Sky Hawk, Paperback

Two defeated samurai are exiled from Japan during the Boshin War of 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold. Ending up in Crow Territory in North America, they encounter Crazy Horse, chief of the Oglalas, and soon form a profound friendship and respect for each other's cultures. This respect was felt so deeply that the two Japanese travelers end up fighting alongside the Oglalas at the infamous encounter at Little Bighorn.

Jiro Taniguchi spent five years as assistant to the late mangaka Kyuta Ishikawa in Tokyo in the 1960s before debuting himself in 1971 inside Young Comics.