BOOM! Studios has announced the acquisition of the comic book and graphic novel publishing license to The Magicians, the New York Times bestselling fantasy novel series created by Lev Grossman; the series is also known as being a hit television series on Syfy, which will see the fourth season debut in 2019.
Originally published in 2009, The Magicians introduces readers to Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, which boasts a prestigious and dangerously difficult curriculum, famous and infamous alumni, and a record of only a few deaths per graduating class.
The first release in this partnership with BOOM! will be The Magicians: Alice’s Story, a new original graphic novel hardcover set in the world of the book trilogy by Grossman, from writer Lilah Sturges (Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass, Jack of Fables), artist Pius Bak and featuring a cover by Steve Morris (Buffy The Vampire Slayer).
The book will debut in July 2019, and is set to expand the mythology of the first novel through the perspective of lead character Alice Quinn before she joins Brakebills and embarks on an epic journey in the magical land of Fillory.
“Usually when your work is being adapted, you just hope you’ll end up with something reasonably faithful to your vision,” said novelist Lev Grossman. “You never expect to have that vision turned around and expanded to reveal incredible new things you never even knew were there. But that’s what happened with Alice’s Story.”