It’s daring, it’s deep, and like Avatar, it’s that rarest thing these days: a thrilling adventure that isn’t in the least cynical.
“With Threadworlds, Bryan further spreads his wings as an author and an artist, taking us to startling new worlds and creatures at once alien and brimming with familiar humanity. “The seven seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have delivered some of the most beloved and inspired storytelling of our time,” Siegel said. Its “awe-inspiring stable of creators” and editor Mark Siegel helped seal the deal for Konietzko, who says he now has “a lot of writing and drawing to do.” Konietzko counts himself lucky to have found a home for Threadworlds at First Second Books, a youth imprint home to intriguing work from comics outliers like Paul Pope ( Battling Boy), Richard Sala ( Cat Burglar Black), and Jillian and Mariko Tamaki ( This One Summer). I hope she’ll be inspiring to readers of all genders and ages, but especially girls who are interested in studying and pursuing science. “This is basically Nova’s long origin story as scientific superhero. “I definitely wasn’t aiming to be topical, but once science became the focal point of the story I knew it was important to me to have a young girl as the main character,” Konietzko added in an Entertainment Weekly interview about Threadworlds. With Daniel Dae Kim, Dallas Liu, Ken Leung, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee. I am compelled to go on this journey with her and explore these worlds together.” “Threadworlds.” Click to enlarge. Avatar: The Last Airbender: Created by Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Albert Kim.
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He worked in TV animation as a character designer, storyboard artist, and art director before teaming up with Michael DiMartino to co-create and executive produce the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. “The things Nova wants to learn, I want to learn. Bryan Konietzko graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design’s illustration department in 1998. “Once I came up with the idea for Threadworlds and spent some time thinking about its main character, Nova, it became less of a choice and more of something I simply had to do,” explained Konieztko. Nova’s scientific discoveries set unequivocal changes in motion across Threadworlds’s interconnected planets, promising a more philosophical comics entry in a marketplace still mostly, dumbly bound by patriarchal superheroes. Like The Legend of Korra, Threadworlds is also led by a powerful female protagonist, the aptly named Nova, who is not an elemental superhero but instead a young scientist from a primitive planet whose fading empire is unable to let go of its oppressive traditions, one of which forbids women to read and write. The artists on our animation productions were so incredibly talented and inspiring that I got the itch to strike out on my own and test my mettle in this neighboring medium.” “My career took a different path for the last seventeen years, but I am finally getting around to it! Co-creating and producing Avatar and Korra was an incredible experience, but as an artist and writer I have longed to find a more intimate connection with the making of my work. “I have dreamed of doing a graphic novel project since art school,” said Konietzko in a written statement. But those with questions about whether or not Threadworlds will soon be adapted into an animated series should probably slow their roll.