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Two stories feature as Sfar and Trondheim return to the Zenith mini-series.

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Encuadernación: rústicaColección: Sillón OrejeroLewis Trondheim lleva una felicidad atormentada. Son ya 80 días sin ponerse delante de un nuevo álbum después de haber estado durante 14 años dibujando y también escribiendo para otros de forma ininterrumpida y tremendamente prolífica. Detecta el problema de la repetición y tras preguntarse "Por qué los autores de cómic envejecen mal?" intenta encontrar las esquivas claves que permitan mantener la frescura y la magia que eviten derivar hacia un definitivo agotamiento creativo. Para ello, en sus viajes a distintos salones de cómic a los que es invitado y que alterna supervisando a un equipo de guionistas de una serie de animación para TV sobre El rey catástrofe, decide contrastar experiencias y "documentarse" con múltiples encuentros, conversaciones y correos electrónicos cruzados con autores jóvenes y veteranos ?todos ellos antropomorfizados como él?, de Moebius y Gotlib a Sfar y Frank Margerin, de Bilal y Fred a Christophe Blain y

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After two years of unemployment, Maggy Garrisson lands a secretarial job. Too bad her new boss is the shady, chaotic Anthony Wight: private detective and alcoholic. But a job is a job, and Maggy could use the cash. Five days into her new role, Wight is beaten to a pulp and Maggy is tasked with returning his wallet. With this seemingly innocuous request, Maggy enters a sinister underworld of corrupt cops, crooked businessmen, and career criminals. There’s a lot to investigate, from the disappearance of a family album to the theft of gold teeth from bodies at the crematorium. But for someone with the energy, ingenuity, and enterprising spirit of Maggy Garrison, puzzles are there to be solved—especially if there’s money to be made in the process.

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Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein s state control, and her family s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the story of how one can become separated from one s homeland and still feel intimately connected yet ultimately estranged. Signs of an oppressive regime permeate a seemingly normal life: magazines arrive edited by customs; the color red is banned after the execution of General Kassim; Baathist militiamen are publicly hanged and school kids are bussed past them to bear witness. As conditions in Mosul worsen over her childhood, Brigitte s father is always hopeful that life in Iraq will return to being secular and prosperous. The family eventually feels compelled to move to Paris, however, where Brigitte finds herself not quite belonging to either culture. Trondheim brings to life Findakly s memories to create a poignant family portrait that covers loss, tragedy, love, and the loneliness of exile.

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