Lone Wolf and Cub (2000)
Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's manga follows Ogami Itto, the shogun's disgraced executioner, after the Yagyu clan frames him for treason and murders his wife. Refusing suicide, Itto takes to the assassin's road with his infant son Daigoro in a baby cart armed with hidden weapons, taking contracts to fund a war of vengeance against the Yagyu across feudal Japan's back roads and battlefields.
Publisher
Volumes
28
Published
2000–2002
Status
Completed
Genres
Format
Standard
Medium
Awards
Harvey Award - Best Presentation of Foreign Material (2003), Harvey Award - Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work (2002), Harvey Award - Best Presentation of Foreign Material (2002), Eisner Awards - Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material (2001), Harvey Award - Best Presentation of Foreign Material (2001), Eagle Awards - International Section - Favourite Manga Comic (2000), Squiddy Award - Best Reprint Book/Collection (2000)
Decade
Original Language
Japanese
Language
English
All Volumes in Lone Wolf and Cub (2000)
Bill Sienkiewicz
Penciller, Inker, Colorist, Cover Artist, Other
Carlo Pagulayan
Penciller, Inker
Dana Lewis
Writer, Translator
Digital Chameleon
Penciller, Letterer
Frank Miller
Writer, Penciller, Cover Artist
Goseki Kojima
Artist, Penciller, Inker, Other
Guy Davis
Cover Artist
Howard Rourke
Penciller, Inker, Colorist
Kazuo Koike
Writer, Artist
Lynn Varley
Colorist, Cover Artist, Cover Colorist
Matt Wagner
Penciller, Inker, Colorist, Cover Artist
Vincent Locke
Cover Artist
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