"Atar Gull is an African chief doomed to follow his father's footsteps as a slave in colonial Jamaica. Captured by the notorious pirate Brulart, Atar Gull is taken on a grueling journey across the Atlantic, witnessing horrors and injustices that should befall no man. Sold to 'honorable' slave owner Tom Will, he learns to bide his time with an unyielding resilience, until he can stay idle no more"--Back cover.

FABIEN NURY is an award winning French comics writer, with early successes such as Once Upon a Time in France, for which he received the 2011 prize for best series at the Angouleme International Comics Festival. He is most recently known for the original graphic novels The Death of Stalin and Death to the Tsar.

BRÜNO is an award winning, critically acclaimed artist and frequent collaborator of Fabien Nury.