Computer engineer Ness and their TravelPet must chaperone two young children on a flight to Mars. Along the way they must learn to navigate being a nanny and dealing with an unexpected stranger, all while hiding a dangerous secret!
Space lanes between Earth and Mars are open! New Grand Central Station awaits!
New Grand Central Station awaits!
Ness, a computer engineer by trade, landed a tutoring gig in exchange for passage. The kids Ness is escorting belong to some Granica corpo, so they can afford an entire houseboat—just three people in a cylindrical apartment for eight weeks.
Ness even has a Granica brand TravelCat to keep them company on the trip. It should be a pretty easy couple of months, except for the gravy shock.
Sometimes you need to wear a space suit, even when you travel by house boat to Mars.
This would be an easy job, but Ness' cat is more than a stock TravelPet and there is a fourth person who knows a lot about space travel waiting for them when they arrive.
Who is this guy?! Ness doesn't know him.
Creator Brian "24 Hour Engineer" McEvoy is an avid writer in his free time and wrote Granica as an audio play in 2020. He enjoys sharing his creations with his friends, but unfortunately, one of his friends, Sarah, is a comic book creator, and sometimes utters those very dangerous words, "this could make a good comic..."
While this has happened before, this time, everyone got serious and decided to make it happen. Brian and Sarah worked together to adapt the play into a comic, then brought on artist Kelson Steele in his debut comic to bring the characters to life! Add in colors by the master of the trade, Fish Lee, and there you have it!
If you're curious about the original radio play, we've got some great news! We're offering tickets to a private livestream reading of the original script by the team as an add-on! The show will be on August 24, 2024 at 5 pm eastern. We had to cut out a LOT of fun little details to adapt it to comics form, so this should be a great time!
Who will like Granica? If you like Cowboy Bebop, Red Dwarf, The Expanse, and maybe even Firefly, you'll probably enjoy this story!
💥 Welcome to Comictopia — a celebration of creativity and collaboration from a diverse group of writers and artists collectively running comic book crowdfunding projects from July 18th -August 8th.
🔥 Limited Cross-Collaboration Freebies — All 30+ Comictopia creators have paired up with a fellow participant to create two unique and limited freebies together. We've partnered with Dren Productions to offer you two great crossover covers if you back both Granica #1 and Cowgirls vs. Zombies #1! If BOTH projects reach their initial funding goal, backers who support BOTH AT A PHYSICAL TIER** will get BOTH COVERS! The more pairs of Comictopia creators you support, the more limited freebies you will earn ✨
You'll get both these covers FREE if you back us and Cowgirls vs Zombies at a physical tier!
Check out our crossover cover!
**Backers who back both projects at a digital tier will receive both covers as a digital image.
Brian McEvoy
BRIAN MCEVOY - CREATOR - Brian McEvoy is an engineer, writer, and game designer who can be found tinkering on his latest prototype or writing his next story. When not world-building his first comic, Granica, he happily gets bossed around by his cat, Isla, who he swears is not an AI. Website: 24hourengineer.com
Kelson Steele
KELSON STEELE - ARTIST - A new comic artist working in Los Angeles, Kelson has been drawing cartoons for as long as he can remember. He graduated from Cal State University Northridge in 2021 with a focus in art and animation as well as a passion for all things creative. His knack for character expression and storytelling has lent perfectly to sequential art but most of all he just loves the comics medium. You can find him at any coffee shop in the San Fernando Valley, working away on his IPad.
Fish Lee
FISH LEE - COLORIST - Writer and Illustrator of such series as "Greenzone: Life In The Blocks" and"The Mighty KAAW The Crowmagnon" and the illustrator of such series as "The Sentinels", "The Sensational 7", "The Power Company" and "Fivestar," Fish Lee has illustrated over 80 books since 2019 and helped raise over $130,000 on KS! Follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok.
Sarah White
SARAH WHITE - SCRIPT, LETTERS - Sarah White is the co-founder of Laguna Studios with Laurie and chaotic neutral who sometimes does art and design. She knows a little about a lot and wields that power to make messes and cause light havoc. Sometimes she posts pics of her cats on Facebook, but usually she's working on something comic-related. You can reach her at www.LagunaStudios.net
Laurie Foster
LAURIE FOSTER - EDITOR - Laurie is co-founder of Laguna Studios with Sarah and has been drawing for more than 15 years, professionally inking for 8. She is also a graphic designer, editor, and cosplayer! She has done work for Valiant Entertainment, Kymera Press, and many others.
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