Christophe Blain, Author . NBM/ComicsLit $13.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56163-349-4
Young oceanographer George Guilbert has volunteered as a helmsman for the French navy. On board the giant battleship Bellicose
, he meets writer Louis Bleno and the dim but well-meaning coxswain Sam Nordiz. The ship sets out in response to a...
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Christophe Blain, Author . NBM/ComicsLit $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-56163-366-1
This volume collects two installments of a continuing story by young French artist Blain, who is part of the new generation of European comics creators. The story is an intriguing mixture of naïveté and sophistication. Isaac is a young,...
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Christophe Blain, Author . NBM/ComicsLit $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-56163-418-7
This volume collects the third and fourth installments of the series by Blain, a French artist of the "New Generation" of European comics. In the first volume, Isaac Sofer, a penniless painter in pre-Revolution Paris, left his fiancée,
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Christophe Blain. Chronicle, $16.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1346-3
What’s life like for a renowned chef running one of the top-rated restaurants in the world? To find out, cartoonist Blain (Isaac the Pirate) shadowed culinary virtuoso Alain Passard, in this delightfully engaging glimpse into the world of high-class
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Christophe Blain, Author, Jacques Duquennoy, Joint Author, Lional Le Neouanic, Joint Author ABRAMS $14.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3895-3
Diversity and experimentation characterize this collection of 10 travel stories, each by a different artist or author/illustrator team and translated from French. The amiable giraffe on the baby-blue cover signals a nursery-school text, but this...
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