As for how this all came together, the writer said the answer is a simple one.
“I wrote a novella called ‘New Spring’ for the Bob Silverberg anthology Legends and the Dabel brothers approached my agent about doing a comic based on that. They had already begun George Martin’s ‘The Hedge Knight’ from that anthology—the issues I saw looked spectacular!—and signed to do Bob Silverberg’s story as well. Meanwhile, however, my print publisher, Tor Books, had asked me to expand the novella into New Spring: the Novel . So I told the Dabel Brothers that I wouldn’t sell them the rights to the novella, but I would to the novel, if they were interested in doing something that much longer. It turned out that they were and we were off to the races.”
If you are viewing this on github.io, you can see that this site is open source. Please do not try to improve this page. It is auto-generated by a python script. If you have suggestions for improvements, please start a discussion on the github repo or the Discord.