Steinkis group spring programme

SPRING PROGRAMME – March, April, May

MORT DE LOL One-­‐shot

Pitch : Mort de LOL is the new comic book about teenagers that you have to read immediately ! -­‐ blending the humour of Riad SaFouf and the world of Nombrils, author Loic Sécheresse stages teenagers in their everyday life, as they are alternately teasing, deceiving, naive or sweet. Strips in a modern and colourful style, and spicy, off-­‐the-­‐wall jokes that hit the right spot -­‐ Teenagers will no doubt relcognize themselves… and so will you !

Author: Loïc Secheresse : has worked for the project « Les Autres Gens » , Dupuis – and is a press illustrator.

• 3 Strips a page !

Title: Mort de LOL Pages: 48 Sizet: 230 x 310 mm Retail Price: 10,45 € Pub date: 4 mars 2015

BOUCAN – Piraaaaates !

One volume published

Pitch : Three pirates are sailing on the vast ocean : Captain Boucan, who loves gold and geSng into fights, his apprenUce Ruffian, who is learning the rudiments of piracy by his side, and young Rose, who has eyes only for sparkling jewelry. Our three heroes will experience the most extreme adventures, from being shipwrecked on a desert island to discovering a treasure… They follow the Pirate Code to the leFer – but in a roundabout, comical and incongruous way…

Auteurs : Cendres

• Strips and short stories in one page

Title : Boucan – Piraaaaates !

Pages : 48 Size : 21 x 28,5 cm Retail price : 10,45 € Pub date : 20 mai 2015

DRAAK

One volume published

Pitch : Now is Ume to dive into the universe of the fearsome Vikings -­‐ well, not so fearsome aYer all ! Forget everything you know about this people… you're in for a surprise with these Vikings who are each more daffy than the last ! There, they tame dragons to make them their allies and they fear none… except maybe for their wives ! But most of all, they have hilarious adventures in a completely wacky village ! Let yourself be guided by Bjorn -­‐ the annoying one -­‐ and Jehanndark -­‐ the brave one !

Authors :

Leguern / Schmidt Franck Renaut : participated to many animation projects such as Titeuf, Kirikou …

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Short stories – 1 or 2 pages Documented pages about Vikings !

Title: Draak Pages: 48 Size: 230 x 310 mm Retail Price: 10,45 € Pub date: 25 mars 2015

CHAT-­‐BOUBOULE One shot

Pitch : Comical, a tad devilish and chronically overweight (but he's fine with that) : le chat bouboule is king of his castle ! He is the actual star of the house, and even when he has to go along with the nuFy ideas of his « masters » (including the children), he never departs from his majesUc air. Nathalie Jomard sketches the adventures of Chat Bouboule in her unique style, at once whacky and elegant.

Author: Nathalie JOMARD is an illustrator who is known her hilarious blog and books such as « Petit Grumeau illustré » (Michel Lafon)

1-­‐2 pages short stories

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Title : Chat Bouboule Pages : 96 pages Size : 22 x 22 cm Retail price: 12,95 € Pub date: 6 mai 2015

MON CHAT EST UN GEEK COMME LES AUTRES Text Book, one shot Pitch :

Meet Giggles, a bulimic cat who is addicted to napping and expert in couch scratching -­‐ your average cat on the whole, but for one liFle detail : Giggles loves texUng and showing off on social networks. With humour and mischievousness (and someUmes a bit of dishonesty), he shares with us his everyday life, his schemes to get sUll more cafood, his (tough) love for his master (and his exasperaUng girlfriend), his addicUon to catnip, etc.

Auteur : Florian

Title : Mon chat est un geek comme les autres Pages : 144 Sizet : 140 x 200 mm Retail price : 9,90 € Pub date: 1er avril 2015

• Humour text book with illustraUons

PETIT ILLUSTRE DES GROS CLICHES D’HOLLYWOOD Pitch :

Allan Barte, a comic book author, has recently created a buzz by developing a website collecUng all the clichés that can be found in movies or TV series. Those liFle details that we all have noUced at some point are turned into a series of modern and striking drawings.

Auteurs : Allan Barte

You like Hollywood movies ? So cliché !

Titre : Petit illustré des gros clichés d’Hollywood Pages: 100 Size: 10 x 15 cm Retail price: 9,90 € Pub date: 05 Nov 2014

ALICE ET VALENTINE One volume published

Pitch : Alice and Valen2ne are two half-­‐sisters, and they are starUng out in the same middle-­‐school… but one of them is a student, and the other is a teacher ! For Alice, its is all about discovering teenage life and the first fluFers of love… And for ValenUne, it is a trip down memory lane, as she meets again with her high-­‐school sweetheart, who has become a teacher too! The comics is composed of short stories of a couple of pages, with funny and touching anecdotes on life in middle-­‐school, friendship, and solidarity between two sisters who are very close – in spite of the generaUon gap !

Authors : Pa Ming CHIU Madeleine MARTIN

• Complete story

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Title : Alice et Valentine Pages : 48 Size : 230 x 310 mm Retail Price : 10,45 € Pub date : 04/02/ 2015

MISTINGUETTE Serial -­‐5 volumes published Pitch : AYer moving house, Chloé, AKA MisUngueFe, will have to start 8th grade in a new school. As a quite reserved girl with a tendency for blunder, will she succeed in becoming popular by hanging out with the most glamorous, cheekiest girls in middle-­‐school? Will she manage to get the handsome Alexandre to noUce her?

In this bright and fresh universe, parUcularly easy to idenUfy with for young female readers, MisUngueFe is going to evolve as the story goes by and takes her into a new middle-­‐ school, meeUng new friends, experiencing joy and heartbreaks... but above all things trying to fit in with the other students while sUll keeping true to herself. The series transmits values such as friendship, tolerance and family...

Authors: Greg Tessier Amandine

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+100 000 copies sold in France !

A strong and sweet character to relate to and who seduces kids as much as their mums !

Each volume is a complete story

Title: Mistinguette T5 Pages: 56 Size: 230 x 310 mm Price: 10,45 € Pub date: february 2015 Press rights sold to : Norway, Finland, Sweden, Hungaria, Germany, The Netherlands

CHARLIE – my life as a star Serial -­‐ 2 volumes published

Pitch: Charlie is like any teenager her age : a self-­‐centered, grumpy, rebellious pest, trying to figure out who she is and strongly influenced by guFer-­‐press. Her role models are the likes of Madonna, Linday Lohann or Rihanna. Just like them, Charlie has taken the unfortunate habit of acUng like a diva – tough luck for her parents, her teachers and her friends who have to put up with her baby diva tantrums on a daily basis! A modern, urban, funny comic, as sassy as its heroin!

Authors : Sophie de Villenoisy Clio de Frégon

• Complete story

Title: Charlie – ma vie de Star Pages: 48 Size: 230 x 310 mm Price: 10,45 € Pub date : vol.1 June 2013, vol2 May 2015

L’Algérie c’est beau comme L’Amérique Graphic Novel

Pitch : The granddaughter of Pieds-­‐Noirs, Olivia has always heard about Algeria. But between nostalgia, picture postcard images and war wounds, she has always been quite uncomfortable with this heritage. In the 1990s, she asks her grandmother to write her memoirs, but all she gets from her is a Ured smile. And yet, as she is sorUng through her things aYer she passed away, Olivia stumbles upon a file that is intended for her ; inside are all her memories from Algeria. Ten years later, she decides to go there to compare these stories with reality. She goes alone, taking with her the contact number of some local man named Djaffar…

Authors: Olivia Burton Mahi Grand

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A road-­‐movie & a friendship A quest for idenUty A true Story…

Title: L’Algérie, c’est beau comme l’Amérique Pages: 180 Size: 180x250 mm Retail Price: 20 € Pub date: 21/01/ 2015

Varto, 1915 deux enfants dans la tourmente du génocide arménien Graphic Novel

Pitch : 1915 – two children are caught in the middle of the Armenian Genocide.

April 1915. World War One is raging. A Turkish adolescent, Hassan, is entrusted with a perilous misson by his father : to escort two Armenian children, Maryam and Varto, to a safe place. On the occasion of the Armenian Genocide centenary commemoraUon, VARTO carries a message of reconciliaUon by shedding a light on a fact that was oYen forgoFen in official historical accounts, either on the Armenian or the Turkish side : the rescue of Armenians from the massacres by « righteous » turks.

Authors: Gorune Aprikian Stéphane Torossian

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2015: Centenary of Armenian Genocide The « righteous » turks: a forgoFen aspect of History.

A Message of reconciliaUon

Title : Varto Pages : 128 Size : 190x265 mm Retail Price : 20 € Pub date : 01/04/ 2015

L’Année du crabe Graphic novel

Pitch: L’Année du Crabe (The Year of the Crab) tells the daily life of a 19-­‐year-­‐old girl and her new friend… a cancer, appearing in the shape of a crab-­‐like stain with a nasty sense of humour.

This book is a humorous and lively autobiographical tesUmony on a dreadful disease, from which the author recovered completely cured and transformed.

Author: Alice Baguet

« Cancer doesn't have to be this sad and tragic thing. Faced with disease, humour is as good a reacUon as another -­‐ but it's a funnier one ».

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A sensiUve tesUmony

Title: L’Année du Crabe Label:Vraoum Pages: 96 pages Size: 200x260mm Retail price: 16 € Pub date: 20/05/2015

L’Esprit à la dérive Graphic novel Pitch:

L'ESPRIT A LA DERIVE is above all the story of a relaUonship between a father and a son. It is about how a man sees his father, whose sickness is gradually eroding his mental faculUes. A dark and secret father, who took refuge all his life in painUng and sculpUng to communicate his deepest fears, and who is all of a sudden confronted with his worse nightmares : his memories of a war he lived through against his will.

It also tells the story of the Algerian War as seen by a quite unusual French combatant : a uniformed soldier who is on the front but refuses to bear arms -­‐ a sort of hero who is sUll carrying the weight of his past.

Gradually, the way the son sees his father is going to change…

Author: Samuel Figuière

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An autobiography

Title: L’Esprit à la dérive Label:Warum Pages: 112 pages Size: 200x260 mm Retail price: 16 € Pub date: 28/01/2015

Papa pas prêt One shot

Pitch: A dailly report of 9 months of expectaUons !

The first pregnancy test, the decision to keep the child, all the procedures, the aYercare, the search for a day nursery, the friends, the nightmares, the family…. « Papa Pas Prêt » is the journal of a young father… who is geSng ready to experience the great adventure of fatherhood.

Author: Sess

« Reports» in one or two pages

Title: Papa pas prêt Label: Vraoum Pages : 200 pages Size : 150x210 Retail price: 18 € Pub date: 18/01/2015