Kevin Hanna's earlier zine "Clockwork Girls hate Electronic Boys".
* 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
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxle ...
, and not "Darwin's bulldog"
Thomas Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The stor ...
as many have assumed.
* Maddox: Huxley's best friend, who got almost killed by T-Bolt ((Scroll down for info)) and caused Wilhelm and Dendrus to trust each other.
* Wilhelm The Tinkerer: a wild eyed eccentric egomaniac and the world's 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: an 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 Tinkerer's former friend, his chief rival and the world's greatest biologist.
Supporting characters
* T-Bolt: The Tinkerer's first machine man and biggest failure. Named after
Tybalt
Tybalt () is a character in William Shakespeare's play '' Romeo and Juliet''. He is the son of Lady Capulet's brother, Juliet's short-tempered first cousin, and Romeo's rival. Tybalt shares the same name as the character Tibert / Tybalt ''"th ...
of ''
Romeo and Juliet''.
* The Marmokeets: Vicious mutations that infest the city like rats. They are
pygmy marmoset
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parakeet
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Etymology and naming
The name ''parakeet'' is derived from the French wor''perroquet'' which is reflected in ...
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
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:
*''The Clockwork Girl'' (Arcana Comics, 2008)
* ''Clockwork Girl'' - (HarperCollins, 2011)
Awards
*The Moonbeam Award
*Silver in the Graphic Novels & Comics category for the 2008
Book of the Year Awards, announced at BookExpo America by ''
ForeWord'' magazine.
Film adaptation
The film ''
The Clockwork Girl
''The Clockwork Girl'' is an all-ages/science fiction/fantasy comic series created by Sean O'Reilly and Kevin Hanna, that ran for five issues and was published in a collected edition for the first time in 2008.
''Clockwork Girl'' tells the ta ...
'' was released in early 2014.
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Notes
References
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External links
* {{official website, http://www.theclockworkgirl.com
''Clockwork Girl'' profile, samples and interview
with Sean O'Reilly
Sean Patrick O’Reilly is the owner and operator of Arcana Studio, a comic book company and animation studio located in British Columbia, Canada.Vancouver SunArcana Studio draws on a dream10 June 2006 He is considered to be one of the most proli ...
, Comic Book Resources
''Comic Book Resources'', also known by the initialism CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book–related news and discussion.
History
Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995 as a development of the Kingdom Co ...
, May 30, 2007
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