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More Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books

Alternate name:More Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books 2016

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2016

Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 75 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books―publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects are popular and obscu...

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...

Seen: The True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers

Alternate name:Seen: Edmonia Lewis

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

It's about being seen. Both for who you are, and who you hope you can become. History is a mirror, and all too often, the history we're told in school reflects only a small subset of the population. In the new ongoing gr...

Magical History Tour

Alternate name:Magical History Tour 2021

Genres:Historical

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...

Shadow Doctor

Alternate name:Shadow Doctor (2021)

Genres:Historical

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...

The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson

Alternate name:The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson 2014

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2014

As the Age of Aquarius morphed into Discomania and Reaganomics, pioneering underground cartoonist S. Clay Wilson discovered a new generation of punks and misfits in America and abroad who appreciated his point of view. H...

Left Bank Gang

Alternate name:Left Bank Gang 2006

Genres:Anthropomorphic, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Literature

Status: Completed

Released:2006

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank...

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...

Ulysses 1781

Alternate name:Ulysses 1781 (2016)

Genres:Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2016

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The Unknown Anti-War Comics

Alternate name:The Unknown Anti-War Comics 2019

Genres:Historical, Military

Status: Completed

Released:2019

An action-oriented medium, comics have long used wars-real and fictional-as narrative fodder. Now, discover the secret, surprising history of anti-war comics with this marvelously curated collection. A few comics of the...

Glorious Summers

Alternate name:Glorious Summers 2018

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

In this nostalgic account, the Faldérault family sets out for a final summer vacation together before an impending marital separation disrupts the family dynamics for good. Along the way, heading south to France from Bru...

Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko

Alternate name:Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko 2008

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2008

Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is an art book tracing Ditko's life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, his strict adherence to his own (and Randian) principles, with lush displays of obscu...

Isabella: She-Wolf of France

Alternate name:Isabella: She-Wolf of France 2012

Genres:Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2012

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Twists of Fate

Alternate name:Twists of Fate 2018

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical, Military

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Using the vivid memories of Miguel Ruiz, a Spanish veteran exiled in France, Twists of Fate reconstructs World War II through an international lens. Ruiz was a member of “La Nueve,” a company of men that went straight fr...

New World

Alternate name:New World 2019

Genres:Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

The European discovery of the Americas forever changed the world as cultures collided with violent consequences. New World weaves the stories of three characters from unique backgrounds—a Native Indian seeking revenge ag...

The Dream of Jerusalem

Alternate name:The Dream of Jerusalem 2018

Genres:Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

France, 1076. Hermance Languedolce, a child with miraculous healing powers, falls in with religious rebels and is branded a heretic. Hideously tortured, he summons a miracle and saves himself, only to be taken in by kind...

Six Days: The Incredible Story of D-Day's Lost Chapter

Alternate name:Six Days: The Incredible True Story of D-Day's Lost Chapter

Genres:DC Comics, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

June 1944. World War II. D-Day. One hundred eighty-two members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division parachute into the French countryside—a full 18 miles southeast of their intended target. This original graphic novel from...

The Winter of the Cartoonist

Alternate name:The Winter of the Cartoonist 2020

Genres:Biography, Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

A graphic nonfiction story of the five extraordinary cartoonists who decided to rebel in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and WWII. In 1957, Editorial Bruguera was one of Spain's largest publishing houses, putting...

Son of Hitler

Alternate name:Son of Hitler 2018

Genres:Graphic Novels, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Some are born to make history.<br/>In the darkest days of World War II a female British spy handler discovers a rumor: that when Adolf Hitler was stationed in France during the First World War he fathered a child. Armed...

The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

Alternate name:The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age 2020

Genres:Historical, Leading Ladies

Status: Completed

Released:2020

Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, E...

Shamanism

Alternate name:Shamanism 2017

Genres:Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2017

English digital chapters for the Shamanism hardcover.<br/>A fascinating tale of an alternate history of North America as told through a time-spanning Native-American love story.

S.R. Bissette's Tyrant

Alternate name:Tyrant

Genres:Historical, Mythology

Status: Completed

Released:1996

A comic book series published by SpiderBaby Grafix about a Tyrannosaurus rex, written by Steve Bissette.

Sartre

Alternate name:Sartre 2017

Genres:Biography, Graphic Novels, Historical, Literature

Status: Completed

Released:2017

For some he was the philosopher of existentialism, for others the constant provocateur, the politically engaged author, the uncertain militant, the repenting bourgeois, the life companion of Simone de Beauvoir... From hi...

Royal Blood

Alternate name:Royal Blood 2014

Genres:Fantasy, Historical, Horror

Status: Completed

Released:2014

A shocking tale of betrayal, lust and warring kingdoms from the acclaimed creator Alejandro Jodorowsky! Wounded, betrayed and left for dead, King Alvar returns to his kingdom to regain his stolen throne, finding himself...

Bootblack

Alternate name:Bootblack 2019

Genres:Crime, Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2019

During the depths of the Great Depression, an orphan reinvents himself as Al Chrysler and strives to win the heart of the local grocer's daughter. In doing so, he falls in with a newly arrived petty criminal who soon has...

Brain Drain

Alternate name:Brain Drain (2020)

Genres:Historical

Status: Ongoing

Released:2020

Certain details surrounding the death of Albert Einstein are so outlandish as to sound like urban legend: namely, the theft of his brain by Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the pathologist who performed the eminent physicist's auto...

Red Rocket 7

Alternate name:Red Rocket 7 (1998)

Genres:Dark Horse, Historical, Sci-Fi

Status: Completed

Released:1998

He's an alien. He's a clone. He's come to our planet to make totally cool music! Madman creator Mike Allred invites you to experience the totally strange trip of Red Rocket 7! He just wanted to make good music, and now s...

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...

Reading the Ruins

Alternate name:Reading the Ruins 2018

Genres:Historical, Military

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Is every man killed in combat reborn in the sky in the form of a star? Is seeing a bus in your dreams really a sign of impending death? In 1917, Jan Van Meer, an operative with the Allies' intelligence services and a ren...

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!)...

Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics

Alternate name:Philosophy: A Discovery in Comics 2012

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2012

A fun introduction in comics to deep thinking and the history of Philosophy! What is Thinking? And how does our thinking set us apart from other animals? Now that we're thinking, what is Reality? Is there an objective re...

Pin-Up

Alternate name:Pin-Up 2017

Genres:Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2017

It’s 1943 and all-American Joe is heading off to fight the Japanese. His distraught fiancé Dottie Partington is fired from her job as a movie usher, and a friend helps her find employment at the Yoyo Club, a cabaret favo...

Pax Romana

Alternate name:Pax Romana 2008

Genres:Historical, Military, Mythology, Political

Status: Completed

Released:2008

From the mind of comic book innovator JONATHAN HICKMAN, comes the exhilarating time-traveling epic, PAX ROMANA. The creator of THE NIGHTLY NEWS brings his unique sensibility to science fiction and the result is a visuall...

The Disney Bros.

Alternate name:The Disney Bros. 2020

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2020

After the bankruptcy of his first two companies, the young Walt Disney decides to call on his older brother Roy to start a new business: the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studios. The combination of their opposing talents, one...

Operation Copperhead

Alternate name:Operation Copperhead 2018

Genres:Biography, Historical

Status: Completed

Released:2018

Adventure, drama, spies, secrets, and even a dash of romance. This extraordinary story tells the tale of two movie stars being pulled into the intrigue of counterintelligence and disinformation campaigns during World War...

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...

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