Radix Media—NYC's only worker-owned publisher and printer—is excited to bring out a moving Graphic Narrative Collection: three distinct projects that explore the most prescient themes of today. We're raising money for the project on Kickstarter here.

From the mind of the eclectic, defiant artist Ganzeer comes The Solar Grid, a dystopian comic book series set centuries after a great flood has subsumed much of the modern world; with Fanning the Flames, fans and artists can access the early illustrations of famed writer, journalist, and illustrator Molly Crabapple, stripped to their outlines; and John Dermot Woods and Matt. L present MORTALS, a sensitive graphic novella exploring the mortality of life and craft.

In this special edition of Radix Reads, writer-artists Ganzeer, Molly Crabapple, John Dermot Woods & Matt L. share excerpts from their upcoming titles with Radix Media, and talk about the importance and the future of graphic narratives.

Here are the bios of the featured artists:

Ganzeer

Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling, creating what he has coined Concept Pop. With over forty exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world, such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, Greek State Museum in Thessaloniki, and more. He also illustrated We Are All Things, a graphic prose poem by Elliott Colla, published in 2020 by Radix Media.

Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently a 2020 New America Fellow and a 2020 Bard Fellow at the Brooklyn Public Library. Her animated short A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been nominated for an Emmy award in the category of Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion.

John Dermot Woods

John Dermot Woods writes stories and draws comics. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. His books include the novel, The Baltimore Atrocities, published by Coffee House Press, and a collection of comics, Activities (Publishing Genius Press). He recently published a science fiction chapbook, Always Blue, as part of Radix Media's Futures series. He and Lincoln Michel published their funny comic strip, Animals in Midlife Crises at The Rumpus. He is a founder of the online arts journal Action, Yes and a professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

Matt L.

Matt L. writes and draws comics. He earned his BFA from Parsons in Paris. He was later accepted into Juilliard's professional internship program for scenic painting. After working as a freelance artist, specializing in theater and TV sets, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work as a cartoonist.

RADIX READS: The Graphic Narrative Edition

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