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The Clockwork Girl
The Tinkerer is a mad scientist convinced that mechanical technology is a stable and precise science and is more important than all of the other sciences. Metal twists and bends, gears, axles, and ratchets work in unison giving life to a conscious machine - The Astonishing Clockwork Girl The Grafter believes that the natural uncontainable power of biology should be revered...more
Hardcover, 120 pages
Published
March 29th 2008
by Arcana Studio
(first published March 1st 2008)
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The clockwork girl is a story of star crossed lovers from two different houses. Sounds familiar? One of the two fantastic castles is built by the grafter as a monument to the science of nature and the other is built by the tinker as a tribute to the science of technology and machines. The tinker creates a clockwork girl named Tesla. You will even find two quotes of Nikola Tesla within the story. “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the invento...more
This a juvenile graphic novel, great for grades 4+ (although the story itself would be fine for even younger kids). I am not a graphic novel fan. The cover of this one, though, grabbed me right away, with its illustration of the clockwork girl and the monster boy sitting in the forest at night with Wilhelm the Tinkerer's mountaintop techno-castle in the background. Then I read the two-page introduction, in which the illustrator, Sean O'Reilley, describes the birth of this fantastic graphic novel...more
Reason for Reading: I've enjoyed other books by Sean O'Reilly and this one sounded wonderful, plus I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie (which doesn't have a release date as of yet).
First of all, an absolutely beautiful book. Illustrations are gorgeous and the book is just pleasure for the eyes to read. It's book like this I'd never trade for an ereader. The story centres around two scientists who live next door to each other, one who is a technical scientist building robots and aut...more
First of all, an absolutely beautiful book. Illustrations are gorgeous and the book is just pleasure for the eyes to read. It's book like this I'd never trade for an ereader. The story centres around two scientists who live next door to each other, one who is a technical scientist building robots and aut...more
Jan 19, 2012
P. Kirby
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
graphic-novels,
fantasy
In a land far away, two castles sit on hills separated by a plain. One castle belongs to Dendrus the Grafter, a scientist who crafted his castle as a monument to the power of nature. The other belongs to Wilhelm the Tinker, his castle a tribute to technology. The two men, yearly competitors in the Haraway science fair, have become bitter rivals after an unfortunate incident involving Dendrus's monster boy--Huxley--and Wilhelm's automaton, a mechanical man. This year, however, Wilhelm finds vindi...more
Plot: A romance based plot between a mutant and a clockwork girl is definitely something I wanted to read in graphic novel format. I just loved the unfolding of the story. Tesla is the clockwork girl and created by one scientist. Huxley is the mutant boy who was created by the scientist's rival. It's definitely a parallel to Romeo and Juliet a bit, without all the tragedy.
Characters: The over the topic ridiculous mad scientists and of course the cute mutant boy who is a bit of an outcast made fo...more
Characters: The over the topic ridiculous mad scientists and of course the cute mutant boy who is a bit of an outcast made fo...more
Aug 11, 2011
Tabitha the Pabkins
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
comic-graphic,
own
This was the story of the Clockwork Girl and the Monster boy...they are both so sweet and different and yet so much alike.
I loved the simple story and the illustration. Supposedly according to the introduction there will be a film in the future. There is a short two minute film out there somewhere also. I'm going on the hunt to find it.
It is a very short comic though to have been made into a hardback. I don't think you get enough pages for the amount you pay but I am still glad to have it.
Only...more
I loved the simple story and the illustration. Supposedly according to the introduction there will be a film in the future. There is a short two minute film out there somewhere also. I'm going on the hunt to find it.
It is a very short comic though to have been made into a hardback. I don't think you get enough pages for the amount you pay but I am still glad to have it.
Only...more
Uma história simples, destinada a um público infanto-juvenil, variação steampunk da estrutura narrativa de romeu e julieta (ou piramo e thisbe, para os mais clacissistas). Dois cientistas rivais e as suas criações, um rapaz selvagem e uma rapariga animatrónica, que descobrem a força da união e da amizade através do amor comum pela ciência. Um comic simples acompanhado por ilustrações elegantes e emudecidas.
A girl made of clockwork and a monster made of parts bring two old scientists back together. Very adorable. The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous and the cuteness of the story can get me past the fact that I really wanted to know more about each of the characters.
This quick read is a fantasy take on Romeo & Juliet. The mad robot scientist and the mad organic scientist both make creations that fall in love. It's sweet and kid-friendly (I'm giving it to my daughter to read), and ultimately forgettable. But a nice short adventure.
I don't have a whole lot to say about this one. It was cute, the art was nice. The story just wasn't anything really new or exciting and it was very short. It'd be a good one for kids I think but it just wasn't for me.
This will soon be a motion picture and I can't wait to see it. Dueling inventors, machine vs biology, unlikely friendships, and new definitions of family. Beautiful art, sweet story.
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I had to read this for my graphic novel class. The person who wrote it was my teacher. It was very cute and I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did.
Mar 29, 2013
Shiralea Woodhouse
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
good-for-tweens,
graphic-novel
An interesting take on "Romeo and Juliet" - I really wish there would have been more to it! A great quick read with some wonderful artwork!
So charming :D The pictures were vibrant and enchanting. A steampunk "romeo and juliet" meets "frankenstein" with a happier ending.
Terrific illustrations and an easy to follow love story with a definite moral. Reminds me of the animated movie IGOR.
One of the first batch of books sent to me to review by No Flying No Tights! My review for them is posted here.
Beautiful. But seeing as I edited it, I do suppose I'm a bit biased.
read for NoveList recommended reads list
Nice graphic novel with a lovely story.
Very cute and great illustrations!
I'm looking forward to the movie!
Cute, but not much to it.
This was enjoyable and sweet, but a bit too simple and short for my liking. It felt like an introduction to the characters more then an actual story, but it was a very pretty introduction. I would be interested in seeing how the Clockwork Girl evolves in future books.
Adorable; loved the artwork.
kevin hanna used to be an art director for disney and it shows. this is about a mad scientist who creates a machine, clockwork girl. she falls in love with this other scientist's creation, a wolf boy. their forbidden love is the running theme. simple story, but i like it. the only thing that hurts it is the pacing. there's certian emotional beats hanna tries to hit, but just doesn't make it sometimes. he needed more pages or something. still pretty good tho.
Huxley and Tesla have a lot in common though they look nothing alike. However, both of their lives are thrown into chaos when they meet and fall in love. It takes a near catastrophe for their "parents" to realize how special the other one is. Essentially this is a Mutant Romeo and Juliet love story. The story is fun, but the illustrations are gorgeous!
Gorgeous artwork makes this a 5 star for me. I want to make her costume and live in it. Adorable story too. Worth a read.
3 1/2 stars
May 12, 2013
Akhtar Ali
marked it as to-read
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