You like to read, but you prefer comics to novels... The graphic novel may be for you!
This literary style exists in many styles and deals with all subjects, from science fiction, to historical accounts or even to the most committed such as feminism or ecology.
An original way to grow and be amazed with magnificent boards.
And if you're already a fan... why not take the opportunity to introduce one of these graphic novels to your loved ones?
Here is a selection of graphic novels to discover or rediscover:
Les Cahiers d'Esther, Volume 7, Stories of my 16 years, Riad Sattouf, Allary Editions
The Arab of the future, volume 6, Riad Sattouf, Allary Editions
Culottées, The Integral, Pénélope Bagieu, Gallimard Jeunesse
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, bound edition of the 4 volumes, L'Association
The complete Maus, Art Spiegelman, Flammarion
Les Cahiers d'Esther, Volume 7, Stories of my 16 years, Riad Sattouf, Allary Editions
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This series of notebooks is also proposed by Riad Sattouf, (author of the Arab of the future) who proposes to follow the life of a little girl, from her 10 years to her 18 years.
Volume 7 tells the story of his 16 years.
Started in 2015, this series delights many readers, from the youngest to the oldest who put themselves a little more in the place of children and adolescents by discovering their universe.
In this volume, the little heroine is no longer so little... She arrives in second and discovers the life of high school students and all that punctuates it with its joys and its limits.
It is being constructed and must make choices.
Read quickly to discover them.
54 pages
The rest of Esther's stories
To collect them
To see the news from another angle
The Arab of the future, volume 6, Riad Sattouf, Allary Editions
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€24.90
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€24.90
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Leclerc
€24.90
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Fnac
€24.90
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If you don't know the Arabic of the future, start with volume 1, but if you're already a big fan, volume 6 is out!
This graphic novel offers a theme quite similar to Persepolis, but on the childhood and adolescence of a young boy in the Middle East, passing from Libya under Gaddafi to Syria... This is the last volume of the Arab of the future saga, this one looks back on the period from 1994-2011.
An intimate story, delivered by an author trained at the École des Gobelins and in Applied Arts.
Last volume of a saga sold over 3 million copies
An extraordinary story
176 pages
Translated into 23 languages
Culottées, The Integral, Pénélope Bagieu, Gallimard Jeunesse
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€35.00
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Pénélope Bagieu, who studied at the Arts Déco in Paris, offers in her graphic novel Culottées in two volumes, the portrait of 30 women in order to raise awareness of feminism.
Destinies of cheeky women as the title reminds us!
In this volume, you will find the entire work which has been translated into 20 languages and which received the EISNER AWARD 2019 for the best foreign book. From the rapper to the gynecologist, discover the destinies of these characters of Pénélope Bagieu which she brings to light with great humour.
Two volumes in one
312 pages
A beautiful edition by Gallimard
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, bound edition of the 4 volumes, L'Association
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€39.00
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€39.00
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€39.00
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€39.00
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This Iranian author recounts her childhood in this autobiographical graphic novel.
The subject is touching, childhood during the Islamic revolution and this, through the eyes of a young girl of only 8 years old.
There are 4 volumes of Persepolis, the first publication of which dates from 2000. The images make it possible not to shock with a subject that is difficult to say the least: the Islamic revolution.
The texts are poignant, with touches of humor... and we learn more about Iran, but also about exile and mourning.
A nugget to discover
From 10 years old
216 pages
Readers all over the world
The complete Maus, Art Spiegelman, Flammarion
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€30.00
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Culture
€30.00
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Fnac
€30.00
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Leclerc
€30.00
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This is one of the best known graphic novels.
Its author, Art Spiegelman, is also one since he received an award for this novel, the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.
This graphic novel tells a painful story, that of a family during the Holocaust.
The theme of the Shoah has made this comic a monument of the genre.
He also received the Grand Prize at the Angoulême Comics Festival.
A moving subject and an essential graphic novel.
The characters, Vladek Spiegelman and his son, touch us and remind us of what was most terrible about the Second World War...
295 pages
Holocaust story
Historical
Pulitzer Prize
How to choose your graphic novel?
There are many authors in this literary genre with totally different styles and themes.
To choose, you can trust the fame of the graphic novel of this selection or make other discoveries.
Graphic novels are in vogue.
They have the advantage of drawing scenes that are sometimes impossible to stage as they are violent.
The drawing allows the voices of victims to be released... You can also opt for funnier subjects.
Because you can also find funny graphic novels.
Le Parisien Le Guide gives you reading ideas
Because it is sometimes difficult to go around a bookstore and choose a novel on its cover, the consumer experts of the Parisian Le Guide review for you a selection of graphic novels for adults or for younger people, to have in his library.