PROTOPIAS COLLECTION TP AFTERSHOCK COMICS ”In the creative hotbed of

”In the creative hotbed of 1960s New York

An homage to and lampoon of westerns

Each volume contains new covers

In this uniquely imagined work of speculative fiction

BY WREN MCDONALD

PROTOPIAS COLLECTION TP AFTERSHOCK COMICS ”In the creative hotbed ofTHE PROTOPIAS COLLECTION was created in partnership with Kathryn Murdoch and Ari Wallachs Futurific Studios (PBSs A Brief History of the Future). Together, AWA and Futurific are championing a storytelling model that merges speculative fiction with grounded optimism, highlighting futures that are not perfect but possible. Coined by futurist Kevin Kelly, protopia represents a world thats incrementally better, not impossibly idealized. The collaboration