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Mélusine #10
Contes de la Pleine Lune
Charmeuse et ensorceleuseComment lutter contre le charme ensorceleur de Mélusine ? D'un battement de cils, elle peut vous transformer en crapaud vert, mais elle reste la plus jolie des apprenties sorcières. Pas un loup-garou, pas un vampire ne résistent à son sourire enjôleur. Hélas ! son coeur est déjà pris : elle attend son prince charmant qui un jour viendra (elle connaît la chanson). Et il ferait mieux de se presser s'il ne veut pas passer pour un conte... de fée.Le retour de la sorcière officielle d'Halloween !Élue sorcière officielle d'Halloween, Mélusine fête les citrouilles avec un nouvel album signé Clarke et Gilson. S'adressant aussi bien aux garçons, aux filles qu'aux démons, cette série est un nouveau pilier de notre catalogue Tous Publics. Chaque année, elle ensorcelle de nombreux nouveaux lecteurs avec ses gags pétillants et son dessin enchanteur.
46 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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June 18, 2025
Un tome qui renoue avec sa thématique.
Contrairement à l’opus précédent qui peinait à trouver sa ligne, celui-ci s’ancre pleinement dans l’univers des contes et plus largement dans l’enfance.
Les personnages y sont littéralement ramenés à leurs jeunes années, et partagent des moments de camaraderie joyeuse. J’ai particulièrement apprécié de voir davantage Krapella, l’amie sorcière en noir, qui apporte un peu d’air frais entre les apparitions (trop nombreuses) de Cancrelune. Et puis Mélusine mérite bien des amies un tant soit peu « normales ».
À la fin, on croise aussi Globule, le fils du cousin vampire de l’employeur de Mélusine. Le conte final, sans être inoubliable, est mignon et illustre joliment cette idée que chacun façonne sa propre version d’un récit. C’est d’ailleurs ce qui fait la richesse des histoires de ce genre.
Malgré tout, les passages où Cancrelune lit un conte et s’y laisse emporter finissent par tourner en rond. Un bon tome, donc, mais qui aurait gagné à varier un peu plus ses effets.
Contrairement à l’opus précédent qui peinait à trouver sa ligne, celui-ci s’ancre pleinement dans l’univers des contes et plus largement dans l’enfance.
Les personnages y sont littéralement ramenés à leurs jeunes années, et partagent des moments de camaraderie joyeuse. J’ai particulièrement apprécié de voir davantage Krapella, l’amie sorcière en noir, qui apporte un peu d’air frais entre les apparitions (trop nombreuses) de Cancrelune. Et puis Mélusine mérite bien des amies un tant soit peu « normales ».
À la fin, on croise aussi Globule, le fils du cousin vampire de l’employeur de Mélusine. Le conte final, sans être inoubliable, est mignon et illustre joliment cette idée que chacun façonne sa propre version d’un récit. C’est d’ailleurs ce qui fait la richesse des histoires de ce genre.
Malgré tout, les passages où Cancrelune lit un conte et s’y laisse emporter finissent par tourner en rond. Un bon tome, donc, mais qui aurait gagné à varier un peu plus ses effets.
June 13, 2020
First Printing = 2014 = £6.99
The constant one and two pagers are frustrating because I often wanted to know either what led up to or what followed whatever was happening. How hard would it be to tie them together loosely into a narrative or add a page or two of some substance to them instead of constant over-abrupt "gags" that aren't nearly as funny without context?
I still enjoy the GOOFY characters and their strange endeavors with very style-appropriate art.
Was the writer making a point to bring everyday transgender folks into the public consciousness by presenting such a character who's not so bombastic as to make them "comfortably weird" for the unaccepting and side-stepping public instead of an "uncomfortably" relatable person? You know what I mean- how the gay character is/was always the most extreme one in the cast.
Example-> Melusine's most frequent collaborator is so interesting to me because I CONSTANTLY forget she's female. My eyes see an ugly guy who's bodily postured like a exhaustively empathetic gen-Xer and demonstrates zero feminine hallmarks in a raggedy robe and a tight collared vest that only starts the torn-skirting style of the crone witch below her knees so I only see ·her· when I can see the high-heels.
If you don't know:
They're yeoman witches that do their work with whatever they can get their hands on in the castle epoch- apprentices who live the life of energetic college students that is.
Oh yeah. This here's France material. They don't have organized Puritans who wield sumo-centric dominance on what the public is allowed to consume while looking like saints to voters.
The constant one and two pagers are frustrating because I often wanted to know either what led up to or what followed whatever was happening. How hard would it be to tie them together loosely into a narrative or add a page or two of some substance to them instead of constant over-abrupt "gags" that aren't nearly as funny without context?
I still enjoy the GOOFY characters and their strange endeavors with very style-appropriate art.
Was the writer making a point to bring everyday transgender folks into the public consciousness by presenting such a character who's not so bombastic as to make them "comfortably weird" for the unaccepting and side-stepping public instead of an "uncomfortably" relatable person? You know what I mean- how the gay character is/was always the most extreme one in the cast.
Example-> Melusine's most frequent collaborator is so interesting to me because I CONSTANTLY forget she's female. My eyes see an ugly guy who's bodily postured like a exhaustively empathetic gen-Xer and demonstrates zero feminine hallmarks in a raggedy robe and a tight collared vest that only starts the torn-skirting style of the crone witch below her knees so I only see ·her· when I can see the high-heels.
If you don't know:
They're yeoman witches that do their work with whatever they can get their hands on in the castle epoch- apprentices who live the life of energetic college students that is.
Oh yeah. This here's France material. They don't have organized Puritans who wield sumo-centric dominance on what the public is allowed to consume while looking like saints to voters.
October 13, 2021
This is another charming collection of single page stories featuring Melusine the young witch and a cast of classic horror monsters with some fun jokes with quick setups. As the fifth volume, you might think that the well had run dry, but this was a fun light read, and went in some new directions with a few of the characters added in previous volumes. It's not high literature, but it's a fun, somewhat spooky read, and I appreciate that some of the spells are easier to read than in previous volumes.
March 29, 2015
Melusine is a superbly drawn comic tale of an adorable young witch and her group of friends, all of which are in some way monsters, creatures of the night, or of myth, fairytale and legend. Melusine is herself a teen as she’s still studying and the majority of the male characters in the stories are very much in love with her.
In this volume Melusine must help a ghost become tangible enough to interact with the real world, take drastic action over headlice (it really is drastic) and deal with the everyday realities of school, including that of the substitute teacher. It’s all gentle fun, with enough good jokes and comic situations to keep you hooked.
The book collects full page strips so although there is an ongoing narrative it tends to be broken down into segments, page by page, with a punchline in the final panel. The gags are good but never edgy, so it’s not trying to reach for the lowest common denominator. Instead it draws it’s humour from the supernatural situations, problems with boyfriends, and the general troubles of a teenager. Because of this it’s very much, but not exclusively, appealing for a young female audience - my daughter loves it - and at a time when the proportion of girls reading comics is growing considerably then this is certainly a good one to add to their collection. Having said that, there are plenty of slapstick gags, monsters and mayhem to appeal to boys too. I’m rather a fan of this particular style of cartoon illustration too, which seems to me to pitch the whole tone of the strip perfectly.
If your kids read The Phoenix, enjoy newspaper strips or have explored some of Cinebook’s over books for younger readers then this is well worth your time and money.
In this volume Melusine must help a ghost become tangible enough to interact with the real world, take drastic action over headlice (it really is drastic) and deal with the everyday realities of school, including that of the substitute teacher. It’s all gentle fun, with enough good jokes and comic situations to keep you hooked.
The book collects full page strips so although there is an ongoing narrative it tends to be broken down into segments, page by page, with a punchline in the final panel. The gags are good but never edgy, so it’s not trying to reach for the lowest common denominator. Instead it draws it’s humour from the supernatural situations, problems with boyfriends, and the general troubles of a teenager. Because of this it’s very much, but not exclusively, appealing for a young female audience - my daughter loves it - and at a time when the proportion of girls reading comics is growing considerably then this is certainly a good one to add to their collection. Having said that, there are plenty of slapstick gags, monsters and mayhem to appeal to boys too. I’m rather a fan of this particular style of cartoon illustration too, which seems to me to pitch the whole tone of the strip perfectly.
If your kids read The Phoenix, enjoy newspaper strips or have explored some of Cinebook’s over books for younger readers then this is well worth your time and money.
June 20, 2015
ISBN: 9781849182126
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