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Jessica is one of my favourite of the new wave of French BD graphic novel series, started in 1987 by Belgian creators Renaud and Dufaux. She is published by Dupuis, one of the two biggest French-Belgian comic book empires.

Jessica is a novelist/journalist/adventurer who travels the length and breadth of the US moving through a demi-monde of gangsters, pimps, alien artefacts and the supernatural. The writing is sharp and clear and there is a gallic ennui about her life, her courage and bravery stemming from a tragic past.

There are already 24 episodes of Jessica - sold throughout France, Belgium and Quebec - and an English-language can't be far behind now that Dupuis has started translating its work in bulk and selling it through the Humanoids imprint in the US.

You can find out more and order copies of Jessica here:

http://www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A1080014&page=1

And Jessica has her own fan page here:

http://www.leroi.org/BD/jessica.html

You can see more of the artist Jean Dufaux here:

http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dufaux_jean.htm

and the writer Renaud Denauuw here:

http://lambiek.net/artists/r/renaud.htm