Language | English |
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No of pages | 64 |
Book Publisher | Open Door Publications |
Published Date | 14 Feb 2019 |
Julie Birmant was born in France in 1974. She would find her way to Brussels in college to study at the INSAS, an art institute where she studied cinema. There she created scientific documentaries as well as taking a leading role in the magazine Alternatives théâtrales. After a trip to Japan, she then returned to France, where she worked for France Culture and became a playwright, writing for several theater festivals. Her first graphic novel, Drôles de femmes (Dargaud), illustrated by Catherine Meurisse and released in 2010, is a collection of portraits of famous female figures. A few years later, Birmant joined with Clément Oubrerie to create the biographical series Pablo (Dargaud), recounting Picasso’s childhood, followed by Isadora, which tells the incredible story of American dancer Isadora Duncan. Most recently, the pair published the adventure series Renée Stone (Dargaud, Europe Comics in English), which follows a young Brtitish writer as she travels to Ethiopia in 1930.
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Renée Stone is a successful English mystery novelist and an independent free spirit. In this first book of the series, she finds herself in Ethiopia for the coronation of Haile Selassie I in 1930. There she meets John Malowan, a bumbling archaeologist whose grandfather unearthed the Epic of Gilgamesh. Unbeknownst to Stone and Malowan, a host of parties are conspiring to take advantage of the grandson in order to get their hands on a hidden treasure that dates back to Mesopotamian times. Renée Stone finds herself in the midst of a murder mystery full of colorful characters who could have come straight out of her novels.