Cinebook Ltd Newsletter 196 - April 2024

 

Dear Reader, How would you like to go back in time? Follow in H.G. Wells’s footsteps and visit earlier eras and famous historical periods? Well, you’re in luck! First, let us take you back to the Old West to pay our old friend Lucky Luke a visit. Except this time, Luke’s outing is written and drawn by a legend of French comics, holder of many prestigious awards including the Angoulême Festival Grand Prix: Blutch! Get ready for a crazy adventure in the man’s inimitable style, yet still very much starring the same cowboy we know and love, in this new volume of the homage series Lucky Luke by … Side note: do you know how Christian Hinker came to choose his pen name? Because he looks a lot like one Corporal Blutch from The Bluecoats! Next, we go back to immediately after the second World War to meet with an old friend: Kathy Austin, MI6 agent, reluctant specialist in unexplained phenomena and alien footholds, and heroine of two previous series, Kenya and Namibia. This time, the mystery crops up in South America, so let’s follow her to Amazonia! Finally, Yoko Tsuno returns, and in her case, time travel is extremely literal! A four-hundred-year-old painting featuring our electronics engineer sends her on the trail of a mysterious astrologist, a pact with the Devil and the spectre of the Black Death … in 16th century Bruges! April with Cinebook : a blast from the past ! Amazonia 1 Bertrand Marchal, Leo & Rodolphe Episode 1 Brazil, 1949. A photographer crawls into a mission deep in the Amazonian rainforest and dies. On one of his films is an extraordinary shot: a man with skin white as snow and an elongated cranium. Deformed human … or extra-terrestrial being? … Read more Lucky Luke by … Blutch Blutch Untamed Lucky Luke enters a small town to drop off at the sheriff’s office a young man who tried to steal Jolly Jumper. A few miles down the road, in the middle of nowhere, he suddenly finds himself threatened … by a little girl! … Read more Yoko Tsuno 19 Roger Leloup The Astrologist of Bruges Yoko goes to Bruges, Belgium. She’s been invited there by a local artist, Van Laet, who wants to show her portrait of her he supposedly painted. Taking in the sights before their appointment, the young woman learns that the man has an unpleasant reputation … Read more Emilie’s Inheritance 1 The Hatcliff Estate XIII Mystery 3 Little Jones XIII Mystery 4 Colonel Amos North-American readers, to locate a comic book shop near you that stocks or can order these titles and many more, use this handy Read more   Or, if you're a retailer yourself, please go to: Read more Amazonia 1 Episode 1 Rin Tin Can 2 The Godfather