Elfquest the comic book series continues, and you can now find it online in digital form in addition to printed paper “floppies.” Many beautiful collections-both in color and black and white-of the ongoing tale have appeared, as well as several spectacular “Art Of…” volumes. Much has changed in the nearly four decades since we wrote those words, yet much also persists. Ever since these insufferably beautiful, free-thinking little people came into our lives, we haven’t been sure of much except that we must tell their story. Is it an adult fairy tale? Socio-political allegory? Science fiction? Adventure? High fantasy? Romance? We don’t know, and we are terrible at self-labeling. Those who are discovering our story for the first time in these pages, we leave it to you to decide what Elfquest is and what it means to you. To the readers of Elfquest the comic, we hope the details and events we’ve brought to light here will help you to appreciate the story and its many complex characters on a new, perhaps more intimate level. We didn’t plan, in the beginning, to reincarnate Elfquest as a novel, but we discovered, as we wrote together, that the doing of it gave us a chance to expand greatly upon the original story. But straight prose must create its pictures in the reader’s mind, and this we have tried to do in “Journey to Sorrow’s End.” It was an instructive collaboration. To tell a comic book tale effectively, words and pictures must meld smoothly and interdependently. There is a world of difference between scripting a graphic story and writing a novel. But Elfquest the novel? That project, we must admit, came in through the side door! Within a very few years, we know we will realize that dream too. Our grandest dream was and is to see Elfquest produced as a full-length feature animated film. Our first wish for Elfquest was to see it grow from a black-and-white magazine into a series of full-color books. It struggles against the restrictions that independent publishers face. With Wendy as artist/writer and Richard as editor/publisher, Elfquest has existed since 1977 as a successful alternative comic that can be found around the world in comics specialty shops.īut the story itself, co-plotted by the two of us, seems to have a life-and a will-of its own. To those who are just now discovering theĪnd especially to those whose multicolored dreamsĮ lfquest is a comic about elves. To those who have stuck with us over the decades, Trademarks belonging to Warp Graphics, Inc.Ģ600 South Road - Suite 44-242, Poughkeepsie NY 12601 The name “Elfquest” and the “howling wolf” logo are registered It may not be reproduced in whole or in part This book is available in both ebook and print. Published by arrangement with Warp Graphics, Inc.Ĭopyright © 1982, 2020 by Warp Graphics, Inc. He could think of many other things he’d rather do…. To rescue Redlance meant fighting the humans. “Don’t worry,” said Cutter aloud, “Redlance’s won’t hang among them. **Cutter, those skulls-** came Skywise’s mental question. As he danced round the rock, shrieking with delight, the dagger added one more slash to Redlance’s back.įrom their hiding place behind the bushes, Cutter and Skywise winced in horror. The beating of the drums increased and one of the dancers whirled away from the ring of men circling the fire. Some were more yellowed with age, but all had the telling ridges of bone for ears and large oval eyes. Hanging by a thong near the rock on which he was bound, the skull had many companions.
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