European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

The Daughters of Salem Part 1

Colonial Massachusets, early 1690’s.

When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy’s gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things.

A fictional re-imagining of the Salem Witch Trials, in which gender politics, religion, xenophobia, innocent games of fortunetelling, and one man’s sinful indiscretion are all factors that lead to the deadly witch hunt.

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The Corsairs of Alcibiades 1 — Secret Elites

The scene is early nineteenth century England, in a secret and exclusive university under the auspices of the British Crown. Peter, Lydia, Mike, Curtis, and Maryline, five young people with nothing in common, have been brought together here to take part in the admissions process of this most unusual school.

Why were they chosen? And to what end?

None of them realize yet that they will soon leave behind their relatively calm lives for untold adventures that lie ahead of them.

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Telemachus 1 — In Search of Ulysses

Ulysses, mythical hero and king of Ithaca, left years ago to fight in the Trojan War. He never came home. His son, Telemachus, an impatient and immature prince who is as clumsy as he is ambitious, decides to go looking for him. On the way, he meets the hot-headed princess Polycaste, who helps him in his perilous adventure full of vengeful gods and terrifying monsters. Will the winds be favorable to them?

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Authorised Happiness 1

When society pushes the ideals of equality to their breaking point, the result can easily become plain absurd. In order to avoid the chronic budget deficit of the healthcare system, for instance, what better way is there but to become a nanny state? Even if it leads to the Medical Police imposing fines on anyone not watching the weather forecast… Three Kafkaesque stories that paint a frightening picture of an over-regulated world.

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Little Miss Cheery

What do you do when you hate your wife and you’re sleeping with your stepdaughter? If you’re ostrich farmer Pep, you beat your wife’s head in with a shovel when your stepdaughter asks you to. You might do it some rainy night, and toss the body down a well for good measure. You might even think you’re getting some money out of it. But if you’re hapless and unlucky as Pep is, you might find yourself trapped in a hell of your own making, endlessly wondering: how many times do you have to kill someone before they’re really dead?

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The Art of Dying

Philippe Martin, a Paris cop, is called to Barcelona to look into the suspicious suicide of a girl who might be his daughter. Barcelona is a charged place for Martin—he’s been visiting every summer for the 25 years since the girl’s mother left him and fled there. His investigations lead him into a labyrinth of criminal activity stretching from the most violent depths of Barcelona’s society to its wealthiest families. Taunted by a particularly vicious and wily opponent, the stakes of Martin’s investigation are not only justice but his very soul.

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Sherman 8 — Jeannie’s Journey: 1969

As Inspector Kendall of Scotland Yard gets closer to finding Ludwig Melchior’s murderer, he comes uncomfortably close to revealing some sordid secrets about Ludwig’s daughter Kundry. Like her relationship with drug dealer and all-around sleazeball Miles Calvin. Why did her mother Jeannie shoot Calvin at a nightclub? Who snuck into the hospital and killed him later? And what was his connection to a mysterious woman who may be a Russian agent? Jeannie Melchior, née Sherman, must come to terms with secrets, lies, and mistakes from her own past in this conclusion to a tense two-parter about her husband’s death.

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Jessica Blandy 3 — The Devil at Dawn

In the third installment of Renaud and Dufaux’s classic thriller series, Jessica Blandy finds herself a prisoner in the Florida everglades—at the mercy of a pair of murderous brothers and caught up in a plot to make a man disappear. Do her captors plan to hold her for ransom, or do they have something else in mind? Set to the sounds of the swamp and the haunting voice of Jim Morrison, this might be Jessica’s most dangerous adventure yet.

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Mayam 4 — The Infinite Goodness of Lenny June

Life is good again for Lenny June, legal attaché to the Terran delegation on the developing planet of Mayam. After all, he’s bested his scheming former boss the ambassador, ditched an intergalactic cartel’s deadly hit woman out in the forbidden wastelands, and gotten away with the priceless relic they were all after: the ancient head of a dead god. But then… who is trying to kill him? Why did the diplomatic core decide not to promote him, and instead, send out a new ambassador… with Lenny’s fiancée? And could it be that head isn’t actually as dead as he thought?

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