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Donjon Zénith
Series · 9 books · 1998-2020

Books in series

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#1

Coeur de canard

1998

Par mégarde, Herbert le canard, humble sous-fifre au service du Gardien du donjon, a provoqué la mort d'un gros barbare... Gros barbare qui devait accomplir une périlleuse mission pour le maître des lieux. Ni vu ni connu, notre volatile endosse le costume du colosse, et le voici lancé, en compagnie d'un saurien grognon, sur des routes peuplées d'individus très puissants et très méchants.
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#2

Le roi de la bagarre

1998

When Herbert fails to defend the castle from the giant Sonia, who wants to steal the crown, he is sent away with orders to learn how to fight, so his vegetarian dragon friend Marvin introduces him to his own master, who disguises himself as a sack of potatoes.When Herbert fails to defend the castle from the giant Sonia, who wants to steal the crown, he is sent away with orders to learn how to fight, so Marvin introduces him to his own master, who disguises himself as a sack of potatoes.
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#4

Sortilège et avatar

2000

Au Donjon, la situation est grave. L’oeil de Biscara n'est plus là pour contrôler les allées et venues, et, encore pire, le vieux dragon vient de rendre l’âme : le trésor n’est donc plus protégé ! Aussitôt, le Gardien exige que Herbert, Marvin et Alcibiade partent pour Cochonville, où se trouve un élevage de dragons et où ils pourront acquérir par la même occasion un nouvel oeil de géant. La princesse Isis les accompagne dans cette nouvelle escapade pour y acheter sa robe de mariée. Au moment où Marvin essaie un oeil de géant, il voit Isis et Herbert s'embrasser !
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#5

Un mariage à part

2001

Isis doit se marier avec le Gardien. Or c'est à Herbert qu'elle voudrait s'unir? ce qui n'arrange pas les affaires de son père, qui voit d'un bon 'il la promesse d'une dot. Le Gardien, lui, est obligé d'emprunter à un bailleur de fonds qui, de son côté, vendra sa dette à Guillaume Delacourt. Delacourt se trouve donc en mesure de récupérer le Donjon si le Gardien ne rembourse pas à temps !
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#6

Retour en fanfare

2008

Le Gardien et sa petite escorte retournent à Vaucanson pour trouver les arguments juridiques afin d'exproprier De La Cour du Donjon. Pendant ce temps, Herbert veut reprendre contact avec ses parents, et pour passer inaperçu dans cette ville où il est en disgrâce, il boit un filtre transformateur et se fait appeler le masque de la Mort. Mais s'il rit, il redevient normal. Il y a peu à douter que les gaffes vont s'enchaîner...
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#7

Hors des remparts

2020

Pour reconquérir le Donjon tombé aux mains de Guillaume de la Cour, le plan est simple : Marvin, Isis et Herbert doivent trouver du Fugus Purit et l’utiliser pour déloger les occupants actuels de la forteresse. Mais est-ce vraiment le plan du Gardien ? Nos héros vont devoir lutter contre tous pour sauver le Donjon. Et en parallèle, Marvin réussira-t-il son Tong Deum de fiançailles ?
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#1-2

Dungeon

Zenith: The Barbarian Princess

1998

Welcome to Dungeon, the looniest world of horror and heroic fantasy you’ll ever be transported into! A spoof of Dungeons & Dragons and all heroic fantasy tropes. This series, a best-seller in many countries, starts with the apogee of Dungeon, a mighty castle filled with monsters, trolls, and goblins kept by a wily bird, the Dungeon Keeper, and the object of desire of many an uncouth and disgusting forms of life (and afterlife), and Herbert the Timorous Duck is assigned to defend it! Thank goodness, the Dungeon Keeper has assigned Marvin the Dragon, a blood-thirsty, uh, vegetarian, warrior, to his side. 4 full stories in one omnibus volume at a new larger size! (Combines the 1st 2 volumes originally published).
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#1-6

La fortezza vol. 1

2008

Nella lontana landa di Terra Amata c’è una terrificante Fortezza. Il suo business model è semplice e, da secoli, efficace: attirare avventurieri con la promessa di immensi tesori se sconfiggeranno i mostri in agguato nelle segrete, far uccidere gli avventurieri dai mostri, prendersi le cose che hanno portato con sé. Tutto perfetto, finché una strana setta di incappucciati decide di comprare la Fortezza e, quando il Guardiano del maniero declina l’offerta, per una serie di equivoci invece di mandare un enorme e bellicoso barbaro, a spaventare gli incappucciati, ci manda Herbert, un gracile papero, nobile decaduto del ducato di Vaucanson, assolutamente incapace di battersi. Insieme al drago Marvin, capo della vigilanza della Fortezza, Herbert vivrà un numero ridicolo di ridicole avventure. Questa serie comedy-fantasy creata da Sfar e Trondheim (coadiuvati nei due capitoli finali dei sei raccolti in questo volume da un Boulet in stato di grazia) in Francia è durata ben trentasei episodi, che BAO raccoglierà in sei enormi volumi, a cadenza semestrale. Contiene "Donjon Zénith" vol. 1-6
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#3-4

Dungeon

Zenith - Vol. 2: The Barbarian Princess

2000

Herbert’s fictitious Princess in distress to lure more hapless warriors to the Dungeon turns out to be all too real and quite a handful!

Authors

Lewis Trondheim
Lewis Trondheim
Author · 91 books

The phenomenal Lewis Trondheim is never where you next expect him. As an artist and writer, Trondheim has earned an international following as one of the most inventive, versatile, and prolific graphic authors. From autobiography to adventure, from bestselling fantasy and children's books to visual essays, Trondheim's unique, seminal imagination consistently dazzles. His work has won numerous awards, including the Angoulême prize for best series with McConey and he also co-created the titanic fantasy epic Dungeon with Joann Sfar. He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages. Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.

Joann Sfar
Joann Sfar
Author · 89 books

Joann Sfar (born August 28, 1971 in Nice) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, and film director. Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the new movement's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he created with Trondheim has a cult following in many countries. Some of his comics are inspired by his Jewish heritage as the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father). He himself says that there is Ashkenazi humor in his Professeur Bell series (loosely based on Joseph Bell), whereas Le chat du rabbin is clearly inspired by his Sephardic side. Les olives noires is a series about a Jewish child in Israel at the time of Jesus. Like Le chat du rabbin, the series contains a lot of historical and theological information. His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema. From 2009 to 2010, Sfar wrote and directed 'Serge Gainsbourgh: Une Vie Heroique', a biopic of the notorious French songwriter, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which draws substantially on Sfar's abilities as a comic book artist through its extensive use of fantasy artwork, animation and puppetry, was released in 2010 to general critical acclaim.

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