bizenghast

CREATOR

Name: Tokyopop (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in the USA in 1997 by Stuart 'Stu' J. Levy (1967-). Stopped in 2011.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Tokyopop in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation partly focussed on Japanese Manga comic books, and it still has several active, overseas subsidiaries.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2005. Stopped in 2010 after 7 issues*.

The stories tell about an orphaned 15-year old girl, Dinah Wherever, who arrives to the ficticious town of Bizenghast in New Jersey. Her task is to rid an ancient mausoleum of the ghosts and lost souls that roam in the crypts, graves, and vaults, but at the same time she struggles with suspicions of a growing mental illness.

* A so-called Print-on-Demand issue was published as #8 in 2014 long after Tokyopop had folded.