Tamamo the fox maiden : and other Asian stories / editors, C. Spike Trotman, Kate Ashwin, Kel McDonald.
Material type: TextSeries: A cautionary fables & fairytales book ; 2Publisher: [Chicago, Illinois], Iron Circus Comics, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 288 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1945820349
- 9781945820342
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Graphic Novel | 398.2095 T153 | Checked out | 06/21/2024 | 33111009350634 | |||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Graphic Novel | 398.2095 T153 | Available | 33111009147790 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A must for myth-loving middle schoolers." -- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
"And they lived happily ever after . . . I assume."
Vengeful spirits, flying ogres, helpful teapots, ghost pepper ghosts, and trickster tigers? That's just the start of this lively collection of Asian folktales, reimagined and retold in comics!
This second volume of the "Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales" graphic novel series is a thrilling, funny, and totally unexpected take on stories spanning the entirety of the Asian continent, with loads of lesser-known myths and legends from Tibet, India, Indonesia, and beyond. Featuring the work of GENE LUEN YANG, NICK DRAGOTTA, BLUE DELLIQUANTI, CARLA SPEED MCNEIL, NINA MATSUMOTO, and many more!
"A collection of Asian folktales retold as comics include vengeful spirits, flying ogres, and trickster tigers from Japan, China, Tibet, India, Indonesia and beyond."-- Provided by publisher.
The Lucky Teapot (Japan) / Nicole Chartrand -- #EndoftheWorld (India) / Shannon Campbell & Lucy Bellwood -- The Great Flood (China) / Stu Livingston -- The Demon with the Matted Hair (India) / Kate Ashwin -- Frog Skin (Georgia) / Nilah Magruder -- The Girl Who Married a Tiger (India) / Cat Farris -- Ghost Pepper (Laos) / Shannon Campbell & Molly Nemecek -- Two Foxes (Japan) / Carla Speed McNeil -- After the Rain (Myanmar) / Jose Pimienta -- From the Journal of the Monkey King (China) / Gene Luen Yang -- Urashima Taro (Japan) / Jason Caffoe -- The Ballad of Mulan (China) / Jonathon Dalton -- The Tiger, the Brahmin, and the Jackal (India) / Randy Milholland & Andrew Sides -- Tongue Cut Sparrow (Japan) / Ayano Hattori & Nick Dragotta -- The Legend of Asena (Turkey) / Kel McDonald -- The History of the Spectre Ship (Arabian Peninsula) / Caitlyn Kurilich -- Tamamo the Fox Maiden (Japan) / Terry Blas -- The Three Rhymesters (China) / Meredith McClaren -- Gold Sister, Silver Sister, and Wood Sister (Tibet) / Blue Delliquanti -- Hoichi the Earless (Japan) / Nina Matsumoto -- The Flying Ogre (China) / Ron Chan.