Jordan Mechner

22/07/2026

Ever wonder what a graphic novel script looks like? 📒
Thanks to our first 1,028 backers, Magnetic Press has just added a bonus PDF of my original script for LIBERTY! - free to all tiers! 🙏
🕘9 hours left to back the Kickstarter at https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/liberty/
First 2 pages (of 216) below, showing how artists Etienne Le Roux Loic Chevallier Elvire DeC**k Éditions Delcourt brought my script to life.

09/07/2026

Here are two pages from the English edition of my graphic novel LIBERTY!

Meet Parisian playwright Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (best known as the author of two hit plays which became hit operas, "The Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro"), who is about to become an entrepreneur and an arms smuggler, to save the American Revolution in 1776.
(True story!)

The book is 216 pages with art by Etienne Le Roux, Loïc Chevallier and Elvire DeC**k. Magnetic Press Kickstarter

Details on my website: https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/liberty/

09/07/2026

The following is an interview with Jordan Mechner (creator, Prince of Persia video game franchise) regarding the recent launch of a Kickstarter campaign for

02/07/2026

My new graphic novel LIBERTY! is now available in English from Magnetic Press! Just in time for the USA's 250th Fourth of July.

🇳🇱🇱🇷🇬🇧 The true story of the Parisian playwright and the American agent who organized a pipeline to smuggle illicit arms from France to save the Revolution in 1776.

(The playwright was none other than Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais, famous author of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. Really!)

With incredible artwork by Etienne Le Roux, Loic Chevallier and Elvire De C**k.
Back the Kickstarter now!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neurobellum/liberty?ref=1m9l6v

Today's blog post explains the project and why it appealed to me. (The link to Prince of Persia is less obvious than with my other work... but for players who appreciate the game story's themes, it's there.)
https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-news/ #2026-07-250-years-of-liberty-

The true story of the Parisian playwright and American agent who teamed up to save the Revolution in 1776, by Jordan Mechner.

02/07/2026

L’histoire : Franzi, 7 ans, est séparé de ses parents et devient réfugié dans la France occupée de 1940. Son père, autrichien menacé par le nazisme, a vécu la Première Guerre, connu le Front russe et doit fuir son pays pour l'Amérique. 80 ans plus t**d,...

02/07/2026

Die Ausstellung „Bücher gegen das Vergessen“ – kuratiert vom und der Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur .kjl rückt Schicksale in den Fokus, die niemals im Verborgenen bleiben dürfen. Ein zentrales Thema ist dabei die Erfahrung von Flucht und Exil sowie die Frage, wie traumatische Erlebnisse über Generationen hinweg in Familien nachwirken.

Heute stellen wir euch ein Werk vor, das diese Geschichte auf eine ganz besondere, visuelle Weise erzählt:

„Replay. Erinnerungen einer entwurzelten Familie“ von Jordan Mechner

In dieser eindrucksvollen Graphic Novel begibt sich Jordan Mechner auf die Spuren seiner eigenen Vorfahren, die in den 1930er Jahren aus Wien fliehen mussten. Er nutzt das Medium des Comics meisterhaft, um zwischen den Zeitebenen zu springen: Er verwebt die dramatische Vergangenheit seiner Familie mit der Gegenwart und lässt dabei unterschiedlichste Stimmen zu Wort kommen.

Ein visuell gewaltiges und emotional tiefgreifendes Buch, das zeigt, dass Familiengeschichte niemals starr ist, sondern ein ständiges Echo zwischen den Generationen.

Jordan Mechner
Replay. Erinnerungen einer entwurzelten Familie
Ab 14 Jahren
Vermes Verlag

Die gesamte Liste „Bücher gegen das Vergessen“ findet ihr auf unserer Website. Link in Bio 🔗

05/03/2026

In 1940, in the French seaside town of Le Touquet under German occupation, my dad’s aunt Lisa got a job working behind the counter in a to***co shop.

My dad was 9 years old. He often told me the story of their unlikely—and to me, touching and heartbreaking—friendship with a German Luftwaffe officer pilot named Willi. I put it in my graphic novel memoir REPLAY. Here’s the beginning.

My dad’s stories about Willi moved me especially because it was so surprising to me, as an American kid, that a N**i officer and two Austrian Jewish refugees could be friends. But of course it made sense—that these three young people with similar upbringings and a shared culture, displaced far from their homeland and in danger (in different ways) because of the N**i regime, would find common ground.

The full story is in REPLAY (chapter 4), and its even more unlikely coda in chapter 6. For anyone curious to know more about the historical background and context (and the research I embarked on to check the accuracy of my dad’s childhood recollections), I’ve posted a note in the Replay Annex. You can find all at https://jordanmechner.com/replay (link in bio).

04/03/2026

This little book by Amin Maalouf speaks to me so powerfully. His identity is French and Lebanese, mine is American and Austrian (living in France); his heritage is Christian, mine Jewish; but on nearly every page, I feel like he is speaking for me, with more clarity and insight, humanity and hopefulness, than I’ve ever been able to summon in my attempts to express myself on the subject.

I read it first in French, just discovered it exists in English, and am rereading it now. It’s brilliant in both languages. I recommend it to everyone, especially today. It directly addresses the issues much on my mind as I try to absorb each day’s harrowing world events.