Ludocrats Format: Paperback

In this completely absurdist satire of overly-elaborate high fantasy, New York Times bestselling writer Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Die, The Power Fantasy), popular game designer Jim Rossignol (Sir, You Are Being Haunted), artist Jeff Stokely (The Spire, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches), colorist Tamra Bonvillain (Once & Future), and letterer Clayton Cowles (Bitter Root, Moonstruck) take readers on a wildly unhinged ride through an epically whimsical kingdom where everything is topsy-turvy and the characters are completely insane.

Main nut job Baron Otto Von Subertan embodies an excess and impulsiveness that would make the Queen of Hearts look tame by comparison. His close companion, Professor Hades Zero-K provides a deadpan counter to his flamboyant assertions. Together they defend their wacky and bizarre civilization against banality and boredom. To be “ludicrous” is not only just a requirement in this gonzo world—it’s a virtue!

Monty Python and I Hate Fairyland humor are tossed in a blender with such exhaustively intricate sagas as Dune and The Silmarillion for a surprising cocktail of aristocratic customs, impossible architecture, sexual jokes, and visual gags to delight any reader willing to ride shotgun for the journey.

Collects The Ludocrats #1-5.

Kieron Gillen first came to attention as a comic writer with his 2006's Phonogram, with Jamie McKelvie. They continued to work together across the next fifteen year, culminating with smash hit The Wicked + the Divine. Since then he's had the pleasure of creating stories with other artists such as Stephanie Hans (DIE, We Called Them Giants) and Caspar Wijngaard (the current sensation, The Power Fantasy). He has worked on Marvel Comics biggest books, such as Immortal X-men, Young Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Star Wars, Eternals and Darth Vader, (where he co-created Doctor Aphra). In a previous life he was an award-winning pop-culture critic. In his current life, he tries to sleep more. He lives in Bath, UK.

Rossignol is an author, game designer, and publisher. He is one of the four founder members of the PC gaming site, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, which began in 2007.

More recently he worked with the Big Robot team to create the dark comedy stealth and survival game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted.

Rossignol previously worked for PC Gamer, as well as writing for outlets such as the BBC, Wired, and Eurogamer.

Stokely is the co-creator and artist of Eisner Award-Nominated comic THE SPIRE with writer Si Spurrier, and artist of acclaimed series SIX-GUN GORILLA, also written by Si Spurrier, published by BOOM! Studios, as well as artist of Archaia's JIM HENSON’S THE STORYTELLER: WITCHES, THE REASON FOR DRAGONS, and DC Comics' GOTHAM ACADEMY: ENDGAME.

Tamra Bonvillain is a colorist who has contributed work to several Image series: Wayward, Rat Queens, Penny Dora & The Wishing Box, and more. Her color work has also been published at most of the major comic publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and several others. She's a graduate of The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey, and currently resides in North Augusta, South Carolina.