Europæiske tegneserier: generelle, klassiske, for alle aldersklasser

Anthon Andenplads er på vej hjem fra sin ferietur, men kommer han nogen siden hjem! Han tester en Rømer 2000 hjelm, fra 70’erne – teknologien er blevet bedre, bliver konklusionen. Hans motorcykel har en hemmelig lyd, som skader børns sarte øre. Bent Brembo, er på køretur med sin kæreste, men en fyldt blære gør det svært for ham. Han bliver stoppet af politiet, men er det ikke snyd, når han er en helt omgang foran?Gustav Gedestyr, bliver lokket til at købe ny motorcykel, men noget tyder på at alle andre også er blevet lokket af en god sælger. Han forsøger sig med flotte scoretricks, men det gå jo galt som altid. Vores gæstekarakter ”Ulf” fremtræder i mange af bogens jokes, men det gør absolut ikke noget - han er jo ikke den bedste smutsten, på stranden. Bent Brembo og Gustav Gedestyr, glæder sig vildt, til at møde dame-motorcykelklubben ”Motorbierne” – men de finder hurtigt ud af at der også er et par brumbasser i blandt.

Gallerne beslutter sig for at deltage i de Olympiske Lege i Grækenland, og i kraft af Miraculix’ trylledrik er de sikre på at vinde. Men hov... er trylledrikken ikke en form for doping? Det ærværdige olympiske råd får nok at se til, da Olympia invaderes af både grækernes såkaldt retmæssige romerske besættelsesstyrker og de uovervindelige gallere – samt deres højrøstede tilhængere. Men da Asterix skal kæmpe mod romerne uden trylledrik, udtænker han og Miraculix en spektakulær plan, som vender alting på hovedet.Asterix har været udgivet i albumform på dansk siden 1969, men de klassiske album har ikke været tilgængelige i mange år. Fra 2021 udgiver Forlaget Cobolt dem på ny alle sammen i Per Dås klassiske og prisbelønnede oversættelse og med teknisk optimeret streg og farvelægning. Fire album genudgives hvert år. Samtidig udgiver Forlaget Cobolt også hele serien i luksussamlebind under titlen Den store Asterix med to album i hver foruden et omfattende og rigt illustreret ekstramateriale om tilblivelsen af tegneserien, sjove detaljer, persongalleriet, livet i Romerriget og meget mere.

Efter et forfærdeligt anfald af forstoppelse bliver Majestix dømt til den grusomste straf for en uovervindelig galler: Han skal på diæt! Asterix og Obelix ledsager Majestix og Miraculix til et kursted i Aquae Calidae – men Julius Cæsar er lige i nærheden, for han har sat sig for at blive båret i triumftog foran de underdanige arvernere på selve den store gallerhøvding Vercingetorix’ skjold. Men hvor pokker befinder skjoldet sig egentlig? Asterix anser det for en æressag at finde det før de romerske tropper, så Cæsars plan kan forplumres. Asterix har været udgivet i albumform på dansk siden 1969, men de klassiske album har ikke været tilgængelige i mange år. Fra 2021 udgiver Forlaget Cobolt dem på ny alle sammen i Per Dås klassiske og prisbelønnede oversættelse og med teknisk optimeret streg og farvelægning. Fire album genudgives hvert år. Samtidig udgiver Forlaget Cobolt også hele serien i luksussamlebind under titlen Den store Asteri x med to album i hver foruden et omfattende og rigt illustreret ekstramateriale om tilblivelsen af tegneserien, sjove detaljer, persongalleriet, livet i Romerriget og meget mere.

A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand.How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly's wings? How do you measure the speed of waking from a dream? Such abstract inquiries into the unrelenting absurdity of contemporary life make up this omnibus of meditative vignettes from one of mainland China's most prolific and recognizable-yet anonymous-new underground cartoonists of the current generation.Every story in 20 km/h toes the line between pun and poetry, and lands somewhere just short of a zen koan: Come back to it as often as you like, it will never read quite the same way twice. A nondescript figure awakes from an assembly line of identically fashioned companions and boards a rowboat destined for the unknown. A man holds the key to sleep in his hand and uses it to disappear into his mattress. The moon is plucked from the sky and fed into a vending machine for a can of soda.Woshibai's minimalist renderings are a startlingly delightful cocktail of existential dread and silent slapstick that arrest the mind's eye with equal parts humor and grace.

A vibrant tableau of small-town life as seen through the eyes of a woman returning home from Paris.Juliette boards a train from Paris and comes back to her hometown hoping for a low-key visit with family and old friends. What she finds is anything but. Her sister, a caregiver and mother of two, is carrying on an elaborate affair with a man from a costume shop. Her parents, separated, are now estranged. Father is sure he's developing Alzheimer's, though it's more likely that he's simply getting old. Mother, on the other hand, revels in the second act of her life as a free woman, an artist with a show at their local gallery to prove it. Slowly, Juliette finds herself entangled with the unlikely Georges, a dyspeptic alcoholic who is stuck in his life. These divergent paths inevitably cross against a gloriously painted backdrop of eccentric small-town living.Camille Jourdy's beautiful watercolor pages provide an unfeigned mileu for the subtle dramedy at hand in Juliette. All too real human emotions, bittersweet and relatable in their rawness, come together to form a poetic realism.

A Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love.The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields, picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker's favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city to find her. What follows is classic noir with seedy dives, mouthy pool sharks, and obsession.Rina Ayuyang indulges her passion for old Hollywood and elaborate movie musicals while exploring her immigrant roots in a playful and mysterious drama, creating something she never saw but always had hoped for-a classic tale about people who looked just like her. The Man in the McIntosh Suit is a gripping, romantic, and psychological exploration of a fledgling community chasing the American dream in an unwelcoming society heightened by racial hostility and the bubbling undercurrent of the coming Great Depression.

The wife of Japan's most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry.In 1981, Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary about daily life with her son and husband, the legendary manga author Tsuge Yoshiharu. Publishing was not her original intention. "I wanted to record our family's daily life while our son, Shosuke, was small. But as 8mm cameras were too expensive and we were poor, I decided on the picture diary format instead. I figured Shosuke would enjoy reading it when he got older."Drawn in a simple, personable style, and covering the same years fictionalized in Tsuge's final masterpiece The Man Without Talent, Fujiwara's journal focuses on the joys of daily life amidst the stresses of childrearing, housekeeping, and managing a depressed husband. A touching and inspiring testimony of one Japanese woman's resilience, My Picture Diary is also an important glimpse of the enigma that is Tsuge. Fujiwara's diary is unsparing. It provides a stark picture of the gender divide in their household: Tsuge sleeps until noon and does practically nothing. He never compliments her cooking, and dictates how money is spent. Not once is he shown drawing. And yet Fujiwara remains surprisingly empathetic toward her mercurial husband.Translated by Ryan Holmberg, this edition sheds light on Fujiwara's life, her own career in art, writing, and underground theater, and her extensive influence upon her husband's celebrated manga.

When the Avengers are assembled to contain a super threat in New York City, Spider-Man is given the most important job of all: to make sure all the Avengers' super pets are safe! Spider-Man wants in on the bad guy fighting action, but with great power comes great pet sitting. Featuring fan favorite Avengers like Captain America, Captain Marvel, and Black Panther, this fun and funny original graphic novel sees the mighty web-slinger teaming up with the most unlikely of heroes to save the day!--Provided by publisher.

"Harleen Quinzel is many things--a gymnast, anxious, broke--but the last thing anyone would call her is evil. Harley Quinn on the other hand-- . When Harleen signs up to participate in a clinical research trial with her girlfriend Pamela, the most she can hope for is extra cash in her wallet and a chance to get her anxiety under control. But what she gets instead are increasingly larger gaps in her memory and stolen mementos from some guy named Jack she's never met. Soon Harleen discovers she's sharing her life with Harley--a take-no-prisoners, who-cares-about attendance, maybe-we-oughtta-save-the-bunnies kind of girl. She is the opposite of Harleen in many ways. She is anarchy in a cute dress. And although she's throwing Harleen's life completely off track, maybe she ain't so bad either. [Here is] the story of a girl who will learn good and evil are not black and white (and red)--as long as she doesn't get caught"--

Introducing our favorite blue-haired adventurer, Hilda! "With beautifully-designed spreads in a subtle palette of colour, a wealth of visual detail, and plenty of quirky humour, this beautiful graphic novel will delight young comic fans."--Book Trust This special collector's edition collects books 5 and 6 from the Hilda graphic novel series, Hilda and the Stone Forest and Hilda and the Mountain King. Hilda Bind-up 3 also features behind the scenes material and an all new cover by series creator Luke Pearson. A perfect gift for Hilda fans and any young adventurer in your life!

Fire up the turbo pumps and blast off in Star Struck! The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella, second in the full-color young readers graphic novel series from the bestselling creators of Hello!Lucky, Sabrina and Eunice Moyle, perfect for fans of Narwhal and Jelly. Astrid and Stella are best friends and intergalactic heroes. But sometimes, even this dynamic duo needs a reset. After drifting into a dangerous force field powered by misunderstanding, it will take total teamwork to get back on track! Once they’ve recovered from that detour, a run-in with a fur-miliar villain and the rescue of an intergalactic pop star are enough to keep things interesting for Astrid, Stella, and their trusty robot sidekick, Bobo. They just need to remember what’s most important—friendship and being true to yourself! Astrid and Stella just might surprise themselves by learning a few new things along the way, too.

"Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island. Up in their tree house, they pass the time playing video games and watching TV. But when Batcat suddenly finds themself haunted by an annoying, ice cream-stealing ghost, they visit the local Island Witch for a spell to remove their ghastly guest permanently!"--

Originally published in French in 2020 by Editions Glâenat, under the title La bomb.

Journalist and comic book critic Brian Doherty’s Dirty Pictures is the first complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix—”a welcome addition to an under-analyzed legacy of the free-spirited 1960s” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the 1950s, comics meant POW!BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture. Their “comix”—spelled that way to distinguish the work from their dime-store contemporaries—presented tales of taboo sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of society. Embraced by hippies and legions of future creatives, this subgenre of comic books and strips often ran afoul of the law, but that would not stop them from casting cultural ripples for decades to come, eventually moving the entire comics form beyond the gutter and into fine-art galleries. Brian Doherty weaves together the stories of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Harvey Pekar, and Howard Cruse, among many others, detailing the complete narrative history of this movement. Through dozens of new interviews and archival research, he chronicles the scenes that sprang up around the country in the 1960s and ‘70s, beginning with the artists’ origin stories and following them through success and strife, and concluding with an examination of these creators’ legacies. Dirty Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form that recontextualized the way people thought about war, race, sex, gender, and expression.

"Learning magic is no easy thing, even for young Claudia. Despite a bit of help from a book of spells created by Kpp'Ar, her father's former mentor, it is all she can do to keep things from blowing up in her face- often with spectacularly messy results. But a spell book isn't the only thing that Kpp'Ar left behind when he suddenly and mysteriously vanished. In his wake stands the Puzzle House, a bizarre tower full of magical traps, tricks, contraptions, and-what else-puzzles. Claudia is sure that the old mage left a gift for her and her brother, Soren, somewhere deep within its wall, and she is determined to find out exactly what it is. Can Claudia and Soren uncover all the mysteries hidden with the Puzzle House? Or will they discover a darkness that will change them forever?"--

Everything is just duckie until Bea's stuffed animal gets stuck up in a tree. Will Ollie admit his role in this hoo-dunnit and let Bea help him rescue the treasured toy? Find out in this early graphic novel that will get young readers giggling with its silly puns and playfully panelled story.