Renowned illustrator and comic artist, Mark A. Nelson, spent years researching the legends surrounding the "fictional" town of Innsmouth, Mass, and discovered evidence that an artist, named Mannish Sycovia,traveled from revolutionary Russia to Innsmouth in 1914 to create portraits of the Innsmouth elite. Following the 1927 demolition of the town by the U.S. Army after an aggressive bootlegging raid, the artist was never heard from again. Only rumors and fishy stories remained until Nelson stumbled upon a hand-made portfolio housing the lost drawings of the denizens of Innsmouth.

Innsmouth: The Lost Drawings of Mannish Sycovia

Arts & Photography

Mark A. Nelson with Stephen D. Smith

Graphic Design

Alaxis Press

Nominated for two 2015 Eisner Awards: BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL and BEST PENCILER/INKER - François Schuiten. Winners announced July 10, 2015. After a freak accident on the Star Express roller coaster, 13 year-old Mary Von Rathen begins to lean. Doctors can not help her, so she is sent by her selfish mother and hen-pecked father to a private school in Sodrovni. Mary escapes and joins the Robertson Circus where she remains for several years, until she hears from newspaper editor, Stanislas Sainclair, that a scientist, Axel Wappendorf, might be able to help her. Wappendorf is working on a rocket to reach a planet that could hold the secret to Mary's trouble. Meanwhile an artist, Augustin Desombres, has run away from the busy world and buys an empty building on the High Plains of Aubrac in the French countryside. He begins painting murals of strange globes. Now as a young woman, Mary decides to join Wappendorf in the rocket. On the alien planet, they discover an area with many globes where she has a chance meeting with the artist. 
Winner of the coveted Gaiman Award as the No. 1 translated foreign comic book series published in Japan in 2013, this story of perseverance and a young girl s search for love has been translated from it's original French into ten languages. Author and publisher Stephen D. Smith has now translated The Leaning Girl into English. It features an introduction by Karen Green, Graphic Novel Librarian at Columbia University.
 The hefty book measures 9.25" x 11.625" and .75" thick. Printed on beautiful art papers and cased in a softcover binding with reinforced flaps, the quality of the book itself is only outweighed by the material inside.

The Leaning Girl

Benoît Peeters

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Innsmouth: The Lost Drawings of Mannish Sycovia

The Leaning Girl