Manu Larcenet
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A man - filthy, stinking, alone and obese - is taken in by the police. We don't yet know what he's done, or why he's there. But he's going to tell us his story. The story of a man who strives to live by his own rules, free from the bounds of socially imposed morality and norms, an ambition inspired by one blinding, ecstatic, vivid moment of ultilmate perfection in life and existence - The Blast. He makes the only choice possible for him after such...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is the third volume of one of the most remarkable works of the contemporary comic books scene. In "Precious Things," Marco has to face up to Emilie's maternal longing and the aftermath of the death of his father. Through various little things, such as old photos and insignificant events, Larcenet pursues his inquisition of the human soul with incredible wisdom and insight.
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The shipyard shuts down, Marco becomes a father, his mother learns how to live alone, a man dies in the countryside, and a journalist flies off the handle. Through the little things, marked moments and commonplace sadness, Manu Larcenet concludes his portrait of an ordinary man, and the imperfections that we're all familiar with. Thus ends one of the greatest successes of contemporary European comics.
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Marco's left town for the countryside. He's left his psychologist because he feels he's doing better. He's quit his job as a reporter because he's had enough of photographing corpses. He gets himself a little cottage in the heart of rural France, where he lives with his cat, Adolf. He throws out all his work, and cuts ties with his employer. That night, he has his first panic attack. It's not long before he meets the lovely Emilie, and also the wise...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sometimes tragic, always moving. Trivial Quantities talks about the relationship between the artist and his work, the rise of extremism and the connection between people with huge sensitivity and a rare intelligence. Our hero, Marco, carries on along his path. He exhibits his photographs in a fancy Paris gallery; he returns to the shipyards where his father used to work to photograph the workers and his old friends, and he moves in with his charming...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Mancini interrogation is finally wrapped up in this fourth and final volume Manu Larcenet's masterpiece. His immaculate plotline reaches a conclusion that will leave you wide-eyed and speechless, as it unravels the mysteries of the fascinating savagery and the captivating but deranged mind of this rare human being.Polzas story has many unusual twists, absurdities and horrors to go through before we get any closer to understanding the nature of...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Mancini's story gets harder and harder to digest, as it spirals towards it's violent and sordid climax. We see cracks beginning to appear in that seemingly impenetrable calm he maintains in the interrogation room, as he relates his difficult winter, his internment in a psychiatric hospital, his discovery of a collection of paintings that are the perfect representation of human suffering, and a cataclysmic encounter in the forest.Polzas story has many...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Back to the interrogation room nestled at the heart of that gray, clouded metropolis, and Polza's story continues. We soon find ourselves extracted from that police station, the metaphor for everything that this extraordinary protagonist seeks to escape (law, bureaucracy, morality, social codes, restriction), and returned to the beautiful but savage rural backdrop of Polza Mancini's quest for transcendance. His wanderings eventually bring him to the...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
After an adventurous first chapter, Gildas and Martina now know they're not just normal kids living in a normal neighborhood. No: they're in fact clones! Years ago, a spaceship from Earth crashed on the planet Mawis. And the locals kindly put the victims back together using their DNA, and built around them a city exactly like theirs on Earth! But as it turns out, knowing the truth about their past isn't much help to Gildas and Martina as they go about...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It all starts in a school playground, and then it moves to a classroom, where Larcenet's superb graphic camera zooms in on two ten-year-old kids: Gildas and Martina. The pair of them are ever so slightly obsessed with Sci-fi. To the extent they think they're surrounded by robots and aliens. As far as theyre concerned, their entire world is made up of false appearances, and they're soon to be the victims of a huge intergalactic plot! You read, you...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Following an apocalyptic attack at the hands of space vampires in volume two, Gildas and Martina are back for more intergalactic adventures. This time, their spaceship carries them to an outer space museum, built entirely in their honor, which also happens to be the symbol of the all-powerful Celta movement. Just the kind of symbol that the resistance would love to blow to smithereens, as our space heroes are about to find out...Cosmonauts of the...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Manu and Mariette have immigrated to the countryside. Manu wants a vegetable garden and Mariette wants a baby. But Manu, who's celebrating with much jubilation the birth of his very first radish, is having a hard time accepting the notion of parenthood. I mean, imagine having to admit to your child that you don't know how to change the contact breakers on your car... So Manu hides himself away inside the packing boxes that seem to have become a permanent...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Aaah, the countryside! Fresh air, green fields, home-grown vegetables the dream (or the nightmare) of all city-dwellers. Well, this is the tale of when it became Manu Larcenet's reality. One fine day he and his partner Mariette packed up their urban life and set off for the little village of Ravenelles (population of 89 people, including a pretty baker). When, like Manu, you've lived your whole life in a Parisian suburb, the rural life can be quite...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
So it's finally happened: Mariette is pregnant. And so is Manu. He's brushing up on his baby and parenthood knowledge with the help of Dr. Spock, who, Manu finds, is rather evasive regarding the torments of a father-to-be. Still, preparation is the key to success, and Manu's about as prepared as he can be: run-through's of the big day, suitcases ready and packed for the hospital, route planning. Basically, he's totally freaking out. Of course, he...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Capucine isn't sleeping at night, Ravenelles is hit with the storm of the century, M. Henri is building himself some sort of ark in preparation and Manu seems to be suffering the strangest of visionsI could get lost in this stuff all day.Pipeline Comics
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Tensions are running high in Ravenelles! Manu is feeling a little fragile what with Mariette taking up her studies again, his own professional dilemmas in the mix and a young child wreaking havoc in the background. What's more, he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the mayor Adrien Coquelot in the run up to the mayoral elections, and, just to top it all off, the hermit confirms that Atlanteans do, in fact, enter unsuspecting households via catflaps...I...