Résumé
Old Mowgli tells the tale of the promise made in his youth to kill Shere Khan the tiger, who gets more dangerous by the day as he is consumed by blood lust. Every summer, the sun burns the savannah and dries up the rivers. But this year, water is especially hard to come by and the animals must endure a dreadful thirst. Thankfully, a marsh forms in the empty riverbed and Hathi the elephant decrees a water truce. With all hunting forbidden, every animal is safe to come and quench their thirst. Even Shere Khan is bound to this truce. But the bloodthirsty tiger is driven only by his vendetta against Mowgli. Not only does he wish the young man's death, but also to bring an end to his illusions...
Auteur
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Stephen Desberg débute comme scénariste chez Dupuis pour Tif et Tondu et 421. Avec Johan De Moor, il crée Gaspard de la nuit en 1987, chez Casterman. Puis la fameuse « Vache », dont le premier album, La Vache, Pi = 3,1416, paraît en 1992. Le deuxième volume À mort l’homme, vive l’ozone ! sort en 1994, et reçoit le Grand Prix de la ville de Sierre, puis l’Alph’Art de l’humour au festival d’Angoulême. Desberg et De Moor poursuivent leurs aventures animalières jusqu’en 1998. Stephen Desberg est aujourd’hui le scénariste de nombreuses séries à succès, parmi lesquelles I.R.$., avec Bernard Vrancken (Le Lombard), ou encore Le Scorpion, avec Enrico Marini (Dargaud). En 2019, il décide de se lancer dans un nouveau projet avec Johan De Moor, très librement inspiré de la vie du groupe Led Zeppelin, Les Sauvages Animaux, prévu chez Casterman en 2022.
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Henri Reculé was born in 1970 in his mother's native country of Chile, which he later left for Belgium, his father's homeland, at the age of 14. He took illustration classes there at the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège, the result of which was a full album, "Le Grand Veneur," created with Jean-Luc Sala as a final study project. This collaboration won them a competition held by Le Lombard, which allowed the pair to publish "La Légende de Kynan" (Le Lombard, 1993), their first professional album. This was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between Reculé and the publisher, which was solidified with the five-volume series "Castel Armer," an epic for which Reculé took charge of both the art and script. He then met Stephen Desberg, with whom he would go on to publish a number of series, beginning with the two-part "Le Crépuscule des Anges" (Casterman), and then "Les Immortels" (Glénat). The pair of them continued their collaboration with Le Lombard with the historical thriller "Cassio" (2007; Europe Comics in English 2018), the adaptation "Le Dernier livre de la jungle" ("The Last Jungle Book," Europe Comics 2016), and the espionage adventure series "Jack Wolfgang" (2017, Europe Comics in English 2018).
Caractéristiques
Publication : 11 mai 2016
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 55,8 Mo (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9791032801376