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Free Pass is where sex, politics, and technology meet!

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Free Pass

by Julian Hanshaw
ISBN 978-1-60309-505-1 | Diamond: JAN220456 | $19.99 (US) | 192 pages
Full-color softcover graphic novel with flaps
6 1/2″ x 9″ | for mature readers
Coming MAY 2022!

From the author of Tim Ginger and Cloud Hotel comes an intoxicating tale of liberty, suppression, and shame, set in the sticky place where sex, politics, and technology come together.

George Orwell said ”You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, backbiter, a fornicator. You are not free to think for yourself.”

Huck and Nadia are enjoying their twenties: working in Big Tech and developing an adventurous sex life. As they discuss their fantasies, including the possibility of swapping partners and drafting a “free pass” list, they take pride in their honest and transparent relationship.

But when it comes to politics, Huck is leading a double life. As a national election looms, he grows more and more uncomfortable with his company’s unelected authority over internet discourse.

When the couple receives a bizarre gift —a cutting-edge humanoid sex AI that can morph into anyone with an internet presence— their worlds of fantasy, trust, and consent are blissfully thrown into chaos.

In a society growing more divided each day, Huck struggles with the pressure to uphold the boundaries of a binary world at work while everything is collapsing at home.

Free Pass

I Feel Love with SelfMadeHero

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Love makes the world go round. It can also turn your heart as black as coal. I Feel Love is an anthology of short fiction that explores love’s dark, twisted underbelly and offers a much-needed antidote to everything that is sweet, cloying, and conventional.

Contributors from both the UK and US, bring their own illustrative style and unique take to bear on the many moods of love, often leaving romance behind in search of darker desires. Ignatz Award-nominated Anya Davidson explores a slash fiction obsession, while Kelsey Wroten, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and Vice, depicts medieval penance. UK-based cartoonist Cat Sims gets entwined with childbirth, and Benjamin Marra discovers the attraction of swamp monsters on the fairer sex. Rounding off the collection, editors Julian Hanshaw and Krent Able offer their own contributions, with tales of wife-swapping and a mysterious black balloon.

A companion volume to the successful I Feel Machine anthology, I Feel Love questions the one emotion that is meant to make us feel good – but that often does the exact opposite. As unflinching as it is honest, this is the kind of book you don’t take home to meet your parents.

I Feel Love

Preview: Cloud Hotel

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Cloud Hotel

Julian Hanshaw (w & a)

Remco knows he is special. He was chosen. God took a shine to him, after a bright light in a clear northern sky brought Remco to the incredible Cloud Hotel, a wondrous place that he never wants to leave. But Remco has outstayed his welcome… and it’s time to check out.

LA Times Book Prize finalist Julian Hanshaw (Tim Ginger) returns with another feast of visual imagination and emotional intensity that will haunt readers’ dreams long after the book is closed.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 160 pages • 6.5” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-60309-425-2