(He don't smell like roses. He has his truck. It's called The Gipsy Star. It's just him and his truck. Against the world. The series that launched the increasingly popular artist Marini (Raptors)

The Gipsy Star

Comics & Graphic Novels

Marini

SMOLDEREN, Thierry

Graphic Novels

Nbm Pub Co

Siberia had been promised a golden future, thanks to global warming, but instead it has plunged into a new ice age, facing a Mongol invasion and a nationalist revolution. With his truckload of weaponry, Gipsy is heading toward the fortress of Zigansk on the arctic circle, where thousands of desperate refugees await help which never comes. The only truck racing around the fires of Siberia, Gipsy has more than just weapons on board. He also carries a self-anointed sorceress with a mission, who just might also be the missing daughter of a billionaire, worth a rather obscene reward...

Gipsy: The Fires of Siberia

MARINI, Enrico

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Two young women lose their families in a grisly holdup. Heartbroken and vengeful, they decide to take matters into their own hands. Together they track down the murderers and make them pay (a high price) for the wreckage they left behind. A violent and thrilling feminist tale, freely inspired by the affair of the mad killers of Walloon Brabant, which hit the Belgian crime chronicles of the early 1980s.

Dark Rage

Humanoids, Inc.

In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States.
Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Töpffer, Gustave Doré, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form.

The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Revisit the action-packed adventures of Gypsy with this one-of-a-kind omnibus edition! Set in the not-too-distant future, the world of Gypsy has it all: planetary highways, the coronation of a young Russian Tsar, the resurrection of a Mongol army on the trail of Gengis Khan, an all-powerful multinational corporation that controls all earthly transport—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! In the middle of all this, we have a Gypsy truck driver who, fortunately, knows how to look after himself. Now, for the first time ever, the works of award-winning creators Thierry Smolderen and Enrico Marini are collected in this deluxe omnibus edition. Complete with a stylistic slipcase featuring exclusive new art from Enrico Marini, this collection breathes new life into the world of Gypsy—a must-have for any comics reader!

Gypsy Omnibus

Manga

Insight Comics

Tomorrow... is just 121,000 years away! An astonishing and captivating original graphic novel inspired by a real psychological case, Atomic Empire is both a psychiatric enigma and a space opera immersed in the fluid and aerodynamic imagery of 1950s sci-fi. 1953: The world has entered the age of the Atom, but one man wonders what it means for civilization. His name is Paul--a government research specialist who, since childhood, has been in telepathic contact with a hero from the distant future. But when a mysterious consultant begins to take an interest in him, "the man who communicates with the future" will commit an unforgivable sin and break an oath to his friend Zarth Arn, hero of the Galactic Empire.

Atomic Empire

IDW Publishing

A groovy spy thriller and coming-of-age tale set in the Go-go days of the 1960s, done in a chic, retro style sure to charm readers. For 15-year old Antoine, the summer of 1967 will prove to be an unforgettable one full of new discoveries: a secret agent from nowhere, a mysterious troubled girl, and the disappearance of his father--all happening within two days! These events and more conspire to turn his life upside down and into something he could never have imagined. The creators of Atomic Empire turn their vintage-inspired style to the spy-thriller genre that harkens back to a time when James Bond was the biggest action-hero in the world.

Diabolical Summer

Get ready for a dizzying dive into the "McCay Dimension" with this true and false tribute to the undisputed master of the imagination. McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic - though only partially true - stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay - in which McCay's life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton. Hinton, as a mathematician and philosopher, postulates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension - and seeks an artist capable of representing it, one with an innate sense of perspective and a limitless imagination. In Winsor McCay, Hinton finds such a man, and when their imaginations combine, an entirely new world opens up to them both...

McCay

Biographies & Memoirs

Titan Comics

One sunny afternoon Marielle Meyer arrives at the local supermarket, with her teenage son, Oliver. Living Oliver in the parking lot so he can ride his skateboard. Marielle enters the store. Inside, Marielle begins a conversation with a pregnant woman and her husband. Then the unspeakable happens, a group of masked gunman burst into the store seemingly as part of a robbery. The men are cold blooded beyond belief and, not satisfied with what they have stolen, begin to murder innocents where they stand. Marielle's son is the last victim killed in the parking lot during the robbers getaway. Her psyche fractured from grief, Marielle begins to spend time with stella, the pregnant woman from the store who lost her husband and her unborn son in the incident. As the two victims find support in their shared experiences, a new quest is set in front of them: revenge against those who have taken their loved ones from them what follows is a tale of murder, grief, and violence as the two women try to extracttheir brutal revenge.

Colere Noire: For Justice, for Revenge, for Each Other

Marcele, Philippe

Intriguing characters and plotlines intertwine in a near-future political thriller drawing on contemporary world events and actual growing technology contributing to a cyberwar in both reality and virtual reality. When Lindsey, a young student in London, is rescued from a riot by Chamza, a young woman from the Arab world, they begin a relationship based on both fascination and convenience. Before she knows it, Lindsey is drawn into a world of vast wealth and intrigue; her new friend seems to have ties to political movements and revolutionaries throughout the Islamic world, but it is not clear what their agenda might be, or where her great wealth comes from. Could it be the fabled legendary lost treasure of Al-Qaeda, supposedly amassed through insider trading prior to 9/11? Unbeknownst to either Lindsey or Chamza, a set of US contractors, all veterans of war in Iraq and the CIA's rendition program, are focusing their sites on Chamza, believing her wealth is indeed the key to a larger threat to the entire world economy. The series looks at surveillance, clandestine military action, and class warfare in the twilight of the current War on Terror, all within the context of a thriller that ultimately seeks to find out what controls the global economy.

Ghost Money: Death in Dubai (GHOST MONEY HC)

Magnetic Press

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