The Sickness Volume 1

Lonnie Nadler author Jenna Cha author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Uncivilized Books

Published:1st Aug '24

£19.95

This title is due to be published on 1st August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Sickness Volume 1 cover

A teenager in 1945 is suffocated by post- WWII nationalism. A tireless doctor in 1955 desperately tries to find the origin of a new illness. Though these two people are living seemingly disparate lives, decades apart, they will come to understand that their fates are irrevocably intertwined by a rare, horrifying sickness and an enigmatic figure who follows wherever they go. He is known only as The Man.

Confined within their eras, they each race against time to escape The Man and find a cure before The Sickness collapses their worlds.

This rich and disturbing comic spans four decades of American history to serve as a reminder that the terrors of yesterday are the terrors of today. A sprawling, ambitious, and genre-bending work exploring the socio-political strife that shaped the nation. It’s the crossbreed of I Love Lucy-era pop culture and bizarre body horror in a historical horror epic.

"Jenna Cha's black-and-white art drives the anxiety; the shading and tones of the characters and horror scenes make it a horror comic you won't forget anytime soon." —Fangoria

"Jenna Cha and Lonnie Nadler maybe aren’t carriers of [The Sickness], but they are practitioners of it, using this comic to turn it into a viral system that’s just starting to worm its way into our consciousnesses." —From Cover to Cover

ISBN: 9781941250617

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

160 pages

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