Query for Oliver

 

   We turned around to see an enormous orange centipede shaking with fury rising up over us. Its  antennae coiled and snapped around its jaws. Its dozens of legs flailed wildly. “What in the hell are you punks doing down here? Do you know what I do with nosy little twits like you? I eat them for lunch! If you’re so interested in what these dried up husks have to say about torture and death then maybe it’s time for a little demonstration!”
   Pat and Nanette froze with fear. Claudia grabbed my arm. It looked like this was it.
   “You asked why we‘re here, don‘t you want an answer?”, I asked in desperation.
   It worked, at least for a moment. The centipede paused. A sadistic grin expanded across its round head. “So you’ve uncovered a couple of banana republic coups. So what? What are you going to do, tell everyone?” A sharp cackle escaped its jaws. “Do you really think anyone gives a rat’s ass about a couple of coups in South America? Do you think anyone gives a flying fuck about a hundred coups in a hundred countries? What is justice? What is freedom? What is democracy? Tiny candles on the shit cake of humanity, there for distraction, there for decoration, nothing more. But enough of this. I’m hungry.”



 OLIVER’S ILLUMINATIONS is a 40,000 word graphic novel with 159 color illustrations that depicts the dark history of American empire for three hundred million Americans very much in need of a basic education and now, while we still have time, very much ready for one. It is an adult fantasy that is charming, funny and brutal and because it is something entirely different, it could very well go viral.

I have published fiction and illustrations, written a literary novel and won several awards.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Rick Hill
2110 Jackson Street, #602, San Francisco, CA 94115  415-793-4279
rthill13@aol.com 
Website: rickhillsf.com
Instagram: rthill13

3/21/19

Fantagraphics:

   Oliver wakes from a nightmare of George Dubya Bush and his cannibalistic apparatchik into an American reality of a crazed stock market, a ballooning housing bubble and two wars. When he throws himself into the crowded city streets, he doesn't find the double scotch on the rocks he is searching for but he does find Dubya and his gang and they almost consume him. He is saved by a pair of flying dogs who launch him on a voyage in a fantastic parallel world where he bears witness to American coups, assassinations, invasions, subjugation and domination all illuminated by a psychedelic bestiary of teachers and thugs, lovers and devils, and he discovers that the last thing the Land Of The Free has been spreading around the world is liberty and democracy.

    OLIVER’S ILLUMINATIONS is a graphic novel with 159 color illustrations and 45000 words. It is an American empire primer for a country much in need of a basic education and now more than ever, very much ready for on. It is different, very different. We cannot keep repeating history much longer. Maybe another world will show us the way, a world of crazed neocons, flying dogs, furious sphynxes, fanged prophets, saurian fabulists, breathtakingly beautiful balloonists, society hags, horny bartenders, ravenous brokers, singing mummies, thirty foot snide centipedes, three hundred foot saucy geoglyphs, four hundred foot naked end timers, revolutionary matchmakers, lusty minotaurs, iguana sea captains, catamite storks, praying mantis drag queens, nocturnal naked stinking CEOs, komodo dragons, Jakarta wise men, enraged Persian princesses, carnivorous happy faces and much, much more.

Thank you. Rick Hill,  2110 Jackson Street #602, San Francisco, CA 94115 rthill13@aol.com   415-793-4279  rickhillsf.com   Instagram: rthill13