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Gigs
  • Published: 14 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781603095938
  • Imprint: IDW Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 276
  • RRP: $55.00

Gigs

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A.I. took the work. Gigs replaced jobs. Ordinary people are left to scrape together lives in a world that's no longer built for them. These are their stories.

In a frighteningly near future where Basic Income is supplemented by gig work assigned by “the app”…an octogenarian punk and a lonely young worker seek escape through music. A street artist makes art by night and paints over it by day. A has-been detective chases a case into a forgotten world. A drug runner makes a long, strange delivery. A writer marks her days on a decaying space station she can’t leave. And a refugee asks for help in the last free place.

With a hard-won blend of biting satire and humanistic passion, two creators from the North of England weave together six divergent chapters into an extraordinary graphic novel. Gigs is both a powerful warning about the oppressive world to come and a defiant celebration of the humanity that will sprout up in the cracks.
“A sharp, funny look at where the future’s heading and what we can do about it. Emotive, thought-provoking, beautifully drawn and written with wit, this is the sort of science-fiction we need more of.”
— Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author of the Hugo Award–winning Children of Time series.
  • Published: 14 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781603095938
  • Imprint: IDW Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 276
  • RRP: $55.00

Praise for Gigs

“A sharp, funny look at where the future’s heading and what we can do about it. Emotive, thought-provoking, beautifully drawn and written with wit, this is the sort of science-fiction we need more of.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Hugo Award–winning Children of Time series

“A look at the future, colored by pills-past, shaped with care, intention, wit and beauty, reminding me a little of Jeff Noon’s visions of Cyber-Madchester. My highest compliments: it made me actively jealous.” —Kieron Gillen, writer of The Wicked + the Divine, Phonogram, The Power Fantasy, Die

“Beautifully drawn and languidly paced, Gigs is a moving meditation on heroes, fandom, and how each generation fails the next.” —Mark Russell, writer of Not All Robots, Polis, DC’s The Flintstones, Batman: Dark Age, and Fantastic Four: Life Story

“It will make you want to burn your mobile phone, destroy the app store, and go to see live music while you’ve still got the chance. A vivid and moving account of what the future might look like if we throw our liberty away.” —Rob Pursey, label boss at Skep Wax records, bassist/songwriter in Heavenly/Swansea Sound/Catenary Wires/Marine Research, and founding member of Talulah Gosh

“Wonderful—an astute, memorable and very human vision of the future that capitalism offers. A reminder that comics at their best can take the temperature of society far more accurately than other mediums.” —John Higgs, author of Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who, Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche, and The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds

“It begins with the blip blip blip of mobile phones and ends with a fetishwear shop named ‘Typical Girls.’ Gigs is a punk-inspired future full of twists and turns and criss-crossing storylines, a typically dystopian near-future (where so many graphic novels go to die—not this one) where relationships solidify and melt away in the messy tangle of technology. When Orwell finished writing 1984 he told people that the book was ‘a warning.’ And that’s how we can read Gigs—as a warning brought to life beautifully by stunning artwork and truly believable dialogue, as the novel’s characters weave their way through the chaotic storylines to meet in a place where…oh, actually I don’t want to give away the ending. Read it yourself. Wonderful stuff.” —Boff Whalley, founding member of Chumbawamba, author of Run Wild, Faster! Louder!, and But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It?