Comics & Graphic Novels

The first graphic novel adaptation of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's modernist classic

"Our smallness in the face of nature is at the heart of Derborence. Ramuz's words meet their match with Fabian Menon's paintbrush." – Le Temps

Called "the sensation of the Left Bank" by the New York Times, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was compared to writers as great as Faulkner and Homer. Though he worked in Paris for a decade, he is remembered as one of the great novelists of the Alps.

Derborence is the story of a devastating alpine landslide, of the grief-stricken villagers who are haunted by what they believe is the ghost of a man who should not have survived the unsurvivable, and of a woman who refuses to give up hope. A tragic tale full of endearing characters and harsh mountain landscapes, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's famous novel lends itself perfectly to graphic novel form.

A bold, funny, and deeply personal graphic novel about hair, heritage, and identity

The Roots of My Hair tells the story of Rose, a mixed-race girl from Réunion Island, struggling to love her frizzy hair in a world that tells her to tame it. As she tries straightening creams, painful salon treatments, and social camouflage, Rose also begins to question the deeper issues behind her hair—race, beauty standards, colonialism, and belonging.

Basing the graphic novel on her own childhood, Réunionaise illustrator Lou Lubie blends memoir and original research to explore how something as everyday as hair can carry centuries of meaning. With humor, honesty, and expressive illustrations, The Roots of My Hair speaks to anyone who’s ever felt pressure to fit in—and offers a powerful reminder that identity starts from the roots.

Winner of multiple French awards, now available in English for the first time.

A graphic novel about the 200-mile Tor des Géants in the Italian Alps that illuminates both the appeal and the psychological turmoil of running an ultramarathon. 

Why does anyone choose to enter a grueling race with no hope of winning? Doug Mayer has run the 200-mile Tor des Géants—perhaps the world’s most feared ultramarathon—three times, and he takes readers into the mind of the endurance athlete. 

In a fictionalized account based on his own experience, mountain after mountain, between reality and hallucinations, our runner meets scientists, doctors, a Buddhist monk and extreme athletes who examine what's going on in his body and brain. He also meets Frankie, an intriguing runner who gives him the strength to keep going. Finally he meets his dragon: the ego every runner has to defeat to cross the finish line.

The graphic novel uses a unique reader experience—changing directions as the pages turn—to relate the disorientation of an ultramarathon. In doing so, The Last of the Giants explores the human desire to exceed our own limits and come in contact with something greater than ourselves. A spiritual and meditative quest, the book makes every reader ask: in my life, what are my limits?

“[Orlando is] a brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love—all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves.” – Emma Corrin

“I read Orlando and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future.” – Tilda Swinton

The graphic novel adaptation of Virginia Woolf's feminist classic, which tells the story of a passionate young nobleman traveling through time in the body of a woman. 

Virginia Woolf’s Orlando has long stood as a dazzling landmark in feminist and queer literature. In this vivid adaptation by Susanne Kuhlendahl, Woolf’s fantastical biography comes to life anew: the tale of a passionate young nobleman who defies time and convention. Orlando begins his journey in the Elizabethan court and lives for over three centuries—transitioning along the way from a man into a woman, and from a restless youth into a self-assured figure of modernity. As eras shift and empires rise and fall, Orlando remains, navigating identity, desire, and the elusive nature of love.

With a foreword by Virginia Woolf scholar Anna Snaith, King's College London

If Tarantino met Murakami in Germany—this multiple-prize-winning graphic novel set in six adjoining apartments is touching, intricate and very, very violent.

When three sleazy gangsters storm into an apartment in search of a stolen urn, they set off a series of unfortunate events that threatens everyone in the building. As blood begins to pool, it becomes clear that this story is about more than the senseless violence. What is good and what is evil? Who decides who should die? And does anyone really know their neighbors? 

Theft and poison and so much shooting: and yet, on muted and somber pages, heartless villains become vulnerable heroes—before descending to cruelty once again. In this graphic novel that swept awards for best debut in Germany and Switzerland, a classic gangster comedy of errors grows into a meditation on loneliness, morality, and even love.

An entertaining satire of nudity in the Louvre, Not on Display is a deeply serious, award-winning graphic novel examining the history of the female body in art and our society.  

When one of the greatest museums in the world gave the illustrator Zelba free rein to make a graphic novel about great art, she knew exactly what she would do: address a double standard. She’d seen the Louvre’s halls filled with sexualized female bodies, ogled at by crowds and sometimes even groped, and wanted to turn the tables. What if, she dreamed, those naked bodies refused to be the objects of our gaze? What if the female nudes in the Louvre went on strike? 

The result, a co-edition with Editions Louvre, is a critique of great artists and great museums. Awarded the prestigious Prix Sceneario and the Prix Artemisia in France, the pages are filled with unforgettable characters, such as a heroic cleaner who can speak to statues and a museum director who secretly offloads his work onto his sister. Featuring well-known masterpieces, this entertaining romp displays one of the world’s greatest art collections in a whole new light.