Fasciné par le Japon - son art, sa culture et ses paysages - depuis ses plus tendres années, Benjamin Lacombe a souhaité illustrer Fantômes du Japon, un recueil d'histoires imprégnées du folklore japonais, recueillies par Lafcadio Hearn. Cet écrivain irlandais a été l'un des premiers occidentaux à obtenir la nationalité japonaise. Il est connu pour avoir sillonné les provinces de ce pays, recueilli et mis par écrit les contes et légendes de fantômes japonais. Pour cet ouvrage, Benjamin a choisi d'illustrer un panel de bestiaire large et diversifié ; une diversité qu'il était essentiel pour lui de laisser transparaître dans un traitement graphique différent pour chaque histoire. En fin de livre, la création de jeux, inspirés de jeux anciens, offre la possibilité de raconter sa propre légende de yôkai. Un hommage de toute splendeur, au ton juste.
Printemps 1964, à Naples, en Italie. Lucia, dix ans, vit au sein d'une troupe de cirque avec son père, Roberto, et affectionne particulièrement son lion, Cyrus. Mais après un terrible incendie qui a tout ravagé, elle décide de surmonter sa tristesse et d'échafauder un plan... Des lions, il y en a en Afrique du sud ! Jamais à court d'idée, elle fugue et embarque à bord d'un cargo, avant d'être rejointe in-extremis par son père. À leur arrivée à Durban, ils découvrent un pays en proie aux inégalités. Happés par une manifestation malgré eux, Roberto qui tente de défendre Nelson, un jeune garçon noir battu par un policier sans scrupules, se fait arrêter... Lulu et Nelson que tout tend à séparer se retrouvent unis autour d'un même combat : la quête de la liberté.
Bien avant ses aventures avec les géants et les miaoux (dans le premier tome de la bande dessinée : Hilda et le Géant de la Nuit), la petite Hilda explorait déjà d'étranges contrées peuplées de créatures encore plus étranges. Lisez sa toute première aventure et plongez vous dans un univers unique. Hilda est une petite fille qui n'aime rien de mieux que de passer la nuit à la belle étoile à rêver à toutes les incroyables aventures qui pourraient lui arriver... Mais en attendant, elle étudie et observe avec une rigueur toute scientifique le monde qui l'entoure et les créatures magiques qui le peuplent. Un jour, alors qu'elle s'entraîne à dessiner un troll de pierre dans les montagnes, elle s'assoupit au soleil... A son réveil, la voilà perdue dans une tempête de neige, et le troll a disparu ! Son succès aux Etats-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne ne faiblissant pas, cet album en est actuellement à sa troisième réimpression dans sa version anglaise.
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