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#335ẞ in der Reihe Zweisprachige Legenden: Dieses Buch ist in Deutsch & Luganda. Kato Kintu fordert den bösen König Bemba zu einem Duell heraus. Doch Kintu verliert fürchterlich und flieht ins Exil auf eine Insel. Dort gewinnt er an Weisheit und Erfahrung. Wird es für Kintu reichen, um zurückzukehren, sein Volk zu vereinen und es…
In the second of this “Women Who Were Kings” series, we chart the life of Wu Zhao–post-humously named Wu Zetian–China’s only female Emperor. Born a commoner, she was a concubine to two generations of Emperors before finally seizing the throne after her husband’s death. Her remarkable ascent and political acumen is told in this story,…
Now available in paperback! Based on the acclaimed animated film Amaqqut Nunaat: The Country of Wolves, this visually stunning graphic novel takes readers on a mysterious adventure with two brothers who are lost at sea. It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men. But when they find themselves adrift at sea, the…
Everybody searches for that special place to call “home.” How was I to know that mine would be found in a picture postcard village in the foothill of France’s Pyrénées mountains? OVER HERE is the first-year diary of a California couple who boldly went where no Angelenos had gone before.
When inhuman monsters walk the Earth, threatening the good and the helpless, Justice has no stronger defenders than Harry Dickson and his assistant Tom Wills, who fight the forces of evil and cast them back into the Darkness from whence they came. Harry Dickson began as an unauthorized Sherlock Holmes pulp series in Germany in…
This collection includes the title story, in which the young American Sherlock Holmes teams up with the great occult detective, Sâr Dubnotal, to defeat a monstrous creature from beyond, as well as a never before translated original Harry Dickson tale from 1935 which lifts the veil over one of the detective’s earliest cases in post-War…
Long considered as one of Osamu Tezuka’s most political narratives, Ayako is also considered to be one of his most challenging as it defies the conventions of his manga by utilizing a completely original cast and relying solely on historical drama to drive the plot. Ayako, pulls no punches, and does not allow for gimmicks…
“The English manga book you simply have to buy” –Time Out Tokyo Magazine “It’s as if magic coats the pages” –Novelist Banana Yoshimoto “Fans of alternative, independent manga ought to give Him Her That a look” –Otaku USA Magazine It all begins with a feat of imagination in the ocean. Guided by a high-tech scuba…
Shiro turns down an offer to become a celebrity and Kenji’s culinary adventures are reprised in a manga about a gay couple for mature-in the true sense-readers.
A collection of some of the best stories by Baron Yoshimoto, one of the seminal Japanese manga artists who helped develop the graphic novel form in the 1960s and 1970s by targeting an older audience with scintillating and exquisitely drawn stories. The stories included are “Eriko’s Happiness”, “High School Brawler Ditty”, “Dirt Bag”, “One Stripper’s…
526 AD. Antioch lies in ruins. Once the glory of the Roman empire, where Christianity came to its own, the city is now is a broken-backed man that cannot stand. Sixteen year old Marcellus, a young Byzantine nobleman, is forced to evacuate his neighbor Byziana and her young siblings from their home in Antioch to…
Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called “the Michaelangelo of monsters,” “the Goya of comics,” and “the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists.” A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns…
Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called “the Michaelangelo of monsters,” “the Goya of comics,” and “the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists.” A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns…
How would a kitchen maid fare against a seven-headed dragon? What happens when a woman marries a mouse? And what can a young man learn from a thousand leaf cutter ants? Famed Love and Rockets creator Jaime Hernandez asks these questions and more as he transforms beloved myths into bold, stunning, and utterly contemporary comics….
Winner of the 2018 Aesop Prize Winner of the 2019-2020 Texas Bluebonnet Award How would a kitchen maid fare against a seven-headed dragon? What happens when a woman marries a mouse? And what can a young man learn from a thousand leaf cutter ants? Famed Love and Rockets creator Jaime Hernandez asks these questions and…
