The Poe Clan: a race of undead that feeds on the energy of the living, whiling away the centuries in a village of roses where time and geography have no meaning. Circumstances lead to a brother and sister, Edgar and Marybelle, being initiated into the clan too young, and therefore doomed to live out eternity forever on the brink of adulthood, until a wooden stake or a silver bullet should cut them down. In this groundbreaking manga, through three immortal adolescents and the mortals whose lives they touch, Moto Hagio explores what it means to live and to die, to have loved and to have lost.
Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga, and reads back to front and right to left.
Author: Moto Hagio
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 08/20/2019
Series: The Poe Clan
Pages: 512
Weight: 3.35lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.00w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9781683962083
About the AuthorThorn, Rachel: -
Rachel Thorn is from in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. She is a cultural anthropologist, writer, and an associate professor in the manga department at Kyoto Seika University. Her translations include the
New York Times Best-Seller
Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano and Hayao Miyazaki's
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Hagio, Moto: -
Moto Hagio was born May 12, 1949, in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture. She is one of a group of women born that year that broke into the male-dominated manga industry and pioneered the shojo (girls') movement. Hagio's
Heart of Thomas, inspired by the 1964 film
A Special Friendship, was one of the early entries in the shonen-ai (boys in love) subgenre. Her major works include
A Drunken Dream,
A, A',
They Were Eleven, and
Otherworld Barbara. She's won the Japanese Medal of Honor with the Purple Ribbon (the first woman comics creator to do so), received Japan's SF Grand Prize, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award Grand Prize, and an Inkpot Award, among other accolades. She lives in the Saitama Prefecture.