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Issue 77: Utopia

Worldbuilding

A comic about inventing a new universe.

Isabel Ryan 01/17/2018
  • This little comic is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” a short story about finding a secret passage in an old encyclopedia that leads to the unravelling of an entirely new planet, culture, and history. What once started as a fictitious world begins to supplant reality in subtle and irreversible ways. This mini-comic is an ode to the power of the imagination, as well as how space–that at first seems finite–can be invented and reinvented into one’s coveted realm.

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