Vaccaro/Ducoudray
Championzé (french), Boxäffchen, Graphic Novel
Wer erinnert sich noch an Amadou M'Barick, der unter dem Namen Battling Siki 1922 erster afrikanischer Weltmeister im Boxen wurde? Die Autoren holen Championzé in diesem grafischen Roman in Sepia, der an den Stil Gus Boas erinnert, aus der Vergessenheit. To the scouting report
Apostolos Doxiadis
Logicomix (english), Graphic Novel
Eine vielschichtige Erzählung, die die Biografie Bertrand Russells, die Grundlagen der Logik und die Fragen der Letztbegründung umkreist. Frege, Hilbert, Poincaré, Turing, Gödel und Hilbert sind die Akteure eines spannenden Denkabenteuers. Nach Holland, Italien, Israel, Griechenland, Frankreich und China verkauft. To the scouting report
Kristof Magnusson
Das war ich nicht (german) It wasn't me, Novel
»Magnusson grips the reader from start to finish thanks to the wit and intelligence of its storyline and the utter credibility of its characters. A timely novel about the paradigms of capitalism and its attendant crises.« (FAZ) More than 20.000 copies sold. To the scouting report Sold to Italy (Neri Pozza)
Sébastian Lumineau
Des berniques (french) Bagatellen, Graphic Novel
Die melancholisch eingefärbte Tragikomödie eines Wochendes am Meer. Der Moment schwindender Liebe, wenn die Dinge beredter werden als die Menschen. To the scouting report
Camille Jourdy
Rosalie Blum (french), Graphic Novel
Die Geschichte von drei einsamen Leuten auf der Suche nach sich selbst und nach dem kleinen Glück.
Jourdy tells in a stupend watercolour technique the story of three lonesome and sometimes whinsical people and their daily life. Enchanting. Bright. To the scouting report
Fauve d'Angoulême - Prix revelation 2010!
Alexander Schimmelbusch
Blut im Wasser (german) Blood in the water, novel
The novel immerges a social milieu that opposes tedium and odium only with endless distraction and refined consumption. Pia and Alex are young and rich heirs living a life blasé and peculiar cold. When confronted with the finiteness of life, they finally begin to sense something. Audience Award of the independant publishing houses 2009! To the scouting report
Ulli Lust
Today is the last day of the rest of your life (german), Graphic Novel
She tells this dark initiation-trip of two rather naive girls without any sentimentality or complacency, and infuses it with a healthy dose of black humour. Her storytelling is dense and breathless, and her feverish, immediate and lively drawings create a flow the reader can't escape." (C. Gasser) Read the scouting report
Winshluss
Pinocchio (french), Graphic Novel
Pinocchio re-interpretated for the 21.century. An adult noir movie and a true graphical opera full of incredibly rich and strong emotions. Best album of the year in Angoulême in 2009.
High potential title on the international market. Sold to Germany, Netherlands, Italy and Poland! Read the complete report..
Jan Seghers
Die Akte Rosenherz (german), crime novel (FILM)
The unsolved murder of a famous Frankfurt prostitute forty years ago extends into the acutal case of art threft - and commissar Marthaler's pregnant wife is kidnapped. Suspense and contemporary history. 4th novel in the successful serie of Marthaler as introvert and attractive Franfurt commissar.
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