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An independent imprint for comics and stories, written from the inside looking out.

This Is It is the publishing arm of {group theory}, the Brooklyn production company. We publish comics the way we make films: with the artists in charge, and the work built to last.

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Brooklyn, New York· Est. 2025· Three series in print· A fourth on the way
Close crop from the Translunar Book Two key art by Magenta King: Dot fills the frame, a red band of light across her eyes, her expression intent and her raised hand reaching into the foreground.
Dot, from Translunar: Book Two · Art by Magenta King

Next release

Translunar: Book Two

The post-AI saga continues on Kickstarter. Book Two returns to the Earth the machines left behind, drawn by Magenta King with colours by Verônica Berta, and variant covers by Jorge Corona and Pedro Cobiaco.

Every This Is It book is finished and printed before it is offered for sale. Crowdfunding is our launch, not our gamble. Follow the campaign now and Kickstarter will tell you the moment it opens.

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Launches Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · 9:00 a.m. ET
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Catalogue

Our Titles

Character driven science fiction and fantasy, anchored in real places and made for the page. Three series in print, and a fourth on the way.

In print · Book Two coming November 10, 2026

Translunar

Years after intelligent machines depart Earth and resettle on the moon, two scavengers devise a way to capture an AI surveillance drone and sell it to the underground Resistance movement.

What seems like an easy score quickly escalates to life-or-death stakes as the scavengers realize that the machine's response is more than they bargained for.

Written by Ben Nabors
Art by Magenta King
Colours by Verônica Berta
Book One covers by Magenta King, Paul Pope, and Yuko Shimizu

$12Book One, your choice of cover $30Collector bundle, all three covers $5Digital edition
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Translunar Book One cover by Magenta King. A girl in profile against a full Moon marked by the machines.

Cover A · Art by Magenta King

In print · Book One

Dream Feeds

A poor but imaginative teenager becomes an overnight sensation in the new dream economy, a form of social media enabled by a device that lets users record and sell their dreams online.

His unique nightmares capture an audience, leading to fame and money. But sharing his private fears with a voracious public is more destructive than he realized.

Written by Ben Nabors
Art and colours by Dalts Dalton
Covers by Dalts Dalton, Pedro Cobiaco, and Marcelo Costa

$12Book One, your choice of cover $35Collector bundle, all three covers $5Digital edition
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Dream Feeds Book One cover by Dalts Dalton. A boy sleeps curled on a pillow while a giant face watches from the dark around him.

Cover A · Art by Dalts Dalton

In print · Part 1

Frontierra

A supernatural Western set in a Texas border town, where the border that matters is not the one on the map.

Part 1 is out now. Read the opening free, then pick up the book.

Written by Ben Nabors
Art by Ana Castillo

$15Part 1, print $5Digital edition
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Frontierra Part 1 cover by Ana Castillo. Two figures before a golden Ferris wheel under a desert sky.

Cover · Art by Ana Castillo

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From the inside looking out

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About the imprint

Stories from the inside looking out

This Is It is a creator first comics imprint founded by filmmaker Ben Nabors. We publish character driven, regionally anchored science fiction and fantasy. With roots in narrative film, the label explores emotionally complex, genre adjacent stories that are crafted for the page, designed to grow, and made to last.

Books come out through Kickstarter, where readers meet them first, and stay in print through Group Theory afterward. The model is simple. Finish the book. Print the book. Then sell the book. Readers are the point. Everything else is machinery.

Portrait of Ben Nabors, founder of This Is It.

Ben Nabors, Founder

Ben Nabors is a filmmaker and the founder of This Is It. He directed William and the Windmill, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW 2013, and codirected The Happy Film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. He cowrote and produced The Sound of Silence, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones, which premiered in competition at Sundance 2019.

Filmmaker Magazine named him one of its 25 New Faces of Independent Film. The Dolby Institute honored him with an inaugural Dolby Family Fellowship, and the US State Department tapped him as an international Film Envoy. He founded This Is It to do things with comics that he cannot do with film.

The people

Artists

Portrait of Magenta King.

Magenta King

Art · Translunar

Magenta King is a comic book artist and graphic designer from São Paulo, Brazil. His work mixes Japanese culture, manga, and bande dessinée with his Brazilian roots. He has drawn for Dark Horse Comics and Les Humanoïdes Associés, and is cocreating Huge Detective for Titan Comics.

Portrait of Verônica Berta.

Verônica Berta

Colours · Translunar

Verônica Berta is a colorist and comic book artist from São Paulo, Brazil. She is the author of the graphic novel Ânsia Eterna, a finalist for the Jabuti Award, and has coloured adaptations of Quincas Borba and A Casa das Sete Mulheres, along with recent work for Mauricio de Sousa Produções and Panini.

Portrait of Dalts Dalton.

Dalts Dalton

Art and Colours · Dream Feeds

Dalts Dalton is the artist and colorist of Dream Feeds, a São Paulo based illustrator and Art Director at ESPN/Disney, with work in Heavy Metal and for Dark Horse. Everything in the book is hand drawn and hand inked with brush on large format paper, then scanned for digital colour.

Portrait of Ana Castillo.

Ana Castillo

Art · Frontierra

A Mexico-based visual artist and illustrator known for her work in Only The Flesh is Divine and Hotel en Español.

Translunar Book Two variant covers by Jorge Corona and Pedro Cobiaco. Translunar Book One variant covers by Paul Pope and Yuko Shimizu. Dream Feeds variant covers by Pedro Cobiaco and Marcelo Costa. Frontierra art by Ana Castillo.

Press & trade

For press, retail, and reviewers

Press

Review copies, creator interviews, and artwork for coverage are available on request. Start with the Translunar press release, then reach us through the journal or Instagram and a person will answer.

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Retail & distribution

All This Is It titles are in print and available for retail. Translunar Book One in three covers, with a collector bundle and a digital edition. Dream Feeds Book One in three covers. Frontierra Part 1 in print and digital. Shops interested in stocking the line can reach us through Group Theory, and Translunar Book Two joins the catalog when the campaign closes in December 2026.

Group Theory

The This Is It journal

Notes on making the books, pages in progress, and first word on every release. Published on Substack, free to read, and the fastest way to hear what is next.

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