Michael Wilson: 120 books
by Michael Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
It is 1888 and in the London district of Whitechapel a sleepless terror haunts the streets. Metropolitan Police Inspector, Edmund Reid, is called to a number of brutal murders that puts him at the centre of an investigation following a man who would become one of the world's most infamous serial...
Black Ships
Illustrated Japanese History--The Americans Arrive
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
On the 14th of July, 1853, the USS Plymouth, Mississippi, Saratoga, and Susquehanna sailed into Yokosuka, Japan. The mysterious "Black Ships" had arrived.
In this stirring account of a pivotal moment in modern Japanese history, award-winning author and illustrator team Sean Michael...
Fight the Power!
A Visual History of Protest Among the English Speaking Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Named one of Rough Trade’s Best Books of 2013
According to Gandhi, the Four Stages of Protest are as follows: First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win!
In Fight the Power!, comics authors Sean Michael Wilson and Benjamin Dickson team up with...
The Satsuma Rebellion
Illustrated Japanese History - The Last Stand of the Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A gripping graphic novel describing the uprising of 1877, when the old style samurai were crushed in a bloody conflict with the imperial army that ended samurai power in Japan
Award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson and acclaimed manga artist Akiko Shimojima team up to tell the...
Massacre at Wickenburg
Arizona's Greatest Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The massacre at Wickenburg was one of the most notorious crimes committed in the Wild West--a story revealed in this book through a criminal investigation.
November 5, 1871. A westbound stagecoach carrying seven men and one woman left Wickenburg in the early morning hours. At 8:00 a.m., six of the...
Performance and Practice
Oral Narrative Traditions Amongst Teenagers in Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
First published in 1997, this volume takes a dive into methods of teenage storytelling, including questions of believability, fashionability, rebellious spirit, the supernatural, personal narratives and riddles, along with an archive of texts collected by the author intended to illuminate and inform...
Goodbye God?
An Illustrated Exploration of Science Vs. Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
A graphic novel that explores evolution vs. creation and calls for an end to the teaching of creationism in schools. It pans out to consider the negative impacts of religion, and with the active support of the American Humanist Association, demonstrates how a concern for humanism, science, and reasoned...
Cold Mountain
The Legend of Han Shan and Shih Te, the Original Dharma Bums
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Here is a graphic novel portrait of the wild antics and legendary poetry of two of China’s greatest poets. Han Shan (known as "Cold Mountain") and Shih Te lived during the Tang dynasty (618–906 C.E.) and were critics of authority (both secular and religious) and champions of social justice....
Portraits of Violence
An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Bringing together established academics and award-winning comic book writers and illustrators, Portraits of Violence illustrates the most compelling ideas and episodes in the critique of violence.
Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Paolo Freire, Michel Foucault, Susan...
by Sean Michael Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Over one hundred years ago, the writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn gathered together a selection of kaidan, traditional Japanese ghost, myth, and mystery stories, and published them in English in over a dozen books. The kaidan feature vengeful ghosts and bewitching spirits that mete out karmic...
The Book of Five Rings
A Graphic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating a...
by Michael Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Book One of the Hunted Mage Trilogy
~AD 1011 Ancient Finland~
Once upon a time…Words held more Power and dragons roamed the world.
For Eyulf, the youngest son of a minor lord, the opportunity to train with a Rune-Singer Mage was the chance of a lifetime. He is content…until he discovers...
by Michael Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
* Contains only those poems Whitman wrote exploring masculine beauty and/or same-sex affection.
* Contains an abridged introduction by John Burroughs placing the work in its historical context as well as a contemporary preface by Michael Wilson. Sometimes gay readers and scholars have occasion to...
Storytelling and Theatre
Contemporary Professional Storytellers and their Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
This will be of particular interest to undergraduates of performing arts and the substantial community of those engaged in storytelling, filling a noticeable void in an emerging field of scholarship. Michael Wilson addresses the recent rise of storytelling as a professional performance art by providing...