Experience the magic of Oz as you’ve never seen it before with this brand-new graphic novel
adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s masterpiece Wicked the book that started it all and the
inspiration for the Broadway show and the smash hit movie series — the first in a two-part
series featuring gorgeous full-color illustrations by Scott Hampton. Like Dorothy when she
crash-landed all those years ago prepare to be swept into a new and colorful world in this
first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Wicked . While the long-running Broadway musical and
major motion picture take inspiration from this iconic novel this is Oz as Gregory Maguire
wrote it—a fantastical revisionist fairy tale with dark edges that explores the true nature of
good and evil morality and ambition love and friendship and discovering one’s inner power.
Elphaba was born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz where
superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of
flood and famine. Still Elphaba is smart and by the time she enters Shiz University she
becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is
no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices
souls and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba green and wild and misunderstood is
determined to protect the Animals in a tale filled with rich social commentary—even if it means
combating the mysterious Wizard even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever
wiser in guilt and sorrow she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch.
And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. How does a smart
misunderstood young woman become her world’s greatest villain? Dark Fantasy: Go beyond the
yellow brick road into an Oz with real-world problems where the line between good and evil is
blurred and every choice has a cost. Wicked Witch Origin Story: Witness the untold story of
Elphaba the girl with emerald-green skin as she navigates university friendship and a
society determined to misunderstand her. Political Fantasy: In a land ruled by the Wizard’s
secret police Elphaba finds her calling defending the rights of Animals—intelligent creatures
being stripped of their voice and their freedom. Stunning Graphic Novel Adaptation: See Gregory
Maguire’s iconic world brought to life for the first time in a full-color graphic novel with
breathtaking illustrations that capture the magic and the shadows of Oz.
