Originally Posted at Bleeding Cool on May 21, 2021 by Adi Tantimedh | Original Article

Eisner-nominated and international honor-winning graphic novel and art book publisher Magnetic Press has announced 2 extraordinary tales of speculative difficult science-fiction past award-winning, visionary graphic novelistMathieu Babletin a new Kickstarter entrada launching this Tuesday May 25th, 2021, at ten AM CST.

Writer Mathieu Bablet's storytelling gained critical recognition for telling smart and securely empathetic stories in line withINTERSTELLAR, THE Inflow, andBLADE RUNNER. SHANGRI-LA won theFauve d'Or Laurels for Best Graphic novel at the 2017 Angouleme Festival, and CARBON & SILICON about recently won the FNAC Award for Best Graphic Novel of 2020.

Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter

Magnetic Printing is now offer both books in premium, oversized hardcover editions, along with an exclusive, sophisticated linen-and-foil slipcase ready.

Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter

Magnetic Press's Publisher Mike Kennedy says, "When I outset sawSHANGRI-LA, I instantly became enamored with all of Mathieu'due south work. The cinematic telescopic of that book is merely astounding, and when he followed that up withCARBON & SILICON, he firmly established himself as theStanley Kubrick of comics, in my stance. A smart, visionary storyteller who knows how to layer fascinating, probable high-concept science-fiction with relatable and endearing human pathos. He deserves all of the attention and accolades that his piece of work has garnered so far, and a lot more."

Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter

CARBON & SILICON is a 272-page tale that spans several centuries, starting in gimmicky Silicon Valley and stretching to the farthest side of the dystopia we may be heading towards today.CARBON & SILICON tells a heartfelt story of the complex relationship between two androids who crisscross the planet for centuries in search of themselves and each other while civilisation crumbles around them.

Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter

SHANGRI-LA is a 224-page story virtually humanity's relocation into infinite when the planet Globe becomes no longer livable. Later on generations of living onboard massive space stations, science is about to offering the inhabitants the side by side evolutionary step. Bablet wraps contemporary social issues of consumerism, racism, and transhumanism into a complex conspiracy tale that balances visceral action and commentary with gorgeous panoramic vistas set designs.

Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter
Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter

To launch their campaign, MagneticPrinting is offering several FREE Linen Cardstock Prints for backers who pre-register at http://www.carbon-and-silicon.com and pledge to the entrada on Day 1:

Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter

Boosted gratis bonus prints and sectional collectible items volition exist revealed every calendar week throughout the 24-day entrada.

Kickstarter backers will be able to cull between individual hardcover books, each with Spot UV and curved corners, or as an eye-communicable set up within a Express-Edition linen-textured slipcase with metallic foil elements. Additional upgrades such as heavier paperweight, foil logo, and ribbon bookmark may be unlocked equally stretch goals. All books will include bookplates signed by Mathieu Bablet.

A limited number of original sketches will be created by Mathieu Bablet for 30 backers.

This campaign will marking Magnetic Printing'due south twelfth Kickstarter entrada following eleven previous successes. Visit http://www.carbon-and-silicon.com for more than information.

AboutCARBON & SILICON:

Carbon and Silicon are the starting time of a new generation of empathetic Bogus Intelligence meant to intendance for the aging human population. Raised in the protective cocoon of a laboratory, they are eager to discover the outside world but are dramatically separated during an escape attempt. Lost and alone, they will assemble three centuries' worth of experiences, observing the final gasps of humanity facing the ecological, economic, and social disasters that mankind itself has created. Faced with this declining earth, will Carbon and Silicon manage to detect their place?

Magnetic Press Announces Double Sci Fi Graphic Novel Kickstarter

VirtuallySHANGRI-LA:

A few hundred years in the future, humans live in a space station far from Earth governed by a cultured multinational corporation. On the surface, everyone seems to be satisfied with this "perfect society," and they are assault pushing their own limitations to go equal to gods. They are near to setting upwardly a plan aimed at creating life from scratch on Shangri-La, one of the near hospitable regions of Titan, where they intend to rewrite "Genesis" in their ain fashion. But as tends to happen, mankind'southward hubris gets in the way…