Iowa Center for the Book

In the beginning there was nothing - a void. Then the ancient gods and goddesses breathed life into lumps of clay and a great nation rose before them. So begins the Japanese creation myth, as recorded centuries ago in the Kojiki. It's an origin story unlike any other, retold for the first time by prize-winning artist Kazumi Wilds. Combing the raucous rhythms and gripping imagery of a graphic novel with the classic patterns of anorigin sstory - myth,...