Cinebook


Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic albums and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Belgium and Italy.
They typically translate Franco-Belgian comics - predominantly originating from the Franco-Belgian comic publishers Dargaud, Dupuis and Le Lombard - into English and have also issued an original series about the French Queen Marguerite de Valois, also known as Queen Margot. Cinebook works with a team of translators, including native speakers of French, British English and American English.

Titles

Softcover album series

So far, the company has published, or plans to publish, the following comic series in softcover editions:
SeriesWriterArtist
LéoLéo
AlphaRenardJigounov
The BellybuttonsMaryse DubucMarc Delafontaine
Billy and BuddyJean RobaJean Roba
Blake and MortimerEdgar P. JacobsEdgar P. Jacobs
The BluecoatsCauvinLambil
Buck DannyFrancis BergèseFrancis Bergèse
CedricCauvinLaudec
The Chimpanzee ComplexRichard MarazanoJean-Michel Ponzio
CliftonDe GrootTurk
CrusadeJean DufauxPhilippe Xavier
Darwin's DiariesSylvain RunbergOcaña
DucobooZidrouGodi
Green ManorVehlmannBodart
InsidersJean-Claude BartollRenaud Garreta
IR$Stephen DesbergBernard Vrancken
IznogoudGoscinnyTabary
Lady SJean Van HammeAymond
Largo WinchJean Van HammePhilippe Francq
Long John SilverXavier DorisonMathieu Lauffray
Lucky Luke
MelusineClarkeGilson
OrbitalSylvain RunbergSerge Pellé
Pandora BoxAlcante
PapyrusDe GieterDe Gieter
Queen MargotCadic & GheysensDerenne
The Rugger BoysBekaPoupard
Scared to DeathVanholmeMauricet
The ScorpionStephen DesbergEnrico Marini
Spirou et Fantasio
ThorgalJean Van HammeRosiński
Valerian and LaurelinePierre ChristinJean-Claude Mézières
Wayne SheltonJean Van HammeChristian Denayer
WesternJean Van HammeGrzegorz Rosiński
Wind in the WillowsMichel PlessixMichel Plessix
XIIIJean Van HammeWilliam Vance
YakariJobDerib
Yoko TsunoRoger LeloupRoger Leloup

Hardcover series

During 2017 and 2018 the British publisher Cinebook Limited published a hardcover collection of the series titled; Valerian: The Complete Collection, spread over seven volumes, with three to four stories in each book. These volumes are in full original color, printed on glossy paper and measure 220 mm × 290 mm.
Vol.TitleIncluded storiesRelease dateISBN
1Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 10–2: May 2017
2Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 23–5: July 2017
3Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 36–8: July 2017
4Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 49–12: April 2018
5Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 513–15: June 2018
6Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 616–18: August 2018
7Valerian: The Complete Collection Volume 719–21: October 2018

In 2019 Cinebook launched a harcover book series collecting the complete output of Lucky Luke.
Olivier Cadic was given the French National Order of Merit, according to the Birmingham Mail this award is:
a vindication of his work to make an important part of French culture available in the English-speaking world through Cinebook, as the ambassador himself noted when noting the publisher had now printed twice as many Lucky Luke books in the last three years as had been published in the previous fifty.

Censorship

A 2013 article from DowntheTubes.net discusses how Cinebook have been criticized for the fact that many of their releases are censored from the original works, a practice which usually affects comics which depict nudity, including books which in their original form were released for adult target audiences with an appropriate age rating.