The Rainbow Orchid is a comic written and drawn by Garen Ewing, the first of a series of planned Julius Chancer books.

It is drawn in the ligne claire style and published in English by Egmont,[1] in Dutch by Silvester Strips, in French by BD Must Editions, in Spanish by NetCom2 Editorial, and in German by Salleck Publications.

The Complete Rainbow Orchid was published in English as a single album by Egmont in 2012 and a digital edition was produced by Panel Nine for their Sequential platform for iPad late in 2013.

[5] Julius Chancer, young assistant to the historical researcher Sir Alfred Catesby-Grey, becomes embroiled in an adventure to discover the lost Rainbow Orchid, largely due to the machinations of scheming Daily News reporter William Pickle.

He is accompanied by silent film actress Lily Lawrence, her American agent Nathaniel Crumpole, and Benoit Tayaut, a French stunt-pilot.

The book's main characters are: Ewing has cited several comics as inspirations,[7] most of them drawn in the ligne claire style: Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, Edgar P. Jacobs's Blake and Mortimer and Yves Chaland's Freddy Lombard.

The story has its roots in the lost world adventure fiction of writers such as Rider Haggard, Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.