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CARTOONISTS BY COMBAT! Patrick Horvath’s Free For All #1 adds a Stacked Line-Up of Indie Cartooning All-Stars with Juni Ba, Noah Bailey, Matt Kindt, and Matt Lesniewski!

DEATH BEFORE BANKRUPTCY! Oni Press has unveiled a slate of variant covers to kill for – featuring talents to die for! 

Debuting in comic shops everywhere in March 2025, Free For All #1, a gory and gripping 56-page one-shot graphic novella by Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath – featuring a star-studded line-up of covers from some of the most celebrated cartoonists from the world of independent comics with new pieces by Ringo Award nominee Juni Ba, rising star Noah Bailey , Eisner Award nominee Patrick Horvath, multiple Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt and Eisner Award winner Matt Lesniewski.

The first work by one of the industry’s fastest rising new talents since the sold-out debut of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees – which earned a 2024 Eisner Award nomination for “Best New Series” – Horvath’s Free For All #1 introduces a brave new world where greed and glory have become inextricably linked in a spectacularly brutal game that has enraptured millions around the globe…

In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: either donate half of their assets to the common good — or defend them in ritual combat. 

Reigning champion and real estate magnate Ted Brooks has 22 victories under his belt — defending the wealth he schemed and stabbed to get — when he is forced to face his ex-wife, Luella Dominguez, in a fight to the death. Luella has been training, waiting for this moment. But will she have what it takes to defeat the man who would do anything — absolutely anything — to keep his fortune?

It’s every shareholder for themselves when death and bankruptcy collide in Free For All #1, a giant-sized, one-shot spectacle of commerce and carnage coming this March from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath!

Free For All #1

Eisner Award Nominee Patrick Horvath Declares Free For All #1 at Oni Press

IN THIS FUTURE, MONEY ISN’T EVERYTHING – IT’S THE ONLY THING. Oni Press has unveiled Free For All #1 by Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath – a gory and gripping 56-page one-shot graphic novella coming to comic shops everywhere in March 2025! The first work by one of the industry’s fastest rising new talents since the sold-out debut of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees – which earned a 2024 Eisner Award nomination for “Best New Series” – Horvath’s Free For All #1 introduces a brave new world where greed and glory have become inextricably linked in a spectacularly brutal game that has enraptured millions around the globe…

In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: either donate half of their assets to the common good — or defend them in ritual combat. 

Reigning champion and real estate magnate Ted Brooks has 22 victories under his belt — defending the wealth he schemed and stabbed to get — when he is forced to face his ex-wife, Luella Dominguez, in a fight to the death. Luella has been training, waiting for this moment. But will she have what it takes to defeat the man who would do anything — absolutely anything — to keep his fortune?

Horvath’s Free For All #1 is the first of five new, genre-colliding projects from high-profile talents for Spring 2025 set to be revealed by Oni Press in the month ahead. 

It’s every shareholder for themselves when death and bankruptcy collide in Free For All #1 – a giant-sized spectacle of capitalism and carnage coming this March from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath!

Free For All #1

Is Oni Press teasing Patrick Horvath’s Free For All?

Patrick Horvath is a hot creator with Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees getting praised and receiving award recognition. That series will be getting a follow up through IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW Dark, but today Oni Press has teased something else from Horvath.

Coming March 2025 and with the text “In the future, the only thing left to fight for is yourself,” Oni released the below image. Could this be Horvath’s recently crowdfunded Free For All?

Funded through Zoop, that graphic novella’s description:

Welcome to the future. The world is at peace and thriving. Housing, food, education, healthcare… all of the basic requirements for living are now provided for by the World Finance League, and it’s all funded by a lottery. Wealthy citizens of the world are picked at random and given the choice to either donate half of their assets for the greater good of the world, or fight to the death to keep it all. Among these trillionaire gladiators, two former lovers square off in this global arena to settle their differences once and for all.

Regardless of who lives or dies, we all win.

Both mention the “future,” so good chance it’s the same comic… That would make another comic funded through Zoop coming to a major publisher and would also mean the Zoop edition could be extra sought after by collectors.

Patrick Horvath teaser

Disclosure: Brett is a Zoop team member and has equity in the company.

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