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The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl
By (Author) Emily Riesbeck
Created by NJ Barna
By (author) Emily Riesbeck
Illustrated by NJ Barna
Letterer Lucas Gattoni
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
1st November 2023
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Fantasy, esoteric
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Action and adventure
741.56973
Paperback
304
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
585g
Our Flag Means Death gets a magical, sapphic twist in this swashbuckling young adult graphic novel adventure full of high-stakes adventure, fantastical creatures, and a swoony enemies-to-lovers romance perfect for fans of In Deeper Waters and The Prince and the Dressmaker.
I want to be beautiful. I want to be interesting. I want to be enough.
That was Ferra Brickminders prayer to win back the love of her life. And the gods answerjust not in the way she expected. After hoping for a miracle, Ferra instead watches her skin turn into delicate and dangerously breakable porcelain.
Elsewhere, Brigantine de la Girona, a disgraced orc pirate captain, has her own problems. Penniless and banished from her home, Brig struggles to make ends meet with her crew as her only support. So, when a desperate Ferra enlists Brig to sail her across the Great Sea to her ex-girlfriends home for a very handsome fee, Brig is happy to strike a deal.
Pampered Ferra and tough-as-nails Brig quickly butt heads, bickering their way across the high seas, but as they encounter increasingly perilous obstaclesincluding the gods themselvesthe two become reluctant alliesand maybe more.
Emily Riesbeckstarted writing comics at the age of ten, when they created their first original character, the superhero Aqua Guy. Since then, theyve written the webcomicThe Blue Valkyrieand graphic novels likeIts Your Funeral,Mountain, andThe Pirate and the Porcelain Girl. They live in Chicago with their two partners and their cat, Yuri.
NJ Barnahas loved drawing for as long as she can remember and has been making comics in some shape or form only a little less far back than that. Her work most notably includes writing and drawing the buddy-cop/romantic-comedy/superhero action webcomicParadisesince 2015, as well as writing and drawing the sci-fi/horror comicAnagenesis, both of which are ongoing projects she has self-published in various places online. NJ is also the illustrator of teen graphic novelThe Pirate and the Porcelain Girl.