Oni Press is primed to publish Benjamin, an ambitious, senses-shattering, science-fiction epic by Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award winner Ben H. Winters and rising star Leomacs. Now, timed to FOC and ahead of the highly anticipated publication of Benjamin #1 on June 18, Oni Press is unleashing a reality-altering 10-page preview and trailer. Check out the trailer above and preview below!
Benjamin is the rare kind of story that does the seemingly impossible: define an entirely new genre for the comic medium, while also feeling so artfully constructed and well told that it feels like that it has actually existed for decades. And the dueling contradictions of BENJAMIN don’t end there. This extraordinary story of a science fiction writer’s unexpected resurrection is warm, funny, and very much down to Earth on one hand, while, on the other, it’s also a mind-expanding, galaxy-spanning karma trip that questions the very nature of existence itself. Ben H. Winters and Leomacs have conjured something spectacular with Benjamin – and, regardless of it (or Benjamin J. Carp’s) true nature, rest assured: you’re unlikely to encounter a story of this caliber and psychic calibration anywhere else, at this in this dimension.
– Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson
In Benjamin, novelist and science-fiction icon Benjamin J. Carp was science fiction’s greatest mind. The author of 44 novels and hundreds of short stories — including the counterculture classic The Man They Forgot to Erase — died too young, in the year 1982, following decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess.
And then: Benjamin J. Carp is back, alive in a burned-out motel on the fringes of Los Angeles in the year 2025, some four decades after his death. He shouldn’t exist. Is he a dream? A robot? A ghost? A clone? A simulation? In his own time, Carp pondered all of these scenarios through his fiction—and, now, as he treks from Studio City to Venice Beach and onward into the paranoid sprawl of 21st-century Los Angeles, he must investigate his greatest mystery yet: himself.
Here’s what people are saying about Benjamin:
Benjamin is cosmically brilliant. You have never been on a trip like this.
— Lev Grossman (The Magicians, The Bright Sword)
“STOP! Put down your Psy-Tac Intercommulator and listen! Benjamin, the new Oni Press series from stalwart writer Ben H. Winters and artist Leomacs plumbs the cosmic depths to explore the mysteries of time, space, and fiction! Taking a hint from the mad later scribblings of Philip K. Dick, Benjamin posits: what if Dick woke up in a hotel room 43 years after his death? The answer? It involves stealing a dog and going through a dead father’s collection of sci-fi first editions! Now pick up your Psy-Tac Intercommulator, and call your LCS to pre-order the mind-bendy travails of a man lost in time…a man called BENJAMIN!”
— Christopher Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood)
Presented in a prestige, ad-free format with 30 pages of story content and premium cardstock covers on every issue, Benjamin #1 will materialize in comic shops everywhere on June 18, 2025 with hallucinatory covers by multiple Eisner Award winner Christian Ward, acclaimed interior artist Leomacs, and visionary artist Malachi Ward.
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