Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back

Benjamin A. Wilgus’s Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back: is an action-packed, time travel adventure--first in a graphic novel duology.

Her name is Mirai Yoshida.

She was not born in Japan.

She is not supposed to be in 1864.

But, through a time-travel mishap, Mirai is stuck with no way out. Help may be found when she befriends Hatsu, a humble tea mistress harboring a dangerous secret. Yet time is running short for the entire nation, because Mirai knows that the shogunate is about to fall. Learning the way of the sword might be her only path towards survival.

＂Lush historical setting, deft storytelling, and an ear for sharp dialogue.＂ -- Ethan Young, Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated author of Nanjing: The Burning City

＂A fascinating, intricate story.＂ -- Tony Cliff, author of Delilah Dirk series

ALISON WILGUS is a Brooklyn-based bestselling writer, editor and cartoonist who’s been working in comics for over a decade. She is the author of the SF graphic novel duology, Chronin (Tor Books), which NPR called ＂timeless in more ways than one,＂ and Book Riot called ＂magical,＂ and which has garnered a host of glowing reviews. Her middle grade graphic novel Science Comics: Flying Machines was named one of the National Science Teachers Association’s Best STEM Books for 2018, and was an Amazon Holiday Toy List Pick. Her next nonfiction graphic work, The Mars Challenge, is forthcoming from First Second. Her New York Times bestselling work has been published by DC Comics, Dark Horse, Del Rey, and Scholastic, and she served as a script and story writer for Cartoon Network’s ＂Codename: Kids Next Door.＂ In her spare time, she co-hosts a podcast about comics publishing called ＂Graphic Novel TK＂ with Gina Gagliano.