Résumé
1960: Katanga breaks away from the Republic of Congo-Léopoldville to become its own republic, backed by the UMHK, a Belgian mining company. When the UN sends in its peacekeeping forces, the UMHK responds by hiring its own mercenaries. Amidst this chaos, $30 million in diamonds goes missing, only to turn up with a man named Charlie at a refugee camp nicknamed "Camp Cannibal." Soon enough, everyone's after the diamonds: hard-bitten French mercenaries, hateful former Nazis, adulterous mining executives, greedy Katangan officials... and Charlie's sister. It's everyone for themselves in a mad scramble of double-crosses, a scathing cross-section of human venality.
Auteur
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Fabien Nury est né en 1976. Après une première carrière de concepteur-rédacteur dans la publicité, il s'oriente vers l'écriture de scénarios. Amateur de polars et de cinéma, il puise l'essentiel de son inspiration dans l'histoire du xxe siècle. D'"Atar Gull" à "W.E.S.T." (Dargaud), d'"Il était une fois en France" à "L'Or et le Sang" (Glénat) ou à "Katanga" (Dargaud), il s'est imposé comme l'un des raconteurs d'histoires les plus inventifs de la bande dessinée contemporaine. En 2018, il publie, toujours chez Dargaud, "Charlotte impératrice", dessiné par Matthieu Bonhomme, ainsi que "Vintage and Badass", avec Brüno, une anthologie des films noirs qui ont inspiré "Tyler Cross". En 2020, Le duo Nury/Brüno s'attaque pour la première fois à l'époque contemporaine et au registre documentaire avec "L'homme qui tua Chris Kyle" (Dargaud), un album qui se lit comme un polar et qui interroge la notion d'héroïsme dans une société américaine plus schizophrène que jamais.
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Sylvain Vallée was born in France in 1972. Having earned his art degree from the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels, he got his start in the field as a freelancer, working in advertising and communication, and as a press artist. In parallel, he developed set designs and decors for numerous temporary expositions. His entry into comics dates back to 1997, when writer Jean-Charles Kraehn invited him to collaborate on "Gil St. André" (Glénat). In 2006, Vallée had once of his greatest successes with "Il était une fois en France" (Glénat), created in tandem with scriptwriter Fabien Nury. The book earned them, among other prizes, the award for best series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Then, in 2014, Vallée tried his hand at one of the most legendary Franco-Belgian comics series, the thriller "XIII," illustrating the seventh volume in the "XIII Mystery" sub-series, alongside author Joël Callède (Dargaud; Europe Comics/Cinebook in English). And in 2017, teaming back up with Fabien Nury, Vallée struck again with the hard-hitting historical fiction series "Katanga" (Dargaud, Europe Comics in English 2018), which takes place in 1960 in the post-colonial Congo.
Caractéristiques
Publication : 16 mai 2018
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 66,2 Mo (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9791032805794
