Let your imagination take flight with the first volume of this groundbreaking graphic novel fantasy anthology series, featuring short stories from some of today’s most legendary artists, including the series editor, Amulet creator Kazu Kibuishi! “Most of the stories in this gorgeous color anthology are about flying, but the title also refers to its contributors starting to take wing. . . . As Scott McCloud notes in his afterword, they’re the future of comics.”—Publishers Weekly From the maiden voyage of a home-built plane to the adventures of a young courier and his flying whale, this first volume of
Flight brought the titular theme and its many incarnations to life and collected the voices of brilliant illustrators and animators before they launched to fame.
This comics anthology, featuring an afterword by Scott McCloud, is full of memorable and gorgeous tales from multiple
New York Times bestselling authors, Eisner Award–winning creators, and Academy Award–nominated artists, including
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Kazu Kibuishi,
New York Times bestselling author of the Amulet series
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Jen Wang,
New York Times bestselling author of
The Prince and the Dressmaker•
Hope Larson, Eisner Award winner for her
A Wrinkle in Time adaptation
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Derek Kirk Kim, Eisner Award–winning creator of “Urgent Request”
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Enrico Casarosa, Academy Award–nominated director of
Luca•
Clio Chiang, Academy Award–nominated artist on
Raya and the Last Dragon• And more!
Originally published by Image Comics in 2004, Flight, Volume One launched this graphic novel series with a resounding bang. Since then the Flight series has steadily increased in popularity-and now all of the Flight backlist will be coming to Villard!
Flight, Volume One received a great boost when graphic novel hero Scott McCloud praised the quality and artistry of the book in an afterward entitled THE YEAR COMICS TOOK FLIGHT. Little could readers know at the time how prophetic McCloud's words would prove to be.
"Regardless of where it's shelved, this book belongs in every library." - Library Journal on Flight, Volume One
Authors included in Flight, Volume One are: Bengal, Bill Mudron, Catia Chien, Chris Appelhans, Clio Chiang, Derek Kirk Kim, Dylan Meconis, Enrico Casarosa, Erika Moen, Hope Larson, Jacob Magraw-Mickelson, Jake Parker, Jen Wang, Joel Carroll, Kazu Kibuishi, Khang Le, Neil Babra, Philip Craven, Rad Sechrist, and Vera Brosgol.
