The Lost Haida Manga: A Compendium

By Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

From internationally renowned artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, creator of the groundbreaking genre known as Haida manga, comes a landmark volume tracing the origins and evolution of an entirely new artform.

Blending North Pacific Indigenous iconography with the dynamic language of Japanese manga and graphic novels, Haida manga transformed visual storytelling and redefined what comics could be. Yahgulanaas, one of the most influential contemporary Indigenous artists working today, conceived Haida manga as a bridge between cultures. The genre draws on Indigenous knowledge, lived history, and visual traditions to create a powerful new language of storytelling.

This striking volume gathers rare and newly created works that chart the development of Yahgulanaas's groundbreaking style over the past forty years--from early experiments to fully realized visual narratives. Spanning from 1981 to 2025, this curated collection of 15 black and white ink comics are at once humorous and heavy, traditional and innovative, cultural and universal.

"Haida manga is not a fusion for fusion's sake. It is a response to a long history of imposed binaries: traditional versus modern, Indigenous versus non-Indigenous, white versus brown, local versus urban. Yahgulanaas rejects these categories not through theory but through practice." --from the Foreword by Wade Davis

Both an artistic archive and a visual manifesto, The Lost Haida Manga documents the birth of a genre--and the vision of the artist who invented it. An essential volume for understanding one of the most original artistic innovations of the 21st century, The Lost Haida Manga captures the moment a new artistic language came into being.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771624671
• ISBN13: 9781771624671
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 276 Pages