Gloriously Gory 56-Page One-Shot from the Creator of BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES to Debut in March 2025
Talent includes Juni Ba, Noah Bailey, Matt Kindt, & Matt Lesniewski
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DEATH BEFORE BANKRUPTCY! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to unveil a slate of variant covers to kill for – featuring talents to die for!
Debuting in comic shops everywhere in March 2025, FREE FOR ALL #1, a gory and gripping 56-page one-shot graphic novella by Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) – featuring a star-studded line-up of covers from some of the most celebrated cartoonists from the world of independent comics with new pieces by Ringo Award nominee Juni Ba (The Boy Wonder, Monkey Meat), rising star Noah Bailey (Station Grand, Double Walker), Eisner Award nominee Patrick Horvath, multiple Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT, Dept. H) and Eisner Award winner Matt Lesniewski (Faceless And The Family, The Freak):
The first work by one of the industry’s fastest-rising new talents since the sold-out debut of BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES – which earned a 2024 Eisner Award nomination for “Best New Series” – Horvath’s FREE FOR ALL #1 introduces a brave new world where greed and glory have become inextricably linked in a spectacularly brutal game that has enraptured millions around the globe…
“I always felt like this story had a fairly universal appeal, and I’m excited for Oni Press to bring this book to a wide audience,” said FREE FOR ALL creator Patrick Horvath. “I was working through a lot of frustrations tied to income inequality at the time I made the comic, and it seems like all of it has only gotten worse. Now, maybe more than ever, it feels like the appropriate time for a satire where we watch billionaires fight to the death to keep all of their money.”
“FREE FOR ALL is an incredibly prescient story for an increasingly tumultuous world, and our amazing cover artists—whose work you can see here!—did a wonderful job of capturing the bloody binge culture in full technicolor,” said FREE FOR ALL editor Megan Brown. “Spectacle, excess, and more await readers in the pages of Patrick Horvath’s wonderfully macabre—and timely—tale.”
In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: either donate half of their assets to the common good — or defend them in ritual combat.
Reigning champion and real estate magnate Ted Brooks has 22 victories under his belt — defending the wealth he schemed and stabbed to get — when he is forced to face his ex-wife, Luella Dominguez, in a fight to the death. Luella has been training, waiting for this moment. But will she have what it takes to defeat the man who would do anything — absolutely anything — to keep his fortune?
It’s every shareholder for themselves when death and bankruptcy collide in FREE FOR ALL #1, a giant-sized, one-shot spectacle of commerce and carnage coming this March from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath!
It’s every shareholder for themselves when death and bankruptcy collide in FREE FOR ALL #1 – a giant-sized spectacle of capitalism and carnage coming this March from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath!
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