NEW COMIC BOOK TAKES STAND AGAINST ICE
CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1
World Premiere at San Diego Comic Con to Support Immigrant Families Impacted by ICE Raids
Who: Black Mask Studios and the CALEXIT creators, benefiting Alliance San Diego
What: Calexit: Battle of San Onofre #1
Profits benefit families impacted by ICE Raids
When: San Diego Comic Con – July 24-27
Where: Purchase at Exhibit Hall Booth 5536
SAN DIEGO, CA – Masked men snatching people off the street, innocent people shipped to third world prisons, parents and children separated with no way to reconnect – they sound like plots of a dystopian comic book, not reality.
Now new comic, CALEXIT: BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1 from Black Mask Studios, is using its fictional story to help these victims and raise money for the families impacted by the Trump Administration’s ICE Raids
Premiering at San Diego Comic Con, profits from the BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE will be donated to Alliance San Diego’s Immigrant Relief Fund.
Writer Matteo Pizzolo teams with artist Butch Mapa (General Strike) to create the new CALEXIT story, which tells the story of friends radicalized by a DHS raid at their workplace – seemingly ripped from today’s headlines, the story was written last year before the current wave of deportations.
“With CALEXIT, I do my best to keep the dystopia optimistic and constructive. I focus on characters struggling to do the right thing for each other in a world gone mad,” said Pizzolo. “I wrote this character-origin story last year, and it’s heartbreaking to see real world events devolve at such a rapid clip and mirror the comic’s dark speculation. We’re doing what we can with the tools at our disposal, raising money for an organization that is on the frontlines, helping people.”
CALEXIT debuted in July 2017 and sold through seven-printings before launching a line of spinoffs. In addition to CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1, San Diego Comic Con also marks the debut of new volume CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF UNIVERSAL CITY #1.
ABOUT CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE
Zora Donato was working at a Dunkin Donuts in Oceanside when a Homeland Security raid inspires her to join the Oceanside Resistance and fight back against DHS Occupying Forces entrenched in a newly-declared independent California.
A HISTORY of CALEXIT ACTIVISM
CALEXIT is no stranger to focusing its fiction towards non-fiction goals.
- CALEXIT: All Systems San Diegoin 2018 was a fundraiser for the San Diego Rapid Response Network and host of Indivisible’s voter registration drive. Character Emmie-X became a face of the California 2018 Get Out The Vote campaign.
- CALEXIT was the springboard for GENERAL STRIKE, supporting the Hollywood Community through the dual WGA and SAG strikes.
- Pizzolo has also contributed his writing royalties to forming a SuperPAC called Become The Government. Each issue of CALEXIT features a non-fiction section of interviews with activists, organizers, and candidates in local elections. All three candidates covered in CALEXIT’s non-fiction sections prevailed in their primary elections.
CALEXIT is “not wish fulfillment: it’s warning — and a scarily imminent and salient warning at that. But that’s not all: it’s superb.” – bestselling author Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing
Black Mask Studios will be exhibiting at San Diego Comic Con this week at booth 5536 and selling CALEXIT: THE BATTLE OF SAN ONOFRE #1 as well as the entire line of CALEXIT books and stories.
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