The Sickness Volume 1
Published on 17. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-941250-61-7 (ISBN)
Description
A teenager in 1945 is suffocated by post- WWII nationalism. A tireless doctor in 1955 desperately tries to find the origin of a new illness. Though these two people are living seemingly disparate lives, decades apart, they will come to understand that their fates are irrevocably intertwined by a rare, horrifying sickness and an enigmatic figure who follows wherever they go. He is known only as The Man.
Confined within their eras, they each race against time to escape The Man and find a cure before The Sickness collapses their worlds.
This rich and disturbing comic spans four decades of American history to serve as a reminder that the terrors of yesterday are the terrors of today. A sprawling, ambitious, and genre-bending work exploring the socio-political strife that shaped the nation. It's the crossbreed of I Love Lucy-era pop culture and bizarre body horror in a historical horror epic.
Confined within their eras, they each race against time to escape The Man and find a cure before The Sickness collapses their worlds.
This rich and disturbing comic spans four decades of American history to serve as a reminder that the terrors of yesterday are the terrors of today. A sprawling, ambitious, and genre-bending work exploring the socio-political strife that shaped the nation. It's the crossbreed of I Love Lucy-era pop culture and bizarre body horror in a historical horror epic.
Reviews / Votes
"Jenna Cha's black-and-white art drives the anxiety; the shading and tones of the characters and horror scenes make it a horror comic you won't forget anytime soon." -Fangoria"Jenna Cha and Lonnie Nadler maybe aren't carriers of [The Sickness], but they are practitioners of it, using this comic to turn it into a viral system that's just starting to worm its way into our consciousnesses." -From Cover to Cover
More details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Black & White
Dimensions
Height: 281 mm
Width: 182 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-941250-61-7 (9781941250617)
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Persons
Jenna Cha is a comic book artist from California. In 2019 she made her debut publication as the co-creator/artist for the Bram Stoker Award longlisted series Black Stars Above, published by Vault Comics. Her other publishing credits include Z2 Comics, Oni Press, Image Comics, Tiny Onion Studios, and the horror anthology Razorblades Magazine. She somehow ended up in Canada and will indubitably stay there. Lonnie Nadler is a multidisciplinary writer from Canada. He is best known for his work at Marvel Comics writing for titles like Cable, X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy. He released his critically acclaimed debut graphic novel, The Dregs, in 2017 from Black Mask Studios, named one of the best 100 horror comics of all time by Paste Magazine. In 2019 he co-created and wrote the historical fiction, cosmic horror concoction, Black Stars Above, which was longlisted for a Bram Stoker Award. Nadler has also written for Ubisoft, Oni Press, Image Comics, Aftershock Comics, Z2 Comics, Razorblades Magazine, and numerous other publications. He can frequently be found crushed in between imposter syndrome and delusions of grandeur.