Arcana Studios writes to tell us about The Clockwork Girl by Sean O’Reilly and Kevin Hanna. The five illustrated stories, originally published separately, has been long out of print, but managed to sell more than 340,000 copies. Now Harper is bringing it back into print as a single hard-cover volume with a new forward by O’Reilly and Hanna, “along with playful, full-page pin-ups of the characters.”
The book will also be out in trade paperback in the autumn, heralding the release of “the 3-D luximation animation film version of The Clockwork Girl. The film is voiced by a ‘dream team’ of actors as the characters, such as Carrie Ann Moss (The Matrix), Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Alexa Vega (Spy Kids), Jesse McCartney (Horton Hears a Who), and Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond).”
The story “takes place in a whimsical land far, far away where inventors compete to show off their latest trinkets and inventions at the local fair. A mad scientist, determined to win the top prize at the fair, creates a robot Clockwork Girl. Against all odds, she finds love and companionship in Huxley, the amazing mutant circus boy. Despite the threats of their warring families, they begin to explore the world together and discover what it means to be human—to move, to think, and ultimately, to love.”
The teaser site for the film is TheClockworkGirl.com.