Title | The Twentieth Anniversary Nearly-Complete Essential Starchild |
Issue | All issues |
Publisher | Coppervale Press |
Flagship Artist | James A. Owen |
Story Rating | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
Cover Rating | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
Genre | Fantasy |
Links | Goodreads |
Limited to 2,000 copies with 6 optional bookplates.
In the Summer of 2013, on the 20th Anniversary of the first issue’s publication, a Kickstarter project was launched to present a collected volume of every page of story and art of StarChild. That Kickstarter has successfully completed, and in October 2014, a deluxe hardcover prestige-bound book was released—this book.
Collecting all the stories, including the first two storylines, AWAKENINGS and CROSSROADS, the “Little Neil” short stories from the anthology NEGATIVE BURN; the long story “Hobblesmith”; the unfinished MYTHOPOLIS chapters that have never geen reprinted, all the development sketches and notes; guest illustrations and art features from some of James’s friends almost everything associated with the title STARCHILD –in black & white, that is. AND the Prologue and First Chapter of the forthcoming illustrated novel, FOOL’S HOLLOW.
The “Nearly Complete” addendum to the title is there simply to let readers, especially NEW readers, know that the story may go on…