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Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva Vs. The Patriarchy

Alternate name:Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva Vs. The Patriarchy 2018

Genres:Historical, Leading Ladies

Status: Completed

Released:2018

From Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologized, and politicized vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, and menstruation. In this feminist graphic novel, Swedish cartoonist Liv Strömquist calls out how...

The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story

Alternate name:The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story 2013

Genres:Biography, Dark Horse, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2013

The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatles-from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than...

The Death Of Stalin

Alternate name:The Death Of Stalin (2016)

Genres:Historical, Sci-Fi

Status: Ongoing

Released:2016

On the night of March the 2nd, 1953, Joseph Stalin, the Nation’s Father, the man who reigned as the absolute master of all Russians, had a stroke. He was announced dead two days later. Two days of fierce infighting for t...

Si Lewen's Parade: An Artist's Odyssey

Alternate name:Si Lewen's Parade: An Artist's Odyssey 2016

Genres:Historical, Political

Status: Completed

Released:2016

Si Lewen’s Parade is a timeless story told in a language that knows no country—a wordless epic that, despite its muteness, is more powerful than the written or the spoken word. First published in 1957, The Parade is a lo...

Izuna

Alternate name:Izuna 2015

Genres:Fantasy, Historical, Martial Arts

Status: Completed

Released:2015

Since the dawn of time, the Izuna wolves have been entrusted as guardians against Japan's evil spirits. Set in the wondrous world of Legend of the Scarlet Blades. From time immemorial, the spirits of nature created the K...

The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art From the Glenn Bray Collection

Alternate name:The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art From the Glenn Bray Collection 2014

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2014

The Blighted Eye is the most copious, the most diverse, and the most lavish compilation of original comic art ever published ― all from the mind-boggling collection of Glenn Bray. Bray was an enthusiast of marginal or ou...

The Best We Could Do

Alternate name:The Best We Could Do 2017

Genres:Biography, Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2017

This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has...

The Battle

Alternate name:The Battle 2015

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2015

It’s May 1809. Napolean’s great army is getting ready to cross the Danube on the immense floating bridge that they constructed overnight on the orders of the France’s most famous military genius. On the other side of the...

The Lions of Leningrad

Alternate name:The Lions of Leningrad 2019

Genres:Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

On January 27, 1962, a concert at the Maly Theatre in Leningrad is interrupted by a gunshot and an ex-state prisoner is arrested. At the police station, the mysterious gunman recalls the early summer of 1941... When the...

The Straw King

Alternate name:The Straw King (2020)

Genres:Historical

Status: Ongoing

Released:2020

Egypt, 7th century BCE. Neith and Sennedjem are two of many royal children too far down the inheritance ladder to matter. Facing limited prospects—she's likely to wind up in her own father's bed, and he won't even wind u...

The Book of God: How We Got the Bible (

Alternate name:The Book of God: How We Got the Bible (2012)

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2012

The historical process of how we got the Bible.

The Art of Jose Gonzalez

Alternate name:Art Of Jose Gonzalez

Genres:Biography, Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2015

For nearly two decades, Jose "Pepe" Gonzalez was hailed as the premier Vampirella artist, drawing the fiery vixen for Warren Publishing in the Seventies and Eighties. Renowned for bringing to life the most beautiful wome...

Bilal's Monster

Alternate name:Bilal's Monster 2019

Genres:Fantasy, Historical, Military, Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Supernatural

Status: Completed

Released:2019

Legendary comics creator Enki Bilal’s Monster tetralogy collected in English in its entirety for the first time ever. The Monster tetralogy is influential creator Enki Bilal’s most personal work. The story follows Nike,...

The Book of Five Rings

Alternate name:The Book of Five Rings 2012

Genres:Historical, Literature, Manga, Martial Arts

Status: Completed

Released:2012

This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, w...

Girl In Dior

Alternate name:Girl In Dior 2015

Genres:Biography, Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2015

The Girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior. It's February 12, 1947 and the crème de la crème of Paris Haute Couture...

The Adventures of the Mad Tsar

Alternate name:The Adventures of the Mad Tsar 2020

Genres:Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Military, Political

Status: Completed

Released:2020

It all starts in the capital. To be closer to his subjects, the Tsar, dressed in peasant clothes, strolls through the streets of St. Petersburg. Disaster strikes! The Tsar is captured by a group of conspirators wishing t...

Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

Alternate name:Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes 2020

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical, Political

Status: Completed

Released:2020

Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident—otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre—from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all.

Tales From the Bully Pulpit

Alternate name:Tales From the Bully Pulpit 2004

Genres:Historical, Sci-Fi

Status: Completed

Released:2004

THE CONCEPT: Most American presidents are given, at most, a period of eight years in which to protect a single country. But unknown to the public at large, one rough-riding president took it upon himself to protect the w...

More Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books

Alternate name:More Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books 2016

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2016

Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 75 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books―publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects are popular and obscu...

You Can't Just Kiss Anyone You Want

Alternate name:You Can't Just Kiss Anyone You Want 2017

Genres:Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2017

A little boy tries to kiss a little girl. No big deal. The little girl gets away and sends the little boy packing. Nothing more than an anecdote amongst many others of any normal childhood. But if this event takes place...

Seen: The True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers

Alternate name:Seen: Edmonia Lewis

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

It's about being seen. Both for who you are, and who you hope you can become. History is a mirror, and all too often, the history we're told in school reflects only a small subset of the population. In the new ongoing gr...

The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson

Alternate name:The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson 2014

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2014

As the Age of Aquarius morphed into Discomania and Reaganomics, pioneering underground cartoonist S. Clay Wilson discovered a new generation of punks and misfits in America and abroad who appreciated his point of view. H...

Left Bank Gang

Alternate name:Left Bank Gang 2006

Genres:Anthropomorphic, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Literature

Status: Completed

Released:2006

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank...

Ulysses 1781

Alternate name:Ulysses 1781 (2016)

Genres:Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2016

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The Unknown Anti-War Comics

Alternate name:The Unknown Anti-War Comics 2019

Genres:Historical, Military

Status: Completed

Released:2019

An action-oriented medium, comics have long used wars-real and fictional-as narrative fodder. Now, discover the secret, surprising history of anti-war comics with this marvelously curated collection. A few comics of the...

Glorious Summers

Alternate name:Glorious Summers 2018

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

In this nostalgic account, the Faldérault family sets out for a final summer vacation together before an impending marital separation disrupts the family dynamics for good. Along the way, heading south to France from Bru...

Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko

Alternate name:Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko 2008

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2008

Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is an art book tracing Ditko's life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, his strict adherence to his own (and Randian) principles, with lush displays of obscu...

Isabella: She-Wolf of France

Alternate name:Isabella: She-Wolf of France 2012

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2012

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Twists of Fate

Alternate name:Twists of Fate 2018

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical, Military

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Using the vivid memories of Miguel Ruiz, a Spanish veteran exiled in France, Twists of Fate reconstructs World War II through an international lens. Ruiz was a member of “La Nueve,” a company of men that went straight fr...

New World

Alternate name:New World 2019

Genres:Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

The European discovery of the Americas forever changed the world as cultures collided with violent consequences. New World weaves the stories of three characters from unique backgrounds—a Native Indian seeking revenge ag...

The Dream of Jerusalem

Alternate name:The Dream of Jerusalem 2018

Genres:Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

France, 1076. Hermance Languedolce, a child with miraculous healing powers, falls in with religious rebels and is branded a heretic. Hideously tortured, he summons a miracle and saves himself, only to be taken in by kind...

Brain Drain

Alternate name:Brain Drain (2020)

Genres:Historical

Status: Ongoing

Released:2020

Certain details surrounding the death of Albert Einstein are so outlandish as to sound like urban legend: namely, the theft of his brain by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the pathologist who performed the eminent physicist's auto...

Six Days: The Incredible Story of D-Day's Lost Chapter

Alternate name:Six Days: The Incredible True Story of D-Day's Lost Chapter

Genres:DC Comics, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

June 1944. World War II. D-Day. One hundred eighty-two members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division parachute into the French countryside—a full 18 miles southeast of their intended target. This original graphic novel from...

The Winter of the Cartoonist

Alternate name:The Winter of the Cartoonist 2020

Genres:Biography, Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

A graphic nonfiction story of the five extraordinary cartoonists who decided to rebel in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and WWII. In 1957, Editorial Bruguera was one of Spain's largest publishing houses, putting...

Son of Hitler

Alternate name:Son of Hitler 2018

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Some are born to make history.<br/>In the darkest days of World War II a female British spy handler discovers a rumor: that when Adolf Hitler was stationed in France during the First World War he fathered a child. Armed...

The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

Alternate name:The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age 2020

Genres:Historical, Leading Ladies

Status: Completed

Released:2020

Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, E...

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