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FOREIGN RIGHTS LIST FRANCFORT 2018 COMIC BOOKS & ALBUMS / CHILDREN AND YA

COMIC BOOK - LITERARY ADAPTATION - FOR ALL

The Ghost of Canterville One shot England, 1887: Mr Otis, an American minister, has set up home with his family in Canterville Chase castle. The previous owner warns them their new home is haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon, who murdered his wife a few centuries back. Ever since he has honed the art of terrorizing his victims. But his days seem to be up, as the very modern Otis family are firmly set to thwart him. The parents don’t take him seriously, the oldest son Washington offers him oil for his chains, and the twins drive him round the twist with their tricks and jokes. Only fifteen-year-old Virginia takes pity on the old ghost, and winds up taking him to the Garden of Death, where he can rest in peace at last.

A masterful adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s cult novel

Original title: Le Fantôme de Canterville Authors: Elléa Bird, based on Oscar Wilde’s novel Size: 22 x 29.5 cm Pages: 64 Price: 12.95 € Pub. Date: 10/17/2018 EAN: 9782822225922

THE AUTHORS

Elléa Bird graduated from the Emile Cohl school in Lyon with a degree in English Literature. She works on various projects for the press and publishing houses (Bayard, Casterman, etc.) She enjoys drawing botanical patterns, skulls and ghosts, and cannot make her mind up between her tablet and her ink pots when it comes to work.

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COMIC BOOK - LITERARY ADAPTATION - FOR ALL

Cassandra - volume 2, The Paths of Love Cassandra has a gift: telepathic communication with animals. With her dog Dolly, she helps others to get closer to understanding their pets (cf. volume one) Often, this is a chance for her to reflect upon herself and analyse her own feelings.

In the second volume the young girl gets to know Macha, who at nearly 80 years old must part from her dog before going to live in a home. Cassandra is moved by Macha’s predicament and determines to help her by finding a new owner for her faithful companion. But how to be sure that two beings are made for one another?

Original title: Cassandra, tome 2, Les Chemins de l’amour Authors: Isabelle Botier and Helene Canac Size: 22.7 X 30.5 cm Pages: 56 Price: 10.60 € Pub. Date: 09/05/2018 EAN: 9782822225854

THE AUTHORS

Isabelle Bottier has worked as a television screenwriter for several years, alongside being an author of short stories, comic books, and youth literature. Helene Canac works for film animation and in particular for animated series for young people. In the meantime she works as an illustrator for youth literature and comic books.

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COMIC BOOK - SERIES - CHILDREN

Dance with me Volume one Caught between her self-satisfied parents and her little sister who is brilliant at cooking, Celeste has a hard time finding a place for herself. But could the hip-hop lessons, which she has been recently begun, open a path towards confidence? The adolescent has heard about a regional dance competition, and decided right away to form a band and enter the competition.

Since then she’s become obsessed with the contest and is working very hard. No doubt she is going to break a leg and make her parents proud of her! Unless some missteps get in the way of her dance, that is …

Original title: Danse avec moi, tome 1 Authors: Isabelle Bottier and Faïza Size: 22.7 X 29.5 cm Pages: 48 Price: 10.95 € Pub. Date: 11/07/2018 EAN: 9782822225960

THE AUTHORS

Isabelle Bottier has been working as a television screenwriter for several years, alongside being an author of short stories, comic books and children’s literature. Born in Oran in 1990 and with a degree in general arts from the Fine Art College, Faïza is a freelance illustrator. Her initial foray into comic book writing was made through working with the collective ‘Monstres’.

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COMIC BOOK - SERIES - CHILDREN

The Chocolate Box Girls book 8 The Chocolate Box girls, adapted from the series of novels by the same name by Cathy Cassidy, have been ever-more successful with sales of over 200 000 copies!

Book 8 is made up of two different stories, each 24 pages in length, which give some of the more minor characters of the first book a chance to shine: The star of Valentine’s day Tommy is set on finding a special present for Summer, something which will show her how important she is to him and which will give her back her taste for dancing, and life!

Two-step It’s the end of the summer holidays and Jodie, Summer’s best friend, is about to begin at the Rochelle Academy, one of the best dance schools in Europe! But she is eaten up with fear and guilt. If Summer hadn’t been ill, Jodie would never have been selected. So will she be up to the challenge?

Original title: Des Filles au chocolat, tome 8 Authors: Veronique Grisseaux and Claudia Forcelloni Size: 22 X 29.5 cm Pages: 48 Price: 10.95 € Pub. Date: 10/24/2018 EAN: 9782822225892

THE AUTHORS

Veronique Grisseaux has been a television screenwriter for several years. She’s currently working on various comic book projects and she specializes in the adaptation of novels to comic books. Claudia Forcelloni trained as a comic strip artist at the Disney Academy with great authors such as Barbucci and Cavazzano. In 2000 she founded Gump with her brother and has contributed to several series, including Monster Allergy and Geronimo Stilton.

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COMIC BOOK - SERIES - CHILDREN

The Man who Crossed the Mountains – one shot History is made up of incredible people which no one told you about at school. Adventurers who have faced a thousand perils, inventors who have revolutionized the world, and anonymous heroes who have sacrificed themselves for the sake of others, pirates who have challenged empires, slaves who have freed themselves from their chains, etc. This book is a homage to all these superb forgotten people… who, in some cases, were also frightening.

To remember that the most extraordinary people are not necessarily those most spoken of.

Original title: L’Homme qui traversait les montagnes Authors: Patrick Baud and Fred Druart Size: 22 x 29.5 cm Pages: 56 Price: 15.95 € Pub. Date: 09/12/2018 EAN: 9782822225847

THE AUTHORS

Patrick Baud is a graphic artist, writer, animator, and video artist. He created the blog Axolot, which focuses on incredible facts, scientific and historic oddities. Axolot has been a major hit online and on YouTube, and is being made into a comic book series published by Delcourt. Fred Druart is an author of comic books who has published the Chien de Minuit [the Midnight Dog], the Metaphore du papillon [the Butterfly Metaphor], etc.

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COMIC BOOKS - THRILLER - TEENS

The Cursed Text Message one shot A new title from the Frisson collection!

A collection of comic book thrillers for young people, because it is not only adults who enjoy a scare!

Four adolescents meet up one Friday evening for a night of fun. To spice up their little gathering, one of them tells the story of the cursed text message. The idea is to send a special text to 9696 and wait for a message back, from the beyond. Some need convincing, but all eventually take up the challenge… and get a startling message back. Very quickly, eerie and scary events start occurring: they realize they’ve brought a curse upon themselves. They only have four days to find a way out and break the bad spell that has been cast upon them, otherwise they’ll be wiped from the surface of the Earth...

In the Frisson collection you can find other series: The Nightmare Brigade (2 volumes), The Supernatural Detectives (volume 2 in April 2019), the Awakening of the Dolls (October 2018).

Original title: Le texto maudit Authors: Renz and Tanguy Ferrand Size: 22 x 29.5 cm Pages: 56 Price: 11.95 € Pub. Date: 10/24/2018 EAN: 9782822225953

THE AUTHORS

With a fine arts degree from Paris, Renz’s dream was to paint. His taste for fiction and stage direction, which he discovered through the theatre, led him to comic book writing. An illustrator and author, he also teaches drawing at several schools.

Tanguy Ferrand graduated from the school of decorative arts at Strasbourg. He is a graphic designer and photographer, who has also worked on the scripts for several comic book series (La Mue at Carabas, Vandou Dou Wap at Emmanuel Proust).

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COMIC BOOK - SERIES - CHILDREN

Nightmare Squad volume 2 The flagship series of the Frisson collection!

A collection of comic book thrillers for teenagers, because it is not only adults who enjoy getting a scare…

Book one of The Nightmare Squad was an immediate hit with more than 20 000 copies sold.

In Dr Angus’ mysterious clinic, Esteban and Tristan are the Nightmare Squad, and their mission is to cure patients with some serious sleeping troubles by entering their very nightmares. Sarah, once a patient in the clinic, has been adopted by Dr Angus to become a member of the squad. As she sets about her training a new patient comes to the clinic, Nicolas. For the team, it’s a chance to put Sarah’s skills to the test by entering his dreams. But they didn’t count on an unforeseen event: Leonard, the mysterious insomniac patient professor Angus has kept underground, escapes to rush into Nicolas’ nightmare. For Angus, this is a total disaster! His wife is held prisoner in Leonard’s nightmares: if he disappears, Angus has no hope of retrieving her. And so the Squad have to urgently change tack, and do whatever it takes to get Leonard back…

Original title: La Brigade des cauchemars – volume 2 Authors: Franck Thilliez and Yomgui Dumont Size: 22 x 29.5 cm Pages: 56 Price: 11.95 € Pub. Date: 09/09/2018 EAN: 9782822222655

THE AUTHORS

Franck Thilliez,, a former engineer in new technologies, is the author of about fifteen successful crime novels. With the adaptation of his novel ‘Room of Death’ (SNCF prize for French crime fiction), Franck Thilliez also became a screenwriter. After having completed his studies in applied arts, Yomgui Dumont has worked wherever he was able to move a mouse and a pencil: cartoons, multimedia, advertising, and the press. His first series are Raph’ and Potetoz, Chambres noires and L’école de PAN. He has published around twenty comic book albums and teen novels.

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The Awakening of the Dolls

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Anna and her little brother Max move into their new house with their Mum, who has recently separated from their Dad. Wedged between a home and a shop of vintage toys, the house hardly feels welcoming… and besides, the whole neighbourhood is frankly depressing! Things get tense when Anna finds out one of the dolls in her collection has been broken. She accuses Max who swears to be innocent. Furious, Anna has no other choice but to take her doll to the old shopkeeper who lives next door. Then that very night, Anna cannot believe her eyes: a swarm of dreadful, live dolls come after her! But has she been dreaming?

And what do the dolls want?

In the Frisson collection you can find other series: (2 volumes), The Nightmare Brigade, The Supernatural (volume 2 in April 2019), Detectives the Cursed text message (October 2018).

Original title: Le réveil des poupées Authors: Michel Yves Schmitt and Maud Begon Size: 22 x 29.5 cm Pages: 48 Price: 10.95 € Pub. Date: 02/05/2018 EAN: 9782822225670

THE AUTHORS

Screenwriter for the press and for cartoons, Michel Yves Schmitt has published at Boite a Bulles and is the author of Draak, at Jungle. A graduate from the Olivier de Serres school, Maud Begon has worked on collective albums by Vivre dessous, Phantasmes and Les Autres Gens. She is also the author if the albums Je n’ai jamais connu la guerre and Bouche d’Ombre, published by Casterman.

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The Nit who didn’t like Hair Original title: Le pou qui n’aimait pas les cheveux Authors: Severine de la Croix and Pauline Roland

ALBUM

Size: 20.5 x 20.5 cm Pages: 40 Price: 12,95 € Pub. Date: 09/19/2018

Eugene is a nit who does not like hair, and for a nit, this is pretty unbelievable and makes things rather difficult, living as they do on a hairy head. I mean, really? Fed up of stinging detangler or getting caught up in curlers, Eugene would rather play at sliding, but ends all the same all too often caught up in a braid. And what if the answer were to get rid of all of this hair? More easily said than done, perhaps…

EAN: 9782822221788

The cuddly toy who didn’t like children Original title: Le doudou qui n’aimait pas les enfants Authors: Severine de la Croix and Pauline Roland Size: 20.5 x 20.5 cm Pages: 40 Price: 12,95 € Pub. Date: 24/10/2018

Janou is a cuddly toy who doesn’t like children, and for a cuddly toy, this is pretty unbelievable and makes things rather difficult, especially when you belong to a little girl who simply can’t get enough of you. I mean, really? Fed up of hugs and snot everywhere, pen marks and food stains, not to mention the worst of all dangers, the monthly dive into the washing machine.

And what if the answer were to get rid of her owner?

More easily said than done, perhaps…

EAN: 9782822225908 With wicked humour, the ‘who didn’t like’ collection with 8 titles to date brings to life characters who simply can’t bear what makes their very nature. To get rid or to get on? That is the question!

A small collection on the rise to fame, with more than 25 000 copies sold!

THE AUTHORS

Severine de la Croix is a screenwriter and author. A graduate in history, psychology, management, and new technologies, she is also a trained sexologist and has trained in theatre at Cours Florent. Besides her collection for children, she is the author of a family thriller: Lies never die (Michel Lafon, 2014) and a novel Crime and Light (Plon, 2017). With a degree from the Ecole Européenne Superieure de l’Image de Potiers (DNAP and DNSEP) Pauline Roland juggles drawing and animation, and made two films which will cast a humorous eye on sexuality-related issues. Since 2015 she has been working full-time as an illustrator and comic book author.

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COMIC BOOK - HUMOUR - FOR ALL

Star wars strikes the Jedi back – omnibus edition A collector’s edition of hilarious and ironic comic book titles from the Star Wars universe!

This set is made up of volume three and four from the series.

If Princess Leia gets more often than she’d like enmeshed in her companions’ perverse games, Darth Vader trouble enough of his own, wielding his laser sabre.

He seems doomed to react over and over the mythical scene of cutting off Luke Skywalker’s hand, but never in quite the same way…

Original title: Les Guerres des retours contre attaque – intégrale 2 Authors: Thierry Vivien Size: 29x22cm Pages: 192 Price: 25 € Pub. Date: 10/10/2018 EAN: 9782822225885

THE AUTHORS

A controversial product of 1968’s troubles, Thierry Vivien was born in 1969. With a wayward youth of a mere 40 years under his belt, he stepped into his role of wise man when he started Yodablog in January 2009: a gallery of characters which in turn was adapted to film.

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COMIC BOOK - LITERARY ADAPTATION - FOR ALL

Upstream River An adaptation of the young person’s novel of the same name by Jean-Claude Mourvelat, this title published by Pocket Jeunesse has become a classic in youth literature and regularly finds a place in the classroom. More than 500 000 copies sold.

In a land far, far away lives Tomek, a young orphan of 13 and the owner of the only grocery store in the little village where he lives. The store has everything and everyone comes by there. Despite having a perfect life, Tomek is bored and longs for adventure. One day, a young girl steps through the doorway, buys a little barley sweet and asks Tomek: Do you sell water from the Qjar river? It’s a river that runs upstream, and upon drinking, death shall never find thee.”

Tomek has never heard of such a thing, and the young girl sets off again in disappointment. The young boy, however, is left hopelessly in love with this stranger! He decides to find her, the precious water of the Qjar river in tow…

Original title: La Rivière à l’envers Authors: Maxe L’Hermenier and Djet Size: 22 x 29.5 cm Pages: 72 Price: 12.95 € Pub. Date: 10/17/2018 EAN: 9782822222167

THE AUTHORS

Prolific author Maxe L’Hermenier shows remarkable skill in many genres (from realism to humour, via science-fiction…), and has been published with Jungle, Bamboo, Soleil etc. Djet is an animation storyboarder, illustrator and designer. She has published with L’Ile du Puki, (Vents d’Ouset) and Les Croquemitianes (Glenat).

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COMIC BOOK - SCIENCES - FOR ALL

The improbable-ologies How does an ogre’s stomach work?

At what time are we most honest?

How might we recognise a happy pig?

Such seemingly whimsical questions get answers at last, with researchers applying some serious scientific thought and method.

A set of unlikely columns from renowned scientific journalist Pierre Barthelemy with tasteful and witty illustrations by Zoe Thouron.

Original title: Les Improbablologies Authors: Pierre Barthélemy and Zoe Thouron Size: 23.5x31cm Pages: 48 Price: 12.95 € Pub. Date: 09/26/2018 EAN: 9782822222624

THE AUTHORS

After having worked for Le Monde, Pierre Barthélemy became an independent journalist. His blog, ‘Passeur de science’ (for which he won two Golden Blog Awards; one for the best blog in the category of Science and Research and the other for the best blog of the year) and his scientific columns stand as evidence of his wish to make science accessible to all. With a degree from the École Superieure d’Art de Lorraine a Epinal and then in Metz, Zoe Thouron is a cartoonist and illustrator. In 2014 she signed her first comic book entitled ‘Florange, une lutte d’aujourd’hui’ (Florange, a comtemporary struggle) with Tristan Thil as scriptwriter.

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