Terry Pratchett's The colour of magic

the graphic novel

Published: 1991
Language: English

A cowardly wizard who has survived by sheer luck and refusal to take any responsibility is thrust into a series of escalating magical mishaps across the Discworld. Alongside his reluctant apprentice and an indestructible, sentient chest of books called the Luggage, he must navigate absurd situations that are played for farce rather than peril.

Prose complexity: 1/10

Funny Whimsical

Quest Mentor Figure

Comic Fiction High Fantasy

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...