comic book imprint within l école des loisirs publishing group’rue de sèVres will publish comic books that revolve around three axes: teens and adults,  the general public, and children. The house will  offer six titles this fall, including a blockbuster title by ZEp with over 100,000 copies already in print. Over twenty new titles will appear in 2014, and this will soon reach up to forty a year.

For over a year now, readers of Elle magazine have started with the last page: Soledad’s Comic Strips! Week after week, she dishes out her off­the­wall, heartfelt humor, tackling essential questions such as, “Why are we so often disap­pointed?” “Why do I want to be a man?” and “How can we be top model Gisele Bündchen?” All of her comic strips are finally brought together here, for a reading full of frivolity and se l f­deprecat ing humor by the comic book illustrator now in vogue.

Soledad Bravi was born in 1965. She has a degree from an art school and was an artistic di­

rector in advertising before returning to drawing. Today she draws for children and teens, and for fashion magazines.

Soledad’s Comic StripsSoledad BraviSeptember 2013 – 64 pages – 220 X 285 mm – €12,50

A Tale of MalesZEPSeptember 2013 – 64 pages – 240 X 320 mm – €18

Of the four friends seeking glory in the mid 90s with their rock band Tricky Fingers, only Sandro, the singer, will seize his chance and become a star. The others will pack up their dreams and return to the course of their ordinary lives. Yet eighteen years later, when Sandro invites them to spend a weekend in his English manor, no one misses the chance. It’s a strange reunion where tongues and memories come undone, and where in spite of the single malt, the memories have a strange flavor. Awakening the past is always risky, and in A Tale of Males (and females!), not everyone will make it through unharmed.

Over the past twenty years ZEP has been mainly drawing the adventures of Titeuf. He received the prestigious grand prize at Angoulême at age 37, and since then, this busy man has conquered adult readers with his Happy Books series. He is now beginning a totally new vein of work.

A new comic book by ZEP to come in 2014

He is implacable, shady, and cruel, one of those bad guys you don’t want to see lose, someone that Pratt has a knack for drawing. Fanfulla, a condottiere paid by the Medicis, leads us into the heart of the 16th century Italian uprisings, including the bloody sack of Rome in 1527. This thrilling action­and­adventure novel is paced to the protagonist’s lot of combats, alliances, and betrayals. Drawn during the era of The Ballad of the Salt Sea, it’s an album you must not miss!

Hugo Pratt (1927­1995) is most notably the creator of Corto Maltese. Several key elements in Pratt’s work, indistinguishable from his life, include travel, adventure, erudition, esotericism, mys­tery, poetry, and melancholia. His sense of tonal contrasts and his talent as a storyteller make him one of the greatest masters of the art of comics.

FanfullaHugo Pratt - Mino MilaniOctober 2013 – 120 pages – 295 X 235 mm – €20

On the occasion of the release of Grégoire Solotareff and Éric Omond’s feature­length ani­mation film in December 2013, one of the most important heros at l’école des loisirs arrives in comic book form! We meet up again with the inseparable Loulou and Tom in the land of the rabbits. Loulou learns from a Bohemian that his mother is still alive in the land of the wolves. Will their friendship survive in this land where herbi­vores are nothing but food or slaves?

Grégoire Solotareff was born in Egypt. After first practicing medicine, he decided to  devote his time to drawing and writing, and to making children’s books, in particular.Jean-Luc Fromental is a journalist, nove­list, and screenwriter. The author of the best seller 365 Penguins, he has also written screenplays for the animation series Once Upon a Time, as well as Loulou and Other Wolves.

CoMING SooNThe Horla,

a classic by Guy de Maupassant

adapted by Guillaume Sorel

Loulou, The Incred ible SecretG. Solotareff - J.-L. FromentalNovember 2013 – 64 pages – 210 X 275 mm – €12,50

Ms. Isabelle Darthy - idarthy@ecoledesloisirs.com for Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Italy & Middle East countries

Ms. Bertille Amortegui - bamortegui@ecoledesloisirs.com for Spain & Latin America, Portugal & Brazil, Turkey, Greece, Korea, China & Taiwan

Ms. Marija Gaudry - mgaudry@ecoledesloisirs.com for English worldwide, Scandinavia & Eastern European countries

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No Pasaran, the Game Christian Lehmann - Antoine CarrionJanuary 2014 – 64 pages – 210 X 275 mm – €12,50

Four Sisters Malika Ferdjoukh - Cati Baur January 2014 – 160 pages – 210 X 275 mm – €14

At a video game shop in London, Thierry, Eric and Andreas are offered a game that intrigues them. The three young men are astounded as they try it out – they are actually able to act in it. The virtual world sweeps away the real world, and the game turns into a living hell. In the second opus, the gates of hell open wider, onto Verdun, Guernica, Sarajevo, the trenches, and fiery walls. Eric and Thierry quickly learn that they’re better off not touching this diabolical game. But Andreas takes extreme pleasure in the virtual barbarism. The story then moves from the game to a grappling with political conscience. The fascist side of Andreas is revealed, which forces his friends to face History, and to understand from the inside that war games are games of massacre and blood.

Christian Lehmann has been a general practi­tioner for over thirty years, and is also a novelist. He is known for his teenager best seller No Pasaran, le jeu at l’école des loisirs and for his adults books La Folie Kennaway (Rivages Noir), and Une éducation anglaise (Éditions de l’Olivier) among others.Antoine Carrion, also known under the pseudo­nym Tentacle Eye, is a digital baby and a craftsman skilled at the graphic palette. He has evolved in parallel with the video game industry, and with this adaptation he brings together his two great passions.

The Four Sisters are in reality five: Enid, Hortense, Bettina, Geneviève and Charlie Verdelaine, aged nine to twenty-three. Their parents died in a car crash two years before the start of this story. The first volume is dedicated to Enid, the youngest, who has a hard time finding her place in the Hervé House, where daily life is always an adventure. The  second volume is about Hortense: her timid nature and her diary, excerpts of which she shares with us. We follow the other sisters, too. Bettina is in love. Geneviève continues her Thai boxing classes, and Charlie never stops fighting with the broken boiler.

Malika Ferdjoukh, born in 1957, is the author of screenplays for television and film, as well as numerous young adult novels. She is passionate about cinema, in particular musical comedies and melodramas from the first half of the 20th century. The characters in Four Sisters were in part inspired by the actors and actresses of that era.Cati Baur was born in 1973 in Geneva. She has practiced a number of different professions: bookseller, “front desk girl,” publishing assistant... and she has kept a drawing blog and published three comic books to date: J’arrête de fumer, Vacance, and Enid, of course.