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Serialized between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a lightly veiled stand-in for the artist, Tsuge Tadao, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo. Based loosely on the artist’s own daily life, this charming story follows the…
In The Egg, Esther, a body builder, and Mona, a butterfly, embark on a strange voyage for an elusive elixir to restore their lost powers. During their travels, they encounter a wide variety of characters, including a woman who is endlessly working to interpret the shape of the sun, a romantic creature named Poef who…
A collection of long and short form comics, Rich Tommaso’s one-man comics anthology magazine, Black Phoenix! Features stories from an array of classic Golden Age comic book styles and genres. Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genres–all dreamed up by its sole author,…
A collection of long and short form comics, Rich Tommaso’s one-man comics anthology magazine, Black Phoenix! Features stories from an array of classic Golden Age comic book styles and genres. Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genres–all dreamed up by its sole author,…
Annie and Elise meet at a coffee shop in a part of town they are watching change for the worst. Despite the fact that Annie is leaving for Vietnam in a week, they decide to honor their instant connection for what it is: a little unhinged, possibly doomed but full of a weirdly familiar and…
Natsuru Nanao, a 6th grader who lives alone with his mother, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the reserved and driven Rio Suzumura. Natsuru plays hookey from soccer camp that summer, and instead of telling the truth to his mother, he spends all his time with Rio and her kid brother at their rickety house,…
“Embraces death as a concept with due complexity.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review “A very powerful collection that aims right for the heart, and is strongly recommended.” — CEMETERY DANCE, Death — the one aspect of life we all have in common — is waiting for everyone, yet our practices, beliefs, myths, and stories about…
Damm’s distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure. One artist’s quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde. Featuring radical Argentinian…
Madame Livingstone is based on the true story of the unlikely partnership between a Belgian and an African who were responsible for the sinking of a German battleship in the Congo during the First World War. Aviator Gaston Mercier, lieutenant in the Royal Belgian Army, arrives at Lake Tanganyika, Congo in 1915 on orders to…
From beloved Congolese comics creator Barly Baruti and Belgian comics critic Thierry Bellefroid, translated from the original French by Batchelder Award-winning translator Ivanka Hahnenberger A Harlem gangster’s trip to Central Africa to attend the legendary 1974 Ali-Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match becomes a one-way ticket to the seedy underground of Zaire-complete with espionage,…
The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father’s death and his mother’s hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father’s ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn’t simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance – no matter how many other people must die for it….
Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements – and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done… But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated…
A classic Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two star-crossed young lovers who dare to defy their feuding families, put aside all obstacles, and find happiness together – but at a tremendous cost. This grimly beautiful tale, set in Renaissance Italy, follows Romeo and Juliet from their fateful first meeting to their…
The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father’s death and his mother’s hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father’s ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn’t simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance – no matter how many other people must die for it….
The King and the Queen of the Fairies are quarreling – and everyone around them must pay the price! The Duke of Athens and his bride-to-be, a company of hapless amateur actors, two pairs of star-crossed lovers… no one is safe from the wicked eye and cunning spells of the King’s impish servant, Puck. Not…
I love your Majesty according to my bond; no more nor less. The aging King Lear of Britain has decided to abdicate his throne and divide his realm among his three beloved daughters. The largest share shall go to the one who loves him best – unfortunately, Lear mistakes empty, overblown flattery for true devotion….
