Marco Polo

Marco Polo joins his father and his uncle--travellers and merchants--on a perilous transformative journey to the Mongol empire of Kublai Khan. Marco Polo: Dangers and Visions meets Marco Polo as an adult prisoner of war and then traces his coming of age story along the Silk Road.

“"Marco Tabilio's gorgeous graphic novel Marco Polo vividly relates the story of the famed explorer. This graphic biography encompasses Polo's whole life, showing not just his time in the court of Kublai Khan but also the influences of his family on his chosen path as a traveling merchant. It sheds light on the lesser-known events of his later days as well, including time spent as a captain in the Venetian fleet and, following the defeat of those forces, his time spent in jail. From his cell, Polo narrates the story of his travels to Rustichello, a fellow prisoner and the eventual coauthor of The Travels of Marco Polo. As Rustichello tells Marco, 'You have the story. I have the pen. You talk. I'll write. It will be a fantastic tale.' It is. As portrayed through Tabilio's hand, Marco Polo is a vividly rendered, humanized figure, full of doubts and fears, loves and aspirations. Tabilio's art is highly stylized. Characters have blank eyes reminiscent of Little Orphan Annie; most pages are colored in monochrome, with different hues used to indicate different locations or time periods; and there are several elaborate, hand-drawn maps. Yet the storytelling is always clear, and the tale itself is grounded in Polo's actual accounts. Marco Polo: Dangers and Visionscaptures the excitement and spirit of exploration that have kept Polo's name and stories relevant, even as the world seems to get smaller."--starred, Foreword Reviews”

"In this lush graphic novel import, Tabilio makes a virtue of uncertainty. . . . [G]raphic novel readers accustomed to nonlinear, image-dependent storytelling will be right at home puzzling out the boundaries between imagination and reality and reveling in Tabilio's intricate faux-antique maps . . ."—starred, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Marco Tabilio is an Italian comic author. He spent the past few years in Hamburg and Lake Garda. His comics have appeared in magazines and exhibitions in Italy and Germany. Marco Polo: Dangers and Visionsis his first graphic novel and has been published in three different languages. Marco Tabilio is an Italian comic author. He spent the past few years in Hamburg and Lake Garda. His comics have appeared in magazines and exhibitions in Italy and Germany. Marco Polo: Dangers and Visionsis his first graphic novel and has been published in three different languages.

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