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The ABC of Typography

Authors:David Rault

Status: Completed

Released:2019

Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, product packaging and political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message,...

Adler

Authors:Lavie Tidhar

Status: Completed

Released:2020

For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman - now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, histor...

The Shadow of a Terrible Thing

Authors:Massimo Rosi

Status: Completed

Released:2016

The Second World War had ended. Humanity was at its lowest, recovering from the death and destruction of millions of people and their homelands. We were weak and vulnerable. It was at this time that the Aliens decided to...

The Secret History

Authors:Jean-Pierre Pécau

Status: Completed

Released:2012

Four immortal brothers and sisters are entrusted with ivory cards in the dawn of prehistory by a dying shaman, and told never to use the cards together. Four immortal brothers and sisters, four archons, leaping through t...

The Search For Smilin' Ed!

Authors:Kim Deitch

Status: Completed

Released:2010

Launched on his latest investigation by a remark from his brother about a shared childhood favorite ("Y'know, I heard that when Smilin' Ed died... his body was never found!"), Deitch begins to uncover some truly amazing...

The Remarkable Worlds of Professor Phineas B. Fuddle

Authors:Boaz Yakin

Status: Completed

Released:2000

The time-travel adventures of a brilliant, but utterly mad, scientist in Victorian London threaten to unhinge reality in an incredible, whimsical miniseries.

Seen: Rachel Carson

Authors:Birdie Willis

Status: Completed

Released:2021

A new non-fiction graphic novel series for fans of March and A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns that explores the stories of the real groundbreakers and Marginalized Trailblazers who changed our world for the b...

Shadow Doctor

Authors:Peter Calloway

Status: Ongoing

Released:2021

Years in the making, this is the true story of writer Peter Calloway’s grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930’s. Unable to get work at any Chicago hospitals becau...

Sun Eater

Authors:Dylan Sprouse, Joe Harris

Status: Ongoing

Released:2020

Sun Eater is a nine-issue saga that takes place in ninth century Norway, where a drug-addled warrior sacrifices his leg to the Gods. In return he is fused with a parasitic beast, giving him the power to rescue his son fr...

Comic Book History of Animation

Authors:Fred Van Lente

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!)...

A People's History of American Empire

Authors:Paul Buhle

Status: Completed

Released:2008

Adapted from historian Howard Zinn's bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world is told in comics form! Now Zinn, historian Paul Buhle, and cartoonist Mike Konopacki have colla...

Knights of Heliopolis

Authors:Alejandro Jodorowsky

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Acclaimed writer Jodorowsky puts a supernatural spin on one of the greatest myths in the history of France, The Man in the Iron Mask, rewritten as a grand, esoteric fable. The 18th century. In a monastery in the North o...

The Prague Coup

Authors:Jean-Luc Fromental

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Author Graham Greene finds himself in the midst of an intricate plot to unseat the government of Czechoslovakia in an event that would be remembered as The Prague Coup. Winter 1948, the Austrian capital is under occupati...

The Photographer of Mauthausen

Authors:Salva Rubio

Status: Completed

Released:2018

This is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco—or François—Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed ov...

Louisiana: The Color of Blood

Authors:Chretien Léa

Status: Ongoing

Released:2019

Louisiana, 1961. The elderly Louise shoos away questions from granddaughters eager to know more about the family's distant past. But what is she hiding? As she unburdens herself to Hazel, the maid, memories and legends c...

Clyde Fans

Authors:Seth

Status: Completed

Released:2019

A MASTERFUL WORK BY A LEGENDARY CARTOONIST ABOUT THE DECLINE OF SMALL BUSINESS AND THE SUBSEQUENT EROSION OF FAMILIAL RELATIONS AND ONE'S SANITY<br/>Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-t...

The Last Templar

Authors:Raymond Khoury

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...

The Life Eaters

Authors:David Brin

Status: Completed

Released:2004

Imagine a world in which the Axis forces of World War II suddenly were propelled to victory over the Allies... prompted by aid from the ancient gods of Norse mythology! Welcome to the alternate reality of The Life Eaters...

The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood

Authors:Bhob Stewart

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Who was Wallace Wood? The maddest artist of Mad magazine? The man behind Marvel's Daredevil?The Life and Legend is an incisive look back at the life and career of one of the greatest and most mythic figures of cartooning...

The Ladies-in-Waiting

Authors:Santiago García

Status: Completed

Released:2017

In 1656, Diego Velázquez, leading figure in the Spanish Golden Age of painting, created one of the most enigmatic works in the history of art: Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). This graphic novel, written and drawn by...

Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës

Authors:Isabel Greenberg

Status: Completed

Released:2020

A graphic novel about the Brontë siblings, and the strange and marvelous imaginary worlds they invented during their childhood Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric ch...

On The History Trail With Ariane & Nino

Authors:Sylvain Savoia

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Nino would rather be outside playing than stuck inside doing homework—especially science homework. Then he discovers that one of the greatest scientists ever started out feeling the same way: Albert Einstein—the guy who...

The Jewish Brigade

Authors:Marvano

Status: Completed

Released:2016

For this first installment of “The Jewish Brigade” we find ourselves in 1945 Poland. Leslie and Ari, two British soldiers, carry out an ambush near a church. They’re looking for a priest… that Leslie then kills. He was a...

Showa: A History of Japan

Authors:Shigeru Mizuki

Status: Completed

Released:2013

A FASCINATING PERIOD IN JAPANESE HISTORY EXPLORED BY A MASTER OF MANGA. Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki’s meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth century Japan....

The Forgotten Queen

Authors:Tini Howard

Status: Completed

Released:2019

An ancient evil returns! Long ago, the mighty generals of the Mongol Empire rode from Siberia to Carpathia and conquered all who stood in their way. Legends tell of a witch who walked with them, who could infect the hea...

The Greatest Adventure

Authors:Bill Willingham

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...

Dull Margaret

Authors:Jim Broadbent

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Inspired by Dulle Griet (aka “Mad Meg"), Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 16th-century painting of a “strong, intense woman striding determinedly across a violent landscape," Dull Margaret is the first graphic novel by Academy...

The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics

Authors:Various

Status: Completed

Released:1977

History of early U. S. newspaper comics.

Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva Vs. The Patriarchy

Authors:Liv Stromquist

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

Authors:Vivek J. Tiwary

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

Authors:Fabien Nury

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

Authors:Si Lewen

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

Authors:Bruno Letizia, Saverio Tenuta

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...

Knights of the Golden Sun

Authors:Mark London

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Knights of the Golden Sun is our all-new mythology based action/adventure comic book. What if there was more to fate than we knew? What if our fate was completely out of our hands? Four hundred years separate the Old Tes...

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

Authors:Various

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

Authors:Thi Bui

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...

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