Far from going it alone, Hiro is now in the protection of a trio of fearless and daring yojimbots as he tries to find his way off this forsaken island. The samurai robots have rallied to his cause as he tries to track down a mysterious “rights holder” who seems to be the key to the young boy’s salvation, following the death of his father. Together, Hiro and his entourage finally make it across the island to Tower 4, where their contact is said to be awaiting them. But the powers that be ar...

The situation looks grim for the Kotai family as the island falls under control of President Sutera and her mainland thugs. Hiro is gravely wounded and to save him, his mother turns herself in to the revenge-obsessed Kozuki, who hands her over to the president and Dr. Ka so they can extract her blood to steal shares of Kotai Corp. Meanwhile, the robot Sheru roams the island seeking a way to help young Hiro while mainland robots pursue him to extract his memory cell and destroy all evidence...

In a dystopian not-too-distant future in Japan, Hiro lives with his father on an island populated by androids, where they eke out a meager existence while trying to keep out of sight. But when they run afoul of a troop of high-tech military thugs, Hiro's dad sacrifices himself to save his son, turning Hiro's already-bleak world upside-down. He is then rescued by a samurai robot called a "yojimbot," and together they seek to avenge his father's death and make contact with a mysterious assoc...

In a dystopian not-too-distant future in Japan, a boy takes on a robot army to regain his freedom—with the help of a few powerful friends.Young Hiro has been hiding out for months with the mysterious robot who saved him and his yojimbot companions from the vicious onslaught by Topu's drone army. But he can't stay hunkered down forever. He and his friends have to find a way out before the island's security forces close in, including a foe Hiro thought he'd seen the last of. The path ahead i...

The situation looks grim for the Kotai family as the island falls under control of President Sutera and her mainland thugs. Hiro is gravely wounded and to save him, his mother turns herself in to the revenge-obsessed Kozuki, who hands her over to the president and Dr. Ka so they can extract her blood to steal shares of Kotai Corp. Meanwhile, the robot Sheru roams the island seeking a way to help young Hiro while mainland robots pursue him to extract his memory cell and destroy all evidence...

"To philosophize is to learn to die," said Montaigne. But, faced with the vertiginous immensity of philosophy, sometimes we'd rather die than learn. In need of help? Trust Catherine Meurisse to illuminate neon and nothingness and to air out Plato's cave. The most famous philosophers flow from her observant pen: Aristotle, Nietzsche, Cioran, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hegel, Deleuze, Beauvoir, Arendt, Marx... The cartoonist takes the opportunity to rail against the predominance of men in the world...

In a dystopian not-too-distant future in Japan, a boy takes on a robot army to regain his freedom—with the help of a few powerful friends.Young Hiro has been hiding out for months with the mysterious robot who saved him and his yojimbot companions from the vicious onslaught by Topu's drone army. But he can't stay hunkered down forever. He and his friends have to find a way out before the island's security forces close in, including a foe Hiro thought he'd seen the last of. The path ahead i...

In a dystopian not-too-distant future in Japan, a boy takes on a robot army to regain his freedom—with the help of a few powerful friends.Young Hiro has been hiding out for months with the mysterious robot who saved him and his yojimbot companions from the vicious onslaught by Topu's drone army. But he can't stay hunkered down forever. He and his friends have to find a way out before the island's security forces close in, including a foe Hiro thought he'd seen the last of. The path ahead i...

Catherine Meurisse once again draws upon her memories. Her stay in a far-off, strange-yet-familiar land, at the Japanese villa Kujoyama in 2018, provides the artist another opportunity to pursue her creative quest, this time where the West and Far East meet. In the manner of Lewis Carroll, the young artist lets characters out of legend lead her through pictorial landscapes. Imagination and dialogue are key to penetrating the secrets of this strange territory and discovering why the young e...

In a dystopian not-too-distant future in Japan, Hiro lives with his father on an island populated by androids, where they eke out a meager existence while trying to keep out of sight. But when they run afoul of a troop of high-tech military thugs, Hiro's dad sacrifices himself to save his son, turning Hiro's already-bleak world upside-down. He is then rescued by a samurai robot called a "yojimbot," and together they seek to avenge his father's death and make contact with a mysterious assoc...

Madrid, winter of 1956. Franco's fascist dictatorship controls the press and maintains the fiction of an idyllic nation. Faced with the Regime's attempts to cover up the country's most sordid crimes, two journalists from the crime beat, the jaded veteran Emilio Sanz and the young and intrepid Léon Lenoir, seek to reveal the truth. Confronted by a wave of unexplained murders, the duo sets out to uncover the dark secret connecting them, buried in a cruel past. Brilliantly written and illustr...

The situation looks grim for the Kotai family as the island falls under control of President Sutera and her mainland thugs. Hiro is gravely wounded and to save him, his mother turns herself in to the revenge-obsessed Kozuki, who hands her over to the president and Dr. Ka so they can extract her blood to steal shares of Kotai Corp. Meanwhile, the robot Sheru roams the island seeking a way to help young Hiro while mainland robots pursue him to extract his memory cell and destroy all evidence...