Exclusive Preview: Forming by Jesse Moynihan — Fantagraphic Books

Jesse Moynihan is an award-winning cartoonist based in Los Angeles whose work includes Adventure Time, Midnight Gospel, The Backwards Folding Mirror, and Forming - with the latter getting a new release with Fantagraphics Books. Comic Frontier has a first look at the upcoming collection!

In Forming, Jesse Moynihan takes 50,000 years of socio-religious postulation and throws it in the blender to create one epic—and irreverent—battle royale between alien gods, Ancient Greek Titans, interplanetary assassin droids, and humanity itself. Originally begun in 2009 and garnering hundreds of thousands of followers online, Jesse Moynihan’sacclaimed Magnum Opus was never completed — until now!

Spanning Atlantis, 10,000 BC, across eons and galaxies, religions and myths, humanity emerges from the primordial soup, only to be exploited for its labor by an aliensuper-being, leading to wars and forces between the likes we could hardly comprehend if not given life before our very eyes via Moynihan’s breathtaking and hand-paintedgouache, ink, and airbrushed pages. Forming heralds the birth of civilization and maps out the genesis of life, mass, time, and space, followed by the raging war that ensues in the universe’s years of adolescence and beyond, as the final fate of the universe unfolds.

Moynihan’s epic collision course of gods and mutants, philosophy and hilarity, mythology and psychedelia are an instant classic of cosmic comic book world-building on par with Kirby and Moebius.

Forming by Jesse Moynihan arrives at comic book stores in September. You can pre-order the book here.