Archangel Studios’ The Red Star: Sword of Lies and Automatic Pictures’ Hatter M: the Looking Glass Wars placed first and second in the Best Graphic Novel/Drawn Book: Drama/Documentary category for the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).

Gold Medalist The Red Star: Sword of Lies follows the adventures of the Skyfurnace Konstantinov, and takes readers back to the origin story of the world of The Red Star. This collector's must-have trade paperback chronicles the tragic romance between Imbohl, the father of the Revolution, and the Goddess Pravda, whose power led him to renowned glory. Archangel Studios, ISBN: 978-0-9714714-4-3

Silver Medalist Hatter M: the Looking Glass Wars spins out of Frank Beddor’s bestselling The Looking Glass Wars prose series, in which Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan was ordered by Queen Genevieve to take Princess Alyss and leave Wonderland after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd. But while escaping through the Pool of Tears (the portal connecting Wonderland to our world) crushing centrifugal force pulled them apart, and Alyss was lost. In this first volume of the geo-graphic parallel adventure trilogy, Hatter finds himself in Paris, France in the year 1859 shockingly separated from the child he had been sworn to protect. Hatter must now embark upon a non-stop quest, crisscrossing the globe for 13 years in search of his lost Princess. Automatic Pictures, ISBN: 978-0-9818737-0-1

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