European Comics in Official and Fan Translations

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Shelley 1 — Percy Shelley

21.02.2019 комментировать

Born into an aristocratic family, Percy Bysshe Shelley has no intentions of following in his father’s political footsteps. The rebellious young poet finds himself drawn to more scandalous pursuits: supporting anti-royalist and anti-clerical causes, championing vegetarianism, and extolling the virtues of atheism, an act that ultimately leads to his expulsion from Oxford University.Book 1 of “Shelley” lets us dive into Percy’s tumultuous childhood, giving us an insight into his friendships with some of the finest progressive thinkers of the times, not to mention his blossoming relationship with his future wife and author of “Frankenstein,” Mary.

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The Daughters of Salem Part 2

19.02.2019 комментировать

Colonial Massachusets, early 1690’s.

When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy’s gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things.

A fictional re-imagining of the Salem Witch Trials, in which gender politics, religion, xenophobia, innocent games of fortunetelling, and one man’s sinful indiscretion are all factors that lead to the deadly witch hunt.

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Cassio 9 — The Empire of Memories

19.02.2019 комментировать

In this riveting series finale, Tesio, the prophesied child of two ancient Egyptian deities, has recovered his mother’s body from the Louvre and wrested the fourth canopic jar from the convent at Monsarmat, leaving a bloody trail of corpses in his wake. Only one man stands any chance of stopping his mad rise to power: his half-brother Cassio. But since Tesio’s poison has stripped him of his immortality, Cassio’s going to need a lot of help. From the beautiful young archeologist Ornella Grazzi; from his recently resurrected mother, the goddess Armahl; and from the unlikeliest of sources: his mortal enemy, the monstrous Reptah.

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The Daughters of Salem Part 1

10.01.2019 комментировать

Colonial Massachusets, early 1690’s.

When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy’s gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things.

A fictional re-imagining of the Salem Witch Trials, in which gender politics, religion, xenophobia, innocent games of fortunetelling, and one man’s sinful indiscretion are all factors that lead to the deadly witch hunt.

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Cassio 8 — Painter of the Dead

09.01.2019 комментировать

A string of beautiful women gruesomely murdered. A cardinal slowly dying from poison in the Vatican. Deranged painter Vali Tesio leaves a trail of brutality across Europe in his quest to draw Jon Vegham from hiding. But just as archeologist Ornella Grazzi finds a mysterious resemblance between the reclusive billionaire who’s just hired her and the age-old mummy she’s been studying, she receives a call from Maria, the kindly nun who once saved her life: Jon Vegham is not to be trusted! The roots of these feuds and enigmas go back to ancient Rome, and Cassio’s struggle against his lifelong enemies.

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