Star Trek icon George Takei will revisit his childhood in a timely graphic memoir from Top Shelf Productions tell his story as one of 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II.

Written with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, and illustrated by Harmony Becker, They Called Us Enemy will be published in summer 2019.

Best known for his role as Sulu on Star Trek: The Original Series and in six feature films, Takei is famed in more recent years for his social-media presence, his appearances on Howard Stern, and his work for LGBT rights, and in state and local politics. He also starred in the musical Allegiance, which is set during Japanese American internment and inspired by his story.

Following President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1942 order, every person of Japanese descent on the West Coast was sent to one of 10 "relocation centers," where they were held for years. Takei was 4 years old when his family was forcibly removed to to internment camps in Arkansas and California:

They Called Us Enemy is Takei’s firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother’s hard choices, his father’s tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.

Now an imprint of IDW Publishing, Top Shelf Productions also published Congressman John Lewis' acclaimed March trilogy, which chronicles his own experiences during the Civil Rights Movement.