★ ★ ★ GREAT NEWS FOR 2017 ★ ★ ★
★★★ Exclusive Eurocomics USA Invasion announcement ★★★
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche arrives to America courtesy of IDW Publishing's EuroComics imprint.
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche is a popular long-running detective series created by French cartoonist Alain Dodier, born in Dunkirk , 1955.
Since 1985, the inquiries of private investigator Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche are serialized first in the venerable weekly magazine Journal Spirou and subsequently collected in graphic albums by Éditions Dupuis, with 25 volumes published so far.
A two time winner of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême awards, for "Best Series" in 2010 and "Best Series for the Youth" in 1997, Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche has been translated to 11 languages, including English from next Fall onwards courtesy of IDW Publishing. The plan is to publish each original book, of 56 pages each, one at a time, starting with the first one "The Shadow Killer" in September 2017.
The protagonist, whose name is obviously inspired on celebrated English writer and humourist Jerome K. Jerome, is a young private detective who, aided by his girlfriend Babette, an air hostess, unravels lives and mysteries. The search for the truth is his only motive, he neither passes moral judgment nor always necessarily delivers the culprit to the police.
JKJ stories are completely integrated into contemporary times, usually in Northern France. The universe in which the stories are based is as important as the story itself. The neighborhood where Jerome lives, his friends and his fiancee, form a homogeneous ensemble that is built as the albums go on. Each graphic novel takes the reader to the discovery of new characters whose lives our two heroes seek to understand in order to unravel the enigma.
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche is yet another fine acquisition by the exemplary EuroComics label, and it won't be the last..