What she gets up to is a string of adventures, first in the Heidi-esque hills above Trolberg, and then in the city itself-a move made (spoiler alert!) after a giant steps on the cozy ancestral cottage that she shares with her mother. “She’s standing at the end of a pier, with a Scandinavian-esque city behind her and all kinds of creatures around, including a giant troll and a zeppelin in the sky.” A similar scene occurs in the third Hilda book, “Hilda and the Bird Parade,” but at the beginning Pearson didn’t have a story, just this “curious image” of a small girl with blue hair and a question: “Where is she and what does she get up to?” “She’s basically wearing her outfit”-beret, scarf, red top, blue skirt, and big red boots-Pearson said, of Hilda. When Pearson was still in school, in 2009, he submitted a one-page drawing to a competition run by Nobrow, now his publisher. The fifth book, “Hilda and the Stone Forest,” comes out in September. Netflix is planning a twelve-episode animated series, based on the first four books, for early 2018. “I made a map of Icelandic folktales- you can still play it.” Move the digital clouds on Pearson’s “Hidden Iceland” and see, in their shadows, the giants and sprites and Viking ships just beneath that country’s peaks and fjords.įinally, there was a girl: Hilda, now the star of four (soon to be five) comics. “When I was at university, everyone who studied illustration was given a project to do an illustrated map of a country, and I was given Iceland,” he said. “At the time, I was reading about trolls and daydreaming, knowing I wanted to do something with that one day.”
“My imagination was really going for it on that trip-the landscape of the place stuck with me,” Luke Pearson, the British author of the Hildafolk series of graphic novels, told me. It began, as adventures often do, with a trip: a family holiday in Norway, parents and their teen-agers, that seemed entirely straightforward at the time. “Hilda and the Troll” is the first book in Luke Pearson’s sophisticated series for children.
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