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Tamamo the fox maiden : and other Asian stories  Cover Image Book Book

Tamamo the fox maiden : and other Asian stories / editors, C. Spike Trotman, Kate Ashwin, Kel McDonald.

Spike, 1978- (editor.). Ashwin, Kate, (editor.). McDonald, Kel, (editor.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1945820349 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9781945820342 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9781725414723 (FollettBound)
  • ISBN: 1725414724 (FollettBound)
  • Physical Description: 288 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: [Chicago, Illinois] : Iron Circus Comics, [2018]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Fables, Oriental > Comic books, strips, etc.
Fairy tales > Asia > Comic books, strips, etc.
Asians > Folklore > Comic books, strips, etc.
Genre: Graphic novels.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch 741.5973 T153f 2018 (Text) 33126024017968 YA Graphic Novels Available -
Erlanger Branch 741.5973 T153f 2018 (Text) 33126024017943 YA Graphic Novels Available -
Independence Branch 741.5973 T153f 2018 (Text) 33126024017950 YA Graphic Novels Available -

Editor Kel McDonald has been working in comics for over a decade—most of that time has been spent on her webcomic Sorcery 101. More recently, she has organized the "Cautionary Fables and Fairytales" anthology series while contributing to other anthologies like Dark Horse Presents, Smut Peddler, and Sleep of Reason. She has also worked on Buffy: The High School Years. She recently finished a creator-owned series, Misfits of Avalon. She’s currently working on her self-published series, The City Between. Her work can be found at kelmcdonald.com.

Editor Kate Ashwin is a comic artist who lives in West Yorkshire, England, with her two fat cats and one very understanding husband. She’s drawn and written over 1,000 pages of webcomics since 2002. Her most current project is the well-received Victorian-era adventure story Widdershins, which is currently on its sixth Kickstarter-funded volume. Kate has also contributed to, co-edited, and provided Kickstarter support to the "Cautionary Fables and Fairytales" books, written a story for Dark Horse Presents, and contributed artwork to critically-acclaimed kids’ weekly comic The Phoenix.


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