GRAPHIC NOVELS & Co
The Art of Storytelling
‘Where are we?’
‘On an island.’
‘How can you tell?’
‘I can see some reefs out there.’
‘Did anyone else make it out of the plane? Some of the other kids. There must be, no?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘The pilot, perhaps?’
‘Maybe.’
‘Oh, boy!’
A dystopian adventure story about a group of schoolboys crash-landing on an uninhabited tropical island. Mostly unknown to each other and with no adults present, they have to find their own way to survive…
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Free after “Lord of the Flies”, a novel by William Golding, 1954
Paperback & Hardcover
260 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
B/W
Chicago, 1949. When Mobster Joey Gallo, a.k.a. "Tough Joe”, finally gets out of jail, he doesn’t want to go back to his former life, although that turns out to be more difficult than expected, even after he did a six year stretch for his boss Clemente.
Everything seems to be determined to get him back to Chicago. Lack of money for instance, but most of all his former fiancé Lucy, the bosses daughter...
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix.
Paperback & Hardcover
110 pages,
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm),
B/W.
Ruben, an out of work 18-year-old, and Crazy Ivan, a 22-year-old worker, are friends. They would do absolutely anything for each other. But during a hot summer night, in a whirl of drugs, alcohol and girls it all goes wrong...
Based on real events, we follow the lives of these two men and of all the other members of the Van Bevers Square gang in the city of Ghent, Belgium.
Guido Vrolix (Art)
Arne Sierens (Story)
Paperback & Hardcover
90 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
Boston, the 1920s. Prohibition is in full swing and so is the underworld. It is ruled by the Irish Mob Gangs from South-East Boston, better known as Southie.
Jack "Knife" Doyle controls most of the brothels, Farris McLaughlin most of City Hall and the cops. Farris wants to takeover Jack's business, but that's easier said than done, because while Farris acts out of simple greed, Jack's interests lie elsewhere…
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Free after “The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill, 1928
Paperback & Hardcover
130 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
"The house sits at the edge of the forest, which is a great place for all my adventures and is full of knights who are not to be trusted.
But when it gets dark, a horror that steals dreams appears from under the trees ..."
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
100 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
B/W
After ten years in the marine corp, Jack Wall retired to his home planet Murmur.
Murmur, a paradise like planet, isn't a backwards planet, not even a poor one. Just rather out of the way.
And of course there is no world, no matter how splendid, that could call itself a paradise without the proverbial fly in the ointment.
In the case of Murmur, a water planet with no land area to speak of, the stink in the water.
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Inspired by the works of Jack Vance
Paperback & Hardcover: The Complete Series of 4
307 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
Five stories that portrays war in every facet through a selection of stories set in the thick of the action, from the victorian era to the present ...
South Africa, 1879
Flanders, 1917
The Pacific, 1943
The Ardennes, 1945
Vietnam, 1969
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover: The Complete Series of 5
180 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
Surviving among Zombies! A zombie plague hits New York and spreads like wildfire.
After a couple weeks, the city is as desolate as a ghost town. Or just about, for it isn't always just zombies roaming the streets...
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
90 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
The Middle Ages. England is overrun with war, famine, pestilence, and religious frenzy. Yet somehow Melot manages to survive them all. He looks back on the battles he fought, his time as a bodyguard in the employ of master mark, and the boy Tristan he helped raise and train.
Be transported to a time when scores were settled with broadswords and the difference between a knight and a brigand was less than paper thin...
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
90 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
It's early August, hot, close to midnight. Pierre tries to remember the way to Dino's apartment. The door is open...
Though they come from completely different environments and never really became friends, Dino and Pierre develop a strange sort of solidarity. Their lives are reflected in each other. Each, in his own way, tries to find answers in a world full of slumlords, undocumented workers, crooked labor contractors, and human traffickers. A world populated by introverted youths suffering from Asperger's syndrome or hikikomori.
Guido Vrolix (Art & Concept)
Arne Sierens (Text)
Paperback & Hardcover
110 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
B/W
The afternoon begins like any other for Maria, a young woman still in college. Then she gets a call...
After running from the past most of his life, a hitman gets could up with it in a total unexpected way.
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
110 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
B/W
Four vignettes about strong women, separated only by time, space and circumstances...
Mary Ormond, North Carolina, 1718
Mary Kelly, London, 1888
Mary Bump, Michigan, 1908
Mary Scarpa, New York, 2008
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover: The Complete Series of 4
145 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
"Never thought you could get so tired of suicide. That you couldn't die from suicide. I'm… Well, what am I? Immortal? Just imagine!"
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
93 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
B/W
When starvationists, professional hungerers who serve as sideshow entertainment and circus attractions, start getting murdered in their cages, the police realize that a killer is on the loose.
Constable Weensy goes undercover as a starvationist himself in a desperate ploy to solve the case. But can the constable catch the killer before the hunger gets him first...?
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Free after "The Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka
Paperback & Hardcover
125 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
B/W
"It was a little strange, just being dropped in someone's apartment like that. Somehow the middle of the city felt very lonely, very strange. Must just be me, I thought."
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback
40 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm
B/W
"When I joined the Hairless Apes in their war against an invasion, I didn't know what to expect. Though they feared me at first, I would soon prove my worth on the battlefield and learn what it means to be a gorilla in a man's world."
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
80 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
Obi is eleven and lives with his mother, who is often away from home, in a small town. He has a sweet tooth, is a little on the chubby side, and wants to become a famous photographer. He just doesn't know how to begin. "You have to get a scoop," Obi's uncle explains to him. But how do you do that?
Obi gets a shot of a couple kissing at night, thanks to his new flash. But when the boy doesn't approve of having his photo taken, Obi can't run away fast enough and gets a slap in the face. Maybe photography isn't his thing after all ... or is it?
An Illustrated Novel
Coming of age book
Guido Vrolix (art)
Arne Sierens (story)
Paperback & Hardcover
110 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
A short guide through Hell. A graphic guide through the 14th-century epic poem Inferno by Dante, placed in a modern setting, the underground.
It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. Hell Station follows all the internal codes and references of the original story, every Canto is made up out of three drawings, three being the number were the inner structure of the Inferno is based upon.
Story and Art by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
105 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
Every city has a dark side, with secluded byways and nooks and crannies where the light of day never shines. The Alley is a dark meditation on the seedy side of life, told in a series of monochrome pictures paired with poetry.
This imagery is the unmistakable work of artist Guido Vrolix, showcasing dark silhouettes that even in their grimness are lined with an uncanny luminescence. You are invited to take a stroll into the looming shadows of The Alley...
A poem written & illustrated by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
120 pages
7" x 10" (17,78 x 25,4cm)
Color
The (mis)adventures of Julius The Rat. Funny watercolors without any naratif or text created to tell made-up stories.
Let your inner storytelling talents run free...!
A picture book by Guido Vrolix
Paperback & Hardcover
80 pages
7" x 10" ( 17,78 x 25,4cm )
Color