FOREIGN RIGHTS LIST FRANCFORT 2017 GRAPHIC NOVELS / ADULT TITLES
GRAPHIC NOVEL – STORY
Guarani, child soldiers from Paraguay Paraguay, winter 1869. French photographer Pierre Duprat has come to photograph youthful and naked Amerindian women from the Guarani tribe. He then witnesses one of the bloodiest battles in the history of Latin America, the “Battle of Acosta Nù”. With most of the men killed in previous battles, Paraguayan general Francisco Solano Lopez created a troop of Guarani child soldiers. 3 000 children fought 20 000 Brazilian, Argentine and Uruguayan soldiers in a massacre of over seven hours. Having come to South America to turn young Amerindian beauties into images of colonial eroticism, Duprat acknowledges his limits in the face of war atrocities. He chooses to bear witness…
Original title : Guarani, les enfants soldats du Paraguay Authors : Diedo Agrimbeau and Gabriel Ippoliti Size : 21x27 cm Pages : 176 Price : 20 € Pub. Date : 08/22/2018 EAN : 9782368460702
THE AUTHORS Diego Agrimbeau is one of the most celebrated screenwriters in Argentina. Since the beginning of the 1990s, he has published around 20 albums and became a member of the maison d’auteurs in Angouleme in 2011. He has also won several prizes: Utopiales (Nantes), Premio Planeta de Agostini, Premio Tres Culturas, Premio Solano Lopez. Gabriel Ippoliti, a self-taught artist with a background in advertising, is a name to watch in contemporary Argentine comic book work.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – STORY
The Penis Club ‘Sex is a mystery. We don’t talk about it much. In any case, not us; not men.’ This sentiment inspires Cookie Kalkair to organize round tables with six members. This book therefore offers free discussion, without judgement or taboo, between seven men with different sexualities. Masturbation, orgasm, performance, feelings, fantasies … these men will tell one another what they have never told anyone, learn about other people and learn about themselves. Often funny, sometimes crude, always well-informed and never lewd, The Penis Club shakes up norms and explores a new image of men. At a time when feminine sexuality is often under question, Cookie Kalkair frees up the male voice… which is in great need of that!
Original title : Pénis de table Authors : Cookie Kalkair Size : 19x25.5 cm Pages : 176 Price : 18 € Pub. Date : 08/29/2018 EAN : 9782368462485
THE AUTHORS Cookie Kalkair is a French artist who has spent several years in Montreal. He started his career as a director of animated films before becoming a video game designer for Ubisoft. He is the author of Les 9 derniers mois (de ta vie de petit con), (The 9 last months (of your knucklehead life)’), released by Arènes in 2016.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – STORY
Jail symphony Music soothes the savage breast… especially in prison! Romain has been behind bars for more than ten years… but he escapes every night. He is the cultural co-ordinator of the correctional facility in Fresnes – one of the largest and most famous in France. His witty but unflinching account tells of his daily struggle to allow detainees to have access to cultural activities, and in particular concerts.
After a first experience in prison in Honduras with the Mara Salvatrucha gang before the one current one in Fresnes, from the historic Johnny Cash concert in Folsom in 1968, to the concerts that he organizes today in the can, Romain immerses his reader in this little-known universe in the company of artists who will make this jail symphony sound out and offer chances to escape… musically, of course!
Original title : Symphonie carcérale Authors : Romain Dutter and Julien Bouqué Size : 17x24 cm Pages : 208 Price : 20 € Pub. Date : 09/12/2018 EAN : 9782368461761
THE AUTHORS Cultural co-ordinator in Fresnes correctional facility, Romain Dutter is also a documentary scriptwriter (Latin Street Revolution, in co-production with France-O) and for comic books, with Jail Symphony his début. Julien Bouqué is a graphic designer for youth publishers. He illustrates for several publications. Jail Symphony is his first graphic novel.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – STORY
Lest I forget you, Alexandria After having delved into Polish branch of his family tree in Nous n’irons pas voir Auschwitz (We shall not go to Auschwitz) (Cambourakis), Jeremie felt the need to uncover more about his Egyptian roots, and this book sees him setting out with his mother to find out about his origins in Alexandria. During the journey they meet several astonishing figures which put them on the scent for their family background and give them a sense of the history of their country: Amir Ramses, suppressed director of the documentary Juifs d’Egypte (Jews from Egypt), Magda Haroun, president of the Jewish Community in Cairo (which amounts to 13 elderly women!), and also Mohamad Aboulghar, a political figure recognised by the Egyptian left.
Original title : Si je t’oublie, Alexandrie Authors : Jeremie Dres Size : 18x25 cm Pages : 224 Price : 20 € Pub. Date : 09/26/2018 EAN : 9782368461273
THE AUTHORS Jeremie Dres is the author of a comic book series and in particular Nous n’irons pas voir Auschwitz (Cambourakis). He works with digital art. In particular, he has exhibited in 2010 at the digital art festival ‘L’Art Numerique d’aujourd’hui’ at the Cube and at the Nuit Blanche at Metz.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – STORY
Pioneers of Cubism Er, but who are the pioneers of cubism? Painters, obviously: Vlaminck, Derain, Matisse, Braque, Picasso, but also traders: Vollard and Kahnweiler, along with their poet friends, and those supremely eerie figures such as Manolo, the Spanish lout, or the writer Gertrude Stein, American aficionado of all things painting. In this graphic novel, they are the pioneers who will tell us how Cubism emerged, what they really thought of it, and what they did to make sure this movement became as famous as it did.
This piece is being co-edited with the Pompidou Centre – to mark the CUBISM exhibition which will take place on the 17th October 2018 to the 4th March 2019. This exhibition will then travel across Europe.
Original title : Les pionniers du cubisme Authors : Julie Birmant and Pierre Fouillet Size : 19x25 cm Pages : 120 Price : 18 € Pub. Date : 10/17/2018 EAN : 9782368461877
THE AUTHORS Julie Birmant is a screenwriter. Initially a writer of accessible science programs for Belgian television, Julie now writes series for France Culture whilst also working as a stage director for several theatre festivals. She began working on comic books with Dargaud, with whom she has published Droles de Dames and Pablo, which focused on Pablo Picasso’s youth. Pierre Fouillet is an illustrator. He draws for the press and has illustrated children’s literature for fifteen years now with Bang publishing house as well as with Sarbacane.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – STORY
From Black to White The rights of Black Americans through a great narrative saga, putting the life of Michael Jackson in parallel with that of one of his fans. Curtis grew up in Harlem with his family in the Black America of the 1970s. In this wrecked corner of New York nothing is a given, everything comes at a high price, if it is not taken by force. Fascinated by Michael Jackson, Curtis develops a talent for dancing which soon leads him to think about another life for himself. But can this star remain his role model? Caught between the fascination for his idol and the fight for black rights, Curtis has to make a choice: deny his difference or claim it. In a troubling way, Michael Jackson’s career straddles the period of Black emancipation in the USA: in 1964 he stepped onto stage the same year that segregation was abolished, and in 2009 he passed away the same year as Barack Obama stepped into the White House. This title is being co-edited with the Grand Palais in Paris to mark the opening of the Michael Jackson exhibition, On the Wall, between the 23rd November and the 14th of February 2019.
Original title : From Black to White Authors : Stephane Louis and Clement Baloup Size : 19x21 cm Pages : 120 Price : 18 € Pub. Date : 10/24/2018 EAN : 9782368461853
THE AUTHORS Stephane Louis is a cartoonist and scriptwriter for comic books. He is the author of around thirty books including ‘Love is a hate like the others’ from Bamboo Press. Clement Baloup is an author and illustrator. After completing his studies in Applied Arts in Marseille he began studying Fine Arts in Angouleme and then in Hanoi. In 2006 he joined the comic book studio Zarmatelier. He is the author of Quitter Saigon: Mémoires de Viet kieus (Leaving Saigon: Memories from Viet Kieus) from the Boite a Bulle publishing house.
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FREAKING OUT GRAPHIC NOVEL – FICTION
Marie-Pierre does not like her first name, and decides to become Mary-Stone. It suits her so much better. And it’s not Plume, her friend, who will go against her choice. Both girls assess the world around them with the critical (but not too much) eye of the rebellious and sarcastic (but romantic) teens that they are. Seemingly pointless classes, social relations, romantic endeavours … everything is a pretext for a fine and mocking analysis of society and adolescence.
Original title : Bonjour l’Angoisse Author : Lucile Gomez Size : 22x31 cm Pages : 64 Price : 15 € Pub. Date : 08/22/2018 EAN : 9782376680123
THE AUTHOR Lucie Gomez,, founder of the Webzine DES SEINS (Breasts) and the chaperone of Festi-blog, is the notable author of ‘Tout est possible mais rien n’est sur’ (Everything is possible but nothing is certain), a tender and humourous monthly column of the magazine Phosphore, which allows for thought without taking its toll worry-wise.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – FICTION
The KSAR Voyages of a nonpareil captain Jean-Paul Bassaget has sailed aboard the ‘Ksar’ for more than 40 years. Today, at 78 years old he has sold his boat and built a house somewhere in the Mediterranean. This free and intrepid modern-day adventurer has lived a thousand different lives. His life is fraught with stories and he likes telling them. In this great book, Helene Balcer recounts the different eras of an adventurer’s life who has known Pablo Neruda and the Commander Cousteau, crossed all the seas of the globe and seen death and war up-close, crisscrossing wildernesses of sand and water. A volume of great graphic richness combining painting, photography, and sketches.
Original title : Le Ksar, Itinéraires d’un capitaine hors-normes Author : Helene Balcer Size : 22x31 cm Pages : 200 Price : 24 € Pub. Date : 10/10/2018 EAN : 9782365353281
THE AUTHOR Illustrator and Professor in Fine Arts, Helene Balcer has created several travelogues recounting her stints in China (2014), Sardinia (2015) but also in Corsica and in Italy, as well as telling stories of labourers, testifying about their life conditions and creating portraits of them. Her work combines painting and watercolour pencil, ballpoint pen, collage, and photograph in the great tradition of the travelogue.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – FICTION
100 Ways to Walk Where autobiography follows paths of urban hike, and walking leads to introspection… Manu is a comic book author. He lives in Rouen and is just about to achieve his first album, which describes his stay in Rotterdam with his girlfriend. In the day he works in the library, in the evening he draws. Everything should be for the best, in the best of possible worlds but… he has just been dumped. Most handy when you are telling your love story. And, as if this were not enough, he hates routine and develops a dreadful OCD: everyday he has to make a change to his commute. Crisscrossing, hopping, going backwards or trailing tourists around, Manu explores 100 possible ways to get to the public library, trying as he goes to forget his lost love and finish his album.
Original title : Rouen par cent Chemins différents Author : Emmanuel Lemaire Size : 17x24 cm Pages : 140 Price : 16 € Pub. Date : 08/22/2018 EAN : 9782365353069
THE AUTHOR Emmanuel Lemaire lives in Rouen where he is a librarian by day and a cartoonist by night. He wrote his first autobiographical album, Rotterdam, une ville au fil de l’eau (Delcourt) (Rotterdam, a town on the water’s edge) as well as some titles dedicated to Normandy, and Si j’avais rencontre les Freres Lumieres (If I had met the Lumiere brothers) (Bamboo).
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – FICTION
Pebble Horse Aulne is a young student on the lookout for a challenge. Wandering in the mountains, he comes across the black hippotragus, an antelope who invites him to follow it before running away like the wind … Hopeless, Aulne throws a strange black pebble behind her which transforms into a horse. This horse, Kali, carries Aulne in hot pursuit of the antelope, crossing seas and deserts and speaking to animals, spirits, children, and ghosts. He discovers the world through its history, its flora and fauna, and its ruins. A dreamlike adventure close to Corto Maltese’s reveries and brought to life by magnificent drawings reminiscent of Pratt and Baudouin.
Original title : Cheval caillou Author : Frederique Rich Size : 18x24 cm Pages : 200 Price : 12 € Pub. Date : 09/12/2018 EAN : 9782365353267
THE AUTHOR Frederique Rich,, writer and illustrator, lives and works between the Rhine forest and the Vosges. She splits her time between her shows and her numerous trips which inspire her work and illustrations. She is an illustrator for Gallimard, Hachette, Fleurus Milan, and Bayard, amongst others.
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DEFENSE ZONE GRAPHIC NOVEL – FICTION
Cousins Quentin and Galette have lost their beloved grandfather and attend his funeral side by side. Besides their memories of him, however, they no longer have much in common. Quentin is fully committed to the local ‘ZAD’, an occupied defense zone, with a small group of activists, and Galette spends all his weekends and the main part of the week at his local football fan-club, cheering on the Red Rovers. But the project to build a new stadium affects both groups, and the two cousins will have to establish a common front line, learn from one another, and rediscover one another in their goal to sabotage the project.
Original title : Zone défensive Author : Julien Revenu Size : 17x24 cm Pages : 114 Price : 18 € Pub. Date : 09/19/2018 EAN : 9782376680291
THE AUTHOR Julien Revenu graduated from the High School of Fine Arts of the Rhine. Politically committed, and concerned to take into account our world in its complexity and contradictions, he put his talent and humor to work with various associations. His graphic novel Ligne B, released in April 2015, won him the prize of best album at the Alger comic book festival. He is also the author of a comic book report, Gens du Lieu, (people of the place) (2012) published in partnership with the Essone Departmental Association of travellers.. In 2017 he was invited to become an artist and researcher for the Atelier Medicis, a pilot scheme from the Ministry of Culture in Clichy-sous-Bois.
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