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| If you like your comics full of mystery and adventure, with an emphasis on good story, and you love the worlds of Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé, then you'll want to read The Rainbow Orchid... |
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"The art is wonderfully attractive but what impressed me the most was the slow-burning, exquisitely constructed plot." - Comics International
"The between-the-wars setting is meticulously rendered, the storyline intricate and engrossing... Ewing has crafted something at once reverential and joyous that has a life of its own." - The Financial Times
One of Lovereading4kids.co.uk Books of the Year 2009
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You can now read a huge preview of The Rainbow Orchid online, including an exclusive peek at volume two. Special features include pencils, annotations and full user-navigation control.
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Thursday 12 August 2010
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| I forgot to say in yesterday's workshop post that afterwards I went along to The Bookshop on East Grinstead High Street and signed their remaining stock of volumes 1 and 2 of The Rainbow Orchid - so that's the place to buy it in EG! |
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| "The characters are real, the setting is authentic, and this opening chapter hints at many plot strands. It's got depth, charm and real polish." - TRS2
"..the story is a thoroughly charming slice of nostalgia-tinged British adventurism." - Unified Review Theory
"..a genuine joy to read.." - The Real Mainstream
"It is not just ambitious but it works and with élan. The different levels of the story and their attendant styles lend a tremendous feeling of depth to the whole book.." - Zum
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| See the creative process that is used to get The Rainbow Orchid from the imagination to the page, from script and sketches to inks and colouring.
"A good comic strip is perfect economic story-telling; a panel is not just a pretty picture, but story in action, whether that story is being told through Julius Chancer running through the jungle or the expression on Lily Lawrence's face. Every line conveys information.."
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