Nicole Claveloux

A new selection of graphic stories by one of France's most influential artists, now translated into English. Nicole Claveloux's exquisitely surreal comics offer a mix of whimsy and melancholy, invention and candor that can be found nowhere else. In "Dead Season" -- her second collaboration with Edith Zha, who wrote her gorgeous dreamworld odyssey "The Green Hand" -- she follows a mismatched pair of investigators into a windswept seaside town. They soon find that all is not what it seems -- and it already seemed pretty weird... The title story is joined by a selection of Claveloux's delightfully strange shorter comics, featuring the struggles of a talking spider, the joys of a dancing macaroni, the very odd story of a woman in love with an economist, and much more.

The Original Graphic Anthology that rocked the world of science fiction and comics is reborn—probing deep into the past, examining the present, and blazing into the future! 50 years after the debut of Metal Hurlant in France, the iconic and genre-defining publication is finally coming to the English language, and in bigger and bolder form than ever before: as a quarterly anthology published by Humanoids. Each volume of Metal Hurlant will feature 272+ pages of a one-of-a-kind, otherworldly, literary experience, expertly curated from archival material from the original '70s and '80s run, along with top A-list and up-and-coming creators from around the globe. “AS A KID IT REALLY WAS AN ELECTROSHOCK. I DON’T KNOW IF MY BRAIN MELTED OR EXPLODED... BUT I’M STILL HAUNTED BY THE POWER OF CREATIVITY THAT WAS IN THOSE BOXES.” —DENIS VILLENEUVE, speaking with NPR about his intro to sci-fi via boxes of Metal Hurlant First Issue features works from: ALIAS • MATTHEW ALLISON • DERF BACKDERF • YANN BÉCU • FRED BLANCHARD • PIM BOSS • YURI CAMPOS • LENO CARVALHO • CAZA • NICOLE CLAVELOUX • JEAN-PIERRE DIONNET • PHILIPPE DRUILLET •MATT FRACTION • JEAN-CLAUDE GAL • ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY • AFIF KHALED KILLOFFER • SIMON LECLERC • MASHA MORAN • MŒBIUS • JEAN-MICHEL NICOLLET • KARLA PACHECO • FREDERIK PEETERS • PHILIPPE PICARET • NIKOLA PISAREV • HOMERO RIOS • SAGAR FRANÇOIS SCHUITEN • LUC SCHUITEN • PETER SNEJBERG • JAMES STOKOE • KEVIN SULLIVAN • JAKE THOMAS • ELÈNE USDIN • JORG DE VOS • YANG WEILIN • EDITH ZHA

Now in paperback, a collection of "darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing" (The New York Times) short stories by the lauded French comics artist Nicole Claveloux. Nicole Claveloux's short stories--originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English--are among the most beautiful comics ever drawn: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are strange but oddly recognizable, filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through. In the title story, written with Edith Zha, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance--complete with talking shrubbery, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This selection, designed and introduced by Daniel Clowes, presents the full achievement of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics.