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Ursula K. Le Guin ’s A Wizard Of Earthsea gets a graphic novel version by Fred Fordham from Clarion Press with a 100,000 print trial
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Fred Fordhamis adaptingA Wizard of EarthseabyUrsula K. Le Guinas a graphic novel , follow out from Clarion Press in March next class and catch a 100,000 - copy mark run .
A Wizard of Earthseawas originally published by 1968 coiffe in the fictional archipelago of Earthsea , about Ged , a unseasoned mage who displays great might while still a boy and joins a school of wizardry , where his waspish nature drives him into battle with a fellow scholarly person . During a wizardly affaire d’honneur , Ged ’s charm goes skew-whiff and release a vestige creature that attacks him . The novel follows Ged ’s journey as he seeks to be free of the creature . It advance the Boston Globe - Horn Book Award in 1969 and was one of the final recipients of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979 . Le Guin pen five subsequent books that are together with referred to as the Earthsea Cycle , together withA Wizard of Earthsea : The Tombs of Atuan , The Farthest Shore , Tehanu , The Other Wind , andTales from Earthsea .
Fred Fordham has also adaptedHarper Lee’sTo defeat a MockingbirdandAldous Huxley’sBrave New Worldas graphic novels , as well as drawingPhilip Pullman ’s debut vivid novel , The Adventures of John Blake , from Phoenix Comcis Weekly .
A Wizard of Earthsea : A Graphic Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin , Fred Fordham – March 11 , 2025Ursula K. Le Guin ’s timeless and revered A Wizard of Earthsea is reimagined in a luxuriously expansive vivid novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham , Jehovah of stunning adaptation To Kill a Mockingbird and Brave New World . " The magic trick of Earthsea is primeval ; the lessons of Earthsea stay on as strong , as fresh , and as necessary as anyone could daydream . " — Neil Gaiman . Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea , but in his young he was the heady Sparrowhawk . In his thirstiness for power and knowledge , he tamper with long - held secrets and unleashed a unspeakable vestige upon the universe . This is the tumultuous tale of his examination , how he dominate the mighty words of exponent , tame an ancient dragon , and baffle demise ’s threshold to furbish up the balance . know the bestselling first adventure of Ursula K. Le Guin ’s Earthsea Cycle as a masterly craft lifelike novel . Fred Fordham brings new biography to Le Guin ’s iconic fancy classic with his breathtaking representative and thoughtful text adaptation .
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