![]() ![]() Tech and media are front and center in grayed-out security cam footage, personalized targeted advertisements, and blocky message bubbles via Bethlehem’s chat app. Panels jut out and the action frequently crashes the gutters, bumping up against an incorporation of fierce design acumen. ![]() Ganzeer sets these 38 black and white pages in a post-apocalyptic era that appears to have followed a “Great Flood.” Skyquench’s alleged crime relates to water - specifically, to the company’s business decision to send the scarce resource it has harvested on Earth to another planet - and its efforts to cover it up.Īs improbable as it is that there might still be newspapers at any point in even the near future let alone the far-off post-apocalyptic state that Ganzeer envisions, his water crisis element, the renderings of hollow cable TV news punditry, and assault on press freedoms (all of which are very personal for the artist) feel very on-the-mark. In the first chapter of a topical digital sci-fi comic called The Solar Grid from Egyptian street artist, writer, graphic designer, and critic Ganzeer, “human civilization is in ruins.” Or so says an underling at Skyquench, a malicious corporate giant at the center of an unflattering investigative newspaper story that has journalist Buster Bethlehem suspected of terrorism for reporting it. ![]()
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