Contraband

by Thomas Behe, Phil Elliott (Artist)

Overview

• Contraband follows a young man's journey into a new "voyeur underground", where profit-hungry youths prowl streets, secretly filming radical events with mobile devices to satisfy society's demand for sensational on-the-go content. To enhance the "fully interactive experience," key elements of modern wireless communication are woven throughout the work — including text messaging, online blogging, avatars and alerts, and gaming and live video broadcast.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593621018
Publisher:	Slg Publishing
Publication date:	03/11/2008
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

TJ Behe is the CEO of Octopus.sh, an innovative distributed graph solution providing true self sovereignty for every identity owner. A product innovator, entrepreneur and published author, TJ’s semi-fictional graphic novel Contraband predicted society's serious data privacy issues we now see a decade after its publication. He’s launched identity solutions for Experian, Barclays, Sky and iTV, his case studies taught at Harvard, Ivey and Copenhagen business schools and has been published in Wired, HDVideoPro and the FT. An MBA graduate of Ivey Business School.

Editorial Reviews

A mash-up of film noir and speculative science fiction - which, in the best tradition of Philip K. Dick, paints a world that is painfully plausible. It is a complex story about the fight for the heart and soul of new media culture.

GutterGeek - Gutter Geek

The sci-fi thriller unfolds amidst vengeful relationships, insatiable desire, public outrage and mobiles that pack 1,000-volt electric nodes, pepper spray capability - Steve Jobs take note..

Wired - Todd Jatras

These are cautionary tales about our insatiable appetite to download the misery and humiliation of others have turned into a telling genre unto itself. Behe's twisty take stands out because it's laden with surprises and has an urgent immediacy to it.

East Bay Times - Randy Myers

Behe's dialogue brings a hip, hyper-real energy to his plot, while Elliot's deceptively plain artwork evokes a shabby world of compromised morals.

Financial Times - James Lovegrove

The dialogue is nicely written and entertaining, if unremittingly cynical and effect of making everyone sound like a philosopher...artwork by Phil Elliott consciously focuses attention on important moments which are emphasised by a startling realism....

Comixology - Peter Jaffe