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Ezra Claytan Daniels

    Ezra Claytan Daniels is a celebrated creator who explores themes of identity, technology, and societal shifts through his distinctive blend of writing and illustration. His work is marked by visual inventiveness and a depth that resonates with contemporary concerns. Daniels' approach to storytelling often highlights the complexities of the human experience in an interconnected world. Celebrated for its innovative edge and inclusive themes, his output invites readers to contemplate the future and our place within it.

    Bttm Fdrs
    Upgrade Soul
    Upgrade Soul: Collector's Edition HC
    • 2021

      Upgrade Soul: Collector's Edition HC

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.4(82)Add rating

      This new Upgrade Soul Collector's Edition is a beautiful hardcover with a new essay and design files from Ezra, as well as a foreword by Darren Aronofsky, and afterword by Karama Horne.For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones? In Upgrade Soul, McDuffie Award-winning creator Ezra Claytan Daniels asks probing questions about what shapes our identity-Is it the capability of our minds or the physicality of our bodies? Is a newer, better version of yourself still you? This page-turning graphic novel follows the lives of Hank and Molly as they discover the harsh truth that only one version of themselves is fated to survive.

      Upgrade Soul: Collector's Edition HC
    • 2019

      Bttm Fdrs

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(1477)Add rating

      An Afrofuturist horror-comedy about gentrification, hip hop, and cultural appropriation. Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and her image-obsessed friend, Cynthia, descend upon the neighborhood in search of cheap rent, they soon discover something far more seductive and sinister lurking behind the walls of their new home. Like a cross between Jordan Peele’s Get Out and John Carpenter’s The Thing , Daniels and Passmore’s BTTM FDR S (pronounced “bottomfeeders”) offers a vision of horror that is gross and gory in all the right ways. At turns funny, scary, and thought provoking, it unflinchingly confronts the monsters―both metaphoric and real―that are displacing cultures in urban neighborhoods today. Full-color illustrations throughout.

      Bttm Fdrs
    • 2018

      Upgrade Soul

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original Hank and Molly coexist in the same world as their clones?

      Upgrade Soul