Review
"Morris deftly establishes a volatile chemistry between the main characters." --SFX Magazine, August, 2011
"It's a fantastical, supernatural story, but at its heart Mirabilis is a good, old fashioned adventure tale."
--FPI International, August 30, 2011
Product Description
There is a green comet in the sky and things are getting strange. Every day, fantasy and reality are getting harder to tell apart. Witches in bottles, warmongering cabbages from the planet Pluto, and a pterandon roosting on the Eiffel Tower. Or is it a pterodactyl? Jack Ember is caught between two very unreliable mentors. Talisin is a two-thousand year old wizard or an escaped madman - or possibly both. The Kind Gentleman is the sort of fairy godfather who will grant you three wishes you can't refuse. Both of them have plans for Jack, who's spent his life dreaming of adventure and now is about to get rather more of it than he bargained for. This is an epic full-colour graphic novel drawn from the pages of Random House's weekly comic "The DFC". It is a delightful fantasy adventure for all ages from 10 years and up.
From the Author
The authorial credits for this book have been left off the Amazon product description. They should read: Dave Morris (writer) and Leo Hartas (artist).
About the Author
Dave Morris is a bestselling author - in fact, he was 1990's top-selling author in the UK. In addition to having written a string of adventure novels and role-playing gamebooks for older kids and young adults, he is also an award-winning videogame designer with two Top Ten hits to his name. His six-part iPad role-playing game, The Fabled Lands, is due for release by Megara Entertainment in 2011. As a mentor in the American Film Institute digital content lab, he has worked with partners like NBC and Microsoft to create new forms of entertainment that fuse the best of traditional storytelling and interactivity. As a scriptwriter he has worked for the BBC, Endemol, Carlton, Pearson and Flextech. All of these skills of drama, visual storytelling, interactive design and new media come together in his epic graphic novel saga Mirabilis.
Leo Hartas comes from a long and distinguished line of British artistic talent. His mother introduced Brian Epstein to the Beatles while his father-in-law's classic picture book, The Giant Jam Sandwich, has been delighting kids for almost forty years. His own award-winning books include Haunted Castle, The Apartment Book and King Arthur's Spaceship. As well as book illustration he has worked in concept art for television and games. His dramatic narrative style and vivid, engaging characters ensured Mirabilis a weekly audience of over 5000 readers when it was serialized in the UK comic, The DFC. As co-creator of Mirabilis, Leo is not only responsible for the artwork but also works closely with Dave on the plotlines, designs the book covers and page layouts, masterminded the Mirabilis website and is actively involved in development of the iPad version. Leo lives with his wife, three children, two cats and numerous chickens in a sprawling medieval home that lies exactly on the Devon/Somerset border.
