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Li Kunwu's story is a personal one that is inextricably linked to his three decades as a propaganda artist for the Communist Party. We're taken on...

After years as a prisoner in the Bastille, Dr. Manette is reunited with his daughter in England. There, two men an exiled French aristocrat and a ...

In the distant future, Verloc Nim wakes up in the middle of nowhere suffering from complete amnesia. He remembers nothing of his former life. But w...

Verloc Nim has travelled with his brother Conrad to the desert planet Ona(ji) to recover the mysterious biorobotic experiment aama. The planet is ...

Verloc Nim and his brother Conrad depart on an expedition to recover the mysterious substance aama, which has transformed the environment of the pl...

On Ona(ji), Verloc Nim is the sole survivor of an expedition to recover Aama, the experiment that has transformed the surface of this desert planet...

In December 1926, renowned crime novelist Agatha Christie vanished, sending shockwaves through British society. As the authorities scoured the cou...

In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema histo...

Eisner Nominated 2021 At sixteen, bivouacked on a mountainside beneath a sky filled with stars, Jean-Marc Rochette has already begun measuring hi...

From the thirty-two canvas Campbell's Soup Cans to the Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol's silk-screen prints are the epitome of Pop Art: witty, gimmick...

In 1969, humankind set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins carried the fire for all the world. Backed by the ...

The dazzling, provocative work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (19601988) would come to define the vibrant New York art scene of the late 70s and early 80s...

A tale of terror unlike any other: The barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless, or so the expedition from Miskatonic Unive...

Hamburg, 1960. Astrid has finished art school and now works as a photographic assistant. Her relationship with a young graphic designer, Klaus, is ...

During the 1970s, when many Eastern European citizens dreamed of going West, two young students travelled the other way. They studied at the Acade...

Filiu and David B. draw striking parallels between ancient and contemporary political history in this look at the US-Middle East conflict.  The rea...

In the third volume of their graphic history of US and Middle East relations, Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B. cover the tumultuous period that began...

The second volume of Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B.s acclaimed history of US-Middle East relations documents a period of dramatic conflict and chan...

1919 the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire is losing control of the city port of Fiume to pirates. A self-styled Pirate King, Gabriele d'Annunzio ...

But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist is an introduction to the world of Margaux, a charming 30-something living in Paris, navigating the wor...

Assigned female at birth, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers. As puberty hits and begins to change his body, it al...

In October 1958, a young German journalist arrives in Havana, Cuba, and sets out to meet and interview Fidel Castro on behalf of a German newspaper...

In London, the moment two commuters, Aaron and Lilly, lay eyes on each another on a packed Monday morning tube train, everyone else around them van...

Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite...

Genius, eccentric, exhibitionist: there is no shortage of adjectives to describe the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. Yet this iconic artist...

Nominated for the prestigious Angoulême Festival Grand Prix, Vanistendael creates comics 'about life as it really is'. A beautiful, unexpected stor...

On the run from the mob, a trio of 1920s Chicago Jazz musicians take a job from an elderly reverend, playing for what they think is his wifes funer...

In a sleepy village, a retired gentleman is consumed with tales of chivalry. Seeing no impediments, such as logic, propriety or sanity, to fulfill...

The second volume of Don Quixote is much darker than the first, picking up the story where Volume I left off and taking us to Don Quixote's death. ...

Run Wrake's career as an animator and graphic designer was distinguished by an engagement with music, from the videos he produced for the Gang of F...

Edinburgh-based cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favourite films. In Filmish, Rosss cartoon alter-ego guides ...

Three short stories, each focusing on the relationship between mother and child. ''''The Piper Man'''' is structured around the legend of The Pied ...

Frida Kahlo, remembered as one of the most inspiring personalities of the 20th century, was a woman of two intertwined parts: she was both a charis...

In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, Fun. A century la...

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (18481903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the...

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, was o...

Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. Chillingly atmosph...

Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. An influence on wr...

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psy...

Saudi Arabia offers few prospects for the bright young Mohammed El-Gharani. With roots in Chad, Mohammed is treated like a second-class citizen. H...

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke: David Bowie had an extraordinary talent for reinvention. But at the beginning of his career, he ...

John and Naomi were childhood sweethearts whose lives took them in different directions. As adults, they are reunited by accident and love takes ho...