Just a quick note to say our Contraband online comic (previously known as Mobile Pornography) is now a Slave Labor Graphics graphic novel that will hit comicbook shelves everywhere February 27 2008.

Meanwhile, you can now buy Issue #1 now at www.Eyemelt.com...

Or you can check out a preview sample and development status stuff at www.contrabandcomic.com.

Here's what it's about:

Caught recording an illegal violent content transaction, a self-styled “citizen journalist” is blackmailed into finding a female activist sabotaging the country’s most controversial cellphone video channel. His search leads him into voyeur underground where profit-hungry youths prowl cities filming violent events to satisfy society’s accelerating demand for sensational content.

Contraband is a rich character-driven thriller that vividly highlights our near-future use (and abuse) of wireless technology by incorporating modern elements of wireless communication throughout the story including text messaging, online blogging, avatars, alerts and live video broadcast.

Here's some early feedback...

"Contraband is a great sci-fi thriller…the style is quite European and very inviting.” (Comics International)
“Contraband is as visionary as the technology Behe writes about.” (Broken Frontiers)
"Cool stuff!" (Ben Templesmith - 30 Days of Night)
“Phil Elliott’s work is optimistic and loving and fine...he makes it look so easy." (Neil Gaiman)

Love you to go check out a preview at www.contrabandcomic.com when you get a chance & have a very cool week!

T & P

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Contraband...A four-issue graphic novel available next month at Eyemelt and hitting the shelves in early '08 from Slave Labor Graphics

Where the fun adventures of Tintin meet the anarchic subculture of Fight Club, this quirky thriller/noir is one of the first illustrated books to show how privacy-invading camera phone use is fuelling a new multi-billion dollar spy-cam industry.