New Releases by Pierre Christin

The Delphs are an artificial species who depend entirely on an extremely rare substance, that not only allows them to live and reproduce, but also fuels their creative talents – for the Delphs are the most sought-after storytellers in the galaxy. They call upon Galaxity to find a new source of it, as their own is exhausted. The problem is, the only available deposit is on 21st century Earth, and the agents on station ... are still going to high school!

Les Delphes, des créatures possèdant le talent de raconter des histoires, sont chargés d'écrire les sitcoms qui cartonnent sur toutes les chaînes de Point Central. Malheureusement la substance qui nourrit leur créativité se fait rare... Il est urgent pour eux d'obtenir l'aide de Galaxity afin qu'un autre gisement soit exploité. Celui-ci se situe dans un coin perdu sur la Terre du XXe siècle ! Le service spatio-temporel terrien est sur le coup... Mais leurs meilleurs agents sont redevenus enfants. Pas facile de travailler avec un duo d'ados et interdiction pour eux de louper les cours de danse et de judo !

Antoine, dit « Toinou », décide de plaquer son Aubrac rural pour le Paris rutilant des années 1950. À 18 ans, il découvre avec stupéfaction les charmes de Pigalle, en particulier ceux des danseuses du cabaret « La Lune Bleue », dans lequel il va travailler. Pris sous l'aile du patron, « le Beau Beb », il va ainsi faire la rencontre de personnages hauts en couleur tels que « Pare-brise », le comptable, « Poing-barre », le videur, ou encore Mireille, la vendeuse de cigarettes... Mais à trop fréquenter le monde de la nuit, le naïf jeune homme va vite se retrouver plongé dans de sombres histoires de grand banditisme, dont la violence va profondément changer son existence... Toinou brûlera-t-il son innocence à la lumière enivrante de sa nouvelle vie ? Un grand album « Aire Libre » signé Christin et Arroyo, entre polar et évocation nostalgique du Paris éternel.

An intimate look at the life and work of England''s greatest novelist and political essayist, and author of the dystopian masterpiece 1984 George Orwell''s most celebrated work, 1984, and the prescient vision it contains of a society governed by Big Brother predates the constant monitoring of people and data we are familiar with today by almost 70 years. But his life was every bit as fascinating and forward-looking as his books. Orwell studied at Eton, joined the police in Burma, fought in the Spanish Civil War, fiercely opposed Stalinism, and lived in London''s slums while working as a journalist. With illustrations by artists including Annie Goetzinger, Juanjo Guarnido, Enki Bilal, Manu Larcenet, Blutch, and André Juillard, Pierre Christin''s Orwell offers readers an intimate yet definitive portrait of our greatest political writer.

After the events of The Time Opener, Valerian and Laureline reverted to childhood, and are now living with Mr Albert on 21st century Earth. But in a universe where time travel is a reality, words like ‘after’ or even ‘now’ can be somewhat ... hazy, and elsewhere, in other times, our young but nonetheless adult agents are still working tirelessly to maintain a galactic peace threatened as always by greed and the thirst for power.

A meeting of elite diplomats. A snowy resort in an undisclosed location. A secure communications room staffed by private security. Lena''s latest adventure finds her ostensibly heading a small hospitality staff that caters to the needs of VIPs attending a top-secret summit. What better way to suss out secrets than by blending into the woodwork? In this locked-room atmosphere, egos clash and history outs its old grudges. For the issue at stake is none other than the fate of the Middle East, again to be divided by meddling powers. And these days of routine, ennui, luxury, and leisure may hide a more insidious threat...

Unsolved cases come home to roost in Edith Hardy''s latest caper, rounding off the first trilogy of the detective''s adventures. When secret services in France and America start pulling strings—not to mention the machinations of a certain pharmaceutical industrialist—Edith winds up behind the Iron Curtain, in Moscow! But is she there to recover the legacy of state painter Alexis Limonovich... or save naive young chemist Antoine Dubreuil from being manipulated? Meanwhile, just what skullduggery is Edith''s enterprising assistant Victor up to with an art forger, a carnival performer, his bear, and a midnight break-in? One thing''s for sure: it all adds up to classy intrigue!

Who is Lena? What is she up to? Does she even know her mission? Setting out from an East Berlin neighborhood that is home to former dignitaries, she goes about passing out small, innocent-seeming gifts from Budapest to Transylvania to Kiev. She crosses the Danube delta, the Black Sea, Anatolia, and the Aleppo bazaar. Each time, she crosses borders incognito, claiming to have nothing to declare. A journey at once timeless and inextricable from the great issues of our age, "Lena" combines the intimacy dear to André Juillard and Pierre Christin''s predilection for vast geopolitical canvases.

Ever calm, classy, and resourceful, Edith Hardy is on the case again. When pharmaceutical magnate Le Cauchois asks her to wangle an invitation to the Red Baroness''s exclusive gatherings of Soviet sympathizers, Edith isn''t sure she should say yes—until an invitation falls right in her lap. Next thing, she''s off to the Baroness''s château in the snowy Ardennes, where she runs smack dab into a triangle of intrigue. Le Cauchois is working for French intelligence, the Baroness with the Russians, and a handsome acquaintance for the CIA—a convenient fellow to have around when a lady lands herself in hot water!

Im Weltall ist ein neuer Planet entstanden: Central City. Er besteht aus unzähligen Formen von tausend verschiedenen Welten des Universums. Und diese beeindruckende Konstruktion des Weltalls will sich die Erde untertan machen. Valerian und Veronique begleiten den Botschafter der Erde auf seiner Mission nach Central City. Dabei geschehen phantastische und unerklärliche Dinge.

Edith Hardy runs a small detective agency off an unassuming alley in the 13th arrondissement. It''s the 1950s, and foreign forces are busy vying for power in a Paris still recovering from World War II. Edith has a good heart and a missing husband, and her attempts to do right by her small world get her caught up in far larger, darker affairs. A classic Pierre Christin script—a strong sense of place and history, humane leftist sympathies—combines with Annie Goetzinger''s indelible artwork to deliver a stylish mystery for fans of classy whodunits.

Orwell est passé à la postérité grâce à 1984, qu''il a écrit en 1948, et à son invention prophétique de Big Brother, préfigurant, il y a soixante-dix ans, le contrôle des médias, Internet et la manipulation des données personnelles. Mais sa vie fut tout aussi passionnante que ses livres : elle montre un homme toujours en avance sur son temps, étudiant à Eton et flic en Birmanie, combattant de la guerre d''Espagne, antistalinien et journaliste – ses enquêtes firent d''ailleurs grand bruit. Pierre Christin se plonge avec délectation dans cette vie hors norme.

Mézières et Christin revisitent en compagnie de Valérian et Laureline certains épisodes mythiques de la plus célèbre des séries de SF française. Commentées avec une pointe de nostalgie et d'humour par ceux qui en ont été les acteurs, ces histoires courtes et illustrations racontent l'histoire de la série et les différentes interprétations possibles, témoignant de la richesse de cette oeuvre majeure. Indispensable à tous les fans de la série (et aux autres...) !

Prolific comic book author Pierre Christin, who penned the game-changing classic sci-fi series "Valerian and Laureline," switches to autobiography here to bring us the thoughtful, enlightening tale of two vastly different lands, the American West during the civil rights movement and the counter-culture phenomenon, and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive French artist and journalist with a love for travel, intellectual query, gypsies, and jazz. Christin and his faithful road companion and "Valerian" co-creator Jean-Claude Mézières drive across landscapes ranging from Utah to Bulgaria in a series of cars each more dilapidated than the next, encountering people and adventures of all kinds in a story that is part travel journal, part geo-political documentary, and part artistic coming-of-age.

The last volume of this magnificent collection, which includes the final three books of the main saga, bringing to a close the adventures of Valerian, Laureline and the vanished Earth in style.

In this sixth volume of the Collected Edition, our two former agents, now idle, create their own adventures by helping their fellow beings, and resume their quest to find Earth.

Fifth volume of the collection, and it’s almost a new series that begins, without ever losing any of what makes its strength or its charm. In this volume of the Collection you will find books 13 to 15, and our heroes’ life has been irretrievably changed with the disappearance of future Earth and Galaxity. Lacking work, they become freelance spies in the 80s in On the Frontiers. Lacking money, they’re reluctant arms dealers in The Living Weapons. Lacking options, they turn investigators slash bait on corrupt Rubanis in The Circles of Power. The apparent descent into hell of the two former agents is the chance for the authors to study the ambiguities of our world, either directly or through the lens of alien civilisations; along with the ambiguity – pragmatism versus heroism – of the titular character, saved from a fall from grace by his ever irreproachable partner.

Fourth volume of the collection: return to Earth, and some great upheavals in the characters’ lives, are on the menu for the best titles of the series. This volume contains books 9 to 12 – two unmissable two-parters that represent a turning point in the story of our agents, and which are widely considered by critics and readers alike to be the pinnacle of the series. Characterised by a return to 20th century Earth, these two stories are suffused with incredible melancholy and poetic charm, and force Valerian, the action man, to face his limitations. As the real date neared 1986, final year of our world according to the authors, Pierre Christin reconciled fiction and reality with consummate skill and daring, sweeping aside the status quo and sending his heroes down a completely new path. This book is introduced by several articles of the recently departed Stan Barets.

Du grand Ouest américain aux territoires les plus reculés du bloc communiste, le scénariste Pierre Christin raconte ses voyages des deux côtés du rideau de fer, chose rare du temps de la guerre froide. Il évoque ses rencontres avec d'éminents auteurs tels que Jean-Claude Mézières, Enki Bilal et Jean Giraud – dit Moebius. Entre Flower Power et catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl, le scénariste de "Valérian et Laureline" se dévoile au fil d'une histoire subjective de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, tracée en parallèle de son parcours artistique admirablement mis en images par Philippe Aymond.

Even though Valerian and Laureline’s adventures have come to an end, there are still many chapters that haven’t been told yet. Simple episodes, post-scriptums to their main stories, moments of their lives seen through the eyes of their friends, their allies, or even their enemies. Here’s a collection of vignettes that will cast a new light – sometimes funny, sometimes touching – on the saga of our heroes.

The evil hordes of the Wolochs are rampaging through space, and everywhere death and destruction follow. But despite the despair of some and the betrayal of others, Valerian, Laureline and a few other brave souls are resisting. They’re hoping to use a mysterious artefact, the Time Opener, to banish the stones and bring back Earth. But what price must they pay to do so? And what sort of Earth will they get back if they succeed?

The expedition into the heart of the Great Void is launched, and Valerian and Laureline are on it. But in no time they’re already facing the mysterious force that threatens the entire galaxy: the Wolochs, gigantic sentient monoliths dead set on destroying any civilisation that might stand in the way of their domination. Our two Human agents can’t hope to stop the Order of the Stones by themselves, but fortunately, they still have allies...

Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin created "Valerian" in 1967. While "Valerian" is Mézières'' only comic series, he''s worked as an illustrator in many other areas, including designs and sets for "The Fifth Element," and he was awarded the Grand Prix du festival d''Angoulême in 1984. Christin also works in collaboration with other artists such as Tardi and Bilal and writes novels and film scripts.

Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet's future and its past. The 21st volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years!

Somewhere at the edge of known space is the Great Void. That inscrutable, shapeless, ever-changing place is where the expanding universe springs forth, where new planets and new life forms are created. It’s also, according to the gods of Hypsis, the place where Galaxity’s Earth was sent and is being kept prisoner. Valerian and Laureline begin a discreet investigation, but it doesn’t take long before they start finding obstacles in their path, placed by the rulers of Rubanis – and their mysterious master...

The (false?) gods of Hypsis are once again interfering with Human history. Tired of their lower status among their peers, the trinity in charge of planet Earth opens communications with megacorporation Vivaxis at the end of the 20th century – an occurrence Valerian and Laureline’s allies report to the two ex-agents. But to what end did the Hypsians initiate such a contact? And who is the mysterious Sat who, from the depths of Point Central, also endeavours to meddle with Human affairs?

Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets introduced audiences to a future populated by weird and wonderful aliens and laced with incredible futuristic technology. Now discover the universe of the original Valerian and Laureline comic books! Valerian: The Illustrated Treasury gives a comprehensive overview of the Valerian and Laureline comic-book universe, featuring information on key locations (including Central Point), transport, galactic anomalies and a timeline of the major events in the series. This richly illustrated book also introduces many of the alien races and characters – friendly and hostile – and there is a special section on the ever-popular Shingouz. Printed in English for the first time, Valerian: The Illustrated Treasury is a wonderful addition to the Valerian franchise and features full-colour artwork by Valerian and Laureline artist Jean-Claude Mézières.

Two agents of 24th century Earth patrol space and time to safeguard both the planet''s future and its past. The 18th volume of Valerian and Laureline, one of the most influential science-fiction comic series of the past 40 years!

In this book you will find volumes 3 to 5: The Land Without Stars, Welcome to Alflolol and Birds of the Master – three stories that introduce the societal criticism aspect of the series. Battle of the sexes, totalitarianism and extreme productivism are lambasted, but never at the expense of fantasy or of the action. And as they travel from world to distant world, Laureline becomes a truly equal partner, far from the stereotypical female sidekick roles of the time. Finally, the second part of the exclusive interview with the authors and director Luc Besson is followed by an in-depth portrait of Pierre Christin, the writer.