Titan Acquires French Fantasy Series “Wika”

Geek Native reports Titan Comics’ foreign language imprint Statix Press have picked up the French fantasy series “Wika.” Written by author Thomas Day, with art by Olivier Ledroit, the comic is set in a world of fairies, dwarves, goblins and elves, and tells the story of Wika, a fairy princess living in hiding after King Oberon overthrew her mother, Titania.

Living with her wings shaved off, Wika’s fairy powers are beginning to develop, and she seeks to uncover the secret of her lineage — but Oberon’s spies have got wind of her survival, and dispatched assassins to go after her.

The series, which marked the comic book writing debut of Day (real name Gilles Dumay), began publication at Glénat in 2014. According to Comics Watch, Statix also plans on translating the graphic novelization of Day’s first novel, 2002’s Way of the Sword. Ledroit previously created the fantasy series “Black Moon Chronicles,” with writer François Marcela-Froideval, in 1989, and was the artist on Pat Mills’s “Requiem Chevalier Vampire” and “Sha.”

Three installments of “Wika” have been released, the last of which came out in France in October 2019. The English translation of the comic will be published in hardcover in March 2021, and is currently listed on Titan’s website as being 232 pages long, indicating it will collect every volume of the series. Head on over to Geek Native to pore over Ledroit’s lavishly illustrated artwork in the meantime.