Amy Unbounded
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| writers = Rachel Hartman
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Amy Unbounded is an ongoing comic book series by Rachel Hartman that began in 1996. Robbins, Trina (February 1, 2001). "Contemporary graphic novels for girls: a core list". Booklist, Pg. 985(1) Vol. 100 No. 11 Amy Unbounded won the 1998 Ignatz Award for Best Minicomic.{{cite web|title=1998 Ignatz Award Winners|url=http://www.spxpo.com/1998-ignatz-award-recipients|publisher=SPXPO|accessdate=2 October 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421005733/http://www.spxpo.com/1998-ignatz-award-recipients|archive-date=21 April 2012}}
Background
Amy Unbounded is set in the fictional fantasy kingdom of Goredd and features shape-shifting dragons that are capable of assuming human form. The story follows Amy, a nine-year-old girl whom Hartman has compared to "Anne of Green Gables and Harriet the Spy" in terms of personality. The series has had two spinoffs, a prose novel entitled Seraphina and the webcomic Return of the Mad Bun. Hartman has stated that she chose to incorporate the dragons shape changing into humans because she found dragons harder to illustrate.{{cite web|last=STAGGS|first=MATT|title=SDCC 2012: Interview with Rachel Hartman|url=http://suvudu.com/2012/07/sdcc-2012-interview-with-rachel-hartman-author-seraphina.html|publisher=Suvudu|accessdate=2 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222172039/http://suvudu.com/2012/07/sdcc-2012-interview-with-rachel-hartman-author-seraphina.html|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=dead}} Hartman chose to self-publish after facing rejection from traditional publishers,{{cite web|last=Atchinson|first=Lee|title=Plucky, Imaginative Heroines|url=http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/july99/hartman.shtml|publisher=Sequential Tart|accessdate=2 October 2012}} eventually publishing issues 7-12 of the series in a collected volume with funds received from a Xeric Grant.{{cite web|last=Wolk|first=Douglas|title=Xeric Grants Boost Comix Artists|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20011224/33169-xeric-grants-boost-comix-artists-.html|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=2 October 2012}}
Reception
Reception for the series has been positive,{{cite web|title=Review: Amy Unbounded|url=http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/apr02/tt_0402_1.php|publisher=Sequential Tart|accessdate=2 October 2012}} with Publishers Weekly favorably comparing it to the writing of Laura Ingalls Wilder.{{cite web|title=Fiction review: Amy Unbounded|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9717900-0-1|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=2 October 2012}} Strange Horizons called it "one of the small treasures of contemporary fantasy".{{cite web|last=Garrity |first=Shaenon |title=I Sing, Ye Gods, of Amy: Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming |url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030623/amy_unbounded.shtml |publisher=Strange Horizons |accessdate=2 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609151613/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030623/amy_unbounded.shtml |archivedate=9 June 2012 }} In 2010 Time Techland listed the comic as one of "ten comics that should run forever".{{cite news|last=Wolk|first=Douglas|title=Emanata: Ten Comics That Should Run Forever|url=https://techland.time.com/2010/06/11/emanata-ten-comics-that-should-run-forever/|publisher=Time magazine|access-date=2 October 2012|date=11 June 2010}}
Bibliography
- Belondweg Blossoming (2002)
References
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External links
- [http://rachelhartmanbooks.com/ Official author site]
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