The Kane Chronicles: The Graphic Novels Books in Order

The Kane Chronicles graphic novels bring Carter and Sadie’s Egyptian adventures to life in full color. Each volume adapts one of the main novels—The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpent’s Shadow—using sequential art to show spells flaring, gods manifesting, and duels exploding across museum galleries and city skylines.

Because the original trilogy alternates between the siblings’ points of view, the graphic versions lean heavily on visual cues—panel layouts, facial expressions, and color shifts—to signal who is holding the microphone at any given moment. That makes the story easier to follow for some readers than a straight transcript of recorded tapes.

You still get the big arc: from the first museum disaster to the struggle against Apophis and the final stand at the edge of chaos.

This page explains what’s covered in each graphic novel, how closely they track the prose, and where they sit in relation to the survival guide, Brooklyn House manual, and the Percy Jackson crossovers. If you’re introducing a reader to the Kanes for the first time, we suggest whether to start with the comics, the novels, or to use them side by side.

For fans who already know the story, the artwork offers a fresh way to imagine Egyptian magic—hieroglyphs swirling through the air, animal-headed gods stepping out of the Duat, and flying boats skimming over the Nile—while still grounded firmly in Riordan’s voice and sense of humor.