Clockwork Girl

The Clockwork Girl
Publication information
Publisher	Arcana Studios
Schedule	Irregular
Format	Limited series
Genre	see below
Publication date	August 2007 - August 2008
Creative team
Writer(s)	Sean O’Reilly Kevin Hanna
Artist(s)	Mike Thomas Grant Bond Karen Krajenbrink Mirana Reveier Kevin Hanna
Collected editions
The Clockwork Girl	ISBN 978-0980920413

The Clockwork Girl is an all-ages/science fiction/fantasy comic series created by Sean O’Reilly and Kevin Hanna, that ran for six issues. The first issue was released in 2006 and, as of 2008^[update], six individual issues and a hardcover volume collecting the series have been released, all published by Vancouver, Canada independent comic book publisher Arcana Studio.

Clockwork Girl tells the tale of a nameless robot girl who has recently been given the gift of life from her creator. While she explores the wonders of an ordinary world she meets an amazing mutant boy and they share a friendship that must overcome their warring families.

In 2008, Telefilm Canada announced that they had funded the property for a possible future film adaptation.^[1] The film, The Clockwork Girl, is currently in postproduction.

Characters

Main characters

• Tesla, the Clockwork Girl: protagonist. is a young robot girl learning how to live in a world of adults. She looks at strangers like a kid in a candy store and wants to know everything about this new world around her. The character's name was inspired by inventor Nikola Tesla, and Kevin Hanna’s earlier zine " Clockwork Girls hate Electronic Boys".^[2]
• Huxley the Monster Boy: the unruly creation of Doctor Dendrus, is brash and adventurous. This often gets him into predicaments that only his foolhardy adolescent fearlessness can get him out of. In his own mind he has always been cool and in control, which is to say until Tesla the Clockwork Girl turned his life upside-down. The character was named after author Aldous Huxley, and not "Darwin's bulldog" Thomas Huxley as many have assumed.

• Wilhelm The Tinkerer: is a wild eyed eccentric egomaniac and the worlds most brilliant machine scientist. He blames the natural sciences for holding back the machine age with a zealous fervor and believes the Clockwork girl is his key to Dendrus's undoing. He views the Clockwork Girl as his greatest accomplishment. It's not until she is threatened that he realizes that she is so much more
• Doctor Dendrus : is just and offbeat father trying to keep up with his unconventional and untamed son, Huxley. He cares for his son a great deal but is overly protective and shelters him as much as he can. Dendrus is the Tinkerers former friend, chief rival and the worlds greatest biologist.

Supporting characters

• T-Bolt: The Tinkerer’s first machine man and biggest failure. Named after Tybalt of Romeo and Juliet.
• The Marmokeets: Vicious mutations that infest the city like rats. They are pygmy marmoset/parakeet hybrids.

Locations

All of the events of the books take place (for the most part), in the city of Harfang. Each Scientist’s castle are at opposite ends of the city.

• The Mechanized Castle: The Tinkerer’s mechanized fortress
• The Living Castle: Dendrus’ living castle
• The Great Cypress: A giant tree that Huxley shows Tesla on their first day out together, which she later hides in for shelter.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a hardcover volume:

• The Clockwork Girl (128 pages, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9809204-1-3)

Awards

The Clockwork Girl graphic novel has won the Moonbeam Award as well as Graphic Novel of the Year at Book Expo America by ForeWord magazine.

Film adaptation

The film The Clockwork Girl is currently in the early stages of post-production.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ "'Clockwork Girl' Film Gets Financing From Telefilm Canada". ICV2. http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12841.html. Retrieved July 2, 2008. 
2. ^ ""'"Clockwork Girl" – Arcana's High-Tech "Romeo & Juliet"". CBR. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=10341. Retrieved May 30, 2007. 
3. ^ IMDB Clockwork Girl

References

• The Clockwork Girl at the Grand Comics Database
• The Clockwork Girl at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Official website
• Clockwork Girl on Myspace
• Clockwork Girl profile, samples and interview with Sean O'Reilly, Comic Book Resources, May 30, 2007