I enjoyed the first issue of this series about California succeeding from the United States when it appeared eight years ago. Black Mask may be a small publisher, but they produce a wide variety of titles. I loved their visionary science fiction series Everfrost when it appeared four years ago. Here's all the info on the latest issue of Calexit:
NEW COMIC BOOK TAKES STAND AGAINST ICE
CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1
World Premiere at San Diego Comic Con to Support Immigrant Families Impacted by ICE Raids
Masked men snatching people off the street, innocent people shipped to third world prisons, parents and children separated with no way to reconnect – they sound like plots of a dystopian comic book, not reality.
Now new comic, CALEXIT: BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1 from Black Mask Studios, is using its fictional story to help these victims and raise money for the families impacted by the Trump Administration’s ICE Raids
Premiering at San Diego Comic Con, profits from the BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE will be donated to Alliance San Diego’s Immigrant Relief Fund.
Writer Matteo Pizzolo teams with artist Butch Mapa (General Strike) to create the new CALEXIT story, which tells the story of friends radicalized by a DHS raid at their workplace – seemingly ripped from today’s headlines, the story was written last year before the current wave of deportations.
“With CALEXIT, I do my best to keep the dystopia optimistic and constructive. I focus on characters struggling to do the right thing for each other in a world gone mad,” said Pizzolo. “I wrote this character-origin story last year, and it’s heartbreaking to see real world events devolve at such a rapid clip and mirror the comic’s dark speculation. We’re doing what we can with the tools at our disposal, raising money for an organization that is on the frontlines, helping people.”
CALEXIT debuted in July 2017 and sold through seven-printings before launching a line of spinoffs. In addition to CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1, San Diego Comic Con also marks the debut of new volume CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF UNIVERSAL CITY #1.
ABOUT CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE
Zora Donato was working at a Dunkin Donuts in Oceanside when a Homeland Security raid inspires her to join the Oceanside Resistance and fight back against DHS Occupying Forces entrenched in a newly-declared independent California.
A HISTORY of CALEXIT ACTIVISM
CALEXIT is no stranger to focusing its fiction towards non-fiction goals.
· CALEXIT: All Systems San Diego in 2018 was a fundraiser for the San Diego Rapid Response Network and host of Indivisible’s voter registration drive. Character Emmie-X became a face of the California 2018 Get Out The Vote campaign.
· CALEXIT was the springboard for GENERAL STRIKE, supporting the Hollywood Community through the dual WGA and SAG strikes.
· Pizzolo has also contributed his writing royalties to forming a SuperPAC called Become The Government. Each issue of CALEXIT features a non-fiction section of interviews with activists, organizers, and candidates in local elections. All three candidates covered in CALEXIT’s non-fiction sections prevailed in their primary elections.
CALEXIT is “not wish fulfillment: it's warning -- and a scarily imminent and salient warning at that. But that's not all: it's superb.” - bestselling author Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing
Black Mask Studios will be exhibiting at San Diego Comic Con this week at booth 5536 and selling CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1 as well as the entire line of CALEXIT books and stories.
ABOUT MATTEO PIZZOLO
Named
Wired Magazine’s ‘World’s Most Wired Comics Creator’ and included in
Bleeding Cool’s Top 100 Most Influential People In Comics, Matteo
Pizzolo is a comic book writer-creator (his GODKILLER was listed as one
of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books Of The Year and his YOUNG TERRORISTS was
second only to Lumberjanes as the highest selling indie graphic novel of
the year), an award-winning filmmaker, and the co-founder of Black Mask
where he’s championed SPACE RIDERS, BLACK, THE DREGS, DESTINY NY, ALICE
IN LEATHERLAND, 4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK, and more. Utilizing his
background in political organizing, Pizzolo created the Occupy Comics
project and devotes himself to supporting and creating some of the
bravest comics on shelves.
ABOUT BLACK MASK STUDIOS
Under co-founders Brett Gurewitz, Steve Niles, and Matteo Pizzolo – Black Mask Studios brings the punk rock ethic to comics supporting creators telling awesome and important stories.
Thanks to Black Mask and Team Up Publicity for sharing this announcement with us.
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