Futaki’s portfolio includes extensive work in the French market for adult audiences. Hungarian artist Atilla Futaki illustrated the book and was shy during the panel. Madrid-born Jose Villarrubia acted as the colorist for this project. Trimmer said, “Children’s publishing is such a great place to be because you’ve got the library’s support and the school’s support and the parents’ support and these stories will just live on and on and on.” Editor Christian Trimmer revealed that The Sea of Monsters and The Titan’s Curse are currently in the works and are tentatively set for release dates in 2012. The original novel contains 375 pages, but the graphic novel clocks in at 125 pages.
Venditti explained: “One of my own original creations, The Surrogates was recently adapted so I wanted to see what it was like on the other side of the adaptation process.” Robert Venditti wrote the graphic adaptation of The Lightning Thief.
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The Lightning Thief graphic novel launches today alongside the first book in the sequel series ( The Lost Hero). A timely release that can be recommended with George O'Connor's recent Olympians graphic novels, proving that while five years may seem too long, at least the wait was worth it.At a New York Comic Con panel discussion, Hyperion showed off a graphic novel adaptation of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
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Where the slick and flashy movie version failed, Venditti's sharp-edged writing and Futaki's gritty and unpretentious art capture the same sense of grunge amid the wonder. But Riordan also injected a sense of thorny reality with twists like Percy's good-for-nothing stepfather and the entrance to Hades residing in a soulless Los Angeles. How could it have taken five years to see a graphic-novel adaptation of such a successful property as the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and one that, with its heroic destinies and epic action, seems tailor-made to the format? Riordan's original, like Harry Potter as if reimagined by Neil Gaiman, hits all the straightforward archetypes, with young Percy Jackson clued into the secret that he's actually the son of the Greek god Poseidon, then educated at Camp Half-Blood with the other illegitimate demigods before embarking on a hero's journey to stop a war of the Olympians. Series creator Rick Riordan joins forces with three of the biggest names in the comic book industry to tell the story of a boy who must unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. An adaptation of Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief novel, which Has sold millions of copies worldwide Is a classroom staple Hasbeen on the New York Times best-seller list for more than ten years Has been adapted into two feature films, a Broadway musical, and soon, a television series on Disney+ Makes Greek mythology relevant to modern readers with humor, relatable characters, and fast-paced action Can be enjoyed by readers ages 8-80 Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life.
Now submerge yourself in the thrilling, stunning, and action-packed graphic novel. Book One in the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series gets the graphic novel treatment from three big names in the comic book industry.