Bastien Vivès

Carole & Alex, best friends for years, are now literal partners in crime and planning their biggest heist yet: to steal the classic Ingres painting Le Grande Odalisque from the Louvre. With the help of Sam, their new getaway driver, the trio feels like they could take on the French Special Forces--and they just might need to."--Back cover.

A student of Classical Literature at the Sorbonne, Séverine is neither beautiful, ugly, brilliant, nor mediocre. The young woman lives a banal existence, without brilliance but without drama, alongside a companion who pays her less attention than a television series or video game. After babysitting, she is given a silk blouse that will mysteriously change her life. From that day forward, men give her a different look, loaded with desire. Does the...

Ablaze is spotlighting some of the incredible creatives under our banner with specially priced collections of their extraordinary works! With our Bastien Vives collection, receive two digital volumes that speak to the artist's mastery of poignance, tenderness, and expression. In A Sister: Antoine, 13 years old, is on holiday at the seaside with his parents and his younger brother, Titi. Both spend most of their time drawing, at restaurants and...

Against all odds, Adrian Velba has won the Valley of the Kings tournament...but he's been betrayed by his partner, Richard Aldana! Now the hunt is on, but as Adrian and his mother Marianne travel through the Rift into unknown lands to find Richard, they'll soon discover that nothing is as they expected.

TROUBLE COMES TO THE REALMS! After an explosion rocks the home base of the insurgent gang, The Red Eagles, not everyone from the Valley is making it back alive. Adrian, Richard, and their friends' involvement with the troublesome gang leads to their arrest in Paxtown, where Richard once again must ask his ex-flame Tomie Katana-now the mayor-for help. Meanwhile, in the Valley, a mysterious guest from the depths of the Rift has arrived, and his secret...

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! Over ten years have passed since Adrian, Marianne, and Richard made their fatal return to the Valley of the Kings. Young Adrian is presumed dead after his fall back into the rift, and now stuck in the Valley, Richard has been a fugitive ever since. When a friend from Richard's past finds him and shows him proof that Adrian is alive and continuing his fighting legacy, worlds will collide as the passageway between realms is opened....

Alex and Carole, friends since childhood, are now (literal) partners in crime. But the heist - to steal the Ingres painting The Grande Odalisque from the Louvre in Paris - is too much for the duo to handle, so they bring in Clarence, a bureaucrat’s son with a price on his head by a Mexican drug cartel and, more importantly, an arms dealer. Next is Sam, a stunt motorcyclist and boxer by trade, who proves trigger happy with tranquilizer darts. Using...

Some of the world's greatest creators have each written and drawn an original story that explores the key moment when a clear-cut split occurs, a mutation, a personal revolt or a large-scale revolution that tips us from one world into another, from one life to an entirely new one: The Tipping Point. From slice-of-life tales and science fiction adventures, to amusing asides and fantastical fables, witness these major (and minor) changes and evolution...

"That key moment when a clear-cut split occurs, a mutation, a personal revolt or a large-scale revolution that tips us from one world into another, from one life to an entirely new one, is explored in this innovative anthology. this instant, this momentous change, can be the beginning of a sotry or its end, one's pinnacle or fall: the tipping point" -- page 4 of cover.