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Real-Great Adventures of Terr'ble Thompson! Hero of Hist'ry!

Authors:Various

Status: Completed

Released:2006

In 1955, Gene Deitch embarked on a daily comic strip for United Features Syndicate that he hoped would become his life's work. One of the most unusual strips of the decade, Terr'ble Thompson was about a very odd little b...

Indian Lover: Sam Houston & the Cherokees

Authors:Various

Status: Completed

Released:1998

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Royal Historian of Oz

Authors:Tommy Kovac

Status: Completed

Released:2010

Frank Fizzle wishes his father would have just a single original idea, instead the Jasper Fizzle sees himself as the new “Royal HIstorian of OZ” as he insists on writing new OZ stories. When the failed writer discovers t...

Shelley

Authors:David Vandermeulen

Status: Completed

Released:2019

Born into an aristocratic family, Percy Bysshe Shelley has no intentions of following in his father’s political footsteps. The rebellious young poet finds himself drawn to more scandalous pursuits: supporting anti-royali...

Red Baron

Authors:Pierre Veys

Status: Completed

Released:2014

In the skies of France during the Great War, a red-painted fighter is chasing a British SPAD. The relentless German pilot eventually wounds his opponent mortally, and lands near the downed Briton to watch him die, confes...

Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe

Authors:Wayne Vansant

Status: Completed

Released:2013

Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in graphic novel form. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Bu...

Empire of the Wolf

Authors:Michael Kogge

Status: Completed

Released:2014

During the Roman conquest of Britain, a werewolf's bite re-ignites the legendary feud between Romulus and Remus, pitting two centurions against each other in an epic war of werewolves that will decide the fate of Roman E...

Redbone: The True Story of A Native American Rock Band

Authors:Christian Staebler, Sonia Paoloni

Status: Completed

Released:2020

Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of west coast rock n' roll pioneers, Redbone. You've heard...

Chartwell Manor

Authors:Glenn Head

Status: Completed

Released:2021

No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserved to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school ― run by a serial sexual and emotional abus...

Maids

Authors:Katie Skelly

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...

Vann Nath: Painting the Khmer Rouge

Authors:Matteo Mastragostino

Status: Completed

Released:2022

The true story of the Cambodian painter Vann Nath, who used his art to fight against barbarism and tyranny. 1 VOLUME RELEASED - INDEPENDENT STORIES. In 1978, a young painter named Vann Nath was arrested by the Khmer Roug...

Karl the Viking: The Sword of Eingar

Authors:Various

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...

Robbie Burns: Witch Hunter

Authors:Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie

Status: Completed

Released:2014

The story asks what if the events of the narrative poem Tam o' Shanter, Burns' most famous work, were actually based on something that happened to Burns himself. Like his fictional creation, Robbie mistakenly takes the...

Magical History Tour

Authors:Fabrice Erre

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Current day kids Annie and Nico travel back to—ancient Egypt. That's about 4,500 years ago, when the world's largest pyramid was built, The Great Pyramid of Giza. It's also called the Pyramid of Cheops because it was bui...

I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi

Authors:Gina Siciliano

Status: Completed

Released:2019

In 17th century Rome, where women are expected to be chaste and yet are viewed as prey by powerful men, the extraordinary painter Artemisia Gentileschi fends off constant sexual advances as she works to become one of the...

Culture Corner

Authors:Basil Wolverton

Status: Completed

Released:2010

Did you ever wonder how to stop brooding if your ears are protruding? Or how to indulge yourself and snore without being a bore? Or for the masochists among you, how to sit on a tack? Or for the narcissists, how to conte...

The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons

Authors:Neil Brinkley

Status: Completed

Released:2008

For over thirty years Nell Brinkley''s beautiful girls pirouetted, waltzed, Charlestoned, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst''s newspapers, captivating the American public with the...

Degas and Cassatt: The Dance of Solitude

Authors:Salva Rubio

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Founder of the Impressionist movement of which he was one of the most merciless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of many paradoxes. A loner, he loved only o...

Charly 9

Authors:Richard Guérineau

Status: Completed

Released:2015

Charles IX was the unluckiest King of all the monarchs of France. At the age of 22, to please his mother Catherine de'' Medici, he orders the St. Bartholomew''s Day Massacre, which horrified all Europe. Later, appalled b...

Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Electrified Tesla

Authors:Cynthia von Buhler

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Private investigator Minky Woodcock becomes involved in the affairs of a maverick genius and reclusive pigeon-fancier, Nikola Tesla, only to discover a horrifying conspiracy involving corrupt politicians and Nazis.

Constitution Illustrated

Authors:R. Sikoryak

Status: Completed

Released:2021

The master of the visual mash-up returns with his signature idiosyncratic take on the constitution R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defi...

Dave Sheridan: Life with Dealer McDope, the Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

Authors:Dave Sheridan

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Dave Sheridan collects the best of the legendary underground cartoonist's tripped-out comic strip hilarity. It includes Sheridan's solo comics, many reprinted for the very first time, and his collaborations with Fred Sch...

St. Mercy

Authors:John Zuur Platten

Status: Ongoing

Released:2021

A tale of vengeful retribution, ST. MERCY pits the Incan Empire against the American West—and features two strong, determined young women who must defy authority and ultimately embrace their destiny. Mercedes Oro is one...

Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books

Authors:Ken Quattro

Status: Completed

Released:2020

Read about the riveting stories of Black artists who drew, mostly behind the scenes, superhero, horror, and romance comics in the early years of the industry. The life stories of each man's personal struggles and triumph...

Jim Lives: The Mystery of the Lead Singer of The Doors and the 27 Club OGN

Authors:Paolo Baron

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Amid the intense colors of a foreign land, JIM LIVES is the story of a man searching for his son—a correspondent for a popular American newspaper—who vanished into thin air after sending one last, enigmatic message: “Jim...

Notes from a Defeatist

Authors:Joe Sacco

Status: Completed

Released:2021

Before Joe Sacco crafted his two major works of "cartoon journalism," Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, he created a number of shorter pieces, ranging from one-page gags to 30-page "graphic novelettes." This massive book...

The History of Science Fiction

Authors:Xavier Dollo

Status: Completed

Released:2021

For the first time in illustrated form, this comprehensive history of sc-fi traces its origins and charts its history from its humble beginnings to its respected status today. 1 VOLUME RELEASED - INDEPENDENT STORIES. Who...

A Man's Skin

Authors:Hubert, Ivanka Hahnenberger

Status: Completed

Released:2021

"Once upon a time in Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is of marriage age. Her parents find her a fiancé to their liking: Giovanni, a rich merchant, young and pleasant. The wedding looks set to...

Best of Enemies: A History of US and Middle East Relations

Authors:Jean-Pierre Filiu

Status: Completed

Released:2012

It was an American who first described the Barbary lands of the Mediterranean basin as the Middle East – a region by which America, ever since its own revolutionary foundation, has always measured its power. Acclaimed...

The Last West

Authors:Evan Young, Lou Iovino

Status: Completed

Released:2013

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Hammerfall

Authors:Sylvain Runberg

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...

The Murder of King Tut

Authors:Alexander Irvine

Status: Completed

Released:2010

The Murder of King Tut adapts best-selling author James Patterson's NY Times Bestselling novel in this exciting new series. As we visit the Egyptian landscapes back in the time of the Boy King (with art by Christopher Mi...

History Comics: The Challenger Disaster: Tragedy in the Skies

Authors:Pranas Naujokaitis

Status: Completed

Released:2020

Let this graphic novel be your time machine! In History Comics, the new nonfiction graphic novel series from First Second, the past comes alive!<br/>In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to J...

Psychotic

Authors:Jacques Mathis

Status: Completed

Released:2021

A moving autobiographical portrayal of psychosis and mental illness as shown through the experiences and writings of writer-poet Jacques Mathis. 1 VOLUME RELEASED - INDEPENDENT STORIES. Jacques Mathis tells his own story...

Hauteville House

Authors:Fred Duval

Status: Completed

Released:2015

1864, under an imaginary Second Empire, Napoléon III uses his army and his secret service to study certain phenomena relating to the occult and to popular legends. His goal is quite simple: achieving world supremacy.

Cimarronin: Fall of the Cross

Authors:Charles C. Mann, Ellis Amdur, Mark Teppo, Neal Stephenson

Status: Completed

Released:2015

In this issue: Luis Pérez de Guzmán has a problem. His family's silver mine in New Spain has been attacked by escaped African slaves known as the cimarrónes. And his oldest ally, the exiled samurai Kitazume, is in a coma...

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