It’s me and Ben’s new comic, available as a paperback book, or simply a PDF ebook if that’s all you need or can afford right now. How I envy your excitement as you RUSH to Kickstarter to order your copy NOW, RIGHT NOW!
Sons of Comtec is a graphic novel about the unsung heroes of the modern world: businessmen. (Yes, female businessmen too.) In this golden era of prosperity, unmarred by war, repression, or poverty, isn’t it time we mere artists paid tribute to the selfless corporate executives whose Big Ideas made it all possible?
Michael Kupperman, Eisner Award winner and creator of Tales Designed to Thrizzle and Snake ’n’ Bacon, says…
Patrick and Ben rip the lid off of the corporate world in this startling exposé that’s also the funniest and most surreal comic I’ve read in a long time.
And Ryan Estrada, co-author of Occulted, Student Ambassador, and the Freeman Award-winning Banned Book Club, says…
Patrick and Ben are two of the world’s most beloved and influential goddamn weirdos, and Sons of Comtec is just the kind of masterwork that all aspiring goddamn weirdos dream of becoming goddamn weird enough to create.
These two have either perfectly parodied the current power structure of the world we all live in, or they need both an intervention and a prison sentence, in either order. I am not sure which, but I thoroughly enjoyed this weird-ass comic.
Too farcical to be satire, but too surreal to be farce, Sons of Comtec is an arrangement of vignettes from the multi-storey dream factory that is Comtec: a towering mega-corporation that does… something. Elevators? Conference rooms? Comtec — always a step ahead of the competition — truly has it all. And what it doesn’t have, it will make.
Meet Mlervin von Camelanche, the visionary executive who owns a small Buddha statue, and Reynaldo, his solid but reluctant number two. Meet Winter Stylez, a Woman in Business™ shattering the glass rungs of the corporate ladder. Meet two leprechauns — I just realised this book has two separate leprechauns in it.
Other things Sons of Comtec has in it:
- Climate-conscious new product concepts
- Neckties of importance
- An inspiring TED Talk
- Poetry
- Sexual tension (not the good kind)
- A special appearance by… well… we won’t spoil it, but a certain someone you might know from a little book called… the Bible
- The most sincere apology in the history of business
- A single flower
- And… you?
Yes, you can put your very own self in Sons of Comtec, immortal and forever respected — just like a successful company! But not if you wait too long to back the project, and certainly not if you miss the crowdfunding period altogether! A bright future without regret awaits you beneath this link.
If you use LinkedIn and hate every moment of it, Sons of Comtec is the book for you. Order copies for yourself, your suit-wearing colleagues, and your boss, who will enjoy it because he thinks it’s making fun of all those other bosses.
Over a decade in the making, Sons of Comtec is a slim but dense serving of unadulterated comedy, timely yet meaningless. You should back this book because it will make you laugh a lot, which you need and deserve.
70-80 pages (including front and back matter); 182 × 257 mm (7.2 × 10.1 inches); black and white; paperback. Printed in and shipped from Japan!
If you think you’ll want a copy of Sons of Comtec at some point, please do order it now, through the Kickstarter crowdfund. You will be helping both us (the author-publishers) and yourself. This is indie publishing; you can’t idly visit Amazon dot com months from now when it crosses your mind again and expect to find Sons of Comtec waiting conveniently for you there. I mean, maybe…? Look, you’ll be able to get it if you really want it, but the best and easiest time is definitely, definitely right now.
Think of how Sons of Comtec will look on your office shelf, next to your pristine copy of The Art of War and fully solved Rubik’s Cube, marking you as a trend-aware business leader of taste and sense. You might, from time to time, thumb through its handsome leaves, appreciating the texture of its papery wisdom. Someday, when your busy schedule allows, you might even read it. “Perhaps when you retire,” offers the admiring journalist, with a sympathetic smile. You give a wry chuckle. “If I retire.”
The future is yours for the taking. Summon a copy of Sons of Comtec into your business-savvy hands RIGHT NOW.
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