FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE HIGHLIGHTS 2019 GRAPHIC NOVELS / ADULT TITLES JUNGLE & STEINKIS
GRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY – MUSIC AND SOCIETY – STEINKIS
REDBONE, A STORY OF ROCK AND RESISTANCE From the rise of rock to Native American struggles, the story of Redbone is an important part of United States history
While the Native American Movement was being founded in 1968, four Native American musicians wanted to use their art to defend their culture. Backed by Jimi Hendrix, they started Redbone and rapidly become idols of the younger generation of their people.
REDBONE is a cross between biography and journalism. Based on historic research and interviews with the musicians and people close to them, the story tells the tale, through the use of flashbacks, of how these activist musicians influenced the mindset of their country and how they took up the cause for the Native American minority in the US and Europe and became legendary.
Original title : Redbone, une histoire de rock et de résistance Authors : Christian Staebler, Sonia Paolini, Tibhault Balahy Size : 18 x 26 cm Pages : 120 Price : 17€ Pub. Date : 23/jan/19 EAN : 9782368461808
THE AUTHORS Christian Staebler is an illustrator, a graphic artist and a comics authority. He is the author of Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée. In 2004, he created a web site on the group www.redbone.fr. Christian is in constant contact with the original band members, Pat Vegas and Pete DePoe, and continues to interview musicians that know them and/or played with them as well as family members of other members of the band. After having completed his applied arts studies, Thibault Balahy started drawing for the print media. He was twice selected to participate in the Jeunes Talents du Festival d’Angoulême exhibition (2002 and 2005) and has participated in the BD Grandpapier and Les autres gens. In 2014, together with Loïc Dauvillier, he adapted Olivier Adam’s novel Falaises into a graphic novel.
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GRAPHIC NOVEL – ART & HISTORY - STEINKIS
REFUZNIK, THE IMPOSSIBLE DEPARTURE Refuznik: The Soviet Jew to whom Soviet authorities denied permission to emigrate. The true story of the sculptor who was forced into exile so she could practice her art in freedom. Bella Goldberg was born in the Soviet Union two years before the death of Stalin. Of Jewish origin, she experiences antisemitism from a very young age. The only thing that gives young Bella hope in the height of destalinization is her sculpture, which is tolerated as long as her work serves communism. Insubordinate, she quickly sides with the artists considered “degenerates” who reject Soviet Realism. But she quickly realizes that there is only one solution, leave the country for Israel. Set in the Soviet Union of the 1950s and 1960s, Refuznik covers the reality gap between communist values and the daily life of the Soviets under the yoke of an unjust totalitarian system.
Original title : Refuznik, l’impossible départ Authors : Flore Talamon, Renaud Pennelle Size : 18 x 25 cm Pages : 126 Price : 18 € Pub. Date : 06/March/2019 EAN : 9782368461716 THE AUTHORS A Sciences Po graduate and ex business and consulting executive, Flore Talamon now spends her time writing children’s books. Her first graphic novel, Salam, Toubib (Delcourt), was published in 2016, under the pseudonym Claire Dallanges. She was inspired to write Refuznik after meeting the artist who now lives in Paris. A graduate of ESAG, and after having completed several advertising and design assignments, Renaud Pennelle illustrated his first graphic novel, Sagarmatha. His work impressed the film director Abdellatif Kechiche who asked him to do the art for a graphic novel adaptation of his film Vénus Noire. This was followed by Des Fourmis dans les jambes. The style that he used for Refuznik, which is sometimes very close to expressionism, brings the artist’s emotional intensity across perfectly
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GRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY – SOCIETY AND MIGRATIONS - STEINKIS
GLOBAL VILLAGE The inhabitants of the once peaceful small village of Mazé, become divided when the mayor tells them that the old Abbey will be renovated to welcome refugees. Aristide, former electrician and fix-it man and future neighbor of the newcomers, fears for his tranquility and quickly joins the R.A.I.C. (The Resistance Against the Invasion of our Countryside) who are completely against the mayor’s decision. But gradually after meeting several people, encounters that his granddaughter Salomé encouraged, Aristide abandons his prejudices about migrants. Though Aristide’s tale is fiction, the stories of people like Olek the Polish worker, Mrs. Smith the British hostess or Genesio son of Catalan immigrants are inspired by a scientific study led by David Lessault and reminds us that France has always been a host country.
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Original title : Village Global Authors : Damien Geffroy, in collaboration with David Lessault – geographer and researcher. Size : NC Pages : 130 Price : 18 € Pub. Date : 10/April/2019 EAN : 9782368461815 THE AUTHORS Damien Geffroy is an illustrator. Global Village is his first graphic novel. David Lessault is a geographer and a researcher at CNRS. His scientific research focuses primarily on how family and territorial dynamics limit spatial mobility.
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GRAPHIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY - STEINKIS
THE DISTANT MOUNTAIN The story of a young artist live during the Cultural Revolution. A poignant testimony of incredible resilience. China, 1966. Chongrui Nie comes from a literary family and is targeted by the cultural revolution. He will not be allowed to go to art school as he had always hoped, but instead, he is sent to an arms factory in Guan Cen Shan in Shanxi province. Struck by the beauty of this mountainous region and by the warmth of the local peasants, Chongrui Nie considers the experience a blessing and not a curse. He draws everything, all the time: landscapes, temple statues, scenes of daily life, machines, tools…
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And since he got there, he was drawn to the mountain twice, at fourteen-year intervals. Chongrui Nie’s drawings illustrate the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, the over industrialization, the savage depletion of resources and a country in transformation.
Original title : Au loin une montagne Authors : Chongrui Nie Size : 29 x 21 cm Pages : 256
Price : 28 € Pub. Date : 10/April/2019 EAN : 9782368462553
THE AUTHORS Chongrui Nie was 23 when the Cultural Revolution started. He was forced to abandon his creative interests and work in the Chinese National Architecture company No.6 in Beijing as a simple laborer. He stayed there until 1979 when he was moved to the Beijing Slide Manufacturing company which was recruiting artists for a propaganda. For sixteen years, in his spare time, Nie manages to publish lianhuanhua format comics (a small traditional Chinese format) and get some of his illustrations included in magazines. He then becomes an editor and publishes works professionally. He is discovered in France in 2010 when the first volume of his six-book series Juge Bao is published by éditions Fei. Today, Chongrui Nie lives near Paris. Au loin une montagne took three years to create and is his first intimate and very personal work.
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GRAND REPORTAGE – WITNESS OF THE WORLD – STEINKIS/LES ESCALES
In 2019, Steinkis launches a new collection of graphic grand reportage with Les Escales (Editis)
FALLOUJAH, MY LOST HOME TOWN Feurat is a journalist. In 2003, he went to Falloujah in Iraq for a story. But Falloujah is not just any town in Iraq, it is his parents’ home town. The place where he spent his vacations as a child. The town with a river whose name he carries… The present and the past, the professional and personal, the adult and the child all come to light at the same time… The memories come back, and another Iraq emerges, one that is humane, colorful, complex, lively. And a town that is, in spite of everything, rich from its history, culture, traditions and inhabitants. What do we know about Falloujah other than its destruction in 2004 and it having been taken over by the Islamic state? Nothing. It is this nothing that Feurat replaces through his double approach, sensitive and factual on one hand and gentle and precise on the other.
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Original title : Falloujah, ma campagne perdue Authors : Feurat Alani, Halim Mahmoudi Size : 18 x 25,5 cm Pages : NC Price : NC Pub. Date : 23/05/2019
THE AUTHORS Correspondent in Bagdad from 2003 to 2008 for ITélé, Ouest France, La Croix and Le Point, Feurat Alani is now based in Dubaï where he is a reporter and producer for In Sight Films which produces content for Arte, Canal +, Al Jazeera. In October 2018 he produced Le parfum d’Irak (Arte éditions), which put into images 1500 of his Tweets on everything from the Iraq of his childhood, to the dictatorship and apricot ice cream. A 20 episode web series was broadcast on arte.tv at the same time. Since completing his studies in graphic arts at the University d’Amiens (ESA), Halim Mahmoudi splits his time between illustrating for the press and drawing graphic novels. Awarded the 2011 Prix Bulles en Fureur, his first publication, Arabico (Soleil) was selected as one of the 10 best news and reporting graphic novels by Prix France Info 2010. Un monde libre (Des Ronds dans l’O) received the Prix Longvic BD 2015 and is part of the permanent collection at the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration where some of the original pages are on display. Petite Maman (Dargaud) published in 2017 received the Prix PREM1ÈRE for graphic novels at the Fête de la BD, Brussels.
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GRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY – SOCIETY - STEINKIS
WHY WE HAVE CHILDREN In February 2013, when the debate around same-sex marriage was in full swing, Fanny’s paper asked her to cover the demonstrations. At the same time, she had her last fertility treatment, done together with her best friend who is gay…Fanny learns she’s pregnant. Facing all sides of this question at once, Fanny reflects deeply on the desire to have children. Why do we have children? During her nine months of pregnancy she interviews couples and experts. Same-sex parents, couples battling infertility, Yvonne Knibiehler, historian specializing in women and maternity, René Frydman, gynecologist, instigator of the first «test tube Baby», Boris Cyrulnik, doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist...
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Original title : Pourquoi fait-on des enfants Authors : Pauline Aubry and Fanny Lesbos Size : 17x24 cm Pages : NC Price : 17 € Pub. Date : 29/May/2019 EAN : 9782368461822 THE AUTHORS Fanny Lesbros is a journalist and a photo journalist. She worked for Libération, Le Nouvel Obs, Les Inrocks and BuzzFeed before joining Brut.com. Pauline Aubry was selected as an exhibitor in the Jeunes Talents du festival international d’Angoulême in both 2002 and 2005. She wrote and illustrated Les Mutants and Les Descendants, both published by Arènes.
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ONE SHOT COMICS – SOCIETY – JUNGLE IMPRINT
RADICAL WARS, A DIVE INTO ARMED RADICALISATION In a world much like ours in many ways, society projects its anxieties on a small yet not insignificant segment of the population: Star Wars fans. Their ways are seen as growing increasingly distant from modern society values. Everyone is keeping a close eye on them and they are regularly stigmatized in the media. This rising sentiment is primarily due to a small extremist faction of this community, the Jedistes, who choose to follow the doctrines of their idols to the letter, even going so far as to use their light sabers on the civilian population and set off to planet Tatouine to fight battles. A TV talk show host decides to invite three Jedistes to be on his show, a couple of whom have just come back from combat, to hear their point of view and to better understand what motivates them to take up arms in faraway lands… The book will come with an educational packet, and a foreword written by Seraphin Alana, an academic teacher and Unesco expert.
Original title : Radical wars, une plongée dans la radicalisations armée Authors : ElDiablo and Fouad Aouni Size : 17 x 24 cm Pages : 72 Price : 13,95 € Pub. Date : 16/Jan/2019 EAN : 9782822222082
THE AUTHORS Boris Dolivet (alias ElDiablo) has collected testimonies of French youths who went to join the Jihad and came back. He shares them with us through this fictive Star Wars related universe. Fouad Aouni is a actor, journalist and scriptwriter, and has studied sociology. For Radical Wars, he shared with ElDiablo his experience as a social worker, and helped to collect relevant stories.
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ONE SHOT COMICS – HUMOUR – PARODY -JUNGLE IMPRINT
FREAKY MOUSE After BLOODY HARRY, his successful parody series of the Harry Potter universe, Alexandre Arlène is back with a collection of parodies on the works of Disney Animation Studios.
You’ll find your favorite heroes in rather compromising and sometimes even absurd but always funny situations. Through Gyom’s art, Freaky Mouse plays with the established codes of the most famous films with just the right amount of impertinence and black humor.
Original title : Freaky Mouse Authors : Gyom, Arlène Size : 16 x 21,5 cm Pages : 128 Price : 15 € Pub. Date : 13/feb/2019 EAN : 9782822226448
THE AUTHORS Alexandre Arlène is the author of Boucan and Bloody Harry both published by Jungle. He also wrote the two volume Princesse Libellule for la Boîte à Bulles. And he has written articles for the press. Gyom is a Belgian illustrator working in advertising, games and video games.
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ONE SHOT COMICS – DRAMATIC COMEDY – JUNGLE IMPRINT
HECTOR THE BUTCHER Little Hector’s parents, Nestor and Colette, are butchers in a small village. Hector is pampered and happy. He will take over the business one day… But for now, he is nine and is having a happy childhood…
But alas, fortune sometimes has a way of playing trick on us all. After having lost his parents in a tragic accident, Hector is raised by his grandparents and becomes torn between his predetermined destiny and his wonderful aunt who is an animal rights activist…
What raises doubt causes a dilemma… After a serious training course at the local slaughterhouse and an apprenticeship with a beefsteak specialist in Paris, Hector has no idea that live has got some very big surprises in store for him!
Original title : Hector le boucher Authors : Jean Blaise Djian, Kolonel Chabert Size : 22 x 29,5 cm Pages : 128 Price : 16,95 € Pub. Date : 27/Feb./2019 EAN : 9782822222051
THE AUTHORS Jean-Blaise Djian, is a multi-faceted comics script writer (westerns, fantasy, science-fiction, crime…), he has written several works for Vents d’Ouest, Soleil, Jungle etc. Alexis Chabert has written several comics and most notably the series Rogon le Leu, for Delcourt, Gainsbourg for Jungle etc. His comics idols? A pretty eclectic list: Hergé, Giraud, Schuiten, Vuillemin and Binet. He also admits to having a slight weakness for Turner.
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