Alix
Alix is a young Gaul, sold into slavery and adopted by a Roman nobleman in the time of Julius Caesar, and his adventures take him across the ancient world, from Egypt to Britain, with his…
The wider medium · 11 entries
History comics
Comics have been teaching history for as long as they have been teaching anything, from the lives of the saints on the back page of the Eagle to the painted pages of Look and Learn, which a generation of British schoolchildren read under the desk while ignoring the actual history lesson. Modern graphic history goes further, into memoir, journalism and some of the most ambitious comics ever made. Prince Valiant, in Phase 1, cross-links here, and so do the war comics.
The Eagle's history strips
The back page of Eagle was reserved for something improving, and for most of the 1950s that meant a biographical strip: the life of Christ, Saint Paul, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal…
Start with Titan's Classic Bible Stories: Jesus – The Road of Courage and the book edition of The…
Look and Learn
Look and Learn was an educational weekly for children, full of painted illustrations of history, science, geography and literature, and it was a fixture of British childhoods for twenty…
The Cartoon History of the Universe
Larry Gonick set out to tell the whole history of the world in comics, from the Big Bang to the present, and, over thirty years and several volumes, he did it.
Start with The Cartoon History of the Universe: Volumes 1–7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great
Berlin
Jason Lutes spent more than twenty years on Berlin, a sweeping story of the city in the years between 1928 and 1933, as the Weimar Republic collapses and the Nazis rise to power.
Start with Berlin
Murena
Lucius Murena is a young Roman nobleman in the court of Nero, and he finds himself caught up in the deadly politics of the imperial family, with poison, betrayal and murder at every turn.
Start with Murena, Volume 1: Purple and Gold
Age of Bronze
Eric Shanower's retelling of the Trojan War draws on every version of the story, from Homer to Chaucer and Shakespeare, and on the archaeology of the Bronze Age, to create a realistic…
Start with Age of Bronze, Volume 1: A Thousand Ships
Louis Riel
Louis Riel was a Métis leader who led two rebellions against the Canadian government in the nineteenth century, and was hanged for treason in 1885.
Start with Louis Riel
The Photographer
In 1986 the photographer Didier Lefèvre travelled with a Médecins Sans Frontières mission into Afghanistan, during the war with the Soviet Union.
Start with The Photographer
Hark! A Vagrant
Kate Beaton's webcomic is a series of short, sharp comic strips about history and literature, from the Brontë sisters going "dude-watching" to Napoleon's insecurities and the private lives…
Start with Hark! A Vagrant
March
John Lewis was one of the leaders of the American civil rights movement, and he marched with Martin Luther King at Selma, where he was beaten by police.
Start with March: Book One