Gigs

AI has taken over the work. Gig jobs have replaced steady jobs. Ordinary people try to survive in a world no longer made for them. These are their stories.

In a frighteningly near future, where a basic income is supplemented by gig work assigned through an app, a multi-layered graphic novel unfolds:

• An eighty-year-old punker and a lonely young worker find refuge in music.
• A street artist creates art by night and paints over it by day.
• A washed-up detective tracks a case into a forgotten world.
• A drug courier undertakes a long, strange delivery.
• A writer counts her days on a decaying space station she cannot leave.
• A refugee asks for help in the last free place.

With a blend of biting satire and humanist passion, two creators from northern England weave six standalone chapters into an extraordinary graphic novel. Gigs is both a haunting warning of the oppressive world of tomorrow and a defiant celebration of the humanity that blooms anew in the cracks.

„Sharp, funny, and moving – exactly the kind of science fiction we need.“ — Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Hugo Award-winning Children of Time series