A children's author is sucked back into the world of his childhood imagination - only to find it transformed into a landscape of horror! Can he escape this prison of the mind - or end the war that has devastated his imagination?
The twenty-first century's greatest living children's author - Christopher Grahame - is drawn back into Castrovalva, the world of his childhood imagination, when the stress of his fame starts to weigh on him.
But Castrovalva has gone to hell in his absence - devastated by war, famine and loss. And now Christopher can't wake up. Has he lost his mind... or his innocence?
"Edington’s storytelling capabilities paired with D’Israeli’s grasp of the visual medium takes a hold of the imagination and runs with it." - Comics Bulletin
"For the dreamer in all of us, this book is startling and scary in just the right way." - Read About Comics
"An intelligent and entertaining genre-bending grown-up fantasy adventure, definitely worth a read." - Readers of the Lost Art
"It's an incredible story. There isn't a wrong note in it." - Locus Online
Ian Edginton is an Eisner-nomiated comics writer who has turned his pen to everything from the biggest licenses and corporate characters under the sun - Terminator, Aliens, Predator, Planet of The Apes, Batman, Warhammer 40,000, Judge Dredd, Sherlock Holmes - to works of deep personal insight. D'Israeli is the pen name of Eagle Award-winning artist Matt Brooker, who has been prolifically working in comics for over twenty years. He is best known for Lazarus Churchyard and Torchwood, as well as Judge Dredd, XTNCT and Lowlife for 2000AD. He is the artist on Ordinary, coming from Titan Comics in October 2014.
A children's author is sucked back into the world of his childhood imagination - only to find it transformed into a landscape of horror! Can he escape this prison of the mind - or end the war that has devastated his imagination?
The twenty-first century's greatest living children's author - Christopher Grahame - is drawn back into Castrovalva, the world of his childhood imagination, when the stress of his fame starts to weigh on him.
But Castrovalva has gone to hell in his absence - devastated by war, famine and loss. And now Christopher can't wake up. Has he lost his mind... or his innocence?
Reviews
"Edington’s storytelling capabilities paired with D’Israeli’s grasp of the visual medium takes a hold of the imagination and runs with it." - Comics Bulletin
"For the dreamer in all of us, this book is startling and scary in just the right way." - Read About Comics
"An intelligent and entertaining genre-bending grown-up fantasy adventure, definitely worth a read." - Readers of the Lost Art
"It's an incredible story. There isn't a wrong note in it." - Locus Online
Author
Ian Edginton is an Eisner-nomiated comics writer who has turned his pen to everything from the biggest licenses and corporate characters under the sun - Terminator, Aliens, Predator, Planet of The Apes, Batman, Warhammer 40,000, Judge Dredd, Sherlock Holmes - to works of deep personal insight. D'Israeli is the pen name of Eagle Award-winning artist Matt Brooker, who has been prolifically working in comics for over twenty years. He is best known for Lazarus Churchyard and Torchwood, as well as Judge Dredd, XTNCT and Lowlife for 2000AD. He is the artist on Ordinary, coming from Titan Comics in October 2014.
