Months after releasing 2019’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force, Chicago’s Devil’s Due Comics has announced the formation of Ballot Box Comics: an imprint (a.k.a. subsidiary division) dedicated to progressive politics and populist movements that challenge both the right and the center-left. The new imprint will create content with a political leaning that “pushes back against this administration’s off-the-rails status quo.”

Ballot Box Comics’ mandate is to produce original titles for the percentage of the country that believes in such ‘radical’ causes as social equality and standing up to government corruption. The release, and success, of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force was a sign for the publisher that politically and socially-minded comic book readers are seriously underrepresented leading to the formation of the new imprint.

Ballot Box Comics’ flagship release is entitled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force: Ballot Box Collection. the 144-page trade paperback will be available at physical and online retailers on April 22, 2020, with pre-orders now available at www.OcasioComic.com. The book is chock full of short-form comics (depicting AOC, her Squad, and Bernie Sanders as corruption-fighting superheroes), satirical games, puzzles, Trump and GOP skewering, and much more. Conceived by Blaylock, The Ballot Box Collection features contributions by numerous award-winning artists, and contains three comics in one paperback collection:

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force: Squad Special (Brand new!)
• Talk Bernie to Me: The Bernie Sanders Special & AOC Surprise (released July 2019)
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force: New Party, Who Dis? (released May 2019)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force: Ballot Box Collection features contributions from several acclaimed and award-winning writers/artists, including Jill Thompson, Dean Haspiel, Jose Garibaldi, Josh Blaylock, Tim Seeley, Gustavo Vasquez, Marguerite Dabaie, Christa Cassano, Travis Hymel, Pat Shand, K. Lynn Smith, Kit Caoagas, Larry Watts, Bob Sikoryak, Adam McGovern, Nick Accardi, Shawn DePasquale, Elizabeth Marley Kim, Jason Goungor, Sherard Jackson, Peter Rostovsky, Jeffrey Burandt, Sean Von Gorman, and more.