The comic follows Joey, a law student who plans to spend the summer with her boyfriend Astor in his seemingly perfect hometown, Crestfall Bluffs. “But beneath the affluent perfection lies a dark, deadly rot… will Joey discover the truth before it’s too late, and even if she does, can she survive to tell the tale?”
Gailey commented, “‘Eat the Rich’ is about class inequality and the systems that allow the wealthy to feed on vulnerable people. It’s also a feverish love letter to the soapy primetime dramas I hold dear. This has been years in the making, and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with the world. Welcome to Crestfall Bluffs, friends. I hope you’re hungry.” Bak added, “I’m very excited to be working on ‘Eat the Rich.’ Sarah is a brilliant writer and I’m having a lot of fun turning their wonderful narrative and ideas into drawings.”
Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award-winning novelist and columnist, whose 2017 novella, River of Teeth — which imagines a world where hippopotamuses were imported into the United States as livestock in the 1850s — was nominated for a Hugo, a Nebula, and a Locus Award; they were also nominated for the Locus Award for Best First Novel for 2019’s murder mystery/fantasy novel Magic for Liars. A non-binary writer, Gailey’s previous comics credits include BOOM!’s anthology special “Steven Universe: Fusion Frenzy.”
“Eat the Rich” #1 will be released in August; head to The Beat for the full press release and covers.
