Forager: The Graphic Novel - Tapa blanda

In this comic book/graphic novel, two parents try to save their crumbling marriage by taking their six-year-old daughter, Ellie, on a week’s vacation aboard a luxury Star Liner orbiting Earth and Mars. Ellie is a precocious child who also happens to fall somewhere on the Asperger’s spectrum.

Soon after reaching orbit, Ellie begins hearing voices from what she calls angels, claiming they are “coming for our world.” As the days pass, Ellie alarmingly slips in and out of a catatonic state for short periods of time, each time explaining that the angels are getting closer.

Are the angels real?

Is Ellie suffering a mental breakdown...or is this first contact with an alien intelligence?

Revised edition: This edition of Forager includes editorial revisions.

Justin Gray has worked for more than a decade on comic book titles that include Power Girl, 21 Down, Jonah Hex, Marvel Adventures, The Monolith, Daughters of the Dragon, and The Tattered Man. He has also written for children’s magazines, film, television, and video games. Prior to his work as a professional author, he was a fossil hunter, an advocate for victims of crime, and a microphotographer capturing rare images of twenty-million-year-old insects trapped in amber.

Jimmy Palmiotti is an award-winning character creator with a wide range of production, consulting, editorial, film writing, film development, media presentation, and video game development credits. His clients include Nike, Nickelodeon, Universal Pictures, Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Lionsgate, Vidmark, Starz, Fox Atomic, Alliance Films, New Line, Spike TV, MTV, 2K Games, Midway, Radical Games, Activision, and THQ. He is the cofounder of companies such as Event Comics, Black Bull Media, Marvel Knights (a division of Marvel Comics), and PaperFilms, where he partners with Amanda Conner, Paul Mounts, Frank Tieri, and Justin Gray. His current projects include All-Star Western, Batwing, and Harley Quinn for DC Comics, Daredevil: Dark Nights and What If? AvX for Marvel Comics, Painkiller Jane for Marvel’s Icon Comics, and The Deep Sea for Dark Horse Entertainment.

Steven Cummings lives in the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, where he spends most of his time in his tiny office drawing pictures of places with large rooms. In the past he has worked on numerous titles for US publishers such as Wolverine First Class, Elektra, Batman LODK, and Deadshot, in addition to the creator-owned series Pantheon High. That's on top of all the game illustrations he has done for US and Japanese publishers. His current project is the creator-owned series for Image Comics, Wayward, about the wonderful world of yokai set in Japan.

Bill Tortolini, an accomplished art director and graphic designer, began designing and lettering in the comic book industry more than a decade ago. He has worked with many of comics’ top creators and publishers including Marvel, IDW, Image, Kickstart, Disney, MTV, and Del Rey. Current and past projects include: Stephen King’s Talisman, Army of Darkenss, Random Acts of Violence, George R.R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight, Magician: Riftwar, Battlestar Galactica, The Wheel of Time, The Dresden Files, Transformers, Star Trek, G.I. Joe, Archie Comics, True Blood, Shock Rockets, Tattered Man, and many others. Bill is an avid Bruins, Patriots, and Red Sox fan (and hopes Jimmy does not hold that against him). Bill lives in Massachusetts, with his wife, three children, and his sometimes loyal dog, Oliver.