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Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche Comes To The USA With IDW Entertainment
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche is a popular long-running Franco-Belgian detective comic created by French cartoonist Alain Dodier, born in Dunkirk , 1955.
Since 1985, the inquiries of private investigator Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche have been serialized first in the weekly anthology Spirou and subsequently collected in graphic albums by Éditions Dupuis, with 25 volumes published so far.
A two time winner of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême awards, for Best Series in 2010 and Best Series for the Youth in 1997, Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche has been translated into 11 languages, including English from next Fall onwards courtesy of IDW Publishing. The plan is to publish each original book, of 56 pages each, one at a time, starting with the first one The Shadow Killer in September 2017.
The protagonist, whose name is inspired by English writer and humourist Jerome K. Jerome, is a young private detective who, aided by his girlfriend Babette, an air hostess, unravels lives and mysteries. The search for the truth is his only motive, he neither passes moral judgment nor always necessarily delivers the culprit to the police.
The neighborhood where Jerome lives in Northern France, his friends and his fiancee, form a homogeneous ensemble that is built as the albums go on. Each graphic novel takes the reader to the discovery of new characters whose lives our two heroes seek to understand in order to unravel the enigma.
Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche is the latest acquisition by IDW's EuroComics label, with many more to come…