Marie Curie is the only woman ever to have received two Nobel prizes: the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work with polonium and radium in 1911. She was also the first woman ever to teach at the Sorbonne. This inspired comic is set at the time she received her second Nobel Prize, when a vicious press campaign was launched against her, denouncing her affair with the physician Paul Langevin. Through her flash-b...

On August 23rd 1942, the German Sixth army opened the siege of Stalingrad on the Volga River with a massive bombing attack from the air. It was to be an easy victory, so easy that Hitler split half of the forces in the South and sent them down into the Caucasus to capture the oil fields of Baku. From the beginning, both Sixth Army and the Caucasus Army ran into trouble. The Russians adapted a scorched earth policy in the South, setting fires to the oil fields of Baku and constantly reinfor...

By June of 1942, the Japanese had finished their stunning victories across the Pacific and down the Indo-China peninsula all the way to the Dutch East Indies, Sweeping all British, American and Dutch Forces before them. To solidify their Island Fortresses in the Pacific, and to finish off the remaining American Carrier Force they sent an invasion fleet against the Island of Midway with this two fold purpose. During the battle the Japanese lost four Aircraft Carriers, the cream of their Nav...

The Flying Tigers: The dark days at the beginning of World War 2 saw the Japanese victorious across the Pacific. Clair Chennault was called to China by Chiang Kai-Shek to help his failing Chinese Air Force combat the Japanese Imperial Army. Chennault recruited one hundred American pilots as volunteers for the American Volunteer Group and they were secretly sent to China by ship. With one hundred and twenty P-40 fighters the "AVG" confronted the Japanese armed forces, decisively helping to ...

U-Boat the Happy Times: Shortly after America's entry into World War 2, German U-Boats were roaming almost at their leisure up and down the East Coast sinking ships, just about entirely unopposed. The Pacific War was drawing all of the assets of the US Navy and none could be spared for the Atlantic at this crucial time. Hitler's U-Boats ravaged American shipping, eagerly targeting freighters and oilers and other transports against a background of a well illuminated East Coast shoreline. No...

This is an autobiographical tale in which Michel Kichka goes back over the significant moments of a childhood, an adolescence, and a life overshadowed by the Holocaust, from Belgium to The Promised Land, from nightmares to funny anecdotes, moments of joy and liberation.

When the Allies landed at Anzio the success of an amphibious landing at that location, a beach surrounded by mountains, depended completely on the element of surprise and the swiftness with which the invaders could move before the defenders reacted. Any delay could result in the occupation of the mountains by the defenders and the consequent entrapment of the invaders. General Lucas, who preferred to take time to entrench against an expected counterattack allowed the German Forces in the a...

Journey to the West is one of the greatest treats in Chinese literature. A fantastic tale of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang as he travels west in search of Buddhist sutras with his three disciples, it has enertained readers for more than four centuries with the trials and tribulations strewn on the pilgrims' path. Readers, young and old, have loved the central character the Monkey King for his mischief and magical powers.This compact classic relates how Sun Wu...

Zaya, the fire witch, has grown exceedingly angrier at all of mankind and will now stop at nothing for revenge. This causes a violent civil war among the monsters themselves. While the other monsters work to reign her in Solomon Kane brings the fight to them in a poor unsuspecting town that is not likely to be standing when the dust settles. An epic car chase leads one monster closer to revenge while another monster seeks forgiveness.

July 2006. Gabriel El Chawadi says goodbye to his family at the Paris airport as they leave for their summer vacation in southern Lebanon. But a conflict at the Israel-Lebanon border escalates into a full-blown aerial attack, and for the next few harrowing weeks, the family hides for cover with friends and relatives, watches helplessly as people and buildings are destroyed all around them, and hope against all hope that France will evacuate them to safety. Back in Paris, Gabriel watches th...

The Monsters have escaped Solomon Kane’s prison but he has planned one step ahead. Kane has taken the one thing most valuable to Bigfoot, his family. A battle in a cave leads to the monster’s first casualty which only fuels Zaya’s fire and sends the team running right back in the direction from which they came, toward Kane. This time they’re not running for their lives, they’re running straight for a fight.

This is the story of Marcel Rayman, a young Polish Jew whose face is featured on the infamous 'Affiche Rouge', propaganda circulated in occupied France in an attempt to discredit the Parisian resistance. The Nazi abomination drove Rayman to set aside his pacifist principles and take up arms in the ranks of Missak Manoukian's resistance movement. For two long years, during which he saw his entire family deported, Marcel Rayman led a clandestine life, shrouded in death, fear and treachery.