Cuba, 1958: El Presidente General Batista rules the Caribbean island south of Florida with the help of the USA and corrupt friends. Lily, who comes to visit her father, has barely landed on the cruise ship when she is immediately drawn into the kidnapping of an actress diva. Her father, who runs a private detective agency, is heavily in debt to Don Alfonso, a gang leader, due to his betting addiction. And he finally wants his 50,000 dollars – or, in lieu of payment, the kidnapping of Concepción Milagros, a beautiful actress of her time and also the lover of his rival.

Together with John, ex-CIA, and José, both employees of her father’s private detective agency, Lily tries to save what can be saved. The situation is complicated by a revolutionary who is about to overthrow the dictator and take control of the island. His name is Fidel Castro. Bombs explode, people are mowed down with machine guns and in the midst of it all, a competition for supremacy takes place in both the political and criminal milieu.

The story of Anne Bonny may not be true, but then it is at least beautifully invented. Based on the only source probably by Daniel Defoe from 1724, this album tells the life of this Irish woman who was born out of wedlock to a rich plantation owner and raised as a boy.

Ann – as she is called in the comic album – fell out with her father because of her marriage to the pirate James Bonny, burned down his plantation and fled to Nassau in the Bahamas, where she led a varied and dangerous life as a pirate, in which she also broke the sexual taboos of the time by choosing her partners.

Who didn’t grow up with the short films of probably the most famous comedy duo in the world? We’re talking about Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who made people around the world laugh in the 1920s. Oliver Hardy, always mindful of his dignity, tried to control the chaos caused by Stan Laurel, only to make it even worse.

In my childhood, the black and white films usually presented by the great German comedian Theo Lingen were regularly shown in the early evening program. Unlike Charlie Chaplin, who was a superstar in the 1930s and 1940s, the comedy of Stan and Ollie has survived to this day.

Sometimes, therefore, one puts an album aside several times, with the desire to prolong the pleasure and delay the end of the story. With this comic about an episode in the life of the Dutch modernist painter, Piet Mondrian, French scenarist Jean-Philippe Peyraud and Italian illustrator Antonio Lapone let us immerse ourselves in it and sympathize.

Mondrian, portrayed as a loner, spends what little free time he has dancing, but refuses to show any other emotion or even love. He hates the color green and uses women only for dancing and venal sex.

A coyote, a dilapidated camper and a tramp are touring the desert landscape and canyons of Arizona and Nevada in the 1970s. Hippie it is none, because to it the flowers, the long hair and the guitar are missing.

We only slowly learn who Joe used to be when a couple of sinister characters start following his heels. As a former mob boss who, having ratted out his partners and enemies, is now under the U.S. government’s witness protection program, he has to be on his guard. But the murder of the only key witness for another trial forces Joe to return to the past and leave his camper life. But that’s exactly what his enemies are waiting for.

What is typically only the reading of judges, police and prosecutors became an unexpected bestseller in 2006. First in Italy and then worldwide, Roberto Saviano’s first book Gomorrha stormed the bestseller lists. In it, the Neapolitan described the workings of the Camorra mafia organization in his hometown from his own experience and with a great deal of research, naming the leaders and perpetrators by their full names.

Because of this attention, he became a target of the mafia and has lived under constant police protection ever since. And it is precisely this, his own threatened and isolated life, that is depicted in the comic strip “Je suis toujours vivant” (“I am still alive”), impressively staged by cartoonist Asaf Hanuka.

The mute vacuum cleaner mechanic Jacques Ramirez wants nothing more than to do his job in peace. And he does it very well. For this, he is named employee of the year after years at his company Robotop, shortly before the building blows up along with his boss and the journalists gathered there.

Ramirez has been caught up in his dark family history, which he never wanted to have anything to do with and had taken a completely different path. But a Mexican drug cartel, a cold-blooded killer and the two Thelma & Louise characters Chelsea Tyler and Dakota Smith cross his path and leave a bloody trail. But Jacques Ramirez’s past is not quite so blameless either, and the story complicates.

An industrialist is found choking on his own blood on a stranded yacht, and the police are in the dark. Because actually Alexandre de Breucq was popular with everyone.

Inspector Broyan, of the Paris police, sets out to find the murderer and in the process comes across deeper and deeper abysses of the killed and is confronted with his own family history.