Coming soon from Dark Horse Books, the latest collection of one of the most influential fantasy series of all time, ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 3—Wolf Blood Caged is now available for pre-order from book and comic retailers. Now is an excellent time for new readers to discover ElfQuest, and for longtime fans to revisit a classic, as the whole series returns in these beautiful new editions. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1 arrives in bookstores on March 4, 2025, and Book 2 on May 27, 2025. From creators Wendy and Richard Pini, ElfQuest: The Original Quest is being newly released in a four-volume series showcasing the entire story, now in full color for the first time at Dark Horse.
ElfQuest is a New York Times bestseller that weaves together the adventures of elfin chief Cutter and the Wolfriders—the feral, forest-dwelling elves allied with wolves, seemingly the last of their kind. Their journey to find a home in a dangerous world is a story about inclusiveness, self-discovery, finding community and overcoming the forces of bigotry and hate—all wrapped in a visually stunning high-fantasy adventure. Wendy Pini’s artwork blends eastern and western artistic conventions into a new and unique style.
“Blue Mountain, lair of the Bird Spirits.” With these words, Cutter and Skywise imagine their quest to find other elfin allies may be close to completion. The companions have no idea their hopes will be upended. Imperious Lord Voll rules Blue Mountain and the hawk-riding elves who dwell within, and he wishes no intrusion upon his Gliders’ isolated way of life. Even Voll’s presence pales before the hostility of the true power in the mountain—the treacherous, seductive Winnowill. She will stop at nothing to prevent the Wolfriders from threatening her invisible hold on the Gliders.
Continue the Quest of a lifetime when ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 3—Wolf Blood Caged hits bookstores and comic shops on August 19, 2025. This 192-page (6.625 x 10.1875″) hardcover book features a cover that complements the rest of the Original Quest set, and is now available for pre-order for $29.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, from TFAW, Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore.
The ElfQuest roleplaying game will return! Chaosium and Wendy and Richard Pini have announced that Chaosium will produce a reissue of the tabletop roleplaying game. It was first published in 1984 by Chaosium and based on the comic series created by Wendy and Richard Pini.
ElfQuest: The Official Roleplaying Game was originally written by Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, and Yurek Chodak and included several releases including supplements that featured Pini’s artwork.
ElfQuest is a comic series created by Wendy and Richard Pini and debuted in 1978. It’s a fantasy series about different species, like elves, who struggle to survive and coexist on an Earth-like planet. The series has been published by Warp Graphics, Marvel, DC Comics, and Dark Horse Comics currently publishes the series. Every comic published between 1978 and 2013 can be read for free online.
The reissue will be led by Rick Meints and will be working closely with the Pini’s on the development and presentation.
ElfQuest: The Official Roleplaying Game will launch on Kickstarter in October 2014 and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the game. The vintage game will return in its original box edition format with the later supplements included.
One of the most beloved fantasy series in comic book history is setting out to reach new fans of epic fantasy with a stunning new hardcover volume collection. Wendy and Richard Pini‘s ElfQuest: The Original Quest will be available for new fans and long-time readers alike to experience with a four-book series showcasing the entire Original Quest, now in full color for the first time at Dark Horse. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1 will arrive in bookstores in February 2025 and Book 2 in May 2025. The rest of the series is expected to be available before the end of 2025–more details to be announced. Today, ElfQuest readers can pre-order Books 1 and 2 from your favorite book and comics retailers!
A New York Times Best Seller, ElfQuest tells the adventures of elfin chief Cutter and the Wolfriders – a tribe of feral, forest-dwelling elves allied with wolves – as they seek to find their true place in a dangerous world. It’s a story about inclusiveness, self-discovery, finding community and overcoming the forces of bigotry and hate—all wrapped in a visually stunning high-fantasy adventure. Wendy Pini’s artwork blends eastern and western artistic conventions into a new and unique style. ElfQuest has been called “the first American manga.”
In ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1:
Chief Cutter and the Wolfriders are driven from their forest home by fearful humans bent on their destruction. As they wander the ever-changing landscape of their harsh primeval world, the elves discover hidden danger, odd creatures…and, to their surprise, other elfin tribes.
Begin the Quest of a lifetime when ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1 hits bookstores on February 25, 2025, and comic shops on February 26, 2025. This 176-page (6.625 x 10.1875″) hardcover book is now available for pre-order for $29.99. Pre-order today from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore, or visit PRH Comics or Comic Shop Locator for more details and stores near you.
In ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 2:
Humans have discovered the desert haven called Sorrow’s End. Cutter, chief of the Wolfrider tribe of elves, must embark on a new quest–to bolster their meager numbers with new elfin allies. With his trusted companion Skywise, he ventures out once again into a world weirder and more dangerous than anything he has ever known in his young life. Along the way, the adventurous pair tangles with an old adversary long thought gone and forgotten. What is the secret of Cutter’s sword, New Moon? And what eerie creatures inhabit the sinister Forbidden Grove, guarding a mystery that will change Cutter’s life forever?
Keep the Quest alive when ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 2arrives in bookstores on May 20, 2025, and comic shops on May 21, 2025. This 176-page (6.625 x 10.1875″) hardcover book is now available for pre-order for $29.99. Pre-order today from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore, or visit PRH Comics or Comic Shop Locator for more details and stores near you.
Dark Horse Comics presents The Complete Elfquest Volume Eight: FutureQuest the final volume in The Complete ElfQuest omnibus series, arriving in January 2025. At over 700 pages, this beautiful softcover volume collects ElfQuest’s Stargazer’s Hunt and FutureQuest story arcs, with brand new art and commentary by co-creators Wendy and Richard Pini.
The Pinis are joined by writers John Ostrander, Ben Harkins, and artists David Boller, Dennis Fujitake, Delfin Barral, Sonny Strait, Terry Beatty, Craig Taillefer, Charles Barnett III, Paul Abrams, Kathryn Bolinger, Jerry Braccia, and Jen Marrus, with letterers Chuck Maly, and Nate Piekos.
Cutter’s quest is complete, but now stargazer Skywise and his daughter Jink set out on separate quests of their own to recover something precious that has been lost—or stolen. Their journeys span both space and time, bridging the past and the future of the World of Two Moons, now known as Abode.
Meanwhile the planet’s human inhabitants have entered their own technological age and have come to face the truth: they were never alone on their world. One perplexing mystery remains unsolved—why did the elves of Abode disappear, and where did they go? Jink makes the answer her personal quest, even as she crosses paths with a rowdy group of space-faring misfits, The Rebels, on their own search for answers.
“These characters and stories have been a long time brewing,” confides Richard and Wendy Pini. “And we’re thrilled for them finally to get the top-notch Dark Horse treatment. The number eight has always been special to ElfQuest (the elves count on eight fingers) and this volume completes a very special octad for us. Now readers can follow the elves’ adventures from the distant past right on through the not-so-distant future.
Continuing the 45+ year legacy of ElfQuest, The Complete ElfQuest Volume Eight: FutureQuest, will be available in bookstores on January 14, 2025 and in comic shops on January 15, 2025 for $29.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore, or visit PRH Comics or Comic Shop Locator for more details and stores near you.
Fox has given ElfQuest a script commitment for an animated film. The one-hour drama is based on the fantasy comic series by Wendy and Richard Pini. The series is coming from Rodney Rothman and Adam Rosenberg‘s Modern Magic. Susan Hurwitz Arneson is penning the adaptation and will be the showrunner and executive producer.
Rothman and Rosenberg will executive produce for Modern Magic along with Arneson, and Wendy and Richard Pini. Bento Box Entertainment is the studio.
ElfQuest is currently published by Dark Horse Comics but began in 1978 where it was published by Warp Graphics. Marvel published it from 1985 to 1988 and DC from 2003 to 2006. Dark Horse has been publishing it since 2013.
The series is about a community of elves and other species who struggle to survive on a primitive Earth-like planet with two moons.
Return to the world of ElfQuest in ElfQuest: Stargazer’s Hunt Complete Edition from Dark Horse Books! This special hardcover edition of Stargazer’s Hunt compiles both complete volumes of the comic miniseries in one collection, including brand new behind-the-scenes sketches and commentary.
ElfQuest alumnus Sonny Strait returns as this series’ artist and colorist, alongside storytellers Wendy and Richard Pini, with script, layouts, and an all-new cover exclusive to this edition by Wendy Pini. Longtime fans and new readers alike will not want to miss this special offering, released just in time to celebrate ElfQuest’s 10-year-anniversary with Dark Horse Comics!
When ElfQuest: The Final Quest concluded, it ended the hero’s journey of Cutter Kinseeker, chief of the Wolfriders. But that was only the start of a new adventure for Cutter’s “brother in all but blood,” Skywise. Now the stargazer elf, who thought he knew everything about Cutter, discovers how mistaken he was. Skywise sets his sights on the cosmic horizon for answers, sending him on his own epic quest from the elves’ ancestral Star Home through uncharted space and back to the World of Two Moons. His star-spanning quest reveals interstellar majesty and the desolation of ruined worlds, but no answers to the gaps in his memory. Meanwhile Jink, the elf-daughter he left behind, returns to the ancestral home of the Wolfriders in the hope of finding a way to heal her father’s soul.
TheElfQuest Stargazer’s Hunt Complete Edition 208 page hardcover which measures at 6.625 x 10.1875”, will be available in bookstores November 21, 2023 and in comic shops November 22, 2023. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore and will retail for $29.99.
Make your way to the Baltimore Convention Center this September 8-10 for this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con. The convention has announced the addition of comics guests of David Finch, Brian Haberlin, Mark Morales, Richard and Wendy Pini, and Matt Slay as guests in 2023. Please purchase your tickets here.
Joining us from Canada, David Finch received recognition for his early work at Top Cow Productions on titles such as Cyberforce, Ascension, and Aphrodite IX. He then went on to spend a number of years at Marvel Comics, working on blockbuster titles including Ultimate X-Men, Avengers (and the relaunched New Avengers), and Moon Knight before jumping into an exclusive contract with DC Comics in 2010 where he flexed his writing muscles as well as his drawing skills on Batman: The Dark Knight. He also worked on DC’s Forever Evil, and provided art on Wonder Woman (with his wife Meredith on writing duties).
An award-winning comic book artist, writer, editor and producer, Brian Haberlin began his career in comics working at Top Cow Productions, where he co-created the Witchblade franchise. He co-founded Avalon Studios, which published many successful fantasy and sci-fi titles, including: Stone, Aria, and Area 52. Brian also served as Editor in Chief of Todd McFarlane Productions and penciled and inked its flagship title, Spawn. After co-founding Anomaly Productions, he’s published Anomaly (and Anomaly: The Rubicon), Shifter, Creative Creature Catcher (augmented reality children’s book), and a number of comics published through Image Comics (Faster Than Light, Sonata, The Marked). He currently writes and illustrates the comic Hellcop. Brian teaches comic art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and his work is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum.
A longtime comics pro, Mark Morales has worked for many companies, including Image, Dark Horse, Chaos, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, mostly as an inker. Past projects from Mark include Thor, Daredevil, Batman, X-Men, Avengers vs. X-Men, Spider-Man/Deadpool, and Astonishing X-Men. Currently, he is working on Heroes Reborn and The High Republic from Marvel Comics.
Richard Pini is the co-creator, sometimes-writer, editor, and publisher for the long-running fantasy graphic novel series ElfQuest. He is the author of the Eisner-nominated art book Line of Beauty – the Art of Wendy Pini, as well as co-author and editor of two other related volumes: The Art of ElfQuest and ElfQuest – the Art of the Story. A graduate of MIT in astronomy, as well as planetarium writer, lecturer, and teacher, he has contributed articles to magazines on the wonders of the heavens. He managed 2018’s year-long 40th anniversary celebration for ElfQuest, and intends 2028’s 50th anniversary to be a major extravaganza. Most recently, he executive-produced the ElfQuest Audio Movie and the 30-song concept album for Wendy’s Masque of the Red Death.
Wendy Pini has been drawing literally since the age of two, and has worked for Marvel, DC, First Comics, Comico, Dark Horse, Ace, Berkley, Tor Books, and many other publishers. She is the co-creator, writer, artist, and colorist for the long-running fantasy graphic novel series ElfQuest, widely acknowledged as “the first American manga.” She wrote and painted two Beauty and the Beast graphic novels based on the original TV series, as well as a critically acclaimed 400-page dark, futuristic reimagining of Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, currently in development with an award-winning team as a thriller for the musical theatre. Most recently, she story-edited scripts for Season One of Dagaz Media and Realm.fm’s 10-episode Audio Movie adaptation of the first ElfQuest novelization, “Journey to Sorrow’s End.”
Matt Slay has worked in comics for 15 years, but quickly made a name for himself painting variant covers for IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. His dark and earthy watercolors bring a grown-up sense of danger to any character. Born in St. Michaels and raised in Easton, the Maryland native now paints for the sci-fi anthology series Time Traveled Tales with authors such as Timothy Zahn. Matt has generated production art for Marvel Premiere as well as Iron Man 3, and has since provided covers for Six Gun Gorilla and American Mythology’s Equilibrium while writing his own book and cartoon series, 3 Story Dungeon. Matt is represented by Comic Art House.
This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Arthur Adams (Longshot), Sarah Andersen (Sarah’s Scribbles), Jeremy Bastian (Dune: House Harkonnen), Marty Baumann (Pixar artist), Brian Michael Bendis (Action Comics), Jon Bogdanove (The Death of Superman), Judy Bogdanove (Steel Annual), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Chris Campana (Death Dealer), Richard Case (Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jim Cheung (Young Avengers), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Amy Chu (KISS: The End), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Katie Cook (Nothing Special), Abby Denson (Uniquely Japan), Todd Dezago (The Perhapanauts), Derec Donovan (Adventures of Superman), Jan Duursema (Star Wars: The High Republic), Garth Ennis (The Boys), David Finch (Moon Knight), Tana Ford (LaGuardia), Trish Forstner (Stray Dogs), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Mike Grell (Jon Sable), Gene Ha (Mae), Bob Hall (West Coast Avengers), Cully Hamner (Blue Beetle), Brian Haberlin (Spawn), Tony Harris (The Whistling Skull), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Greg Hildebrandt (Star Wars), Morry Hollowell (Old Man Logan), Mark Irwin (Green Lantern), Klaus Janson (Daredevil), Dave Johnson (100 Bullets), J.G. Jones (Wanted), Barry Kitson (Amazing Spider-Man), Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer), Matthew Loux (Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Tom Mandrake (Spectre), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Adriana Melo (Action Comics), Pop Mhan (Gears of War 3), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Karl Moline (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Mark Morales (Thor), Trevor Mueller (Re-Possessed), David Pepose (Savage Avengers), David Petersen (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen), Brandon Peterson (Uncanny X-Men), Richard and Wendy Pini (Elfquest), Ed Piskor (Red Room: Trigger Warnings), Joe Prado (Superman), Afua Richardson (Omni), Don Rosa (Uncle Scrooge), Craig Rousseau (The Perhapanauts), Steve Rude (Nexus), Jim Rugg (Hulk Grand Design), Andy Runton (Owly), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Matt Slay (Equilibrium), John K. Snyder III (Suicide Squad), Sozomaika (DC Power: A Celebration), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), John Timms (Superman: Son of Kal-El), Wade von Grawbadger (Justice League), John Workman (Wild Things), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).
The latest tale in the ongoing epic saga of ElfQuest has arrived! In celebration of the release of ElfQuest: Stargazer’s HuntVolume 2, newly available at comic shops and bookstores, Dark Horse Comics is pleased to welcome creators Wendy and Richard Pini to a live streamed discussion about the comics, led by David Mizejewski, host of The ElfQuest Show podcast. The livestream will take place on Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 1 pm Pacific/4 pm Eastern. Viewers can tune in live on Dark Horse Comics Twitch and YouTubechannels, and are encouraged to ask questions in the chat for live Q&A during the stream.
If you can’t catch the stream live, the recording will be available afterwards to watch on demand.
The world of ElfQuest continues to grow at Dark Horse Comics with an all-new series! ElfQuest: Stargazer’s Hunt has astory by ElfQuest co-creators Wendy and Richard Pini, and a script by Wendy Pini.
Veteran ElfQuest alumnus Sonny Strait returns at full force as the artist (over layouts by Wendy) and colorist for the new series.
When ElfQuest: The Final Quest concluded, it ended the hero’s journey of Cutter Kinseeker, chief of the Wolfriders. But that was only the start of a new adventure for Cutter’s “brother in all but blood,” Skywise. Now the stargazer elf, who thought he knew everything about Cutter, discovers how mistaken he was. That, combined with a tragic accident involving his daughter Jink, sends Skywise on a quest of his own, from the elves’ ancestral Star Home through uncharted space, and back to the World of Two Moons.
ElfQuest: Stargazer’s Hunt #1 (of 6)goes on sale November 13, 2019.
