, here he is embarked on a case that will see all sorts of individuals tumbling down with uncertain identities and a bit boring methods. Built in a succession of strips installing a growing suspense, here is a beautiful parodic tribute to the thriller of Guerse and james. And espionage. And torture. Ha ha.
Barney Stax, private detective… of everything! / Guerse and James – Glacial Fluid – September 7, 2022
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Robbery of corpses in France. – ” In the closet ! That’s where they put me… My closet is this filthy bistro. Moldy wallpaper. Cloakroom smell. The ramshackle faces of boozers… Speaking of boozers, here are my little regulars who tumble. And here is the entry on the scene of Fanette, central character of this fifth volume of RIPa series that could not be more addictive.
In a choral story where everything revolves around a ring recovered from a crime scene, where the “heroes” come before the police – it’s their strange job – everyone has their little secrets. Those of Fanette give another dimension to the series, and we really have to salute the scriptwriting precision mechanics of Gaet’s … and the drawing of Julien Monier, capable of embodying such powerful characters, and of plunging us into the universe teeming with decomposing corpses, without being arrested at the first maggot that comes along. Continuation and end to the next volume!
RIP 5: Fanette – Evil in the skin of others / Gaet’s and Julien Monier – Little by little – September 14, 2022
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