European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

Rage

Anton “Witko” Witkowski didn’t pull himself by his bootstraps. He punched his way up out of the projects where he was born, to world renown as middleweight champion. He’s larger-than-life, a force of nature. He gets what he wants. He taunts his opponents. He breaks up with women by leaving them a red Corvette. It’s his way or the highway. With violent colors, dynamic linework, and unflagging narrative drive, Baru delivers a masterful meditation on pride, loyalty, and manhood in a world where the system’s stacked against some people, and all they have is their friends—and their rage.

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Water Memory Part 1

Marion starts a new life when she moves into the family house that her mother has recently inherited. She waves goodbye to city life and hello to a life by the sea, in the village where her grandparents lived for over 30 years. And it’s just magical: a fantastic view and the beach just at the end of the garden. In the village, the older residents seem to have fond memories of Marion’s grandfather, who died long before she was born. Now’s her chance to find out more about her family history, about which, until now, she knew practically nothing. And then there are those sculpted rocks which are apparently a trace of forgotten legends… But when strange events start happening in her life, Marion soon realizes that all is not as it seems… This is an enchanting fantasy about a family secret and ancient maritime legends.Now available in print from Lion Forge

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Water Memory Part 2

Marion’s determination to find out more about her grandfather and the cryptic rock sculptures all along the shore pushes her to seek out the company of the surly lighthouse keeper. Everyone says he’s mad, like his ancestors before him, but Marion eventually discovers that there’s more to it than that… He tells her the story of the town’s tragic past and the sad destiny that the mysterious forces of the sea have reserved for his family. But does it stop with him? Only the stormy seas can tell…Now available in print from Lion Forge

The Music Box 1 — Welcome to Pandorient

For her eighth birthday, Nola receives a marvelous present: her late mother Annah’s music box. It has the most enchanting melody, and inside the globe… is that a little girl waving? And calling for help?! Before she knows it, Nola has shrunk down in size, slipped through the keyhole, and entered the world of Pandorient, where even the most ordinary-looking citizens can have extraordinary powers—and where danger could lurk down every hallway. Nola must help her new friends save their mother from a mysterious malady—all the while making surprising discoveries about Annah’s past, and—maybe—her own future…

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The Old Geezers 4 — The Magician

Peaceful country living consisting of leaky roofs, puppet shows, and drinks and arguments at the local tavern is disturbed when a rare species of grasshopper is discovered in a local field, and suddenly environmentalists, politicians, hunters, Big Pharma, union people, mushroom pickers and geriatric anarchists are all loudly fighting for what they believe is the right approach to things. In the midst of all this, one love story may be blooming in spite of a curse, another may be doomed for good and for poop, and questions of paternity arise yet again.

The Route 66 List 1 — Illinois

1961, Illinois. Alex Poliac buries his wife Alice, and that evening, he and his son flee their home. Not because he is a suspect in Alice’s death, but because a serial killer — The Clown — is prowling the state, and Alex knows how he picks his victims. A rough meeting with Laura, a friend of his wife, brings more questions: was Alice hiding something, with her mysterious phone calls and unexplained absences? Was her death really an accident?

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The Route 66 List 2 — Missouri

Alex Poliac and his son are still on the run, having evaded both the FBI and the Clown — the supposed serial killer who’s actually a KGB hatchet man. Because Alex isn’t exactly who he says he is, part of a network run by a shadowy figure among the US’s most wanted list. He also happens to be the only holder of the explosive Route 66 List, which contains the names of every agent implanted in the States along the celebrated road. Agents whose days are now numbered.

Theodore Poussin 1 — Captain Steene

The dreams of a pencil pusher longing for adventure and distant shores come true when the maritime transport company where he works sends him on a trip to 1928 French Indochina. But Theodore Poussin is about to get more than he bargained for as he sets sail on the Cap Padaran: a mysterious, poetry-reciting man with ominous predictions about his future follows him everywhere; stories surrounding his late uncle Captain Steene, whose grave he promised his family he would find, are vague and contradictory; and he somehow ends up in the crossfire of a guerilla war near the Chinese border, forced to run for his life and toward even more unexpected events.

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Theodore Poussin 2 — The Island Hunter

More mayem and misadventures follow Theodore Poussin after he’s left stranded in Singapore, desperately trying to work his way toward a return passage to Europe. Things seem to be looking up when he inadvertently inherits a pirate ship and starts making a living peddling merchandise to various ports in the Pacific, until his fate catches up with him yet again. Soon he’s wanted for murder, hiding out in opium dens, running from law enforcement with the help of mysterious new allies, and being recruited for a most unlikely mission on a faraway island…