I’m eager and proud to announce my next book, Save It For Later, to be released on April 6th, 2021 by Abrams ComicArts!
Save It For Later is an essay/memoir hybrid covering the intersections between my family’s personal experiences and social/political engagement throughout the 2010s, as mass people’s movements have emerged in resistance against horrifying (but entirely predictable) shifts toward authoritarianism and fascism in the US.
Here’s the book’s cover reveal and announcement from The Hollywood Reporter.
The more personal narratives highlight my parental experiences, as so many millions of us have worked to equip our children, at their respective levels, to handle such a chaotic, foreboding future. Interspersed essays trace the American consumer’s complicity in normalizing a clearly-telegraphed paramilitary fascist presence, with much of white America blinded by intergenerational myths of exceptionalism, security, and by our own privilege. These essays include both “About Face” (my viral comic from early 2019 about paramilitary aesthetic evolution and fragile masculinity) and “Pecking Order” (my new comic in The Nib’s “Power” issue about fascist cosplay and geek subcultures).
This is a book for everyone. It’s neither a parenting guide nor an activist handbook. Save It For Later lays bare feelings and reflections we’ve been gaslit into denying or suppressing in the past five years, reckons with our own delusions of the inevitability of progress, and contains an urgent call to speak truth and stick together if we’re to have any hope of salvaging an eclipsed promise of a shared society.
I look forward to making this book a part of our vital, ongoing conversations and work. Thanks for being there with me— for the People Power.
160-page color hardcover // ISBN: 978-1-4197-4912-4
(I’ll be doing signed pre-orders in partnership with my local shop early in 2021, but for now, you may pre-order it from Abrams, at your local indie bookstore or comics shop, at Barnes & Noble, or on Amazon.)
