

At the end of this series of pages, a few panels of Emily and Navin were drawn before they go on their journey to Alledia, and Miskit is seen as a regular stuffed animal. It depicts early versions of the characters Trellis (Trelly the Thief), Leon Redbeard (Leod the Cat), and a cat named Riley.

The comic below represents my first attempt at writing and drawing the story. To me, these books represented some of the highest forms of literature- like The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia but with the addition of worlds and characters fully illustrated by the authors- and the stories within the pages were told in the form of comics! I immediately knew I wanted to make something like these books, so I set a goal to create a graphic novel series that could deserve to stand on the bookshelf next to the works of these masters. Soon after, I read Bone by Jeff Smith and felt equally inspired. I was a sophomore Film and Media Studies major at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997 when I read the graphic novel series Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki for the first time. Visit Kazu online at boltcity.Amulet is a project I have thought about since I was 19 years old. He lives and works near San Antonio, with his wife, Amy Kim Kibuishi, and their children. Kazu also illustrated the covers of the 15th anniversary paperback editions of the Harry Potter series written by J.K. He is also the creator of Copper, a collection of his popular webcomic that features an adventuresome boy-and-dog pair.


About the Author: Kazu Kibuishi is the creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Amulet series, which is available in 16 languages. Emily learns that she is a Stonekeeper and essential to the survival of this world, and that her incredible story is only just beginning. Determined to rescue her, Emily and Navin are led into a world of robots, talking animals, flying ships, new friends. On their first night in the strange house, Emily and Navin's mom is kidnapped by a tentacled creature. A collection of the first eight books in Kazu Kibuishi's #1 New York Times bestselling series!Īfter tragedy strikes their family, Emily and Navin move with their mother into the old, mysterious home of their great-grandfather.
