Brandon Graham - Moonray Book Signing

Name: Brandon Graham - Moonray Book Signing
Start: 2024-07-20T18:00:00-07:00
Location: 2250 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110

Schedule

Sat Jul 20 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2250 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110 | San Francisco, CA

Join us in welcoming Eisner-award-winning comics creator Brandon Graham (PROPHET, KING CITY, RAIN LIKE HAMMERS) and his latest project MOONRAY!
"In a post-human world, the man of miium is born. Created to avenge a slain goddess, our nameless warrior travels an unrecognizable landscape, constantly evolving with new wonders and terrors: Zanikam pirates, deadly reflections, a living bridge, and a red tear in the sky. Written and drawn by Eisner-award-winning author and artist Brandon Graham (Prophet, King City, Rain Like Hammers) and featuring artist Xurxo G. Penalta, MOONRAY presents a mind-altering new dawn for a distant sci-fi future unlike any other. This bold graphic odyssey births the MOONRAY universe, from comic book to video game and beyond.
Since the release of KING CITY in 2008, Brandon Graham has been known for making the most experimental and stylish action comics in the business, a true international cartoonist with a distinctive and compelling style. MOONRAY is the culmination of those fifteen years of development, and takes all of his stylistic influences to their pinnacle: graffiti culture, science fiction manga, clean-line European comics, ukiyo-e prints, and collage, all mashed together into one of the most distinctive visual signatures in comics.
MOONRAY is a daring experiment in world-building, a true graphic epic that began in a truly unusual way. MOONRAY the graphic novel series shares its name and characters with a surreal 3rd-person multiplayer battle arena game set in a fantastical sci-fi world. Featuring intense combat, stunning visuals, and a world-class soundtrack, MOONRAY the game has been in development by the independent game developers MOONRAY PBC since 2019, and will be available publicly in an arena-combat form this fall of 2023.
But MOONRAY was written and drawn almost entirely in reverse of the normal process of a video game “tie-in” book. Rather than fit his comic work into an existing story and set of rules, Graham was instead hired by MOONRAY PBC to draw out the ideas at the game's core, to in essence develop the sketched-in ideas that were present before his involvement. Rather than developing a book based on a game, the team is developing a game based on an their own book."