Fantasical creatures of the sea

... in graphic novels

Sailor Twain, or the mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel

On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the busiest port in the United States.  A wildly popular author and a cursed French nobleman join fates with the mermaid.

 

Dear creature by Jonathan Case

Deep beneath the waves, a creature named Grue broods.  Grue found Shakespeare's plays in cola bottles and, through them, a new heart. Now he yearns to join the world above with his new love.

 

Children of the sea by Daisuke Igarashi ( 4 volumes)

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea that she does. Are they part of worldwide disappearance of the ocean's fish?

 

 

Underwater welder by Jeff Lemire

Lemire, author of Essex County, Sweet tooth and Animal man, tell the story Jack Joseph, an undersea welder. He is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. Then one night, deep in the icy solitude of the ocean floor, something unexplainable happens.