Media Release -- KIM & KIM is a day-glo action adventure that's bursting with energy and enthusiasm and puts queer women and trans women front and center. Badass besties Kim and Kim are out to make a name for themselves in the wild world of interdimensional cowboy law enforcement – and they very quickly end up in way over their heads.
Blending the punk exuberance of TANK GIRL with the buddy adventure wackiness of SUPERBAD (if Michael Cera was a trans woman and Jonah Hill a queergirl partner in crime), Kim & Kim focuses on the power and meaning of female friendships as engines of validation. A bright, happy, punk rock sci fi adventure that is queer as shit.
KIM & KIM #1
Written by: Magdalene Visaggio
Illustrated by: Eva Cabrera
Colored by: Claudia Aguirre
Lettered by: Zakk Saam
Covers by: Tess Fowler, Devaki Neogi, Eva Cabrera
In Stores: July 6th
WHO MADE IT?
Kim & Kim is the breakout debut for writer Magdalene Visaggio, taking the comic market by storm with creative team Eva Cabrera (Bravest Warriors) and Claudia Aguirre (Malice Is-). Visaggio's goal to "put queer women front and center" along with the team's sharp storytelling and unique style that matches edge with gloss brings a cool new point of view to comics.
(Visaggio, Cabrera, Aguirre)
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?
"A technicolor carousel of guitars, guns, cephalopods and a pair of interstellar guttersnipes just trying to get by. Cabrera, Aguirre & Visaggio have created a madcap world huge enough to contain interdimensional-traveling shapeshifters but small enough to get wrapped up in the bounty-hunting as indie rock travails of the Kims in question. KIM & KIM is a beautiful, foulmouthed book."
- Christopher Sebela (Heartthrob, We(l)come Back, Dead Letters, High Crimes)
"Rad chicks, hot dudes, and crazy space adventure. And it's FUNNY. This is why comics exist."
- Alex De Campi (No Mercy)
"I read KIM & KIM from @blackmaskstudio twice now. It isn't a trans book or a queer book. It's just a damn good book with that in the plot."
- Greg Gage, Black Cat Comics (Salt Lake City, Utah)
"KIM & KIM #1 from Black Mask is insane! So much crazy fun in this book. The fact that it's socially relevant is a bonus! Loved this book! It's like Tank Girl meets Firefly meets 5th Element. Highly recommend you pick it up this summer!"
- Richard Davis, Nerdvana Comics (Wilmington, North Carolina)
"KIM & KIM is everything I want in a comic: bleeding with style, grabbing your shirt collar, and dragging you into a kick-ass world with the promise of one hell of a ride. KIM & KIM is a book that TANK GIRL herself would approve."
- Ryan Ferrier (Curb Stomp, D4VE, Kennel Block Blues)
"KIM & KIM is super cute and now I want to read an entire series of the Kims talking about boys for two hundred issues."
- SOPHIE CAMPBELL (Jem And The Holograms, Wet Moon)
"KIM & KIM isn't just an incredibly fun comic book... beyond the sci-fi shenanigans and heroic quest the Kims go on, Kim & Kim is an LGBTQ-positive series that features a richly diverse cast of characters (including both of the Kims, one of whom is trans) and hugely important for Visaggio to write, as she was undergoing her own transition process."
- io9
"A rollicking science fiction adventure comic about two young queer women working as dimension-hopping interplanetary bounty hunters...
it promises to be one of the breakout debuts of 2016."
- COMICS ALLIANCE
"BLADE RUNNER meets JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS -- high energy, infused with fun!"
- STEVE ORLANDO (Midnighter, Supergirl)
"An intriguing comic for all sorts of reasons... one of them is that it's a comic with LGBTQ content, created while its writer was transitioning."
- BLEEDING COOL
"Get this most excellent book!"
- GAIL SIMONE (Batgirl, Secret Six)
