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The Wolverton Bible

Alternate name:Wolverton Bible

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2017

Cartoonist Basil Wolverton was known for his grotesque drawings, fantastically odd creatures, spaghetti-like hair, smoothly sculpted caricatures and insanely detailed crosshatching. His career in the golden age of comic...

A House Without Windows

Alternate name:A House Without Windows 2021

Genres:Fantasy, Historical, Slice of Life

Status: Completed

Released:2021

By the delicate hand of Didier Kassaï (Storm Over Bangui) comes a comic book documentary about the street children of Bangui, told in a style that mixes photo and illustration.

Comic Book History of Animation

Alternate name:Comic Book History of Animation (2020)

Genres:Comedy, Historical

Status: Ongoing

Released:2020

The team behind IDW’S Comic Book History of Comics returns with a brand-new series! From Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyasaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in between! Part One: Silent...but Deadly (Funny!)...

Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runaway Slaves

Alternate name:Angola Janga

Genres:Historical, Literature

Status: Completed

Released:2019

An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D’Salete brings hi...

Zone Lords

Alternate name:Zone Lords (2017)

Genres:Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historical, Mature, Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Supernatural

Status: Completed

Released:2017

In this premier issue of Zone Lords, we find Adram and Cid (an arch-demon in a permanent human body and a video-game addicted punk rocker), in the Heathen zone (Falso Profeta), in the pocket of a very, very bad man, in a...

Isabella: She-Wolf of France

Alternate name:Isabella: She-Wolf of France 2012

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2012

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The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics

Alternate name:The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics 1977

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:1977

History of early U. S. newspaper comics.

Jack Jackson's American History: Los Tejanos and Lost Cause

Alternate name:Jack Jackson's American History: Los Tejanos and Lost Cause 2013

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2013

Los Tejanos is the story of the Texas-Mexican conflict between 1835 and 1875 as seen through the eyes of tejano (literally Texan of Mexican, as distinct from anglo, heritage) Juan Seguín. It is through Seguín, a pivotal...

1066: William the Conqueror

Alternate name:1066: William the Conqueror (2015)

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2015

King Edward of England is dead. Edward's son Harold, one of the potential successors, renounces his oath to yield the throne to William of Normandy. From that day forth, William will have no peace until his rightful clai...

The Greatest Adventure

Alternate name:The Greatest Adventure 2017

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical, Pulp

Status: Completed

Released:2017

In ancient days, Jason gathered the greatest heroes of his age and set out on the ultimate sea voyage. Now, in Tarzan’s era, Jason Gridley does the same. The greatest heroes of the Edgar Rice Burroughs universe come toge...

Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts

Alternate name:Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts 2015

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2015

Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illu...

The Scarlet Rose

Alternate name:The Scarlet Rose 2017

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance

Status: Completed

Released:2017

Maud is quite happy living her simple life with her father and learning the exciting art of sword fighting. But when her father is murdered, Maud is whisked away from the life she knows by her rich and lordly grandfather...

Mystery Men

Alternate name:Mystery Men 2011

Genres:Adventure, Crime, Historical, Mystery, Superhero

Status: Completed

Released:2011

Before Captain America, before The Twelve, there was The Aviatrix, The Operative, Achilles, The Revenant and The Surgeon! What drives these five heroes to pull on masks and take to the rooftops of Manhattan? What dark...

Mezolith

Alternate name:Mezolith 2016

Genres:Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2016

"What's to Love: Mezolith is an award-winning British graphic novel that we are excited to publish for the first time in the U.S. because it's a captivating, coming-of-age story with lush, gorgeous art! Writer Ben Haggar...

The Art of Joe Kubert

Alternate name:The Art of Joe Kubert 2011

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2011

Joe Kubert is one of the great comic book artists. His career literally traverses the history of comics, beginning in 1938 when he became a professional at age 12, to today as one of the greatest draftsmen working in the...

Humbug (2009)

Genres:Comedy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2009

You know MAD. Do you know Humbug? Harvey Kurtzman changed the face of American humor when he created the legendary MAD comic. As editor and chief writer from its inception in 1952, through its transformation into a slick...

Duster

Alternate name:Duster 2015

Genres:Action, Adventure, Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2015

In the closing days of World War II, a widowed housewife turned cropduster pilot struggles to rescue her teenage daughter from a band of escaping Nazi war criminals who crash their plane near her small Texas farm.

The Absence

Alternate name:The Absence 2014

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical, Horror, Supernatural

Status: Completed

Released:2014

Strange occurrences, hidden pasts, and deeply-buried truths: The Absence will keep you gripped to the shocking finish! 1946. As a coastal village in southern England struggles to recover from the losses of war, it is ro...

Death To the Tsar

Alternate name:Death To the Tsar 2015

Genres:Historical, Political

Status: Ongoing

Released:2015

"From the creative team behind the best-selling Death of Stalin comes a brand new political dark comedy! Moscow, September 17th, 1904. A crowd, brandishing sticks, stones and rotten vegetables, gathers in front of Moscow...

Maids

Alternate name:Maids 2020

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

The scandalous true crime story about the Papin Sisters, as told by one of comics'' most stylized talents. Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by...

Hammerfall

Alternate name:Hammerfall 2019

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

In 8th-century Europe, a clash of cultures and religions inevitably leads to a clash of swords. This harsh, changing world suits Björn the Beautiful, who has a single passion: violence. His bloodlust led to his exile fro...

Minky Woodcock: The Girl who Handcuffed Houdini

Alternate name:Minky Woodcock: The Girl who Handcuffed Houdini 2017

Genres:Crime, Historical, Mystery, Pulp

Status: Completed

Released:2017

A brand new 1920s mystery with a sinister twist! Unappreciated at her father's detective agency, the fabulous, rabbit-loving Minky Woodcock straps on her gumshoes in order to uncover a magical mystery involving the worl...

Real Science Adventures

Alternate name:Real Science Adventures 2017

Genres:Action, Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Leading Ladies, Pulp, Sci-Fi

Status: Completed

Released:2017

A group of Women Airforce Service Pilots banded together after World War II and became the daring "Flying She-Devils." Food and fuel are in short supply, but the She-Devils have a plan: take it from Mad Jack, the pirate...

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...

Okko: The Cycle of Earth

Alternate name:Okko: The Cycle of Earth 2008

Genres:Historical, Martial Arts, Mature, Military, Supernatural

Status: Completed

Released:2008

It is the Winter of 1109 in the official calendar of the Pajan Empire. Okko and his faithful companions - the mysterious masked Noburo, Noshin the monk, and young Tikku - arrive at the City of the Blasting Powder. While...

Long John Silver

Alternate name:Long John Silver 2013

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2013

Twenty years after the events of Treasure Island, Lady Vivian Hastings knocks on Dr Livesey’s door. Her hated husband has sent word from the Amazon: He has found the fabled city of Guiana-Capac, and his brother is to sel...

Empress Charlotte

Alternate name:Empress Charlotte 2018

Genres:Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

At sixteen, Princess Charlotte falls in love with an Austrian archduke, Maximilian of the House of Habsburg. Soon enough, she finds herself enmeshed in the cruel and unpredictable world of international diplomacy as her...

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.

Konungar: War of Crowns

Alternate name:Konungar: War of Crowns (2018)

Genres:Fantasy, Historical, Mythology

Status: Ongoing

Released:2018

"A gorgeously rendered epic fantasy from the writer of Titan's Millennium series – Sylvain Runberg. Two sons at war – in a battle for the throne that has torn their country apart. The centaurs, mortal enemies of the Viki...

Karl the Viking: The Sword of Eingar

Alternate name:Karl the Viking: The Sword of Eingar 2022

Genres:Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2022

Originally serialised in Lion, Karl the Viking is a sweeping historical fantasy story of an orphaned Saxon boy, adopted and raised by the viking Eingar after his raid on Britain. Upon coming of age Karl succeeds Eingar a...

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...

Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War

Alternate name:Take That Adolf The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War 2017

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical, Military

Status: Completed

Released:2017

Between 1941 and 1945, Hitler was pummeled on comic book covers by everyone from Captain America to Wonder Woman. Take That, Adolf! is an oversized compilation of more than 500 stunningly restored comics covers published...

The Last Templar

Alternate name:The Last Templar 2016

Genres:Action, Adventure, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2016

Acre, 1291. The last Crusader city in the Holy Land is about to fall. Two Knights Templar, obeying the grandmaster's orders, manage to escape the invading Muslim army on the order's last ship. New York City, nowadays. Du...

Deepak Chopra's Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment

Alternate name:Deepak Chopra's Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment 2008

Genres:Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2008

A stunning adaptation of The New York Times Bestselling novel by spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, realized by visionary comics writer Joshua Dysart, BUDDHA: A TALE OF ENLIGHTENMENT is an emotionally evocative, fictional l...

The Princess of Clèves

Alternate name:The Princess of Clèves 2019

Genres:Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

Entering life at the French royal court, a world in which "what is shown is rarely the truth," the young Princess of Clèves learns of passion's torments, of heartbreak, and of the agony of love. Claire Bouilhac and Catel...

The Wrath of Fantômas

Alternate name:The Wrath of Fantômas 2019

Genres:Crime, Historical, Literature, Mystery, Supernatural

Status: Completed

Released:2019

Fantômas, the iconic French mastermind, star of countless books, shows and films, returns to Paris for revenge! Winner of the Joe Schuster Award and the GN prize at the Festival Interpol'art.

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