Rainbow Orchid [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140525047X
• ISBN-13: 978-1405250474
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,166,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Garen's love of drawing and writing goes back to when he was very young, and had to spend a lot of time in hospital, so his mum supplied him with plenty of comics to read, and pencils and blank paper to draw with, and he's been making comics ever since! Other jobs have included working at a mushroom farm, an airport hotel, a software company and doing loads and loads of illustrations for books, magazines, t-shirts, theatres and newspapers. He's been the editor of a local entertainments guide (5D) and a comic strip anthology (Cosmorama). He's adapted Shakespeare's The Tempest into a comic and is the writer and artist behind The Rainbow Orchid. He's an expert on the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-1880, he's half Scottish, one-sixteenth Romany Gypsy and plays bass guitar and does karate (though not at the same time).

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic follow-up, July 20, 2010

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J. Shurin "carnivore" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rainbow Orchid (Paperback)

The first part of the Rainbow Orchid saga was one of my favorite finds in 2009. Part 2 continues the fine work.

Although the cliffhanger ending will keep me nervous for the next six months, this is a brilliant middle volume. It adds more layers to the story, progresses the plot, gets us closer to the characters and leaves us wanting more.

Ewing's skill as an artist also continues to amaze. Even from the first page - with his gorgeous rendering of the Natural History Museum - it showed an attention to historical detail & painstaking craftsmanship. I also love the pop-art Lichtenstein style of the work, so much so that I wound up buying a print of the foxy femme fatale Crowe.

This is a heart-warming book, written and drawn with true devotion. I can't speak for kids, but as an adult, I love it. Bring out book 3.