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Lumina is a bright, colorful italian graphic novel project by Emanuele Tenderini and Linda Cavallini, and this is the crowdfunding campaign created to fund the second volume.

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The book's genre is inbetween sci-fi and fantasy, mainly inspired by Miyazaki, whose influence you'll certainly recognize in the vast landscapes and open spaces. Wonderful creatures and charismatic characters will be involved in one of the most amazing adventures ever told in a graphic novel.

The plot unveils around the story of two children, Kite and Miriam, brother and sister, who find themselves thrown in a parallel world called Lumina.

This will be one of the first comic books in the world to be colored with the hyperflat technique (link) and printed using hexachrome, a six-color printing process (link).

We decided to bring this project to life through the crowdfunding community, as we believe that the straight connection between the authors and the readers is the strongest factor during the publishing process.

Plus, we are sure that the only way the comics world can be brought to a higher level is through the support of its ultimate investors - the readers.

Click here to buy Lumina vol. 1

The story

The planet, Fej Farok, brother and sister Miriam e Kite

Lumina is the oldest planet in the whole Universe. All civilizations span from it and all of the existing parallel dimensions will converge to it. Lumina is the planet of light and creation, the kingdom of Fej Farok.

The Fej-Farok is a creature that is both parasite and deity: it can go through the veil that separates all parallel dimensions, and keeps their balance. This creature is actually made up of two parts – the Fej and the Farok – that after a series of events need to be held into two physical bodies, two vessels, picked among the descendants of the Abyssals.

And so, the Fej-Farok literally possesses their bodies, giving them a terrific power. They actually become the Fej (Yin), and the Farok (Yang) themselves.

The Fej-Farok had ruled Lumina since time began.

Earth. Today.
Miriam and Kite are two lively kids, like many of their age, divinding their time between school and friends. They’re orphans. Miriam looks after her little brother, who’s not really the easy kind, though. Miriam is a very nice young girl and careful sister but at times she can be a little bit too harsh with herself and the people around her. Kite is a real force of nature, lazy at school and in everyday tasks and a real daredevil on the streets while practicing his favorite hobby, Parkour: he’s a young, flashy energy mix.
At the beginning of the story the two were worried about a strange hallucination they shared: they saw themselves unmoving, hand in hand, suspended into a mesmerized state, staring at a strange geometric flame containing a bright light tearing off the strange polygon from its center. Kite and Miriam have never given too much credit to these visions, untill the day they got suddenly surrounded by very menacing mysterious black creatures. Frightened to the bones, they tried to run away, but they were dragged into a strange place: the same they saw into those visions.

When they woke up, they found themselves in the middle of a bloody battle between the Black Creatures and a powerful warrior. Meanwhile, above them, a black titan materialized, destroying everything around him: the two stunned kids were misteriously turned into two growling red creatures; then saved and turned back into humans by a new charming character named Lu-Ay.

At the end of a puzzling and upsetting conversation with Lu-Ay, Miriam and Kite are unfortunately parted from each other: while Miriam is taken by a Black Creature, Kite stays behind, now alone, confused but very determined to find his sister. He will face a long and hard journey, alongside extraordinary creatures. His aim is to find Miriam and get out of the wide and dazzling planet of Lumina, as the fearsome warrior Oleg and the abyssal Nohea call it.

(A little spoiler) The first volume ends on this panel...