2016.04       
Los Angeles, CA

Pencil + Ink on Paper + Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator + Indesign
27.9 x 17.8 cm | 11 x 17 in

PDF + CBZ
40pp

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.

Pencil, Ink, and digitally graytones
27.9 x 17.8 cm | 11 x 17 in
48pp

From BookRiot:
"THE SOLAR GRID #2: 'Magnitude and Complexity,' is in the flooded future where Sharif Algebri's Skyquench is aiming to siphon off water from Earth for other planetary establishments. Safety 1st officers come to take a look at the apartment of Teddy the whistleblower who leaked Skyquench docs and fled to China. There is wonderfully terse humor and the two officers find a clue in a package sent by a friend of Teddy's. After that, there's a brilliantly drawn TV sequence with boxes that look like overexposed, caricatured screenshots beside blocks of text spoken by the TV talking heads, who are cautiously interviewing Sharif Algebri, holder of 6,649 patents and billionaire."

From ComicBastards:
"This is a comic that shares its lifeblood with books like TRANSMETROPOLITAN and V FOR VENDETTA--not just for its visual density in world--building but because of how it invites a conversation about environmentalism and the global politics of the here and now."

Pencil, Ink, and digitally manipulated inkwash
27.9 x 17.8 cm | 11 x 17 in
34pp

From Ploughshares:
"The stories in the recent serialized graphic novel, THE SOLAR GRID, operate not in moments but centuries—tracking the individual struggles of people on an earth living in the shadow of an ecological disaster known as the Flood. But this isn’t Mad Max. For however dire it is to watch two children work around land mines, The Solar Grid is about what a society does after moments of crisis.

"Major cities still exist in the Solar Grid, corporations still exist, and rather than an egalitarian desolation we’re accustomed to in post-apocalyptic fiction, the artist and writer Ganzeer shows a far more likely scenario: in the face of ecological and societal collapse, technology and money come together to save some and doom others.

"In this way, the arc of time of the comic is a conversation in cause-and-effect both in corporate and western interventionism. Nine years after the flood, in a Cairo where people travel by boats, the Solar Grid—the titular series of artificial suns meant to provide an hour or two of extra daylight to reduce the flood levels—is a reactionary measure and one scared people rest all their hope on. By 474 A.F., it’s a reality, some cities are above water but already corporations are siphoning water from Earth to interplanetary colonies. By 945 A.F. whoever’s left is an afterthought."

2018.7.25      
Denver, CO 

Pencil, Ink, and digitally manipulated inkwash
27.9 x 17.8 cm | 11 x 17 in
36pp

Young street-artist Aya wakes up in a police station in a flooded Cairo, with stacks of altered posters used as evidence against her. A conversation with Mehret several hundred years in the future flicks a switch in Old Man Kovsky's head and sends him down memory lane several hundred years in the past: a bar fight in Denver, and plans with a former professor to salvage humanity from the Great Flood.

At 84 pages, this installment of THE SOLAR GRID takes things into expansive new directions, tying together elements from Ch. 1-3, while setting the stage for the impending galactic insanity to come.

That's not all, there is also some particularly kooky backmatter provided by none other than James Harvey (We Are Robin, Masterplasty, Mouth Baby).

2020.8.19     
Denver, CO + Houston, TX 

Pencil, Ink, and digital colors
27.9 x 17.8 cm | 11 x 17 in
34pp 

An illicit trade takes place on Earth’s Moon, meanwhile on Mars, famed artist Mickie Stardust is on his last legs and looking to make another big splash in the art game. The fifth chapter in THE SOLAR GRID epic provides an overview of speculative race relations through encounters between Earthlings, Martians and Endalusians. It also takes us back to Japan circa 2019 where the The Solar Grid concept is first proposed. Also included is an extensive speculative essay written by Josh MacPhee on the history of street-art on Mars, which provides even more fascinating world-building to this very ambitious tale.