50 ans futuropolis

Les Courts Tirages joins forces with Futuropolis to celebrate the publishing house's 50th anniversary with exceptional limited edition prints.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Futuropolis comic book publishing house, Les Courts Tirages is proud to announce a unique collaboration to offer very limited edition prints, numbered and signed by emblematic Futuropolis authors.

This exclusive collection will feature four renowned artists: Damien Cuvillier for Fire ThiefSébastien Goethals for L'EscamoteurÉtienne Davodeau for Loire and Emmanuel Lepage with Ar-Men. Each print, signed by the author, will be a collector's item, celebrating both the artistic heritage of Futuropolis and the talent of its authors.

Sébastien Goethals - L'Escamoteur

Cover of the just-released graphic novel by Philippe Collin and Sébastien Goethals, now available in a limited edition of 20 copies, 30x40cm format, numbered and signed by the author.

 

Damien Cuvillier - Fire thief

This illustration of the Place Ducale in Charleville-Mézières is limited to 20 copies, in 60x40cm format, numbered and signed by the author. Available now!

Marie spénale

Autumn is just around the corner, so to prolong the summer, we're offering you two new prints in flamboyant colors. Discover Marie Spénale's graphic universe in her new graphic novel Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, published by Casterman BD, a veritable hymn to freedom.

These two illustrations are printed in a limited edition of 30, 30x40cm format, numbered and signed by the author. Available now!

NEW YORK
in August

In this month of August, when the most important word is "vacation", we invite you to stop off in New York with a retrospective of our prints on this theme.

The pearl

Like a desire to dive into the sunny images of Anne-Margot Ramstein and Matthias Aregui. Their album "La Perle" was released at the end of 2021 by Editions La Partie, and we had the pleasure of editing 4 limited editions of 30 copies.

armelle and mirko

We've been wanting to bring you these images for a long time, and here they are at last, after touring France to sign them. Yes, the three illustrations are signed by the three authors of this poetic album Armelle et Mirko - L'étincelle, Julien Arnal (drawings), Anne Montel and Loïc Clément (script), published by Delcourt.

L'étincelle, L'averse and L'arrivée en douceur (unpublished illustration) are now available in limited editions of 30 copies each.

Alexandre clérisse

We couldn't wait to present you with three new prints by Alexandre Clérisse. You'll find two illustrations from the album Une année sans Cthulhu and one from Feuilles Volantes, both published by Dargaud.

Limited edition of 30 copies each, numbered and signed. 

guy billout

This weekend, we're pleased to present four new prints by France's most American cartoonist, Guy Billout. Resident in the USA since 1969, he has collaborated with Fortune, New York, LIFE, Time, Vogue, Playboy, The New Yorker, etc. and in France with Le Monde. The four illustrations we have selected are taken from the album "De minuit à quatorze heures" (texts by Bernard Friot), recently published by Sens dessus dessous, a young publishing house in the Delcourt Group. Many of the images in this book were published regularly between 1982 and 2006 in The Atlantic Monthly.

Now available in our boutique, Séléné, Mémoire des arbres and De minuit à quatorze heures et Hélios , each printed in an edition of 30, numbered and signed by the artist.

cyril pedrosa

Exclusively, find three masterful works by Cyril Pedrosa. These illustrations are from his latest publication, Journal d'une Bataille, published in Dupuis' Aire Libre collection. 

Available for pre-order in our shop, 3 large format prints 70x50cm, limited to 30 copies of each, numbered and signed by the artist.

Anaïs flogny

New this week: three illustrations by the talented Anaïs Flogny, from her elegant graphic novel Rivages lointains, published by Dargaud in the Combo collection.

Le Tailleur, Par delà la mer and Marseille are now available in our boutique, in editions of 20 each, numbered and signed by the artist.

reniko

Go exploring with Reniko and these two new illustrations. You loved "Sur un sentier basque" and "Jour de vent sur l'île de Ré", now we're taking you to our coast with "Au pied du phare" and a little (much) further afield to South Korea with "Les Nuits de Séoul".

Limited edition of 30 copies each, numbered and signed by the author, 30x40cm format.

David sala

We're more than happy to present these three new prints with the artist we love so much: David Sala. These illustrations are taken from his highly successful and original adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel", published by Casterman.

Perdus dans la forêt (Lost in the Forest), La Sorcière (The Witch ) and La Rive bleue (The Blue Shore) are now available in our store, printed in limited editions of 20 copies each, numbered and signed by the artist.

jeanne mathieu

A meeting, some discussions and here's a new artist whose work we're delighted to share with you. Her multiple experiences continually enrich her artistic style, blurring the boundaries between drawing and painting and underlining the ambivalence and contradictions of human nature.

Three disturbingly beautiful illustrations are now available in our store. La Forêt, Amnésie organique and Les Singes are printed in an edition of 30 copies each, numbered and signed by the artist.

FLOC'H

We were delighted to have new illustrations signed by one of the leading proponents of the ligne claire, Floc'h. Discover four new prints from the album L'Art de la guerre, published by Dargaud, Collection Blake & Mortimer (Studio Jacobs), in which the author delivers a customized, never-before-seen version of the two dandies whose reputation is no longer established, Blake and Mortimer, a brand-new adventure in the streets of New York, scripted by Jean-Luc Fromental and José-Louis Bocquet.

Limited editions of 50 copies each, numbered and signed by the author. Available now in our store.

 

Rosalie stroesser

Five superb prints signed by Rosalie Stroesser are now available. Taken from her album Shiki, 4 seasons in Japan, published by Virages Graphiques, Rosalie recounts her year spent there and her special relationship with the contradictory culture.

Very limited edition prints (20 of each),
numbered and signed. 

COPENHAGEN

Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg

We are proud to present two new limited editions of 30 copies each of two singular illustrations from the album "Copenhague", published by Dargaud. Anne-Caroline Pandolfo (script) and Terkel Risbjerg (drawing) pen a burlesque and moving graphic novel about the murder of a mermaid in Copenhagen.

Limited edition prints, numbered and signed by both authors, 40x50cm format.

blutch

Three incredible new prints signed by the no less incredible Blutch! Illustrations from the latest Lucky Luke album, Les Indomptés, published by Dargaud in the Lucky Comics collection. A story in which Lucky Luke plays "nanny" to two very rambunctious children, a must-read!

Couverture, Saloon and Palissade are published
with 30 copies of each, in 40x40cm format, numbered and signed.

matthieu bonhomme

Matthieu Bonhomme is pleased to present three sublime images from his Charlotte Impératrice series, with Fabien Nury on the script, whose third volume was released this year by Dargaud.

Inspection des troupes (40x60cm) and Mystic jungle (40x50cm) are published
in editions of 30, and Chaleur tropicale in a large 100x50cm edition of just 20.

brecht evens

Christmas is just around the corner, and Brecht Evens has once again honored us with a dizzying new illustration entitled "La Foule" (The Crowd).
Available in two formats: 60x80 cm in only 30 copies, and 40x50 cm in 50 copies for smaller walls.

THE SHORT IMAGES

Les Courtes Images, the little sister of Courts Tirages,
offers a collection of numbered images limited to 200 copies,
at the unique price of 25 euros and unique format 24 x 30cm.
Our goal? To make art accessible to all while maintaining quality.
The plus? Entirely made in Charente: printed on a digital press and assembled in our workshops. The booklets with mats are handmade in the workshops ofArt Image, a renowned framer in Charente and elsewhere.