Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
10 best books like Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Shigeru Mizuki): PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001, Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, Slum Wolf, A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories, Ayako, Opus, The Book of Human Insects, Trash Market, The Walking Man, It Was the War of the Trenches
PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 3770467574 |
I haven't actually been a huge booster of the works of Osamu Tezuka. Beyond a hard-won affection for his
Buddha
, I haven't come to take much enjoyment from the other books of his I've sampled. Phoenix, Adolf, Blackjack. They just haven't won me over. I think I may be too far divorced from the...
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867196025 |
This harrowing story of Hiroshima was one of the original Japanese manga series. New and unabridged, this is an all-new translation of the author's first-person experiences of Hiroshima and its aftermath, is a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people. Its emotions and experiences...
A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants.
Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his...
A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0878160183 |
‘A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories’ written and illustrated by Will Eisner, one of the giants in the sequential arts arena, is a perfectly executed graphic novel, which provides the reader a peek at the American experience during the early 1930s. Through four interconnected graphic...
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1934287512 |
Long considered as one of Osamu Tezuka’s most political narratives, Ayako is also considered to be one of his most challenging as it defies the conventions of his manga by utilizing a completely original cast and relying solely on historical drama to drive the plot. Ayako, pulls no punches, and...
| Author | Satoshi Kon |
| ISBN | 1616556064 |
Brilliant anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue) died tragically young in 2010 at the age of forty-six. But before he became a director, he was a manga artist, and Dark Horse is honored to remember Kon with the release of Satoshi Kon’s...
The Book of Human Insects
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1935654209 |
Toshiko Tomura is a genius; the darling of the intelligentsia. A modern-day Michelangelo, this twenty year-old is already an established international stage actress, an up-and-coming architect, and the next recipient of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize as Japan's best new writer. Her actions...
| Author | Tadao Tsuge |
| ISBN | 1770461744 |
Dark and funny comics from a Garo magazine manga-ka
Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine Garo during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for his unpretentious journalistic storytelling and clear, eloquent cartooning....
| Author | Jirō Taniguchi |
| ISBN | 8493340995 |
Whoever takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet? To stop and observe the comings and goings of the birds? To play in the puddles after the rain has gone? To return a shell to the sea? The Walking Man follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan - often silent,...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606993534 |
World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi’s. (His very first—rejected—comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work, the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of the Trenches is Tardi’s defining,...
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1401220800 |
The tiny, isolated fishing village of Large Mouth never saw much excitement – until the arrival of the stranger, that is. Wrapped from head to toe in bandages and wearing weird goggles, he quietly took up residence in the sleepy town’s motel. Driven by curiosity, the townfolk quickly learn the tragic...
La virginité passé 30 ans - Souffrances et désirs au quotidien
| Author | Atsuhiko Nakamura |
| ISBN | 2369743018 |
Au Japon, un quart des hommes entre trente et cinquante ans n'aurait jamais eu d'expérience sexuelle, ce qui représente donc plus de 4 millions d'individus… vierges ! Ce sont les vies de huit d'entre eux qui sont mises en scène dans ce manga sociologique. Des vies bien réelles, entre souffrances...
Radnja Brodeckovog izvještaja odvija se u zabitom pograničnom selu netom poslije rata. Glavni lik, Brodeck, vratio se nakon godina provedenih u logoru i trudi se živjeti što mirnije i bezbolnije. No u selo dolazi stranac Anderer - odnosno Drugi. Zbog ratnih trauma kojih se još živo sjećaju,...
