Kazu Kibuishi

Bio

Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of the New York Times bestselling Amulet graphic novel series, published by Scholastic Graphix. He is also the editor/art director/cover artist of the Explorer and Flight comic anthologies, and the creator of the webcomic Copper. His debut graphic novel, Daisy Kutter: The LastTrain, won a YALSA Best Books for Young Adults Award in 2005. In 2012, he illustrated the covers for the Harry Potter 15th Anniversary Edition paperbacks.

Kazu is 4th-generation Japanese-American. His great-grandfather opened the oldest Japanese grocery store in the US, called The Katagiri Store (open since 1907), and it is located in New York City. His mother grew up in Brooklyn, but moved to Tokyo to attend Keio University. Kazu was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1978, and grew up near Los Angeles, California. Kazu began drawing comics at the age of 5. Despite spending much of his time drawing comics, Kazu decided not to attend art school and enrolled at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he graduated with a degree in Film and Media Studies in 2000. After graduating, he took jobs in graphic design, architecture, and the animation industry, but found his way back to making comics. He currently words as a full-time graphic novelist. Kazu is married to author Amy Kim Kibuishi and they reside in the Texas Hill Country with their two children.

About the Book

Emily has lost control of her Amulet and is imprisoned in the Void, where she must find a way to escape the influence of the Voice. Meanwhile, Emily’s brother, Navin, travels to Lighthouse One, a space station where the Resistance is preparing to battle the approaching Shadow forces that would drain planet Alledia of all its resources. Emily and Navin must be smarter and stronger than ever to ensure Alledia’s survival.