Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group is set to release the debut graphic novel from renowned comics illustrator and cartoonist Jed McGowan, My Life Among Humans, on February 7, 2023. My Life Among Humans is an evocative, melancholy, and ultimately hopeful story of a solitary alien’s misguided search for connection among its human subjects. McGowan’s unique art style lends to the very emotional experience of the alien and the community he inhabits.

My Life Among Humans follows a nameless alien data compiler who comes to Earth to study humans, setting up shop on the outskirts of a small desert community in North America. Working under forced labor, it must watch humans in complete secrecy while sending regular reports to its manager back home. Using spore-like technology to read the minds of his hosts, the alien quickly takes a special interest in Will, one of his early subjects. That interest proves to be a problem when the alien is accidentally revealed to Will’s family and takes desperate measures to save its own life. In doing so, it discovers a forbidden ability…it can control human minds. Now, the alien struggles to keep this secret from its manager, deal with a growing number of suspicious humans, and come to terms with its ethically questionable decisions.

My Life Among Humans will be available in hardcover via Simon & Schuster (ISBN: 978-1-63715-199-0) at both digital and physical retailers everywhere on February 7, 2023.