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The Witches of World War II
» Graphic Novel » History
Leading Ladies
Magic
Occult
In the darkest hours of World War II, Doreen Valiente, an expert on British folklore and the occult, is approached by British intelligence who tell her they know she's a witch...and that's how she can best serve her country.
Together with the "most evil man in the world," a hard-nosed white witch, the grizzled founder of Wicca, and a professional exorcist and con man, Valiente will travel deep...
Bazuca: The Forgotten Heroine
» Manga » History
Leading Ladies
Military
Political
Little María is bored with her history homework until her grandfather tells her the legend of Agustina Rivas, better known as Tina Bazuca, a brave woman who fought in the April War and became an urban legend, but even more so, a true heroine.
Surrounded
» Comic » History
BIPOC
Leading Ladies
Political
School
In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a “charming and picturesque” little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents.
Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, they think in the area, but harmless enough. Until the day when the “charming school”, led by Prudence Crandall, announces that it will now welcome Black girls….
Thirty years before the...
Shanghai Red
» Comic » History
Family
Red is one of hundreds of people who were shanghaied out of Portland in the late 1800s. Drugged, kidnapped, and sold to a ship 's captain for $50, she wakes up on a boat headed out to sea for years, unable to escape or reveal who she is. Now, she 's coming back in a blood-soaked boat to find her family and track down the men responsible for stealing her life out from under her. Eisner-nominated...
A Christmas Carol
» Graphic Novel » History
Family
Faith
Holiday
Supernatural
From Stephen L. Stern, writer of Markosia’s masterful Beowulf Graphic Novel, and acclaimed artist Douglas A. Sirois, comes this superb full-color adaptation of Dickens’ timeless classic. Sacrificing none of Dickens’ rich language and filled with cinematic artwork, A Christmas Carol is a wonderfully faithful adaptation of the quintessential Christmas story.
The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
» Manga » History
Seventeenth century Japan: A rebellion in the Aizu territory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now the surviving nuns have sworn to seek revenge.
Shanghai Dream (English)
» Comic » History
Love
Magic
A young German Jewish filmmaker escapes the Nazi threat in Shanghai, where he is forced to adapt to a new land and cope with familial loss through the magic of filmmaking.
Red Harvest
» Comic » History
Family
Political
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33. Red Harvest is based on the tragic events that took place in Soviet Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1933. Stalin and the ruling Communist Party began their program of...
From Hell's Heart: An Illustrated Celebration of Herman Melville
» Graphic Novel » History
Monsters
Psychological
Supernatural
No American author has provoked the imaginations of readers more than Herman Melville. To mark the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth, fifty-seven world renowned artists have come together with gorgeous, brand new illustrations for Moby Dick, Bartleby, The Confidence Man, Pierre, Typee, Billy Budd, White Jacket and much more. A short passage of text will accompany each illustration.
Chasing Hitler
» Comic » History
Fighting
Military
Murder
Political
As WWII draws to an end and the Allies surround Berlin, Adolf Hitler realizes that all is lost. Or is it? Two allied service men are tasked with verifying Hitler's death. When they can't the chase begins.
