Manga by Hayao Miyazaki

		Nagagutsu wo haita neko / Puss in boots

• 1969: A manga version for the serialization in a newspaper of a feature film by Toei Doga (Toei Animation Studio), for which Miyazaki worked as a key animator. Based on Charles Perrault's book. Pero, the dandy cat, helps a boy defeat an Ogre and win the heart of a princess.  

		Sabaku no tami / People of the desert

• 1969-1970: Sabaku no tami is a manga which Miyazaki wrote for a newspaper targeted for children. It deals with the devastation of war, betrayal, and the ugliness of the human nature under desperate situations.  

		Doubutsu takarajima / Animal treasure island

• 1972: A manga version for the serialization in a newspaper of a feature film by Toei Doga (Toei Animation Studio), for which Miyazaki worked as a key animator. It's a fun, slapstick adventure story based on Stevenson's Treasure Island.  

		Kaze no tani no Naushika / Nausicaä of the valley of wind

• 1982-1994: Miyazaki's lifework. A complicated and thought-provoking manga (or "graphic novel") about a princess who struggles to live in the world filled with ecological disasters, war, hatred and anger. By the time he finished he had tackled some of the most difficult themes in literature: the conflicts between Nature and Man, war and peace, hope and despair, and the meaning of life and death.  

		Imouto he / To my sister

• 1982: A six page graphic poem about a dream a boy has in which he and his sick twin sister fly and travel around the world, and he can bring happiness to her.  

		Shuna no tabi / The journey of Shuna

• 1983: An all-watercolor 147 page manga considered by some as a Nausicaä prototype. It's about a prince of a very poor country that journeys in search of the the Golden Wheat to save his people from starving.  

		Hikoutei jidai / The age of the flying boat

• 1990: A 15 page all watercolor manga, which the animated film Porco Rosso is based on. It was serialized in Model Graphix, a monthly magazine about scale models, as a part of Miyazaki's "Zassou nouto" series.  

		Zassou nouto / Daydream data notes

• 1992: This is a series of manga (or rather, "graphic essays") which Miyazaki has (very) sporadically been writing in a Japanese scale model magazine, Model Graphix (1984-1992). They are totally independent manga stories, mecha ideas, or movie ideas about tanks, planes, or battle ships from the era before World War II - the "favorites" of Miyazaki.  

		Hansu no kikan / The Return of Hans

• 1994: An all-watercolor manga based on the fictional adventures of Hans, a German chief tank mechanic, at the end of World War II.  It was serialized in Model Graphix, a monthly magazine about scale models, as a part of Miyazaki's "Zassou nouto" series.  

		Kuuchuu de oshokuji / Dining in the air

• 1994: An all-watercolor short manga about the history of in-flight meals.  

		Doromamire no tora / Tigers covered with mud

• 1998-1999: An all-watercolor manga based on the memoirs of Otto Carius, a German tank commander. It was seralized in Model Graphix, under a new series name "Mousou nouto".