7/1/2023 0 Comments The fever king![]() The comic has more than 373,000 subscribers, who read an updated strip of the story weekly. Their novel, the first in a series, was adapted for the webcomic app Webtoon. ![]() In their book, Lee explores themes like immigration, xenophobia, child sexual abuse and public health. After Noam’s parents die, and he survives the virus with a new power to control technology, he is recruited by the government that oppresses immigrant families like his own. Some, however, survive and retain magical powers catered to their personalities. A pandemic of a magical virus plagues the nation, and the vast majority of people who contract the virus die. The fantasy YA novel focuses on Noam Álvaro, a child of undocumented immigrants from Atlantia living in a post-apocolyptic Carolinia. ![]() Host Frank Stasio talks with author Victoria Lee about their book and Webtoon comic “The Fever King.” Then the coronavirus hit, and the parallels between the fictional Durham, Carolinia in 2074 and the real Durham, North Carolina in 2020 deepened further. Rather, they hoped to explore our habit of repeating history. ![]() When Victoria Lee first wrote “ The Fever King” (2019/Skyscape), they did not intend to predict the future. In 'The Fever King' webcomic on Webtoon, illustrator Sara Deek brings Victoria Lee's Durham-based fantasy novel to life. ![]()
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