Once Upon a Time in the North: His Dark Materials

PHILIP PULLMAN is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, which has been named one of the top 100 books of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. Pullman was knighted for services to literature in the 2019 New Year Honours.

Philip Pullman is also the author of four volumes related to His Dark Materials: Lyra's Oxford, Once Upon a Time in the North, Serpentine, and The Collectors. And a new trilogy set in the same world, The Book of Dust, which began with La Belle Sauvage and continues with The Secret Commonwealth.

Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England. To learn more, please visit philip-pullman.com or follow him on Facebook at Philip Pullman author, and on Twitter at @PhilipPullman.

STÉPHANE MELCHIOR has worked as a screenwriter for both film and television. Recently, he turned his creative energies toward comics, penning both original stories and adaptations, including Raiju and Raiden with Loïc Sécheresse and an adaptation of The Great Gatsby with Benjamin Bachelier.

THOMAS GILBERT spent a year studying the fine arts in Paris and three more at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels, specializing in comics. His primary influences came from L'Association, which taught him the importance of the author's perspective in developing a narrative.