In fifteenth-century Europe, heretics are being burned at the stake. Rafal, a brilliant young man, is expected to enter university at an early age and study the era’s most important field, theology. But Rafal...

With this book, Hirata set out to draw a passionate critique of discrimination against the Japanese outcaste community, known as the burakumin, around the character of Gennosuke, a young buraku whose mission to...

The Shinsengumi were a special police force in Japan in the 19th century. Tasked originally with protecting the Shogunate, they eventually dedicated themselves to restoring order in Kyoto. Hijikata Toshizo is...

Sorry, I know you must've been lonely. Don't worry. I won't keep you waiting long." Maruyama, Nagasaki's pleasure district — where the music of shamisens mingles with the language of foreign lands. From artist...

Set in early 20th century France, Claudine...! follows the story of a transgender man into adulthood. He struggles through life, being the first child after three older brothers to take after his father, and is...

Cleopatra was born in 70 BC and was an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. Strong of heart, she is willing to do anything to restore her beloved Egypt back to its former glory. Possessed by an unfaltering love, Cleopatra...

Showa 1926–1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II...

During the period of Japanese colonial rule, a young Korean boy, Yonghyun, is invited every summer to a royal residence in the mountains behind his village. The residence of one Count Tachibana. The peculiar...

Once renowned as Chang’an’s number one hedonist, Sheng Chumu could barely ride on a horse without falling off. Now, he has fallen head over heels for a seamstress from Guangzhou and will do anything to be with...

The narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his grand-uncle, Brown University linguistic professor George Gammell Angell after his death in the winter of 1926–27...

What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice. It is the inhuman phrase they both chant...

During the French Revolution, a revolutionary known as the Angel of Death sent both Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. His name was Saint-Just and his quest began with revenge... Delivering...

Ever since I came back after going missing, I’m only allowed to leave the house once a month. One day, I meet a man dressed in black, who tells me I’m going to die in 15 days… Official Translations:English...

Under the curse of Orochi, the great demon serpent reborn every 300 years, Japan has been shrouded in clouds for as long as anyone can remember. The era of the samurai is at an end, and carrying swords has been...

Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a Samurai general in Japan’s Warring States period, promises to offer the body parts of his unborn baby to 48 demons in exchange for complete domination of the country. When the...

The year is 1887 in the rolling hills of the French countryside. The estate of Viscount de Rougemerle gently basks in its verdant glory, a beacon in the twilight years of the aristocracy. With the return of the...

Banished into the Cold Palace, robbed of her newborn daughter, stripped of her status...She wants to avenge her husband now that she’s lost everything.She is his Queen, but she is also the one person that he...

Ever since the discovery that she was not the emperor's real daughter, Daphne has lived a lonely life as a maid at the imperial palace. Amidst the daily bullying and mockery she suffers from others, her sole...

A collection of oneshots based on fairytale/folklore. However, in this case the main characters are all men. Drawn in the accostumed gorgeous style of Est Em, Ever After brings us an interesting and sensual...

Works submission period for Silent Manga Audition second round: September 2013 - March 2014. Grand Prix: Father's Gift by Ichirou (Brazil) Semi-Grand Prix:2. New Haircut by MAGE (Indonesia)3. Time on the Bus...

The snake spirit Yi Mo and a scholar Shen Qingxuan met each other over a cup of tea. After Shen Qingxuan finally left with regret, Yi Mo realized that he counldn't live without him, so he pursued Shen Qingxuan...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the...

Defeated in war, Geonmu, a former emperor, loses all power and is taken as a prisoner by the enemy nation. Stripped of dignity and freedom, he is forced to become the personal plaything of the beautiful yet...

Deep in the heart of 19th Century London, a young nobleman named Cain walks the shadowy cobblestone streets of the aristocratic society in which he was born. Forced to become an Earl upon the untimely death of...

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10...