Benjamin HC Solicit

 

At San Diego Comic-Con, president Hunter Gorinson and editor-in-chief Sierra Hahn hailed Ben H Winter's story as one of the strongest pitches they had ever heard. Ben described his character, Benjamin J Carp, as a curmudgeonly, obnoxious man. As he seeks answers to his strange rebirth, what he discovers prompt more questions about his existence. You may not like Benjamin J Carp. Yet he has an odd ability to charm people. And as he grapples with his situation, Ben H Winters assured readers that we would root for him.

Here's all the info on this upcoming hardcover edition from Oni Press: 

BENJAMIN HC ADVANCE SOLICIT

WRITTEN BY BEN H. WINTERS ART BY LEOMACS COVER BY CHRISTIAN WARD IN ONE L.A. MOTEL ROOM, A COSMIC QUEST IS ABOUT TO BEGIN . . . More than just a writer, more than just a science-fiction icon, Benjamin J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Over the course of 44 novels and hundreds of short stories—including the counterculture classic The Man They Couldn’t Erase—Carp pushed the boundaries of literary respectability for the sci-fi genre and his readers’ perception of reality itself . . . until decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess finally ended a mind-bending career that always just escaped mainstream success. He died in 1982. Until 2025 . . . when Benjamin J. Carp awakens, alive, in a burned-out motel on the fringes of Los Angeles. He remembers dying. He knows he shouldn’t exist. Is he a dream? A robot? A ghost? A clone? A simulation? In his own time, Carp pondered all of these scenarios through his fiction—and now, as he treks from Studio City to Venice Beach and onward into the paranoid sprawl of 21st-century Los Angeles, he will be called to investigate his greatest mystery yet: himself.     (Left to right) Hunter Gorinson, Sierra Hahn & Ben H Winters     From Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award winner Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman trilogy) and rising star Leomacs (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss, Ghostlore) comes a uniquely fascinating and hilariously deranged excursion into the metatextual nexus, where existence and oblivion, past and future, genius and madness, and glitter and grim reality all meet just beyond Hollywood Boulevard. ON SALE MARCH 11th, 2026 | $24.99 | 104 PGS. | FC IOD: 9/27/2025 FOC: 2/16/2026           Thanks to Oni Press for sharing this advance solicit with us.