Matt Kindt’s FLUX HOUSE Unveils “100% Human-Made” Open-Source Certification for Comics Creators ⋆ First Comics News

Debuting First on June’s MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1, New Kindt-Designed Emblem Certifies Comics and Other Creative Works Made without the Assistance of Generative A.I. – Now Available to Creators Worldwide Under Creative Commons License

PORTLAND, OR (April 9, 2026) – IN THE AGE OF A.I., THE ONLY THING WE CAN TRUST IS OURSELVES! Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels – is proud to reveal New York Times best-selling creator Matt Kindt’s newest initiative in advance of the forthcoming launch of the creator’s FLUX HOUSE imprint: “100% HUMAN-MADE” – a new, open-source certification for comics, graphic novels, and other visual, musical and audio forms of creative work to designate them as fully derived of the human imagination and otherwise free of elements designed or enhanced by generative artificial intelligence.

Featuring an emblem designed by Kindt himself that will first debut on June’s MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1 – launching a brand-new beginning for the creator’s widely acclaimed comics masterpiece at Oni Press – the “100% HUMAN-MADE” certification is created under the Creative Commons “Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International” license. Under those terms, artists seeking to utilize the “100% HUMAN-MADE” certification can “distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format” for commercial and not-for-profit purposes, as long as it carries the following Creative Commons attribution:

Potential users can download a high-resolution .eps copy of the 100% HUMAN-MADE emblem HERE and at OniPress.com.

COVER A BY MATT KINDT

The June 24th debut of MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1 will mark the first series to be released under Kindt’s acclaimed FLUX HOUSE banner at Oni Press, as well as the creator’s long-awaited return to the world of MIND MGMT since the original series’ conclusion in 2015. Beginning with an all-new, entirely self-contained entry point into the genre-bending, Eisner Award–nominated series that Entertainment Weekly calls “one of the most experimental and fascinating books in mainstream comics,” MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1 will feature a specialty die-cut cover and 32 pages of content written, drawn, colored, lettered, and designed by Kindt himself – alongside a specially manufactured “blind bag” containing one of 15 exclusive, chase, or rare variant covers spanning four distinct subsets from some of Kindt’s closest and most acclaimed collaborators, including Jenna Cha (The Sickness), Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer), Jesse Lonergan (Drome, Man’s Best), Fábio Moon(Archie, Daytripper), David Rubín (Black Hammer, EC’s Cruel Universe), Scott Suguichi (Estrus: Shovelin’ the @#$% Since ’97), and J.H. Williams III (Promethea, Batwoman).

*PLEASE NOTE: One of these covers is a hallucination and will never actually exist. Sorry, and thank you for playing!

Ten years ago, the extra-governmental agency known as Mind Management exploded in a barrage of bullets and brain matter. Those that survived have gone underground—forging new lives with unremarkable identities and falsified pasts to obfuscate the strange abilities that once made them highly prized assets in the global war for psychic control. Now, two investigators—Detective Delphi and Detective Swon—have found themselves at the center of an unexpected puzzle. Here: A man poisoned in a coffee shop with a sophisticated neurotoxin. There: A supposed suicide victim run over by a train . . . with his arms found in a trash can five miles from the tracks. Their connection: Someone is killing former Mind Management agents in improbable and arcane ways . . . Seemingly impossible crimes committed by a faceless killer capable of evading even the most pervasive digital surveillance. What secret are they killing to protect? Who will be next? Has Mind Management returned? Did it ever go away? You are paranoid . . . but are you paranoid enough?

COVER B BY J.H. WILLIAMS III

Sit back, relax, and feel your pulse steadily escalate to dangerous levels of over-adrenalized anxiety as New York Times best-selling creator and multiple Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Matt Kindt returns to the scene of his definitive statement on the art of psychic espionage in MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1 – on sale in comic shops everywhere June 24th! Readers with a strong enough pineal fortitude also can take an experimental test dose of FLUX HOUSE’s mind-altering effects on Free Comic Book Day 2026 as Oni Press prepares to release the MIND MGMT / FORT PSYCHO FCBD 2026 SPECIAL, which will feature TWO, ALL-NEW STORIES torn from the pages of Kindt’s first two shrapnel-laced new series under the FLUX HOUSE banner at On Press: MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1 in June, and FORT PSYCHO #1 with co-creator/artist Brian Hurtt (The Sixth Gun) in August.

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MIND MGMT / FORT PSYCHO FCBD 2026 SPECIAL

WRITTEN BY MATT KINDT

ART BY BRIAN HURTT & MATT KINDT

COVER BY BRIAN HURTT & MATT KINDT

ON SALE MAY 2, 2026 | FREE | 24 PGS. | FC

MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED #1

Written by MATT KINDT

Art by MATT KINDT

Cover A (DIE-CUT) by MATT KINDT

Cover B by J.H. WILLIAMS III