ARIA:SUMMER’S SPELL

SUMMARY :A tale of magic, mystery and a love that spans the ages. London, the summer of 1966. The air is electrified with music, the streets are bursting with color, and everywhere you look, Youth is king. Into this strange and brave new world, a wayward knight comes looking for his long lost love: Lady Kildare of the Faerie. Blissfully reunited, the expatriate Fairy Princess helps the time-lost Sir Thomas adapt to the mad whirl of life in the 20th century, a life of motorcars, rock clubs and pop art “happenings.” It has been said that love conquers all, but Kildare must learn the hard way that, unlike her, not everyone is meant to live forever.

Apr 17 2002:ARIA:Summer’s Spell #1
The newspaper had dubbed it “Swinging London.” Seemingly overnight, sleepy London town had become the capital of the Western World. Youth was king and the air was electric. The earth itself seemed to heave forward on the cusp of some great generational shift. The world was a buzz with talk of Mary Quant, King’s Road, Liz and Dick, Mike and Marianne… The old grey heads at the corner pub would just roll their eyes at the telly and its endless parade of decadent youth, our wild clothes and raucous music. But now, when I stop and look back, what I really see is the innocence. I see just how young and green and naïve we all were. As for me, I was an awkward, spotty lad, eager and clueless, just barely past puberty. I had a taste for magic but little talent. Lady Kildare on the other hand, was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, worldy and wondrous. It seemed she’d been everywhere and knew everyone. She needn’t have given the likes of me the time of day, yet she treated me as a friend and introduced me to her mad circle of cohorts. And it was through her, in that heady summer of Nineteen Hundrea and Sixty-Six, that I learned what the word Magic truly meant.

Sharing	Name	Sharing	Name
words	Brian Holguin	Publisher	Jim Valentino
art	Marc Pajarillo	Art director	Doug Griffith
	Lan Medina	Director of Marketing	Eric Stephenson
colors	Raymund Lee	Director of Production	Brent Braun
	Edgar Tadeo	Controller	Traci Hale
	Arsia Rozegar	Accounting Asst.	Cyndie Espinoza
letters	Dreamer Design	Inventory Controller	Sean O’brien
cover	Jay Anacleto
ARIA Created by Brian Holguin and Brian Haberlin

Jul 3 2002:ARIA:Summer’s Spell #2
London’s Brilliant Parade
The newspaper had dubbed it “Swinging London.” Seemingly overnight, sleepy London town had become the capital of the Western World. Youth was king and the air was electric. The earth itself seemed to heave forward on the cusp of some great generational shift. The world was a buzz with talk of Mary Quant, King’s Road, Liz and Dick, Mike and Marianne… The old grey heads at the corner pub would just roll their eyes at the telly and its endless parade of decadent youth, our wild clothes and raucous music. But now, when I stop and look back, what I really see is the innocence. I see just how young and green and naïve we all were. As for me, I was an awkward, spotty lad, eager and clueless, just barely past puberty. I had a taste for magic but little talent. Lady Kildare on the other hand, was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, worldy and wondrous. It seemed she’d been everywhere and knew everyone. She needn’t have given the likes of me the time of day, yet she treated me as a friend and introduced me to her mad circle of cohorts. And it was through her, in that heady summer of Nineteen Hundrea and Sixty-Six, that I learned what the word Magic truly meant.

Sharing	Name	Sharing	Name
words	Brian Holguin	Publisher	Jim Valentino
art	Lan Medina	Art director	Doug Griffith
colors	Raymund Lee	Director of Marketing	Eric Stephenson
letters	Dreamer Design	Director of Production	Brent Braun
		Controller	Traci Hale
		Accounting Asst.	Cyndie Espinoza
		Inventory Controller	Sean O’brien
ARIA Created by Brian Holguin and Brian Haberlin