Most Popular Books by Joann Sfar

Presents a graphic novel that tells the story of a rabbi, his daughter, and a talking cat that is a philosopher.

Graphic novel in which nomadic Jewish musicians meet, clash, fall in love and make music at the birth of klezmer.

Normal rassemble les dessins que Joann Sfar a publié sur internet au début de l''année 2014 en s''inspirant de l''actualité autour du président François Hollande. Ce dernier devient un vrai personnage de fiction et permet à l''auteur d''aborder de nombreux sujets d''actualité, sans polémique, avec un humour mordant et toujours tendre.

Le célèbre dessinateur de bandes dessinées illustre le conte philosophique de Voltaire. En marge du texte, Sfar fait intervenir Voltaire et Leibniz.

The Parade branch of this great saga happens between the first and second volumes of Zenith and presents light humorous stories of the adventures of Marvin the vegetarian dragon and Herbert the Timorous. In this first volume, the ultimate horror: Dungeon has competition! Right in front of their noses, another dungeon has sprung up and is attracting away the adventurers Dungeon makes a lucrative business of, luring then plundering and massacring - unacceptable! Marvin and Herbert are on the case.

Follows the adventures of Lillian, the daughter of renowned Egyptologist Professor Bowell, and Imhotep IV, a dashing mummy owned by the professor who is awake for the first time in thirty centuries and is in love with Lillian.

Statement of responsibility on vol. 2: Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Kerascoet.

The planet Terra Amata had stopped turning, on one side is total darkness and coldness, on the other is a searing desert and eternal day. The survivors live on a thin slice of earth where day and night meet, known as Twilight. Marvin, old and blind, goes on a long trek to the legendary cemetery of dragons.

Sept filles venues du monde entier sont convoquées à New York pour auditionner dans une prestigieuse école de danse. Parmi elles, Angoissette, la Juive new yorkaise névrosée, et Maurisse, la Noire française déjantée, sont très loin des petits rats de l’opéra... Le concours dégénère avant même que des extraterrestres viennent se mêler de la sélection ! L’enfer ressemblerait-il à un huit-clos de danseuses lancé sur orbite ? Le début d’une épopéecosmique et délirante, entre Fame et Star Trek.

Follows the adventures of Herbert the Timorous Duck and his vegetarian dragon friend Marvin as they attempt to defend Dungeon, a mighty castle filled with goblins, monsters, and trolls.

The next volume in this branch of humorous stories happening between the first and second volumes of Zenith presents two stories. In the first, the Dungeon is attacked by a swarm of enormous flying venomous toads. The Dungeon almost succumbs as the toads seek to get free rein inside! In the second, herbert is sent on a mission to clear out the septic tank, which hasn''t been done for 40 years. Turns out the crap has accumulated so massively a whole beautiful ecology has formed in the basement. Should this flowery dung heap be destroyed?

Étudiant aux Beaux-Arts de Paris dans les années 1990, Joann Sfar noircit déjà inlassablement ses carnets à dessin. Stimulé par le vent nouveau et la franche camaraderie qui se dégagent des ateliers qu’il partage avec d’autres auteurs de bande dessinée, comme Christophe Blain ou Emmanuel Guibert, il imagine les contours des personnages qui feront son succès. Mais pour l''heure, il cumule les lettres de refus d''éditeurs. Trente ans plus tard, l''auteur se replonge dans les tranches de vie du jeune Joann, et commente avec amusement et lucidité les pages inédites de ses tout premiers carnets.

From celebrated comic author TONY SANDOVAL! Paris, 1900. For thousands of years, dragons have lived hidden from everyone, sealed in statues and gargoyles throughout the city. Legend has it that only the sacrifice of a being of great magic can protect Paris from their wrath and maintain their slumber. But when a roguish Hawaiian princess rescues a mermaid from suspicious danger, the malevolent shadow of dragons grows once again over the City of Lights. From the catacombs to the parvis of Notre-Dame, a romance is born under the awakening of a thousand-year-old evil. What if dragons invaded Paris during the Belle Époque? Writer Joann Sfar and illustrator Tony Sandoval weave their imaginations into a canvas of adventures, battles, sacrifices, love, and humor. A folkloric, playful, and liberating journey, told in breathtaking epic beauty.

The next two stories in this tongue-in-cheek Fantasy/Horror series. In the first, Herbert''s fictitious Princess in distress, intended to lure more hapless warriors to the Dungeon, turns out to be all too real and quite a handful! In the second, the Dungeon''s Dragon, centrepiece of its defence, is dead, long live the...wait, where will they find the replacement?

A darkly funny satire of fantasy that brings together the first two volumes of the Early Years, this collection relates the origins of the vast world of Dungeon. In this first story of the Early Years, the Keeper leaves his family to go find fortune in a time of chaos and darkness and becomes the Night Shirt--a misguided vigilante who renders justice nightly. In the second story, the Night Shirt stumbles upon Alexandra, the one he pines for, about to be raped and comes to her valiant and heroic rescue with romantic bravura. Perfect for lovers of heroic fantasy and dark humor, this two-volume set is the complete run of this subseries of Dungeon.