Drawn & Quarterly Reveals New Manga Acquisitions

Drawn & Quarterly has announced its acquisition of publication rights to Shigeru Mizuki’s Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Soin Gyokusai Seyo!) and NonNonBa (Nonnonba to Ore) manga series.

Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is Mizuki’s semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks faced by a Japanese infantry unit before the end of WWII. The award winning NonNonBa manga is a historical fiction about a young boy in the 1930s introduced to classic Japanese ghosts and folklore by an old neighbor woman. Shigeru Mizuki is best known as the creator of Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro.

Source: The Comics Reporter