Acid Box

Jade Nyo just wants to party, but how is she supposed to enjoy herself when the world around her is falling apart?

It's 2026 and Jade's out clubbing in Glasgow when she runs into a trio of mysterious women in the toilets. They tell her they're Liminals: guardians of portals that let you travel through space and time. They give Jade something called an Acid Box and tell her she needs to use it to avert a global disaster.

But the Acid Box is broken, and Jade must travel back to 1994 in a quest to fix it. As she tries to change the future, the work and pressure of making friends and saving the world might just prove to be too much for her messy and imperfect brain…

A celebration of rave culture through history, ACID BOX explores what it means to be human. Balancing joy and anger, scientific theory and creative response, the unbearable weight of responsibility and the drive to make change – this book shows how exhausting and exhilarating it can all be.

Sara Kenney is a writer, producer and director in TV, comics, and games. She wrote the comic Surgeon X (Image) set in a futuristic antibiotic crisis; Co-wrote Planet Divoc-91 (Webtoons) an allegorical alien invasion story about the pandemic and wrote the escape game She Could Fly (STEAM), which explores OCD. She runs Wowbagger Productions and is currently Innovation and Engagement Manager at the UK's Environment Agency.

James Devlin is a Glasgow-based artist. He is the co-creator of Planet Divoc-91. His colour work includes the award-winning graphic novels Surgeon X, LaGuardia, and Tomorrow.

Emma Vieceli loves telling stories and has worked as an artist, writer, performer and composer across multiple publishers, genres, and formats. She is a winner of the writers’ Scribe award for best graphic novel with her Life is Strange series, and also the recipient of the Stiles+Drewe song prize award 2024 for the song It Starts Small, from her musical - UNFOLDING. She created the BREAKS trilogy, with co-writer, Malin Ryden, and has been an artist/writer on multiple titles across comics, television and video games. You can see more of her work at www.emmavieceli.com.

James Devlin is a Glasgow-based artist. He is the co-creator of Planet Divoc-91. His colour work includes the award-winning graphic novels Surgeon X, LaGuardia, and Tomorrow.. Emma Vieceli loves telling stories and has worked as an artist, writer, performer and composer across multiple publishers, genres, and formats. She is a winner of the writers’ Scribe award for best graphic novel with her Life is Strange series, and also the recipient of the Stiles+Drewe song prize award 2024 for the song It Starts Small, from her musical - UNFOLDING. She created the BREAKS trilogy, with co-writer, Malin Ryden, and has been an artist/writer on multiple titles across comics, television and video games. You can see more of her work at www.emmavieceli.com.