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"New York", Miles Hyman and Vincent Rea

Casterman, 159 pages, 15 euros.

Tardi had already proved with his adaptations of Louis-Ferdinand Céline could be put in comic literature. With the new collection "Routes", Casterman and Lonely Planet prove that can also marry travel and BD. Neither really BD or really travel guide, the "New York" of Hyman and Rea might disappoint purists. But will he delight lovers of Big Apple still looking for a book, as travellers crossing the Atlantic for the first time. Not a vademecum giving schedules of opening of the Empire State Building or the "yellow cabs" price between JFK and NYC, but rather a personal guide offering a dozen thematic walks to discover the New York "arty", "organic" or "cinema"... Read the Starbucks of the corner before a ride that will you get out of the classic Manhattan. The same collection also offers travel and images to Rome, Brussels and Venice.

"A end of sulphur", of Jul

Dargaud, 50 pages, 13.50 euros.

On the cover of the "chronic and new wave" of very talented Jul, Devil's lack of strangle discovering gas bill, while in his back burn thousand fires of hell. After "Let's kill José Bové" and "Flint and the City", the specialist associate 12November of Chinese history continues his very personal lesson in geopolitics. There is for everyone. Werner small Bison was elected to the White House with this slogan: "Yes we Mohican." On a Sicilian Beach, two illegal immigrants fail: "Clamp-Mi" and "clamp me." The white pattern of Caribbean business Robinson is concerned about a candidate hiring called Friday: he would be able to claim the 35 hours. Congress having obtained (in 1945) that Jews are implanted in Alaska (true), a Penguin wearing a belt of dynamite out of a tunnel under the ice in shouting "Alaska Akbar" In five chapters "Obama effect", "Effect Hulot", "Sarkozy effect", "Effect Kerviel", "effect more beautiful life", "A end of sulphur" ruthlessly continued his business for the demolition of the contemporary myths. Go, a final for the road: "What, the child of Rachida Dati in Gaza" "no, in Gala!

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"3 Instincts", Julien Parra

Emmanuel Proust Editions, 143 pages, 14.95 euros.

If the "Silence of the lambs" had been a BD be a book and a film, this could have been "3 Instincts." BD black roman version of a fact various imaginary having gone bad, Julien Parra album has two merits. Fashion is at extension series, the author was able to truss a history in pictures in a single tome this story in the new form is short, concise, punchy. And this author live between the France and the Japan marie drawing without embellishment of the manga to the worthy of the planks of the French school colors. Troubling, almost murky, chilli sex perverts, violent high-dose limit, this work for"public warning" prevents the editor, is not to put all hands. This is probably not a version in "Clockwork Orange" images, as claimed by cover, but is the mighty... and undoubtedly one of the good surprises from early 2010.

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"Back in town", Baraou and Hubesch

Fish driver, Dargaud, 48 pages, 10,95 euros.

In "Return to Earth", Manu Larcenet had sent the Parisians in the country. "It is called"the nature", Frankin...". Once men lived in the wild where they hunted to feed... "it was the Larcenet Parigot discovering with naïve joy the outback. In "Back in town" - published in the fish driver collection, which celebrates its 10 years - is the exactly opposite path that borrows the family of Baraou and Hubesch. After too many years past the feet in the mud, it adopts new war cries: "Glory to the sidewalks!", "Vade retro bouillasse", or "long live the Metro". Rents are expensive, small apartments, cranky neighbors, blase passers-by and patterns and treacherous colleagues... "It's normal, it is Paris!" launches a smile to the lips family father, ravi no longer have to pass the mower. The authors offer us bonus storyline is almost anecdotal, the well remains that, despite its shortcomings the light city backdrop has everything to please.