![]() ![]() ![]() “It was a nervous moment, and we were very happy when he said he couldn’t believe how close the book was to his own experiences, and he was so glad it had been written.” “We were approached by a young man named Patrik, who had made Ebo’s exact journey and had had a very hard time doing it,” said Donkin. Their efforts paid off when the authors were in Lake Como for an exhibition on graphic novels earlier this year. To achieve that verisimilitude, Colfer and Donkin read and researched extensively, attended conferences, and spoke to survivors of the journey portrayed in Illegal. But I can confidently say that everything in this book is true to life.” “In this case, we were careful to try extra hard not to distort Ebo’s story in any fantastical away, which is a real challenge for me. “Telling a story is always a challenge, but usually for us real-world factual accuracy doesn’t apply,” Colfer observed. The leap from writing the Artemis Fowl graphic novels to relaying a harrowing, true-to-life story required a very different creative tack for Colfer and Donkin. There was no paperwork, no passenger list, no list of lost souls. Eoin and I talked about it, and waited for the follow-up report with the names of the people lost, but no report ever came. “It was a report of a boat sinking in the Mediterranean, saying that 215 people were believed to have been on board. ![]() ![]() The initial inspiration for Illegal was a newspaper article “about the size of a postage stamp” that haunted Donkin after he read it several years ago. ![]()
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