European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

Qumran 3 — Book III

The final tome of a series with epic and mystical proportions!

Ary, an orthodox Jew who is very strict in his faith, and his friend Alexander, an archaeologist, are still searching for the "Roll of the Messiah." This document illuminating the life of Jesus would question the foundations of Christianity! Revelations that are not to everyone's taste since the dead follow each other in their footsteps. But Ary hits the mark, the secret of Qumran's scrolls seems to unfold little by little, his quest brings him back straight to Israel where his father was kidnapped by a mysterious community.

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Qumran 2 — The Scroll of the Woman

Ary, an orthodox Jew who is very strict in his faith, and his friend Alexander, an archaeologist, are still searching for The Scroll of the Messiah, stolen from the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.

The demand comes directly from the father of Ary, also an archaeologist. It seems indeed that this scroll illuminates the life of Jesus, it could even question certain foundations of Christianity. Much of what displease some very powerful people!

Moreover, malicious shadows seem to follow step by step their investigation. A macabre threat that comes closer to them every day, until Ary attends helplessly to the realization of his most intimate fears.

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Qumran 1 — The Scroll of the Messiah

The famous "Dead Sea Scrolls", preserved for centuries in the depths of a Qumran cave, were discovered by a Bedouin some fifty years ago. Some have been lost, or rather stolen... especially the one called "The Scroll of the Messiah", which speaks of Jesus in an explicit and dangerous way for Christianity...

Ary, a young Jewish paleographer, and his friend Alexander, an archaeologist, are commissioned by Ary's father, himself an Israeli archaeologist, to retrieve the lost manuscripts of Qumran. They embark on a search that is a very dangerous!

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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

A humorous adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s short story about a farmer in a small village who develops a lust for acquiring ever more land and who, against the advice of his much more reasonable wife, will stop at nothing to become the biggest landowner around, traveling to a distant part of the country where the soil is said to be fertile and virgin and abundant and where grass grows chest high.

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A Son of the Sun

Parlay is the French king of a dying island tribe and the father of the sublime Armande. He’s selling his pearls, a fortune collected from his island’s lagoon.

The wealthiest traders in the Solomon Islands have been invited to the auction, except for David Grief, the Englishman the natives call the Son of the Sun. Come hell or high water—probably both—Grief will be there. And he isn’t coming for the pearls.

This is a thrilling adaptation of two Jack London novellas, “A Son of the Sun” and “The Pearls of Parlay.”

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Dodin-Bouffant: Gourmet Extraordinaire

Dodin-Bouffant is a total food enthusiast. He lives for excellence and spends his time surrounded by a small circle of hand-picked gastronomes. When his beloved cook, Eugénie, dies, it turns Bouffant’s world upside down. After a long, hard search he finally finds what he is looking for in Adèle. Not without some complications, Adèle and Dodin-Bouffant form a strong bond and share many a delicious meal. This novel by Marcel Rouff (1887-1936) is a tribute to the famous French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, on whom the character Dodin-Bouffant is loosely based.

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The Last Jungle Book 1 — Man

Just outside Delhi, the capital of India, a man called Mowgli rents a house on the outskirts of the jungle, where he plans to live out the rest of his days. The forest is not nearly as vast as it once was, but the air, the trees and the hills still retain a thousand memories: the cries of birds long departed, the calls of brother wolves that have since died off, the rage of a jealous tiger… For Mowgli, the jungle is the stomping ground of his childhood and his path to adolescence, including the undeniable need to grow up and leave it. For Mowgli, it is time to rediscover the jungle so as to prevent the world of men from stealing away his innocence and his illusions. For this man growing ever older, these memories take him back to a time when all he had to do was learn, and not yet pay the price of his mistakes…

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The Last Jungle Book 2.The Promise

Old Mowgli tells the tale of the promise made in his youth to kill Shere Khan the tiger, who gets more dangerous by the day as he is consumed by blood lust.Every summer, the sun burns the savannah and dries up the rivers. But this year, water is especially hard to come by and the animals must endure a dreadful thirst. Thankfully, a marsh forms in the empty riverbed and Hathi the elephant decrees a water truce. With all hunting forbidden, every animal is safe to come and quench their thirst. Even Shere Khan is bound to this truce. But the bloodthirsty tiger is driven only by his vendetta against Mowgli. Not only does he wish the young man’s death, but also to bring an end to his illusions…

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The Last Jungle Book 3 — Springtime

As Mowgli draws ever closer to the end of his days, he continues to tell the tale of his extraordinary life to his young friend. His words conjure up the era when he, as a young man, was the king of the jungle, Shere Kahn’s vanquisher and the brother of wolves and panthers. It was a time when he was yet to discover the devastating power of female grace and beauty, and that a city torn apart by British colonization could hold far more danger than anything he’d ever encountered previously…

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