The Solar Grid, Ch. 1
Comix
2016—4
Los Angeles, CA
949 years after the Flood, Earth has become a dry and wretched place. Night exists only in legend—banished by the Solar Grid, a vast network of satellites that keeps the planet bathed in perpetual daylight. Beneath its unrelenting sun, solar-powered factories labor ceaselessly to produce goods destined for Mars.
Mehret and Kameen, two orphans surviving on the margins, make their living scavenging for valuable relics in Wastecountry—a boundless expanse that has become the Solar System’s de facto landfill. When they uncover an artifact of immense significance, they find themselves on a path that could bring down the Solar Grid and alter the course of history forever.
The Solar Grid is a nine-part graphic novel exploring the intersections of planetary imperialism, hyper-industrialism, and systemic exploitation. At its core, it grapples with questions of race and power, while weaving in themes of speculative archaeology, space travel, and environmental collapse.
Chapters are digitally serialized at thesolargrid.net, with a Kickstarter-funded print edition planned upon completion, and a Korean edition forthcoming from Huud Books.
A ten-part serialized print edition also began publication in April 2021 by Radix Media, in collaboration with Ganzeer’s own imprint, Mythomatic.
Mehret and Kameen, two orphans surviving on the margins, make their living scavenging for valuable relics in Wastecountry—a boundless expanse that has become the Solar System’s de facto landfill. When they uncover an artifact of immense significance, they find themselves on a path that could bring down the Solar Grid and alter the course of history forever.
The Solar Grid is a nine-part graphic novel exploring the intersections of planetary imperialism, hyper-industrialism, and systemic exploitation. At its core, it grapples with questions of race and power, while weaving in themes of speculative archaeology, space travel, and environmental collapse.
Chapters are digitally serialized at thesolargrid.net, with a Kickstarter-funded print edition planned upon completion, and a Korean edition forthcoming from Huud Books.
A ten-part serialized print edition also began publication in April 2021 by Radix Media, in collaboration with Ganzeer’s own imprint, Mythomatic.