Kagemori Press · Edition I

The
Ink
Dragon

A wordless manga in ink-wash and screentone. Then twenty-five pages that are not finished.

Scroll
Interior page from The Ink Dragon: a boy sits before a scroll while an ink dragon leans in close.

Told in ink

There are no words in it.

THE INK DRAGON is a complete sixty-panel manga told entirely without words — a hero’s journey drawn in ink-wash and screentone. Haru grinds ink until something ancient wakes inside it, and together they must face a masked thief wearing his old master’s face to recover the village’s sacred Seal Stone.

One hundred and twenty pages. No dialogue, no captions, no sound but the ones drawn on the page.

A silent temple at midnight. A boy who cannot make his brush obey. Then the ink itself opens an eye.
Interior page: the dragon coils above a mountain range under a full moon.
Interior page: the boy at his writing desk as the dragon rises from spilled ink.
Interior page: the masked thief confronted in the temple hall.
Interior page: the closing panel of the story.
Interior page: the opening panel of the story.

Interior pages, Edition I

The title splash page of The Ink Dragon: the dragon erupting from the ink over a temple floor.

The splash page · sixty wordless panels

Then the page goes blank

Twenty-five pages that are not finished.

Bound in behind the story: twenty-five blank-panel rectos across thirty-three distinct layouts — splash pages, diagonal panels, four-panel action. Every blank recto backs onto a blank verso, so ink and marker have nowhere to bleed through to another drawing.

Don’t draw the dragon. Let it draw itself.
  • Pages120
  • StoryWordless, ink-wash & screentone
  • Blank rectos25
  • Panel layouts33
  • Bleed-throughNone — every blank backs a blank
The book open to blank panel spreads beside the printed story.
Blank panel layout: three stacked frames.
Blank panel layout: two by two grid.
Blank panel layout: three by two grid.

Three of the thirty-three

The Ink Dragon on a desk beside a brush and inkstone, open to a blank panel spread.

Free

Ten pages, printable.

A ten-page set of the blank panels waits at kagemoripress.com/premium. It costs nothing. There is a one-minute question there about a heavier, marker-proof spiral edition — answer it, or don’t.

The ten pages →

A blank six-panel page from the printable set.

Edition I

Paperback and hardcover.

Paperback cover of The Ink Dragon.

Paperback

ASIN B0H8PTFX14

120 pages. The wordless story, then twenty-five blank-panel rectos.

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Hardcover edition of The Ink Dragon.

Hardcover

ASIN B0H8PDQRM3

The same book, cased in.

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