A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF TINTIN'S CREATOR by Jose-Louis Bocquet and Jean-Luc Fromental, Illustrated by Stanislas Barthélémy
The Adventures of Hergé is a biographical comic about the world-renowned comics artist Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Hergé. Meticulously researched, with references to many of the Tintin albums and complete with a bibliography and mini-bios for each of the main "characters," the biography is appropriately drawn in Hergé's iconic clear line style as an homage to the Tintin adventures that have commanded the attention of readers across the world and of many generations. 
Seven-year-old Hergé first discovered his love of drawing in 1914 when his mother gave him some crayons to stay out of trouble. He continued drawing in school when he fatefully met the editor of XXe Siècle magazine, where Tintin first appeared. His popularity skyrocketed from the 1930s through post–World War Two. Hergé was perceived by some to have aided the Nazi government in Belgium by continuing to publish Tintin in a government-sanctioned magazine, and he was briefly imprisoned in the aftermath of the war and narrowly escaped execution. Also covered are his marriage troubles in the 1950s and subsequent affair with Fanny Vlamynck, who went on to become his lifelong partner; his late career in the 1960s, as his interest in Tintin waned and he occasionally "disappeared" for weeks at a time as he contemplated giving up his career to become a fine-arts painter; and a recounting of a humorous encounter with Andy Warhol.

The Adventures of Herge

Comics & Graphic Novels

Bocquet, José-Louis

Fromental, Jean?luc

Graphic Novels

Drawn and Quarterly

1963. As Professor Mortimer is invited to the USSR by an old archaeologist friend to join in the search for the lost city of Arkaim in the Urals, Captain Blake goes to Switzerland for an important conference between the intelligence services of the Western Powers, in order to prepare for the top-secret Operation Prince in Berlin. Berlin where a West German agent was just shot trying to cross the Wall back from East Germany, uttering a single word before dying: doppelgänger …

Eight Hours in Berlin (Volume 29) (Blake & Mortimer, 29)

Manga

Cinebook, Ltd

The inspiring story of Alice Guy, the first female movie director in film history, chronicles her contribution to the birth of cinema in France in the late 19th century\nIn 1895 the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Léon Gaumont, and would go on to direct more than 300 films before 1922. Her life is a shadow history of early cinema, the chronicle of an art form coming into its own. A free and independent woman who rubbed shoulders with masters such as Georges Méliès and the Lumières, she was the first to define the professions of screenwriter and producer. She directed the first feminist satire, then the first sword-and-sandal epic, before crossing the Atlantic in 1907 to the United States and becoming the first woman to found her own production company. Guy died in 1969, excluded from the annals of film history. In 2011 Martin Scorsese honored this cinematic visionary, “forgotten by the industry she had helped create,” describing her as “a filmmaker of rare sensitivity, with a remarkable poetic eye and an extraordinary feel for locations.” The same can be said of Catel and Bocquet’s luminous account of her life.

Alice Guy: First Lady of Film

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Selfmadehero

Printemps 1963. Dans l'Oural, au coeur de l'Empire soviétique, une mission archéologique découvre sept cercueils. À l'intérieur, des cadavres dont la peau du visage a été arrachée. Au même moment, à Berlin, un homme se fait tirer dessus alors qu'il franchit le Mur coupant la ville en deux. Avant de succomber, il réussit à prononcer un mot étrange : Doppelgänger. A priori, aucun rapport entre ces deux événements. Mais en réalité, il existe bien un lien entre la macabre découverte et le transfuge abattu. Ce lien porte un nom : Julius Kranz, un chirurgien est-allemand spécialiste des manipulations électro-chirurgicales sur le cerveau humain. L'un après l'autre, Mortimer et Blake vont croiser la route de ce scientifique machiavélique. Ils auront la désagréable surprise de retrouver à ses côtés un aventurier sans scrupules, qui prépare la plus grande mystification de l'histoire de l'humanité... Antoine Aubin met son trait éminemment « jacobsien » au service du scénario original de José-Louis Bocquet et Jean-Luc Fromental, qui conjugue la grande aventure, les brouillards de l'espionnage, les dérives de la science et les ressorts cachés de l'Histoire.

Blake & Mortimer - Tome 29 - Huit heures à Berlin / Edition spéciale, Bibliophile

BLAKE MORTIMER

Printemps 1953. Dans l'Oural, une équipe d'archéologues découvre sept cercueils renfermant des cadavres à la peau du visage arrachée. A Berlin, un homme est abattu alors qu'il tente de franchir le mur de séparation. Avant de mourir, il prononce le mot Doppelgänger. Blake et Mortimer font le lien entre ces deux affaires et le chirurgien est-allemand Julius Kranz, spécialiste du cerveau humain.

Blake & Mortimer - Tome 29 - Huit heures à Berlin

Josephine Baker (Spanish Edition)

Muller, Catel

Salamandra Graphic

LAS AVENTURAS DE HERGÉ

NORMA EDITORIAL, S.A.

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