Available in English for the first time—the internationally bestselling graphic novel and an Official Selection at France’s prestigious Angoulême Internaional Comics Festival by master illustrator-storyteller Chabouté (Park Bench, Moby-Dick). On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a lonely hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, its occupants never meeting him, never asking the obvious questions: Who are you? Why do you hide? Why do you never leave? What is it like to be so alone? Years spent on a deserted rock—a lifetime, really—with imagination his sole companion has made the lighthouse keeper something more than alone, something else entirely. For him, what lies beyond the horizon might be...nothing. And so, why not stay put? But one day, as a new boatman starts asking the questions all others have avoided, a chain of events unfolds that will irrevocably upend the hermit’s solitary life.... Filled with stunning and richly executed black-and-white illustrations, Alone is Chabouté’s masterpiece—an unforgettable tale where tenderness, despair, and humor intertwine to flawlessly portray how someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone. Translated from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger.

Alone

Arts & Photography

Chabouté, Christophe

Graphic Design

GALLERY BOOKS

With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench. From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of the many who enter its orbit, the park bench weathers all seasons. Strangers meet at it for the first time. Paramours carve their initials into it. Old friends sit and chat upon it for hours. Others ignore the bench, or (attempt to) sleep on it at night, or simply anchor themselves on it and absorb the ebb and flow of the area and its people. Christophe Chabouté’s mastery of the visual medium turns this simple object into a thought-provoking and gorgeously wrought meditation on time, desire, and the life of communities all across the planet. This could be a bench in my hometown or yours—the people in this little drama are very much those we already recognize.

Park Bench

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Gallery 13

A 2019 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM From the “master of black and white” artwork (Paste Magazine) and the bestselling illustrator-storyteller of Park Bench and Alone comes a starkly beautiful graphic novel adaptation of Jack London’s most famous short story. Discover the beloved author of White Fang and The Call of the Wild, Jack London’s renowned short story “To Build a Fire” in a new and evocative way from master artist Christophe Chabouté. With his signature “stunning black-and-white art” (Publishers Weekly), Chabouté illustrates London’s gripping story of man versus nature in the harsh and unforgiving Yukon that has enthralled readers for over a century.

To Build a Fire: Based on Jack London's Classic Story

376 pages d'émotion pure...50 ans qu'il vit ici, sur ce caillou, dans son vaisseau de granit. Bateau immobile qui ne l'emmène nulle part et qui ne rejoindra jamais aucun port... Et pourquoi quitter ce lieu alors que le monde au-delà de cette satanée ligne d'horizon fait si peur ? Où s'évader lorsqu'on n'a nulle part où aller ? Comment combattre la solitude et empêcher que ce silence perpétuel ne devienne assourdissant ?... Des années passées sur son rocher, avec l'imagination comme seule compagne... Avec Tout seul, Christophe Chabouté signe un de ses albums les plus surprenants, où se côtoient onirique et quotidien et où s'enchevêtrent subtilement sensibilité, tendresse et humour...

Tout seul

VENTS D'OUEST

Un peu de bois et d'acier

Moby Dick - Livre premier

Manga

L adaptation magistrale d un classique de la littérature américaine Otage de l obsession de son capitaine, le Pequod continue sa lente et inexorable mission. Car qu importe le spermaceti, qu importent l huile et la richesse, Achab n a qu un seul objectif : traquer et tuer la bête qui lui arracha sa jambe. Moby Dick... un nom qui sonne comme une dangereuse légende. Un nom rempli d effroi pour l équipage et tous les baleiniers qu ils croisent, forçats de la mer pourtant habitués aux périls de l océan. Sur le sillage du cachalot blanc, les eaux sentent la mort... Consumé par sa soif de vengeance, Achab se décompose physiquement. Sa haine devient folie. Si bien que ses hommes s interrogent : le réel danger est-il en mer ou à bord ? Fidèle au récit original et à l esprit du roman d Herman Melville, Chabouté conclut son adaptation magistrale de Moby Dick, reflétant plus que jamais la frontière étroite entre l'acharnement et la folie, baignant dans le sang, l'huile et la sueur d'un navire baleinier de la fin du XIXe siècle.

Moby Dick - Livre second

Construire un feu - NE

Yellow Cab

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