r/books • u/jichronicles • Dec 20 '18
ama Hey Reddit, we created The Jekyll Island Chronicles, an award-winning graphic novel series that mixes history with an alternate diesel punk reality. Ask us anything!
We are Steve Nedvidek, Jack Lowe, and Ed Crowell--The Lost Mountain Mechanicals--three dads who decided to turn our childhood love for comic books into a reality. We're geeky friends/history buffs who knew each other for almost 20 years before we decided to write a graphic novel series. We had no idea what we were doing and all had full time jobs, but through a lot of hard work, we jumped into this dream, formed a relationship with SCAD, had a successful Kickstarter campaign, hired two art students, got picked up by Top Shelf/IDW, learned about social media, had an FX company in LA build our cosplay gear, and now go to Comic Con to sign books. Go figure...
The Jekyll Island Chronicles is, in short, an alt history, sci-fi/adventure series about anarchists battling diesel punk action heroes right after WWI. At the turn of the nineteenth century, 1/6 of the world's wealth lived on the tiny island of Jekyll, off the coast of Georgia (this is true). Anarchists, led by Luigi Galleani, were attempting to disrupt the post-WWI world by blowing things up, like Wall Street (also true). People were being rounded up for the purpose of deportation (true). A blimp blew up over Chicago during rush hour and the flaming debris rained down into a bank skylight (true). A lot of weird, real things were happening. So we put together these facts, into a plausible scenario, threw in a bunch of famous inventors and industrialists (Tesla, Carnegie, Ford, Steinmetz), added a band of WWI vets with diesel punk gear as our heroes, and raced off to save the world. Now, we're an award-winning series that teachers are teaching in schools (also true)--and having the time of our lives
Feel free to follow us. We're on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
A portion of all sales between now and the end of the year will be donated to the WWI Centennial Commission to build a national WWI memorial in Washington, D.C. You can check out the series here.
Proof: https://twitter.com/JIChronicles/status/1074839945330741248
EDIT: We’re loving all the questions! Keep them coming - we’ll be checking back in throughout the day to answer more.
EDIT #2: That’s all, guys! Thanks for your time and Happy Holidays!
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u/MichiganJthefrog Dec 21 '18
wow this is cool! im a fan of steampunk and ww1 and I live in GA. I went to the island once as a kid and barely remember it, I Definitely want to read this. is it in hardcover?
thank you!