Magnetic Press has announced a Kickstarter campaign for the graphic novel Silent Jenny, by Label 619 co-director and artist Mathieu Bablet. Today, The Beat can reveal the details and a first look at the comic.
Silent Jenny is a near-future sci-fi story about the devastating loss of pollinators due to the climate crisis. Here’s the synopsis:
Silent Jenny explores a not-too-distant future, where climate change continues to ravage the planet, and the disappearance of insects has led to the end of pollination, rendering vast areas of land infertile. A survival dynamic has emerged—mobile cities called “monads” have formed, and people strive to help each other; each group with its own customs, traditions, and ways of life.
Jenny is a rather solitary researcher trying to restore the world as it once was. She seeks to recover bee DNA to clone and re-create pollinating insects. However, she will come to realize that this is impossible—the old world no longer exists, and a new one must be built. She will have to make peace with the notion that all things come to an end, no matter how much you may fight the inevitable…
Check out a preview from the book below.
“I’m thrilled that after Shangri-La and Carbon & Silicon, the American public will finally discover the end of my science fiction trilogy!” said Bablet. “I hope you enjoy this plunge into the underworld, exploring the wastelands, and traveling aboard the monads!”
“Silent Jenny asks, ‘What remains of our humanity when our tools are gone?’ Through a blend of desert punk aesthetics and dystopic nightmare, the story is about environmental reclamation and the search for meaning in a world that has moved on from us,” said Mike Kennedy, Magnetic Press Director of Publishing.
“The book explores how we communicate through action, gesture, and presence—and how meaning survives even when language fails. Like Mathieu’s previous books, Shangri-La and Carbon & Silicon, this book packs a powerful punch that really makes you think about where we, as a species, might be heading,” Kennedy continued. “If you loved the atmospheric mystery of The Arrival, the haunting wastelands of Nausicaä, or the architectural grandeur of Moebius, Silent Jenny belongs on your shelf.”
The Kickstarter campaign will feature a deluxe hardcover edition of Silent Jenny, as well as a limited boxed edition and an exclusive, 24-page, 6×9″ Codex Art Book examining the comic’s world. More exclusives will be revealed ahead of launch.
To be notified when the Silent Jenny Kickstarter is live, sign up on the prelaunch page.
