Flight Volume One

Part of Flight

Edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Afterword by Scott McCloud
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
 
Kazu Kibuishi, New York Times bestselling author of the Amulet series
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
Derek Kirk Kim, Eisner Award–winning creator of “Urgent Request”
Enrico Casarosa, Academy Award–nominated director of Luca
Clio Chiang, Academy Award–nominated artist on Raya and the Last Dragon
• And more!
Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of the bestselling graphic novel series Amulet, with nearly ten million copies in print. He is also the creator of the webcomic Copper and the graphic novel Daisy Kutter: The Last Train. Kazu also illustrated the fifteenth-anniversary paperback editions of the Harry Potter series for Scholastic.

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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
 
Kazu Kibuishi, New York Times bestselling author of the Amulet series
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
Derek Kirk Kim, Eisner Award–winning creator of “Urgent Request”
Enrico Casarosa, Academy Award–nominated director of Luca
Clio Chiang, Academy Award–nominated artist on Raya and the Last Dragon
• And more!

Author

Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of the bestselling graphic novel series Amulet, with nearly ten million copies in print. He is also the creator of the webcomic Copper and the graphic novel Daisy Kutter: The Last Train. Kazu also illustrated the fifteenth-anniversary paperback editions of the Harry Potter series for Scholastic.

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