Pretending* I’m choosing paper stock for the GIGS mini-comic @curmudgeonly_si and I made. Being given away by a few select retailers soon! First batch will be heading to OK Comics in a week or so…
*I basically defer to Si 100% of the time on things like this.
#comics #art #writing #madebyhumans #Leeds
I started working at OK Comics 23-ish years ago, and stayed for nearly a decade. Nearly two and a half decades later, I’m on the A-board. OK is, of course, where we’ll be launching GIGS. It’s happening June 18th, though we don’t have all the details yet. This is an absolutely huge deal for me. Save the date! (And in the meantime, preorder GIGS from the OK webshop)
PS: Happy Free Comic Book Day to all who celebrate.
A.I. took the work. Gigs replaced jobs. Ordinary people are left to scrape together lives in a world that's no longer built for them. These are their stories.
Take a frighteningly peek into a possible near future. Gigs is both a powerful warning about the oppressive world to come and a defiant celebration of the humanity that will sprout up in the cracks.
Pre-order Gigs by @thatmarkperson and @curmudgeonly_si at bookstores: shelfcomix.com/catalog/gigs/1155
#NoAI #AI #GraphicNovel #Scifi #humanity #celebration #JobIndustry @gigsgraphicnovel@idwpublishing
This is the image from GIGS that really made me think we were onto something. The detail, the richness, the lived-in-ness - the whole story suddenly felt really alive. I’ll eternally be lucky to work with Si.
If you’re in the UK, you can preorder GIGS from @okcomics or any place beautiful books are sold. If you’re elsewhere, order from the best comic or bookshop you know!
Sometimes you just don’t have the time to cook real food between gigs. Don’t worry about food, drink Muel.
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#comics #comicsart #illustration #dystopia #cooking
This is one panel from a nine panel grid. The level of detail in it is a prime example of how @curmudgeonly_si drives himself up the wall making comics.
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(GIGS is available for preorder from @okcomics and all other good comic/bookshops now! Etc etc etc…)
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#comics #comicsart #illustration #winter #art
One way to feel about the bank holiday (if you’re maybe 10% less hungover than me).
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(Preorder GIGS from @okcomics now!)
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#comics #comicsofinstagram #comicsart #gigeconomy #grimmeathookfuture
Gigs! Coming soon to OK Comics!
If you’ve shopped with us since the beginning (over 20 years ago...) you’ll remember Mark! Now, teaming up with local artist Si Smith, Mark brings us one of the best books of the year...
A.I. has absorbed the labour. Jobs have fractured into gigs. Regular people are left patching together survival in a world that no longer considers them. These are the lives caught in between.
Set in an uncomfortably close future where Basic Income is topped up by app-assigned gig work, Gigs follows six intersecting stories: an elderly punk and an isolated young worker finding freedom through music; a street artist who creates under cover of darkness only to erase it by day; a washed-up detective pursuing a case into a forgotten city; a courier tasked with a long, unsettling delivery; a writer counting the days aboard a crumbling space station she cannot escape; and a refugee searching for aid in the last place still beyond control.
Gigs is both a stark warning about the systems taking shape around us and a stubborn, hopeful testament to the humanity that survives in the margins.
Pre-order here: okcomics.co.uk/products/pre...
