An announcement at TerryPratchett.com revealed in the present day that the property of the late fantasy creator, one of many UK’s all-time bestselling writers, is opening up the “Discworld graphic novel universe,” a deliberate collection of comics diversifications of Pratchett’s Discworld books that can come from totally different publishers, writers, and artists. Pratchett’s Discworld setting was the idea for greater than 40 fantasy novels, starting from gentle comedy and style satire, to YA coming-of-age books, to deeply humanistic, darkish horror tales. The primary three books introduced for graphic-novel adaptation cowl a consultant vary of his work.
The preliminary titles being tailored are 2001’s Thief of Time and 2003’s Wee Free Males and Monstrous Regiment. Thief of Time will probably be tailored by Gary Chudleigh, illustrated by frequent Marvel Comics artist Rachael Stott. It would come out April 2, 2026, and is on the market for preorder now from Doubleday Books. Wee Free Males will probably be tailored by Pratchett’s daughter, creator Rhianna Pratchett. No artist has been introduced but, however the ebook is about for a spring 2027 publication from Puffin Books. Monstrous Regiment doesn’t but have a artistic group or writer introduced.
Every of those three books represents a distinct entry level for Pratchett’s work. Wee Free Males is a YA novel, the primary in a collection of books centering on a rural witch-in-training named Tiffany Aching. Tiffany grows up and grows into her energy over the course of the collection, within the course of incomes the loyalty of the Nac Mac Feegle, a species of tiny blue males with pronounced Scottish accents who function a number of the latter-day Discworld’s most potent comedian reduction. Thief of Time is an grownup novel involved with Dying (the character) and a common drive attempting to eradicate human uncertainty (and subsequently people as a complete) from the world.
These aren’t the primary of Pratchett’s works to be tailored as graphic novels: The Discworld collection’ first books, The Color of Magic and The Gentle Improbable, had been beforehand tailored collectively. 1987’s Mort, 1989’s Guards! Guards!, and 1992’s Small Gods have all gotten earlier visible diversifications. However the brand new “graphic novel universe” initiative appears aimed toward bringing extra of Pratchett’s intensive physique of labor into comics type, by means of quite a lot of totally different authors and artists.