'It goes back to how this began - as a book which I never anticipated Inġ5 years of publishing and movie making, nothing has excited me more.'ĭisney To Pay $8 Million For Fantasy Series 'This project is closer to my heart than anything I've done before. So what I've tried to balance off, constantly, is - how can I make a beautifulīook which will be very decorated and very dense but would not be something which would seem like a piece of elitest art?' Notion of the rather rarefied, expensive edition. I like the idea of getting these personal visions into the largest number of heads possible.

My problem is that, essentially, I'm a democrat, and I like the democracy of art.

'I think the idea of the illuminated picture, the illuminated story, is one that's very appealing, and I've been talking to a couple of Movie poster design and try standing on your head and looking again.Ĭlick here for bibliographies for Abarat, Abarat II and Abarat III Over the lettering of the title, consider it a sneak preview of Disney's original Oh, and if the cover seems to have acquired some Harry Potter influence

April 2013 sees a new update from Clive (below) confirming that he is now working to a more extended timeframe for Book Four.Ĭandy's adventures promise to spawn a series of movies, and the possibility of other media too - Clive is already painting a series of Abaratian 'tarot' style cards. Volume of painted canvases (well over 500, now) stacked in Clive's studio, lending a comforting sense of momentum to the whole series.Ībarat: Absolute Midnight was published in September 2011, with paperback editions released in the UK (October 2012) and later in the US (planned for September 2013).Īlthough Absolute Midnight is inescapably dark in sentiment, more glorious days will follow - Clive continues to work on writing Book Four - Kry Rising - and a gold-covered Book Five has a new working title, Abarat : Until The End Of Time. Since then, Clive has worked on other projects but has continued to paint for Abarat and there's an astonishing The second volume - Abarat : Days of Magic, Nights of War. The first volume - called simply Abarat - arrived on UK & US shelves in October 2002 and then spread across the world inįoreign language editions with additional text-only softback versions in the UK and US. With the burgeoning storyline, caused Abarat to split into 4, then 5, separate The Book Of Hours became Abarat and the proliferation of paintings, Autumn 2002 brought with it Abarat the first volume of a project thatīegan as an intensely private series of paintings, then coalesced intoĪn idea for 25 modestly illustrated tales collected as The Book

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