Originally it was a fun side project, something to mess around with while I drew other projects.
I actually found very early sketches of the characters drawn in sketchbooks that date back to 2007. "The Nameless City" has been in the works for a really long time, much longer than any of my other comics. What are the origins of “The Nameless City”? How long was this project in the works and how much did the city itself and characters like Kai and Rat evolve as your initial idea gestated? Hicks discussed Rat, Kai and "The Nameless City" over email. Hero Complex readers can check out pages from "The Nameless City," published by First Second Books, below. "It appealed to me because I'd never done anything like it before." "But seriously, it was the challenge of the thing, both doing the research into what history would influence this story, and then setting out to draw that in both an appealing and authentic way," Hicks said. Of course that alone wasn’t what appealed to Hicks when developing a whole new world for the graphic novel.
Like, I got sick of drawing school hallways and decided to draw complicated historical Chinese houses instead. "Most of my stories have been set in modern times, a lot of them in high schools, and I was pretty burnt out on drawing school lockers," Hicks said in an email. See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour > While exploring the nuances of friendship may be nothing new to Hicks, the world of "The Nameless City" is a definite change for the Eisner Award-winning cartoonist, who is known for "The Adventures of Superhero Girl," "Friends With Boys" and "Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong." It’s a challenging foundation for forging a friendship, but their shared love for the city helps them make it work. One is a child of the Nameless City, and the other is the child of the latest nation to invade and occupy the other's home.
Main characters Rat and Kai are from opposite sides of a conquest. The first book of an eventual trilogy, "Nameless City" is set in a fictional world based on historical China. Faith Erin Hicks' new graphic novel "The Nameless City" is a story of friendship.
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