Flight Volume Three

Various

ISBN 10: 0345490398 ISBN 13: 9780345490391

Publisher: Inklore, 2025

Synopsis

Let your imagination take flight with the third 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!

“Flight mixes the influences of comics, animation and classic children’s illustration into a timeless fantasy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From an adventure to the edge of the world to a sea monster’s ill-fated first foray onto the land above, this third volume of Flight collects the voices of many brilliant illustrators and animators before they launched to fame.

This reissued comics anthology is full of memorable and gorgeous tales from multiple New York Times bestselling authors and Eisner Award–winning artists, including:

• Kazu Kibuishi, New York Times bestselling author of the Amulet series
• Ben Hatke, New York Times bestselling author of Zita the Spacegirl
• Becky Cloonan, Eisner Award–winning author of Somna
• Matthew Forsythe, Charlotte Zolotow Honor–winning author of Pokko and the Drum
• Johane Matte, Annie Award–winning storyboard artist for The Wild Robot and Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Rad Sechrist, creator of the Emmy Award–nominated Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
• And more!

About this title

About the Author

Kazu Kibuishi was 24 years old and working full-time in the animation industry when he began developing the idea of doing Flight. He began contacting his friends in the animation, comics, and graphic novel world to see if they would want to join the project. He now works from his home studio in Pasadena, California, creating and promoting Flight and his popular young adult comic Daisy Kutter, which was nominated as an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults—the only graphic novel on the list in 2005.

Reviews

Starred Review. With truly stellar art from masters of the field, this fantasy anthology is a must for comics connoisseurs and a delight to readers who like pretty stories. Fanciful tales of children, monsters, fairy-filled forests and imagined worlds create an enchanted escape. Some of the stories are entirely wordless, while others are told from a child's point of view. Tony Cliff's "Old Oak Trees," recounts how the author's grandmother found a sort of "Wind in the Willows" gang of talking animals who live and love and play cricket in the local woods. Ben Hatke's "The Edge" follows two brothers who find out who really lives at the edge of the world. Kean Soo's almost heartbreakingly winning "Jellaby" is an account of a girl and a monster at a tea party. Multiple Academy Award–nominee Bill Plympton tells the story of "The Cloud," a little puff of vapor who just wants to float into representational shapes, but is squelched by its elders. Editor Kibuishi's contribution is also charmingly drawn but far from lighthearted; it details what happens when boys playing soldiers turn into men. Flight mixes the influences of comics, animation and classic children's illustration into a timeless fantasy. (June)
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The third sumptuously produced Flight anthology showcases some two-dozen talented cartoonists, most of whom usually work in Web comics and animation. Most are young, although as in Flight volumes 1 (2004) and 2 (2005), a few veterans, notably animator Bill Plympton, appear--and prove even younger at heart. Several have illustrated children's books, others design video games, and the preponderance of their stories have young protagonists (often saving their elders through personal bravery) or feature elements that kids like, such as monsters and anthropomorphized "funny animals." The high quality of the contributions is impressively consistent, yet four deserve special mention: animator Michael Gagne's tale of a heroic young fox who defies a fearsome, subterranean beast; Johane Matte's hilariously kinetic depiction of a cat getting his comeuppance after terrorizing various birds; Israel Sanchez's account of a mischievous baby dragon's "Saturday"; and Phil Craven's saga of a youngster who saves a monster from hunters. That those standouts are all wordless or nearly so underlines the emphasis on the visual that is Flight's most notable strength. Gordon Flagg
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Edition details

• Publisher: Inklore
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345490398
• ISBN 13: 9780345490391
• Binding: Comic
• Number of pages: 352