Londres, début du XVIIIe siècle. La grande comédienne Peg Woffington tourne en rond. Depuis que les femmes ont enfin le droit de fouler les planches, le public ne se presse au théâtre que dans l’espoir d’apercevoir un bout de cuisse. Les regards lubriques condamnent Peg à jouer, en pantalon, des personnages masculins. Mais un grand rôle féminin l’attend, celui de l’héroïne… d’une pièce disparue du grand William Shakespeare ! Flanquée de son fidèle Sancho, Peg se lance dans une enquête picaresque à la recherche de ce chef d’œuvre mystérieux.
Adventure, drama, spies, secrets, and even a dash of romance. This extraordinary story tells the tale of two movie stars being pulled into the intrigue of counterintelligence and disinformation campaigns during World War II. Churchill is looking for someone to impersonate Britain's top general, and it's up to David Niven and Peter Ustinov to train the lucky lad. They're in a race against the clock and a battle against all the usual vices-wine and women included-to turn a second-rate actor into General Montgomery in this uproarious and award-winning graphic novel, where the truth might be stranger than fiction.
Une île en Cornouailles, années 1930. Le milliardaire Roderick Ghyll invite les membres du Detection Club, qui réunit les grands auteurs britanniques de l'âge d'or du roman à énigme dont les célèbres Agatha Christie et G.K. Chesterton, à se rendre dans sa vaste demeure, la villa Briarcliff. Ils sont conviés à assister à la démonstration d'un automate, qui, une fois intégrées les données d'un problème policier, résout le crime en livrant le nom du coupable. Mais Ghyll est assassiné...
Gascogne. En 1661, à la mort de Mazarin, le roi Louis XIV règne seul sur la France. Le Roi Soleil se soucie peu de son peuple. La famine, mais aussi les épidémies, sabattent sur lhexagone un an plus tard. Dans ce contexte de misère, Colbert impose la gabelle, le terrible impôt sur le sel...
En Gascogne, cest le gouverneur Pellot, un bourgeois arrogant, qui charge danciens soldats, des pillards, de récolter la gabelle. Mais la jacquerie sorganise. Les paysans, qui font la guerre aux gabelous, sont surnommés les Invisibles. À leur tête, le très insaisissable Bernard dAudijos. Ils sont rejoints par des bourgeois et même des soldats qui refusent cet impôt inique. La popularité de Bernard dAudijos grandit alors que larmée est envoyée pour mater la rébellion...
Une bande dessinée historique ambitieuse, digne des ouvrages dAlexandre Dumas, qui avait reçu le Prix Château Cheverny de la Bande Dessinée Historique 2009.
Lhistoire vraie de Bernard dAudijos, Robin des Bois gascon qui, à la tête de ses Invisibles, lutta en 1665 contre Colbert qui voulut imposer la gabelle, un impôt sur le sel, aux paysans au bord de la famine.
En désaccord avec son père le Lord Juge Hermiston, Archie est contraint de sexiler dans le cottage familial, sur les terres dEcosse. Là, Archie tombera amoureux de la belle Christina, sous le regard bienveillant de sa tante Kirstie, et la méfiance des quatre frères noirs. Malheureusement, leur amour devient impossible. Frank, le meilleur ami londonien dArchie a abusé de Christina. Pour Archie, cest insupportable. Au cours dun affrontement à mains nues, le drame surgit, il tue son ancien comparse. Le lord Juge Hermiston se rend alors à Edimbourg pour juger son fils. Il retrouve Kristie, quil a bien connu plus jeune. Le verdict tombe, impitoyable. Heureusement, les deux femmes de la vie dArchie, Kirstie et Christina feront tout pour empêcher quArchie soit à son tour pendu. Reprenant la suite directe du récit inachevé de Stevenson, Jean Harambat conclut le récit dans un feu dartifice daction, respectant au mieux lesprit du père de Lîle au trésor.
Adventure, drama, spies, secrets, and even a dash of romance. This extraordinary story tells the tale of two movie stars being pulled into the intrigue of counterintelligence and disinformation campaigns during World War II. Churchill is looking for someone to impersonate Britain's top general, and it's up to David Niven and Peter Ustinov to train the lucky lad. They're in a race against the clock and a battle against all the usual vices-wine and women included-to turn a second-rate actor into General Montgomery in this uproarious and award-winning graphic novel, where the truth might be stranger than fiction.
In 1930s England, the best mystery writers of the era come together to form the Detection Club. G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr and others gather to eat, drink, and challenge one another. They are in for a bigger test, however, when eccentric billionaire Roderick Ghyll invites them all to his mansion on a private island off the coast of Cornwall, promising to enchant them with his latest creation: a robot that can predict the culprit in their novels. But when someone ends up murdered, who will lead the investigation? Jean Harambat is back, following the success of "Operation Copperhead," with a hilarious, satirical take on the classic crime novel.
In 1930s England, the best mystery writers of the era come together to form the Detection Club. G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr and others gather to eat, drink, and challenge one another. They are in for a bigger test, however, when eccentric billionaire Roderick Ghyll invites them all to his mansion on a private island off the coast of Cornwall, promising to enchant them with his latest creation: a robot that can predict the culprit in their novels. But when someone ends up murdered, who will lead the investigation? Jean Harambat is back, following the success of "Operation Copperhead," with a hilarious, satirical take on the classic crime novel.
Adventure, drama, spies, secrets, and even a dash of romance. This extraordinary story tells the tale of two movie stars being pulled into the intrigue of counterintelligence and disinformation campaigns during World War II. Churchill is looking for someone to impersonate Britain's top general, and it's up to David Niven and Peter Ustinov to train the lucky lad. They're in a race against the clock and a battle against all the usual vices-wine and women included-to turn a second-rate actor into General Montgomery in this uproarious and award-winning graphic novel, where the truth might be stranger than fiction.
Adventure, drama, spies, secrets, and even a dash of romance. This extraordinary story tells the tale of two movie stars being pulled into the intrigue of counterintelligence and disinformation campaigns during World War II. Churchill is looking for someone to impersonate Britain's top general, and it's up to David Niven and Peter Ustinov to train the lucky lad. They're in a race against the clock and a battle against all the usual vices-wine and women included-to turn a second-rate actor into General Montgomery in this uproarious and award-winning graphic novel, where the truth might be stranger than fiction.
By 1744, two separate editions of Shakespeare's complete works have been published, but there is still a missing piece, a missing link...a missing play! Actress Peg Woffington is convinced that the role of a lifetime is contained within that mysterious play, "The History of Cardenio," if only it can be found. Peg and her loyal steward, Ignatius Sancho, race across England from clue to clue, but they soon find that there are other players conspiring against them. Death, disguises, and intrigue combine in Jean Harambat's Shakespearian-style comedy, painted with his trademark imaginative style.
Harambat is also the author of Operation Copperhead and The Detection Club.
