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3 Fictionalized History Comics

Swapna Krishna

Staff Writer

Swapna is the Comics Editor at Book Riot. She's a Space Columnist for Paste Magazine and writes for Syfy Wire—Fangrrls, Tor.com, Bustle, and other sites. She co-hosts a podcast called Desi Geek Girls. You can find her incessant ramblings on Twitter at @skrishna. She lives outside Philadelphia.

This week over on YouTube, Swapna is talking about fictionalized history comics, which are comics that reinterpret or reimagine history with changed elements.

Louise Brooks: Detective – Rick Geary

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage – Sydney Padua
Summit of the Gods, Vol. 1 – Bake Yumemakura, Jiro Taniguchi (5 volumes total)